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Traumatic brain injury law
How brain injury attorneys can use DTI to prove a case
Brain injury attorney interviewed by Michigan Lawyers Weekly on TBI diagnosis with diffusion tensor imaging brain scan
Steven M. Gursten, partner of Michigan Auto Law, was featured in a Michigan Lawyers Weekly article about an imaging tool to detect traumatic brain injury, called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
Gursten told the newspaper that although DTI is not alone enough for a brain injury attorney to use to win a TBI lawsuit, it can be used to back up other evidence.
Said Gursten: “You can never just point to an image and say, ‘There, that’s my case. But what you can do a good job of is matching up the objective testing like the DTI, with the neuropsychological findings. Let’s say the neuropsychologist findings show frontal lobe and temporal lobe damage. If the DTI shows defects or abnormalities in the same areas, then it’s consistent with what the treaters are finding and with what the lay witness, the doctors and the plaintiff are saying is wrong with him. It all… reinforces one another.”
Here’s the full story: Brain scan key for closed-head injury
Oct 21, 2011
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Top 2009 car accident settlement: Traumatic brain injury from Mich. road sign
Traumatic brain injury attorney Steve Gursten gets $ 2 million settlement for car accident victim whose skull was fractured from an improperly secured, defective road sign
Michigan Lawyers Weekly documents attorney Steve Gursten’s $2.125 million settlement for plaintiff TBI victim Ashley Lewis. In the auto negligence lawsuit for pain and suffering filed in Macomb County Circuit Court, the plaintiff asserted that defendants were responsible for traumatic brain injury caused by a defective, temporary traffic control sign.
Here’s the Michigan Lawyers Weekly story: $2 million car accident settlement for brain injury from defective road sign
November 20, 2009
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Michigan Court of Appeals ruling protects dishonest insurer instead of child with traumatic brain injury
Steven M. Gursten editorializes in The Oakland Press why Johnson v. Wausau enables your auto insurance company to legally lie to you about No-Fault benefits, such as attendant care
Who is the Michigan Court of Appeals protecting? A dishonest auto insurance company, or a baby with traumatic brain injury? No-fault insurance attorney Steve Gursten discusses a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling which denied the caregiver of a baby (who was seriously injured in a car accident) attendant care benefits, even though her insurance company lied to her by insisting there were no more No-Fault benefits available.
The Court’s reasoning is that any accident victim should check out the accuracy of anything and everything an insurance claims adjuster says by consulting with a lawyer.
Here’s the editorial in The Oakland Press: Ruling protects auto insurer instead of child with brain injury
June 17, 2009
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Why your insurance company can now lie to you and get away with it
Michigan Auto Law in Crain’s: Insurance companies can’t mask No-Fault benefits
Steve Gursten opines on car accident case where child with traumatic brain injury was deliberately denied the attendant care benefits she was entitled to by her auto insurance company
Johnson v. Wausau Insurance Co. is a Michigan Court of Appeals case regarding an auto insurance company adjuster who lied to save money from paying attendant care insurance benefits to the caregivers of a 10-month-old girl with a severe traumatic brain injury from a car accident — and got away with it.
Crain’s Detroit Business covers traumatic brain injury lawyer Steve Gursten’s blog and editorial material about the attendant care case, tackling the issue of whether an insurance company can misrepresent the No-Fault benefits it owes to a customer, so long as the customer can get the truth elsewhere. Gursten says it’s one of the most horrible cases he’s ever read as a lawyer, and it creates detrimental public policy for Michigan drivers and their families.
Here’s the Crain’s Detroit Business editorial: Can an auto insurance provider mask No-Fault (attendant care) benefits in Michigan?
June 5, 2009
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Traumatic brain injury car accident case in Michigan: $1.4 million settlement
Personal injury attorneys Steven Gursten and Lawrence Gursten in the news for noteworthy award for TBI victim
The car accident case of Butler v. Anchors Unlimited, Inc. is outlined in Michigan Lawyers Weekly. The traumatic brain injury victim received a $1.4 million settlement. Steve Gursten and Larry Gursten, traumatic brain injury lawyers for the plaintiff, were able to get the award because they insisted on the endorsement page of the automobile insurance policy, which showed a $1 million umbrella later “discovered” by the auto insurance company.
Here’s the Michigan Lawyers Weekly story: Traumatic brain injury settlement nets $1.4 million
June 8, 2001
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GM pays $4.25 million jury verdict for mild brain injury from car accident
Traumatic brain injury attorney Steve Gursten tells Michigan Lawyers Weekly the personal injury is key
“When most lawyers are trying to get some playing time, Steven M. Gursten is already tearing it up in the big leagues – with a $4.25 million dollar verdict on a $100,000 defense offer.” - Michigan Lawyers Weekly
Traumatic brain injury attorney Steven Gursten is profiled by Michigan Lawyers Weekly after getting a $4.25 million jury verdict from General Motors for a mild traumatic brain injury car accident case. In the negligence lawsuit, the plaintiff suffered a closed-head injury when a car driven by the defendant, a General Motors employee, struck her vehicle head-on.
Steve Gursten noted an interesting facet of the case: It was turned down by several other personal injury attorneys before it was referred to Michigan Auto Law. He said that shows a lack of understanding about the proper value and knowledge of mild TBI and closed-head injuries among lawyers.
Here’s the Michigan Lawyers Weekly story: GM pays $4.25 million for mild brain injury
January 28, 2000
Related information about traumatic brain injury:
Help for attorneys handling traumatic brain injury cases in Michigan
Traumatic brain injury from car accidents: The silent epidemic
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