Michigan truck accident attorney says  bill is a great step to stopping truck and bus accidents, requiring more training and black boxes to track hours of service

Truck accident injuries and deaths are on the rise due to  trucking companies who put profits over people’s lives. Bus accidents in Michigan, and especially in Detroit, have also risen dramatically as mandatory safety regulations are increasingly ignored.

I write about these unsafe truck and bus companies causing these preventable accidents all of the time. So I was very happy to see that Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-New Jersey) is introducing legislation aimed at providing the federal government with the necessary tools “to kick unsafe drivers and carriers out of the industry,” according to an article in thetrucker.com.

Detroit bus accident lawyer shows how the City is intentionally not giving Detroiters enough time to file a No-Fault claim

Yesterday, I posted an open letter to the Michigan insurance commissioner regarding the City of Detroit’s new and deliberate policy of making it very difficult for Detroit residents to file an insurance claim. The real question is why? And here is where our Detroit accident lawyers have come to a disturbing conclusion: the City of Detroit wants to take away the rights of injured bus accident victims before they can even make a claim.

Judges finally say ‘Enough is enough’ to bus line’s illogical, form-over-substance strategies for shirking responsibility to Michigan bus accident victims

In an opinion that will come as a welcome change of pace for Michigan bus accident attorneys and the accident victims they represent, the Michigan Court of Appeals has issued an emphatic and long-overdue “smack down” to SMART bus’s seemingly boundless efforts to avoid taking responsibility for the injuries its buses have caused people.

Auto accident attorney gives tips to keep you safe during Michigan’s “biggest bar night of the year”

The night before Thanksgiving is the “biggest bar night of the year” in Michigan. Take a look at most bars and restaurants, and you’ll see them packed with people seeing old friends (which is great), and starting their holiday with lots of alcohol (not so great).

Look, I’m not trying to ruin your fun, but please drink responsibly.  For the past 16 years, I’ve seen, as an auto accident attorney, the  life-altering consequences that arise from the Wednesday through Saturday of Thanksgiving.  There will sadly be catastrophic car accidents at the hands of drunk drivers, and people will be senselessly injured and killed in dozens of completely avoidable crashes, due to poor judgment and alcohol.

So-called textualist judges dismiss bus accident cases  based on false logic while ignoring  law that works in bus accident victims’ behalf

I’ve helped a number of personal injury victims injured in serious bus accidents over the years. But recently, the law has swung hard against the rights of Michigan residents injured in bus accidents. The way Michigan judges are now treating bus accident victims is outrageous. In a recent spate of bewilderingly unjust cases, appellate judges have approved the dismissal of bus victims’ lawsuits based on a hyper-technical argument made by bus lines that defies justice, common sense, morality and logic.

Bus line again exploits loophole to escape responsibility for bus accident

For the third time in almost as many months, SMART bus has used a Michigan law that puts form over substance to avoid responsibility for causing a bus accident that resulted in serious injuries.

By claiming its accident victims didn’t report their personal injuries (even though the bus line already knew about the injuries and crashes from multiple other sources), SMART bus has successfully argued that victims’ lawsuits should be thrown out of court. SMART bus contends these plaintiffs failed to comply with a Michigan law that requires accident victims to personally notify transportation authorities, such as SMART bus, about their injuries after a bus accident.

Tragic bus accident result shows why Michigan law must change

Talk about putting form over substance. That’s exactly what happened after a SMART bus accident caused serious injuries to a completely innocent woman. SMART bus relied upon putting form over substance to allow it to escape responsibility for serious, debilitating personal injuries it caused one of its most vulnerable wheelchair-bound passengers.

In Eugene Rose v. Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation [SMART bus], et al., SMART bus got Eugene Rose’s lawsuit thrown out of court by insisting it didn’t have proper “notice” of the injuries Mr. Rose suffered in a Detroit accident involving one of its buses - even though SMART bus knew about both the bus accident and the serious nature of Mr. Rose’s injuries.