ICLE 2010 download No. 2 for personal injury attorneys, from State Bar of Michigan seminar in Grand Rapids on helping lawyers find value in auto accident cases

Here’s the supporting motion used in Steve Gursten’s Grand Rapids presentation, “Representing Injured Personal Injury Victims and Finding Value in Car Accident Claims After McCormick v. Carrier.”

Motion to compel auto insurance adjuster deposition for No-Fault benefits in Michigan

Personal injury attorneys in attendance are invited to access the full documentation from the lawyer seminar by becoming a fan of Michigan Auto Law on Facebook: Michigan Auto Law Facebook page. These documents were prepared by Tom James and Steve Gursten.

ICLE 2010 download No. 1 for personal injury lawyers, from State Bar of Michigan seminar in Grand Rapids on helping attorneys find value in auto accident cases

Here is the supporting motion used in Steve Gursten’s Grand Rapids presentation, “Representing Injured Personal Injury Victims and Finding Value in Car Accident Claims After McCormick v. Carrier.”

Motion to compel No-Fault auto insurance activity and payment logs

Personal injury lawyers in attendance are invited to access the full documentation from the seminar by becoming a fan of Michigan Auto Law on Facebook: Michigan Auto Law Facebook page. These documents were prepared by Tom James and Steve Gursten.

Our Michigan personal injury lawyers awarded a Detroit “First-Tier” ranking by U.S. News and World Report and by Best Lawyers of America

The lawyers from Michigan Auto Law have recently been selected by their peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America 2011 listing.

Inclusion in Best Lawyers is a nice honor. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey of more than 39,000 leading attorneys, who in turn, cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers. Selected lawyers for Best Lawyers in America do not pay a fee to be listed. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Michigan truck accident lawyers Bobby Raitt and Alison Tomak beat Liberty Mutual MIST defense at trial

Yesterday, my partner Bobby Raitt and associate attorney Alison Tomak did a terrific job for a seriously injured client. A Macomb County jury returned a verdict just shy of a million dollars on a truck accident case that the auto insurance company for the defendant, Liberty Mutual, tactically decided to take a very tough position on.

How to prevent child injury and save lives during National Child Passenger Safety Week

This week is National Child Passenger Safety Week.  I realize most of my readers aren’t lawyers and don’t handle car accident cases for a living, but please read-on.  This topic  is very important to me  and I want to do everything I can to share it with my friends, readers and all Michigan drivers.

Personal injury law firm handling auto accidents honored by DBusiness magazine

I’m pleased to announce that Michigan Auto Law has been selected by a vote of our peers to be included in DBusiness magazine’s 2010 list of Top Lawyers. We are included in the personal injury litigation section. The list will appear in the November/December 2010 issue if DBusiness and www.dbusiness.com.

Top Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey open to all attorneys in Michigan. Thousands of votes were cast honoring excellence in all areas of law practice. Listings can’t be purchased, and no payment is required to be listed. Inclusion in this Detroit magazine is a nice honor for all of our lawyers, who work so hard helping people who have been injured in car accidents.

Attorneys Steve Gursten and Brandon Hewitt will give advice to Wayne State University Law School students on careers as personal injury lawyers

There’s so much to know when starting out as a personal injury lawyer. How do you get a foot in the door? How can you prove yourself? Where do you get your first job as an attorney?

“Democratic News” website talks about restoring rights of car accident victims after Michigan Supreme Court ruling McCormick v. Carrier

From time to time, I try to share the posts of real people affected by car accidents, IME doctors or No- Fault insurance. These blogs include posts from real accident victims I’ve been able to help and observations from people - some clients, some not - about how they’ve been treated by auto insurance companies or a claims adjuster, etc.

No-fault insurance lawyer adds two new members to his Shame List

I haven’t updated my shame list in a while. Here are two deserving new additions that Michigan drivers and car accident victims should be aware of.

Michigan Supreme Court ex-Justice Clifford Taylor

Ex-Justice Taylor’s reign on the Michigan Supreme Court will be remembered more for the way that four extreme justices (derisively called the “gang of four” by Justice Elizabeth Weaver), put politics before precedent, stare decisis and the rule of law. Insurance companies in Michigan won big and auto accident victims got hammered.

No-Fault lawyer gives statistics that show raising auto insurance rates is completely unnecessary

If I could ask Pete Kuhnmuench one question, it would be, “Why?”

Mr. Kuhnmuench is the spokesman for the Insurance Institute of Michigan, a lobbying group that represents 90 insurance companies doing business in Michigan, and one that has been threatening insurance rate increases for Michigan drivers after the Michigan Supreme Court corrected the state’s auto accident law  in McCormick v. Carrier.

Within hours of McCormick, the insurance companies that he represents were threatening to raise auto insurance rates on Michigan drivers again, despite the record-breaking profits they continue to rake in each year in Michigan.