Personal injury lawyer says over half of car accident deaths are due to not wearing a safety belt
What started as a local ad campaign to get drivers of Sussex, England to wear their seat belts, has gone viral and is now hopefully saving the lives of people around the world. With close to 15 million hits on YouTube, “Embrace Life” turns our attention to how seat belts save lives in car accidents, and of the tragedy caused by not wearing a seat belt.
Accident victims are entitled to mileage reimbursement for traveling to and from medical appointments
There is no PIP benefit that is so often overlooked as medical mileage. Many people fail to submit it to their claims adjuster, and as such - poof - hundreds or thousands of dollars in gas and mileage reimbursement vanishes and the accident victim is out of luck. That’s a shame, because medical mileage is such an easy and simple PIP benefit to recover.
What is medical mileage?
Michigan auto accident victims are entitled to medical mileage reimbursement under Michigan’s No-Fault Law for the miles they travel going to and from medical and treatment appointments.
Michigan truck attorney says truck accident injuries and deaths rise for the first time in four years
Last year, truck accident fatalities in U.S. highway crashes increased 8.7 percent in 2010. This is the first increase in four years, according to the annual report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
As a truck attorney, former president of the American Association for Justice truck accident lawyer litigation group and current president of the Motor Vehicle Trial Lawyers Association, this statistic sadly doesn’t surprise me. I know that truck companies are pushing the boundaries now more than ever before. This can be anything from pushing their truck drivers to drive past regulated hours, rushing the pre-trip inspection, or turning a blind eye to truck drivers who have caused accidents in other states and hiring them because they cost less to employ.
Auto accident attorney says latest Lansing and Ingham County, Michigan car accident numbers show a drop in crashes
Last year, Michigan Auto Law received the highest reported auto accident injury trial verdict in Lansing. And both myself and many of our auto accident attorneys help many people injured in car and truck accidents in the Lansing, Michigan area every year. From time to time, I try to publish information to help keep Lansing and Ingham County drivers safe.
Here’s the eleventh video in my series of 13 videos for truck accident attorneys from a past American Association for Justice seminar for truck accident attorneys from around the nation. In this latest video clip, I discuss how any truck accident attorney must help a jury understand how serious it is when bad truckers falsify log books after they’ve caused an injury from a truck crash. Jurors and insurance companies have to understand that falsifying log books is just as serious as lying under oath.
AVVO is a legal resource website that has a lot of good advice and information for the public. Recently, I was asked by AVVO to write a blog on how many people who are injured in accidents are finding injury attorneys nowadays.
Why the helmet law repeal will cause more motorcycle accident injuries and deaths in Michigan, other states
I was recently interviewed, as a motorcycle accident lawyer for nearly 20 years, on an Internet radio show about Michigan’s motorcycle helmet repeal. The helmet repeal law is awaiting Governor Snyder’s pen, and it will end our nearly 40-year-old motorcycle helmet law requirement. This is all a very bad idea.
The new law allows Michigan motorcyclists who are at least 21 years old to ride without a helmet. As I’ve been saying all along, this law will cause more motorcycle accident injuries, more deaths and will leave the taxpayers holding the bill.
No-Fault lawyer explains that Michigan PIP benefits pay for a ‘replacement’ to perform tasks and chores that an auto accident victim would have performed
An injured Michigan resident who is hurt in an auto accident may not be able to perform normal household chores and tasks, such as shoveling snow. But Michigan No-Fault PIP “replacement services” benefits make it possible for an accident victim’s normal household duties to still get done. It is an important Michigan No-Fault benefit (also referred to as Michigan PIP), that many people know nothing about.
Michigan Lawyers Weekly list of top-reported verdicts names Leonard Koltonow, David Christensen and Sarah Stempky as earning top auto accident verdicts
Our Michigan personal injury lawyers have made it on the Michigan Lawyers Weekly year-end list of the top-reported verdicts and settlements. Last year, Michigan Auto Law received the second top-reported verdict for a car accident case and top reported verdict for a truck accident case in Michigan in 2011.
Latest numbers show decrease in the number of auto accidents, but increase in car accident deaths
As Michigan accident lawyers, we’ve helped many people injured in auto accidents from Flint. My first motion as a baby lawyer was in Flint nearly 20 years ago, so I always think of the Genesee County Courthouse warmly. Flint is somewhat unique, a combination of urban, suburban and even a little rural.
To help keep Flint drivers safe and give residents access to information and local statistics, our lawyers have published the Flint Auto Accident Lawyer Help Center.
