Markley v. Oak Health Care Investors of Coldwater, Inc

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that death is a single, indivisible injury
• stating that death is a single, indivisible injury
• “[J]oint and several liability principles presumptively remained intact, where, as here, joint and several liability was not abrogated by the Legislature.”
• in which a joint tortfeasor’s settlement was divided into an amount allocated to wrongful death and an amount allocated to pain and suffering
• “We find that the principle of one recovery and the common-law rule of setoff, in the context of joint and several liability cases, continue to be the law in Michigan.”
• “Under the current statutory scheme, M.C.L. § 600.2956 abolished joint liability in most circumstances”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).