McClain v. University of Michigan Board of Regents

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• discussing at length our Supreme Court’s holding in Daley and the difference between recovery for emotional distress without accompanying physical injury or any other independent basis for tort liability and recovery for mental anguish and other damages flowing from an underlying injury
• “[A]n action for wrongful death .. . cannot be brought on behalf of a nonviable fetus, because a nonviable fetus is not a “person” within the meaning of the wrongful-death act.”
• non-viable fetus not a person for purposes of wrongful death statutes
• non-viable fetus not a person for purposes of wrongful death statutes

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