Category: No-Fault Reform

Car accident attorney analyzes key aspects of Driver’s Choice Car Insurance Reform plan advanced by Detroit Mayor Duggan & House Speaker Leonard

We deserve to know the No-Fault insurance savings from No-Fault reform before politicians in Lansing take away vital benefits and legal protections

MI House lawmakers’ new Fair and Affordable No-Fault insurance reform legislation a better way to preserve PIP benefits, legal protections for car crash victims

Auto insurers can recoup MACP costs by passing higher prices along to consumers and by claiming tax credits – but lawmakers want to change this Michigan’s No Fault auto insurance companies can have their cake and eat it, too, when it comes to assessment payments for Michigan’s “Assigned Claims Plan.” Too bad it leaves a …

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While your child is away at college, is she protected by your auto No Fault  insurance? Please note that for this blog I am writing about a “typical” college freshman student.  I’m assuming: Your child doesn’t have her or his own car on campus – so no auto insurance; and Your child is not married …

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If you haven’t, you might be now! Consumers Federation Of America reveals ‘price optimization’ scheme used by insurers to ensure higher prices to loyal customers Aren’t businesses like huge, for-profit auto insurance companies supposed to value and reward loyal customers? Or at least, not go out of their way to hurt them? Nope. Apparently, that …

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Ride-sharing, app-based Uber transportation service provides the following coverages: Liability, No Fault, UM/UIM, property damage, comprehensive and collision This is my fourth and final blog in a series about Uber, the app-based, ride-sharing service. The insurance issues I’ve been analyzing in these blogs will soon change from theoretical to very real – at least for …

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No, it won’t: ‘Insurance gap’ covers liability and property damage when on-duty, but without passengers Earlier this year, I wrote about a liability issue that was developing for Uber. Uber is the popular app-based transportation service that’s operating in Detroit and Ann Arbor and has recently entered the Grand Rapids, Lansing/East Lansing, Flint and Kalamazoo …

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As ride-sharing, app-based service enters more Michigan markets, Uber boasts $1 million liability, No Fault and property damage coverages. But what do these new insurance coverages really mean for passengers? As Uber comes to Grand Rapids, the Lansing area, Kalamazoo and Flint, the ride-sharing app-based service boasts that its insurance coverage for passengers, third-parties and …

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