Mich. Panel Affirms Summary Disposition For Hospital In COVID-19 Negligence Suit

( July 17, 2026, 7:42 AM EDT) -- DETROIT — A Michigan appellate panel affirmed a lower court’s ruling granting summary disposition for a hospital and physician in a man’s suit alleging gross negligence, medical malpractice and violations of his civil rights over a hospital’s alleged failure to admit him for his purported COVID-19 symptoms, finding that the hospital and physician were entitled to immunity under the Pandemic Health Care Immunity Act (PHCIA) for medical malpractice because the claims involved negligence rather than gross negligence and because the gross negligence “claim sounded in medical malpractice such that it was also barred by immunity.”...