In this article for the Summer 2020 Edition of Crossroads, the Quarterly Journal of the County Road Association of Michigan, Lex Fori PLLC attorney Carson J. Tucker discusses several legal issues that could potentially expand liability of governmental entities defending suits under the highway exception to governmental immunity. The article addresses an important case being [...]
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“Gross Negligence” Exception to Governmental Immunity Under Attack in Cases Against First Responders / Law Enforcement Officers
The Court of Appeals has released two cases that appear to undermine the meaning of the "statutory" "gross negligence" exception, MCL 691.1407(2) under Michigan's Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA). The GTLA, MCL 691.1401 et seq., provides immunity for law enforcement officers and other individual governmental employees engaged in the discharge of a governmental function and while [...]