Helping truck accident lawyers better understand preservation of supporting documents to strengthen your case

A truck accident lawyer who conducts thorough legal discovery will most often, lay the groundwork for a successful truck case in Michigan. Many commercial truck crash cases begin with investigation of the driver. You must look deeper than the circumstances surrounding the crash itself.

Helping truck accident attorneys better understand hours of service regulations

Driver fatigue is the hot topic right now for truck accident attorneys and the trucking industry, and for a very good reason. Truckers are often pushed to drive beyond physical - and legal - limits.  Most often, they’re forced to do this by trucking companies aiming to cut corners and save money. For the truckers, breaking these hours of service regs can mean the difference between putting food on the table, or being next in the unemployment line.

Any lawyer who assumes a commercial truck accident case is simply a “car wreck” case with bigger policy limits is bound to commit legal malpractice. In trucking cases, the federal government imposes hundreds of regulations that essentially, create theories of strict liability against the truck driver and the trucking company.

Without knowledge of these regulations, a lawyer cannot possibly recover top value for his clients after a serious truck accident case.

Michigan TBI lawyer says ERs and doctors frequently miss head injuries, lists signs so you can protect yourself

It’s a sobering fact: Emergency rooms will miss up to 85 percent of traumatic brain injuries after a person has been in a car accident. Our TBI lawyers have witnessed cases where a catastrophically brain-injured person literally walked away after a car crash, without even an ambulance or ER visit, only to become permanently disabled with a brain injury.

Detroit Lawyer to Share Experience with Wayne State University Law School Students

Tonight I will  be speaking to a Wayne State University Law School trial advocacy class, taught by Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Elizabeth Gleicher. As a personal injury attorney specializing in car accidents, I’m going to be sharing real-life advice with the law students on how to be a successful litigator and trial lawyer. I plan to use a mock auto accident case.

Greg Gromek of Plunkett Cooney will be speaking on how he would defend the case from an insurance defense perspective.

Michigan Car Accident Lawyer Says Unlimited Corporate Spending on Elections Will Corrupt Democracy

The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited corporate political spending on elections is so dangerous that I cannot resist sharing my political views on the topic. I’m just a civil justice lawyer.  But since I specialize in helping people in catastrophic accidents such as very serious car accidents and truck accidents, what the conservative judges did is very alarming.

The reasoning of this decision is inherently flawed and the consequences are detrimental to the public good.

Car Accident Lawyer Responds to Remark by Insurance Institute of Michigan on Obscene, Unregulated Auto Insurance Profits

An engaged reader recently inquired about a blog I wrote last year on the regulation of Michigan auto insurance rates. Donna wanted me to elaborate on a comment I made, as she was seeking an expanded perspective from a car accident lawyer.

In discussing another round of auto insurance reform bills highlighting the dire need to clean up our no-fault system and support countless injured people who are  abused by the insurance companies that are supposed to protect them, I said:

Insurance companies resort to robocalls in attempt to shield industry from accountability

I would like to say kudos to Michigan State Rep. Ellen Cogen Lipton (D-Huntington Woods), who recently blasted auto insurance companies for 11th-hour attacks on lawmakers who are trying to hold the insurance industry accountable and helping make insurance more affordable. As an auto accident attorney, I dedicate my life’s work to protecting those injured in crashes, and I take it personally when insurance companies take advantage of my clients. Lipton is highlighting this serious issue.

Attorneys from Michigan Auto Law Teaching Personal Injury Lawyers at Trial Institute

Three auto attorneys from Michigan Auto Law will be volunteering to help educate Michigan personal injury lawyers from throughout the state during the Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ) first annual Trial Institute. The trial institute is in Southfield this week.

Faculty members Steve Gursten and Dave Christensen will speak on opening statements and cross examination of the defense “independent” medical examiner as part of the auto track. The auto track is geared toward lawyers handling truck accident and car accident cases in Michigan. There will also be an employment law and a medical malpractice track.

To follow-up on a recent blog on my own impressions of the Michigan Supreme Court hearing on McCormick v. Carrier, I’d like to run a comment by C-PAN regarding the McCormick case and why Kreiner v. Fischer is wrongly decided. CPAN, the Coalition Protecting Auto No-Fault, is a Lansing-based, bi-partisan organization of medical, consumer and legal groups.

McCormick is the case that will hopefully change Michigan’s broken auto threshold law, Kreiner— and restore the rights of injured auto accident victims. Here’s what CPAN has to say: