Court Opinion

ID: 9693348
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 16:38:10.689054+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:45.356622
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M. F. Cavanagh, P.J.
(dissenting). I respectfully dissent from the majority’s holding that the medical malpractice arbitration act, MCL 600.5040 et seq.; MSA 27A.5040 et seq., is unconstitutional. I participated in decisions upholding the constitutionality of the act in Williams v O’Connor, 108 Mich App 613; 310 NW2d 825 (1981), and Cushman v Frankel, 111 Mich App 604; 314 NW2d 705 (1982) . Although I am in the process of re-evaluating my position on this question based upon the very cogent opinion of Judge Nathan Kaufman, *736my colleague in Cushman, supra, in the case of Murray v Wilner, 118 Mich App 352; 325 NW2d 422 (1982), I conclude that it would serve no purpose to delay our disposition of this case simply to allow me more time to reflect further on this question. This issue has been exhaustively discussed in numerous opinions from this Court and is presently before the Supreme Court, from whence its resolution should be forthcoming.