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Both lawyers Brian Bornstein and my friend from Texas, Steve Laird, recently commented on my observations about the critical connection between traumatic brain injury and chronic pain in The Jury Expert. It is a connection that most personal injury lawyers miss. The Jury Expert is an online litigation advocacy publication. The article that started the …
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Rule of the Road No. 6 – Truck Accident Attorneys Show How to Identify Driver Fatigue A recent survey states that 20 percent of truck drivers nationwide admitted to falling asleep at the wheel in a given month. This stat comes at no surprise to our truck accident lawyers, who frequently handle horrible truck crash …
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Attorneys from Michigan Auto Law Teaching Personal Injury Lawyers at Trial Institute Two auto attorneys from Michigan Auto Law will be volunteering to help educate Michigan personal injury lawyers from throughout the state during the Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ) first annual Trial Institute. The trial institute is in Southfield this week. Faculty member Steve …
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When Susan Al-Maliki was seriously injured in a rear-end car accident, she never thought it would be a Wayne County Circuit Court judge in Detroit who would pose the greatest obstacle to her pain and suffering claim reaching a jury. Without warning – and without providing her an opportunity to respond – Judge Warfield Moore …
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As a car accident attorney, I always tell my clients that playing around on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or other similar social networking sites can have dire consequences for an auto accident case. For example, insurance adjusters and defense attorneys will investigate your accounts, Web pages and blogs — even when set as ‘Private’ — and …
On Tuesday I wrote about an appalling case, Roberts v. Farmers Insurance Exchange; involving a 14-year-old car accident victim with traumatic brain injury and an insurance company that once again, refused to pay her no-fault insurance benefits. Farmers Insurance did this because the child did not make it to her mandatory insurance medical examination. But …
This “set off” scam allowed Progressive Insurance Company to cheat a young school teacher who was critically injured in a very serious car accident. Beware, because your insurance company may have policy language allowing it to pull the same scam on you. My client Amie Carducci was only 28 when she was struck nearly head-on …
On Tuesday, I spoke at a Plymouth seminar on Michigan no-fault law for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE). My topic, “Locating and Effectively Dealing with Experts on Direct- and Cross-Examination in First- and Third-Party Litigation,” was vital for Michigan plaintiff lawyers and defense attorneys alike, who must overcome jurors that are skeptical of …
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Reprint of Steven M. Gursten’s Letter to Michigan Lawyers Weekly Rarely does the Michigan Lawyers Weekly completely miss the point of an important case, but I feel compelled to respectfully suggest that your recent story on Benefiel v. Auto Owners Insurance Company1 did exactly this. Benefiel is the most important automobile negligence case to be …
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