July 15, 2017
Courts rule in Bay County case involving TBI car crash victim in a Menard’s parking lot crosswalk that stores do have legal duty to protect ‘safety zone’
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May 17, 2017
There have been nearly 200 pedestrian deaths alone in Michigan. For something so preventable, these texting and driving statistics are inexcusable
November 18, 2016
Volvo says ‘yes.’ The U.S. DOT acknowledges it’s worth considering. So why did Michigan lawmakers steer clear of the issue in our driverless car bills (SB 995-997)? Yesterday, I talked about Michigan’s driverless car legislation and how it fell short of the “Federal Automated Vehicles Policy,” which says manufacturers who want to road-test their self-driving …
December 8, 2014
Attorney Steven Gursten weighs in on Channel 4 News, after two SMART bus accidents in one week left one dead and one critically injured On Thursday, reporter Kimberly Gill of Channel 4 News stopped by the office to interview me on bus safety – in the wake of two serious SMART bus accidents involving pedestrians. …
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October 15, 2013
Drivers of commercial trucks are running pedestrians over and killing them, because crossover mirrors that cost a couple hundred dollars are not required in trucks. There’s no reason why, in the congested urban areas and city streets, that crossover mirrors should not be on trucks. As an attorney who litigates trucking accidents both in Michigan …
September 4, 2013
Gursten weighs in on how these mirrors could prevent trucks running over pedestrians in the transport journal Streetsblog.org Attorney Steven Gursten, head of Michigan Auto Law, discussed crossover mirrors in commercial trucks – and how these $100 safety mirrors can save lives – with Streetsblog.org reporter Stephen Miller. Streetsblog.org is a New York transportation blog. …
February 1, 2013
$1.25 million settlement for pedestrian struck by car Last week, I wrote about our top-reported auto accident trial verdict and truck accident trial verdict, according to the Michigan Lawyers Weekly year-end list of the top verdicts and settlements. Our own auto lawyers also received the top reported personal injury settlement in 2012, again according to …
January 19, 2010
We are happy to announce that Michigan Auto Law has received the largest car accident settlement and verdict in the state for 2009, according to a year-end compilation of trial verdicts and settlements by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. Steve Gursten’s settlement was for a serious traumatic brain injury accident in Roseville, which is in Macomb County, …
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December 4, 2008
Jury awarded $5.6 million to victim of a pedestrian car accident with traumatic brain injury Chrysler asked a Macomb County judge to reconsider her denial of a new trial that maintained a $5.6 million verdict to a Bruce Township man who suffered serious personal injuries in a pedestrian car accident. But Circuit Judge Mary Chrzanowski ruled …
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