Miller v. Mercy Memorial Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the discovery rule within MCL 600.5838a[2] is “an alternative to the other periods of limitation, [and] it is itself a period of limitation”
• stating that when interpreting a statute, “[w]e first review the language of the statute itself. If it is clear, no further analysis is necessary or allowed to expand what the Legislature clearly intended to cover.”
• stating that when interpreting a statute, “[w]e first review the language of the statute itself. If it is clear, no further analysis is necessary or allowed to expand what the Legislature clearly intended to cover.”
• distinguishing the saving provision in MCL 600.5852 from the statutes of limitations in MCL 600.5838a
• applying similar reasoning in the context of statutory limitations periods and holding, given the structure of MCL 600.5838a[2]: “As an alternative to the other periods of limitation, [the six-month discovery period] is itself a period of limitation.”
• “[MCL 600.5852] is a saving statute, not a statute of limitations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).