One action, several kinds of loss
Under MCL 600.2922, only the personal representative files, and the court or jury may award damages it considers fair and equitable: reasonable medical, hospital, funeral and burial expenses; the decedent's conscious pain and suffering between injury and death; loss of financial support; and loss of the society and companionship of the deceased. Michigan consolidates what many states split into separate wrongful death and survival suits. The decedent's own pain and suffering belongs to the estate, while support and society go to the survivors the court identifies.
The statute itself sets no cap. But the malpractice limit, $596,400 in 2026 for the standard case, reaches a death from malpractice, and a product that causes death falls under the higher product liability cap.