Detroit pushes new law protecting cities from claims over dangerous sidewalks

[Wesley Mouch]

that's an...interesting take. so if the sidewalks you pay the city to fix aren't actually fixed and they cause you to break your hip, its actually your fault, not the city's. got it.

No. That's not correct.

from the article:

Butch Hollowell is Corporation Counsel for the City of Detroit and helped push the bill through Lansing. He says the law was necessary because of bogus lawsuits being brought by greedy lawyers.
He cited a recent ongoing case where a plaintiff alleged she tripped because of a dangerous sidewalk. But in hospital records, she told medical staff she fell over her own shoelace.

You can still argue the city has liability. But if you have some responsibility for your fall, you can't blame the city for all of it.

That's of course a simplification. But nobody is saying you can't sue the city, just that the legal requirements to prove responsibility of a city shouldn't be too generous.