Michigan Car Accident Settlements From Michigan Auto Law

The victim’s parents sued the speeding driver in an Oakland County lawsuit for the conscious pain and suffering their son endured before passing away. This was the top reported Michigan car accident settlement in 2015. This $7 million wrongful death auto accident settlement also involved a $3 million in personal assets contribution over the insurance policy limits.

A Macomb County jury awarded damages to a man who was driven over and suffered a traumatic brain injury, broken jaw and separated shoulder, which disabled him from returning to work. The defense offered only $500,000 before trial, and $1 million during jury deliberations.

$500,000 insurance company offer before trial ($1 million during jury deliberations)

Our attorneys obtained this car accident judgment in Sanilac County for the victim of a head-on collision who suffered multiple fractures in her legs, wrist, pelvis, and ribs requiring 5 surgeries and 5 procedures as well as nearly 6 months of hospitalization and in-patient rehabilitation. This was the top-reported auto accident judgment and the top-reported overall judgment in Michigan that year.

This was the largest reported wrongful death settlement in Washtenaw County and the largest reported motor vehicle wrongful death settlement in Michigan for an individual killed in a car accident in 2018. (Based on confirmed/disclosed Washtenaw County case dispositions reported to VerdictSearch and based Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s year-end compilation of settlements and verdicts.)

$0 insurance company offer

$0 insurance company offer

Victim was struck and killed by a negligently driven car as she attempted to provide aid to the driver and passengers of an overturned vehicle on an interstate highway.

The victim was struck by a car while she was inspecting vehicle damage that was caused by a previous rear-end collision, resulting in facial fractures requiring reconstruction along with other orthopedic injuries from being struck as a pedestrian.

$100,000 final insurance company offer

An Oakland County jury returned a verdict in favor of a car accident victim who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury and depression in a head-on crash when a driver crossed the centerline. The defense’s final offer was just $100,000.

A tire that separated from a truck on the highway hit the victim who was riding in a passing vehicle, causing the victim to suffer a traumatic brain injury with cognitive impairment and facial fractures. This was the top-reported personal injury settlement in a wheel separation auto accident crash in Michigan in 2017.

Our attorneys recovered this confidential settlement for our client who was a pedestrian when he was struck by a vehicle. Following surgery and physical therapy, our client was able to walk normally again.

A jury ruled in favor of this truck accident victim who suffered a traumatic brain injury after a low-impact, rear-end collision. The judgment was 10 times larger than the defense’s final settlement offer of $250,000.

Last insurance company offer of $250,000

In this confidential case the victim had to undergo spinal surgery for the neck and back injuries.

In this confidential motor vehicle accident case, the victim suffered serious injuries including a catastrophic brain injury.

This confidential settlement resulted from a Wayne County car accident involving injuries to the lumbar spine, cervical spine and elbow.

This Macomb County settlement for serious head injury, headaches and traumatic optic neuropathy suffered by the victim was the top reported car accident settlement in Michigan in 2009.

This Washtenaw County brain injury verdict arose from a rear-end car accident. The final insurance company offer before trial was only $30,000. 

$25,000 insurance company offer before trial

A texting driver caused this head-on collision, which resulted in an elderly woman’s broken leg that required surgery.

The car accident victim’s concussion injury caused significant symptoms, but was not accompanied by any loss of consciousness and there was no visible damage to the victim’s vehicle. The defense never offered to settle.

Our attorneys recovered this confidential settlement in a car accident case involving fractures of the sacrum and ribs and a traumatic brain injury. There was no economic damages component to the settlement.

The injuries suffered by the husband and wife car accident victims in this case included brain injury and various orthopedic injuries requiring surgery.

The victim suffered neck and back injuries requiring surgery.

Our attorneys won this confidential settlement for our client who was struck from behind and seriously injured by a snow plow in the parking lot of her office building. suffered hip, femur and knee fractures which required surgery.

This confidential wrongful death settlement resulted from a fatal car accident in Calhoun County.

This Wayne County rear‐end car accident resulting in injuries to the victim was caused by a drunk driver.

The victim in this Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County motor vehicle accident suffered a loss of his left eye.

An Oakland County jury returned a verdict awarding $1.5 million in economic loss where a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a car while walking on a roadway near his home. The defense’s final settlement offer was only $50,000. This was the top-reported car accident verdict involving pedestrian in Michigan that year.

This rear-end, low-vehicle damage car accident in Macomb County caused injuries that included a back injury and disc herniation requiring surgery. The defense never offered to settle.

This crash resulted in a traumatic brain injury. The settlement shows how important it is to find all available insurance after a car accident. In this case, an additional $1 million umbrella policy for the defendant was found after being denied by the defendant.

This wrongful death car accident, involving the Estate of Michael Brown, was settled pre-lawsuit despite a defense claim of comparative negligence.

A Wayne County jury returned this verdict for a car accident victim who suffered a traumatic brain injury. The defense’s final settlement offer was just $85,000.

The victim suffered a left foot injury and broken right hip after his vehicle was struck head-on by the defendant who had crossed the center line of M-117 in Alpena County in a snowstorm in order to pass a slower-moving vehicle.

Victim, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle when the driver lost control and caused a rollover. The case settled for the full policy limits of the non-corporate defendant.

The victim was crossing the street in the crosswalk when struck by a vehicle making a left turn. The case settled for the full policy limits of the non-corporate defendant.

This settlement resulted from a fatal car accident in Hillsdale County.

The victim in this head-on car crash suffered a hip dislocation and hip labral tear requiring ORIF as well as multiple fractures. She will undergo hip and knee arthroplasty.

A Wayne County jury returned this verdict for an auto accident victim who suffered from tinnitus and a brain injury. The defense only offered $80,000 to settle before trial.

The victim was crossing the street in the crosswalk when struck by a vehicle making a left turn. The case settled for the full policy limits of the non-corporate defendant.

The victim, who was a rear-seat passenger, suffered an upper neck injury, including a C-spine fracture, and right femur fracture when the force of the collision caused him to be ejected from the car.

A Wayne County jury returned this verdict for an auto accident victim who suffered from tinnitus and a brain injury. The defense only offered $80,000 to settle before trial.

The victim was crossing the street in the crosswalk when struck by a vehicle making a left turn. The case settled for the full policy limits of the non-corporate defendant.

This confidential car accident wrongful death settlement involved a fatal crash where the decedent was killed while riding as a passenger in a vehicle.

The victim was injured in a motor vehicle crash suffering serious injuries necessitating surgery.

The victim in this case was struck by a car while lawfully crossing the street in the crosswalk. The victim’s injuries required neck surgery.

In this confidential case the victim suffered a mild traumatic brain injury in a contested liability automobile accident.

This settlement resulted from a head-on car crash where our client suffered ankle, hip and rib fractures which required surgery.

This Ingham County auto accident settlement was for vertigo and tinnitus, depression, headaches and a low back injury.

$10,000 insurance company offer (and $25,000 case evaluation award)

The jury in this car accident case returned a verdict in favor of the victim who underwent back surgery as a result of crash-related injuries. The final settlement offer from the defense was $90,000.

In Monroe County, a victim who suffered a broken neck and spinal cord injury when the pickup truck he was riding in was hit head-on by a scrapped truck that was being towed.

This Oakland County arbitration award involved a car accident victim who suffered neck and back injuries after being rear-ended while being directed off of the expressway due to an unrelated auto accident. The defense’s highest pre-arbitration settlement offer was $150,000.

After a negligent driver ran a stop sign and t-boned the car accident victim’s car, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the victim who suffered a “soft tissue” whiplash neck injury.

A distracted teen driver caused this Washtenaw County head-on car accident case, which resulted in a spinal fracture and rib fractures.

A Macomb County jury returned this car accident verdict in a case involving a spinal injury/disc herniation. The defense never offered to settle.

The jury in this case ruled in favor of the car crash victim who had suffered a lower back injury. The defense never offered to settle.

The deceased’s wrongful death was caused by a distracted driver traveling at a high rate of speed who struck the deceased’s vehicle from behind while the deceased was waiting in traffic.

This car accident victim suffered a lumbar herniated disc that required surgery after she was rear-ended in a low-speed collision while stopped at a red light. There was minimal vehicle damage and she returned to all of her normal activities within 2 years of the accident. The defense never offered to settle.

After a final insurance company offer of $14 million.

Last insurance company offer was $25,000.

Our attorneys settled a case for a victim in a car versus tractor trailer crash who suffered major burn injuries.

Verdict for wrongful death truck accident

Michigan Auto Law found $9 million extra dollars of insurance coverage that 2 other lawyers had missed.

$1 million final insurance company offer to previous attorney

This fatal truck accident, which occurred when highway traffic stopped due to a construction detour, involved claims against a road construction company for improper signage and traffic control and failure to monitor the traffic backup. This was the top-reported road construction settlement in Michigan that year.

$400,000 final insurance company offer to previous/referring attorney

Traumatic brain injury after truck ran a stop sign

Gravel hauler crash on I-75 in Macomb County attributed to truck driver drowsiness from taking epilepsy medication for seizure disorder. This was the largest truck accident settlement and the largest reported overall personal injury settlement in Michigan for that year.

The clients who were injured in this case suffered mild traumatic brain injury and back, shoulder, elbow and carpal tunnel surgeries resulting from a truck accident. The final offer from the defense was $300,000.

$300,000 final insurance company offer

$1 million insurance company offer

A Macomb County client suffered severe brain injury and multiple orthopedic injuries when a commercial box truck tire detached and hit his vehicle. Discovery of truck maintenance records and experience with truck accident lawsuits enabled our attorneys to reach a successful result.

On U.S. 23 near Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County, a truck’s tire separated and struck the roof and windshield of another vehicle, resulting in the death of a 20-year-old college student. This settlement was the top-reported commercial vehicle wrongful-death accident. It was also the highest settlement involving tire separation in Michigan for the year.

Last insurance company offer was $250,000

This Macomb County wrongful death truck accident case involved a bicyclist who was lawfully crossing the street. The defense’s settlement offer was $250,000. This was the top-reported truck accident verdict in Michigan for the year.

This Wayne County intersection accident involving a semi-truck and SUV resulted in injuries that required two spinal surgeries, herniated discs in the cervical and lumbar spine. This was one of the highest reported truck accident settlements in Michigan for 2013.

In this confidential case a truck accident victim perished due to the plaintiff’s negligence.

Our attorneys settled this Kent County case for a woman who suffered a catastrophic traumatic brain injury when the vehicle she was riding in as a passenger was broad-sided by a semi-tractor trailer dump truck

This confidential truck crash case involved a semi-truck and a car resulting in serious injuries.

Last insurance company offer was $250,000

In this confidential case, the truck accident victims suffered injuries to the head, neck, and back.

We recovered a $1.95 million wrongful death settlement in a case where our lawyers were brought in by another Michigan personal injury law firm that does extensive advertising to try to find more insurance coverage after the referring law firm was told there was only $1 million dollars in insurance coverage. We took the case and doubled the total settlement for the widow and her children.

A garbage truck crashed into the victim’s pickup truck in Macomb County, aggravating previous neck and back injuries.

This settlement involved a truck driver who caused a head-on collision. In spite of the defense initially disclosing only $1 million in coverage, our attorneys’ diligent investigation uncovered an additional excess policy.

Our client in this Macomb County truck accident suffered serious spine injuries requiring multiple surgeries.

This Van Buren County crash was the top-reported truck accident settlement in 2017. It involved multiple semi-tractor trailers in winter weather. Liability was strongly contested by the defendant.

A jury ruled in favor of the truck accident victim who had suffered a traumatic brain injury and underwent both neck and shoulder surgery. This was the top reported verdict for a truck accident case in Michigan for the year.

A woman was involved in a rear-end collision by a commercial semi-truck on the freeway and suffered lower back and neck injuries.

This Wayne County judgment involved a truck accident that resulted in a neck, shoulder and back injuries, surgery and a traumatic brain injury. The defense’s settlement offer was just $100,000.

In McDowell v. Ford Motor Co. the victim was awarded based on traumatic brain injuries in a contested liability truck accident case.

A truck driver rear-ended a pickup truck in a Wayne County highway traffic jam, pushing the pickup into the victim’s minivan. This top-reported truck accident settlement also involved minor vehicle damage and an aggravation of a pre-existing closed head injury in Michigan in 2017.

This contested liability truck accident case involved soft-tissue physical injuries – Sterbyci v. Moe’s Transport Trucking.

An Oakland County rear-end collision caused by a truck with brake maintenance problems. Client suffered broken arm and other accident injuries.

This Ingham County truck accident victim’s injuries included a traumatic brain injury, depressed skull fracture, fractured finger and disc herniations.

Settlement for a Wayne County commercial vehicle collision

The victim in this semi-truck accident case suffered shoulder and back injuries. The defendant had only offered $100,000 by the end of the first day of trial, but eventually settled for 11 times that amount.

In Gilmore v. Secrest the victim in this semi-truck accident case suffered shoulder and back injuries. The defendant had only offered $100,000 up to and including first day of trial.

Our client was injured when a truck driver rear-ended a line of stopped vehicles. Our attorneys presented strong evidence of our client’s ongoing orthopedic and cognitive impairments, which ultimately resulted in this successful settlement.

Heintz v. Shell Settlement was reached in 2007 and was considered one of the highest settlements that year.

The truck accident victim’s injuries included neck and back injuries requiring surgery and depression. This was one of the top reported auto negligence/truck accident settlements in Michigan in 2004.

A Macomb County jury ruled in favor a truck accident victim who suffered a lower back injury requiring low back fusion surgery.

Settlement in a Head-on truck collision.

State of Michigan’s negligent use of a sign resulted in a car/truck collision on a highway ramp that caused leg injuries to the victim.

This confidential out-of-state wrongful death case involved a commercial motor vehicle causing the death of a motorcyclist.

The victim who was lawfully riding his motorcycle suffered severe injuries requiring multiple surgeries on both legs and below the right knee amputation as a result of a collision caused by a motorist who failed to yield the right of way.

The motorcyclist in this motorcycle accident wrongful death case was killed when a motorist attempted to turn left in front of him. Although the motorist strongly contested at first, the case was ultimately settled pre-litigation for the full policy limits.

This wrongful death settlement involved a t-bone collision where a motorist failed to stop for a “Stop” sign and drove into a motorcyclist, who was killed on impact. The case settled for the full policy limits.

In this accident case, the victim desperately needed Michigan attendant care benefits, which the insurance company was refusing to pay.

A motorcyclist suffered a neck fracture requiring surgery; a left knee dislocation with ACL tear, and traumatic brain injury.

The victim suffered a cervical spine injury and post-concussion syndrome as a result of being a passenger on a bus that rear-ended a street sweeper.

The victim in this Macomb County bus accident case was seriously injured when a bus negligently made a left turn in front of the victim’s car.

Settlement for a Wayne County bus accident involving two buses.

A Wayne County pedestrian/bus accident occurred because a bus driver was driving while distracted and was not watching the road.

Verdict against General Motors

Verdict for wrongful death

Verdict for medical malpractice

This $8 million dog bite settlement is the largest ever dog bite result ever in Michigan. Our attorneys won this record-setting amount even though the defense aggressively contested liability. While we are most known for auto accidents, lawyers around Michigan refer serious dog bite cases throughout the state to our firm based on our results and expertise in this area.

Detroit Edison’s negligent installation/maintenance of power lines in Oakland County resulted in wrongful death of 5-year-old. Sanctions and interest brought total award to $10 Million.

Settlement for Oakland County swimming accident.

Improperly stacked merchandise in a retail pharmacy in Wayne County fell and struck a shopper, causing her to suffer a traumatic brain injury, cognitive limitations and debilitating headaches. This was the top reported brain injury verdict in Michigan in 2015.

Settlement in Oakland County for obstetrical malpractice.

When a press shaft fractured, the press operator was hit in the head by a falling piece of metal. Suit was brought in Washtenaw County against the successor to a power press manufacturer and a prior owner/maintainer of the press.

In this confidential case, the defendant corporation paid out $1.8 million to a husband and wife for groin injury and various orthopedic injuries and surgeries.

A Wayne County jury ruled in favor of a shopper who was injured by a store’s automatic sliding doors.

In this confidential case, the victim was killed by a gas explosion.

Arbitration Award in Oakland County for obstetrical malpractice

$1,000,000 settlement just before trial on $0 offer, after case had been rejected by 4 other law firms

Workplace injury settlement in Macomb County

Our attorneys won this $2.3 million verdict in Kent County. Our client had been left quadriplegic due to injuries she suffered in a crash and the auto insurance company had refused to pay our client the No-Fault benefits she was owed. The jury ordered the auto insurer to pay for our client’s overdue benefits which included expenses for medical care and home modifications to accommodate our client’s needs.

$0 insurance company offer ($100,000 offer at trial)

$0 insurance company offer ($100,000 offer at trial).

Our attorneys secured this settlement for a seriously injured car accident victim after the insurance company refused to provide the No-Fault benefits it was legally liable for.

$1,000,000 settlement just before trial on $0 offer, after case had been rejected by 4 other law firms