Category: Litigation Tips

February 26, 2013

Tips for auto accident attorneys preparing for the insurance adjuster deposition I’ve taken a few hundred depositions in my legal career, and certainly that includes my share of claims adjusters. In Michigan, we file No-Fault lawsuits and the reasonableness – or as is too often the case – the unreasonableness – of an insurance company’s …

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December 13, 2012

How to help juries to understand and empathize with an auto accident victim with commonly misunderstood injuries Why are so many people who suffer from TBI, or chronic pain, found so unlikeable by juries?  And what things can you as a trial attorney do to help make your client more likeable so a jury will …

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November 24, 2012

Black boxes don’t really exist as such anymore.  But for purposes of this blog, I use the term as the main source of information about the truck and its journey. These systems can show how a truck was operating, its speed and any braking that occurred in the moments before a serious crash.  These systems …

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April 4, 2012

There is gold in PIP files. Here, PIP stands for personal injury protection, as in, personal injury protection benefits related to no-fault auto insurance. There are only 4 or 5 law firms that really understand no fault litigation in Michigan, and for these firms, the importance of getting the insurance company’s PIP File is known …

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March 24, 2010

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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March 16, 2010

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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