Category: Car Insurance

May 14, 2011

Insurance attorney Steve Gursten explains why No-Fault caps on medical benefits are a bad idea for Michigan drivers I was interviewed on WDET national public radio last week. The host, Noah Ovshinsky, covered a story on proposed Senate Bills that would destroy Michigan’s current No-Fault system. This would leave car accident victims lacking critical medical …

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January 27, 2011

Auto insurance attorney says you can get both, but only in specific situations, and there will be important issues to consider Car accident victims always have questions about No-Fault insurance. One of the most frequent questions we have is whether a person injured in a car accident can simultaneously collect No-Fault insurance wage loss benefits …

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December 21, 2010

Jackson Citizen Patriot misses the real story of insurance company abuse Last Wednesday, a Jackson County jury returned a verdict of $3.5 million dollars for Jim and Kim Fairley. I am so happy for them. The Fairleys are wonderful people and they really deserve this. The next morning, I was surprised to see my trial …

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October 7, 2010

Personal injury lawyer stresses that Young consistently voted against accident victims and puts special interest before the safety of Michigan families Justice Robert P. Young, Jr., who is running in November for reelection to another 8-year term on the Michigan Supreme Court, votes against personal injury victims more than three times as much as he …

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October 6, 2010

Michigan Lawyers Weekly blog reveals exactly where Justice Young’s exorbitant campaign contributions come from I’d like to share the following blog from Michigan Lawyers Weekly with my readers and my fellow personal injury attorneys. This blog states clearly Young’s priorities. It foreshadows what lies ahead if Justice Young is re-elected to another term on the …

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December 29, 2009

There is a right way and a wrong way for personal injury lawyers to be charging on collecting PIP benefits Let me be clear: one of the things that really bothers me is watching a personal injury lawyer sign up a case, and then try to take his or her third on everything starting on …

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October 27, 2009

15 Months Off Work and Unable to Walk From Personal Injuries Is Not “Serious Enough” If there’s one truth to emerge from the horrifically flawed Michigan Supreme Court ruling in Kreiner v. Fischer, a case that has doomed thousands of auto accident victims in Michigan, it is this: The word “normal” doesn’t mean what you …

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August 12, 2008

Most people don’t think about insuring and registering their automobiles immediately after moving to a new state. But thanks to another unfair Michigan insurance law, that’s what has to be done to be protected in case of an auto accident. In Jones v. SBC Teleholdings Inc., the Michigan Court of Appeals recently ruled that Michigan …

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August 5, 2002

Auto lawyer Steve Gursten says uninsured motorist coverage is illusory, and insurance carriers are denying policy holders who have been in car accidents Auto lawyer Steven Gursten tells Michigan Lawyers Weekly that auto insurance carriers who provide underinsured motorist coverage (UIM) in Michigan are acting in bad faith by routinely denying policy holders permission to settle their …

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