Paavola v. Saint Joseph Hospital Corp.

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• discussing why the appointment of a guardian does not negate the saving provision
• noting nothing in Michigan's tolling statute \suggests legislative intent that an insane person's exemption from the running of periods of limitation is to end upon the appointment of a guardian\
• finding of insanity not dependent on whether person has been judicially declared insane
• \a contrary holding would constitute unjustifiable tampering with the significant public policy clearly reflected in ... [the tolling provision concerning] the protection and preservation of the substantive rights of mentally incompetent persons\
• “a contrary holding would constitute unjustifiable tampering with the significant public policy clearly reflected in ... [the tolling provision concerning] the protection and preservation of the substantive rights of mentally incompetent persons”
• statute permits tolling for a “period potentially many decades long”

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