GWINN, MI (AP)— The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned a decision and reinstated a lawsuit by the family of a 4-year-old girl who was accidentally killed at Gwinn High school.
Civil immunity can sometimes apply to schools under Michigan's personal-injury law. But the Supreme Court says not in this case.
Amarah Filizetti died when a 325-pound panel fell on her in the school gym in 2015. Staff were in the process of putting the panel in place to shield a portable stage.
The state appeals court had dismissed the lawsuit, saying the panel wasn’t part of a building defect. But the Supreme Court disagreed. The court says a reasonable jury could conclude that the panel constituted a “dangerous or defective condition.”
