Use the “T-CLOCK” inspection method before every ride to help prevent a motorcycle accident
May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. As a motorcycle accident lawyer, and especially given the 2012 Michigan motorcycle helmet repeal, it’s more important now than ever to discuss additional ways motorcycle operators can stay safe on the roads.
We’ve seen several critical motorcycle accident injuries and a fatality in the last month after the helmet law repeal, where the motorcycle operators were not wearing their helmets. According to the Detroit Free Press, a Flint motorcyclist died Monday after losing control and being thrown from his motorcycle. Also, a man in an Algonac crash suffered a severe head injury that investigators said could have been prevented
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MCCA’s contradictory accounts call for emergency manager and increased transparency
Michigan drivers deserve the real story about the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association.
Especially when the insurance industry executives that make up the MCCA board are asking drivers to pay the highest per vehicle assessment costs ever. But a straight story is hardly what Michigan drivers are getting when it comes to the MCCA. In fact, the public can’t even look at the numbers. Instead we are asked to take their word for it, at the same time that the insurance industry is pushing for wide-ranging No-Fault changes.
In the MCCA’s official press releases, financial statements and annual reports:
Child accident lawyer shares safety tips to help prevent car accidents for teens and children this summer
The school year is coming to a close. If you are a kid, this is great (sometimes for parents a bit less so). Most kids and teens are already in “Huck Finn” mode, looking forward to the fun and freedom of summer. But for teen drivers, fun and freedom is also associated with the highest numbers of car accidents, as well as injury and death as a result of these crashes. Now is a very good time to take a few moments and talk with your teen driver about safety as he or she prepares for prom night and graduation.
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New safety rule may help to prevent truck accidents due to truck drivers with dangerous medical conditions like sleep apnea
There’s an important new safety rule that requires healthcare professionals and doctors who perform medical exams for truck and bus drivers to be trained, tested and certified on the specific physical qualifications that affect the trucker’s ability to safely drive.
It’s about time.
The doctors who examine truck drivers have been woefully unprepared for too long. It is also quite a game with truckers who do have serious medical conditions and who know damn well the medical examiners who will always give them a passing grade. They know which medical examiners to go to, and which to avoid. To help the cause, peruse the classifieds of any popular magazine for the trucking industry today, and see dozens of ads for all sorts of agents
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Erica Nader Coulston of Walk the Line to SCI Recovery center discusses being paralyzed after an auto accident and her fight against HB 4936
Erica Nader Coulston says that when you’re advocating so hard for your cause and your recovery that you “piss people off,” then you know you’re doing it right. She has to live and breathe by this rule, and says people with spinal cord injuries and other serious car accident injuries must do it to survive and make the best recovery possible.
At just 23 years old in 2001, Erica was paralyzed in a car accident. Completely paralyzed from the chest down, with little to no control of her limbs, hands, bladder and bowel, she was told by her doctors that she would not improve, and that there was nothing she or anybody could do
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Michigan injury attorney Steve Gursten is speaking at the American Association for Justice Legal Seminar on maximizing pain and suffering compensation in auto accident lawsuits
This week, I’ll be in New Orleans presenting to my fellow injury attorneys on how to recover full and fair compensation for their clients in in car accident cases. As most personal injury attorneys woefully undervalue cases (according to many studies), the main thrust will be how these lawyers can get the highest settlement possible for a deserving client in need.
This legal presentation is part of the American Association for Justice “Jazz Fest” Seminar. The subtitle is “It’s all about the damages (pain and suffering compensation and settlements) for lawyers litigating auto crash cases.
There really are no magic bullets, no shortcuts or tricks for any lawyer trying to recover a higher injury settlement
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An insurance lawyer’s advice on who pays your PIP benefits under different car accident scenarios
This is the last blog in my recent No-Fault priority series for people who are injured in auto accidents under different but very common scenarios and need to make a claim for PIP benefits.
Michigan has rules contained in our No-Fault Act that create an “order of priority” for auto accident victims. These rules determine which of the more than 100 auto insurance companies in Michigan has the legal responsibility to pay their No-Fault benefits.
Sometimes, it’s not as clear as we’d like it to be, and even insurance lawyers can get tripped up from time to time. But, the penalty for getting it wrong is severe: if you file a claim with the wrong No-Fault insurance company and over a year passes from the
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14 tips so motorcyclists and drivers can share the roads safety — and prevent motorcycle accidents
Given the 2012 Michigan motorcycle helmet repeal — that now allows motorcycle operators ages 21 and older to ride without a helmet if they meet certain requirements — it’s perhaps fitting that May is motorcycle safety month.
Motorcycle accident deaths are actually down in Michigan for 2011, according to a recent article in The Oakland Press, Michigan traffic deaths fall 5 percent in 2011. Specifically, motorcycle accident deaths dropped 13 percent, from 125 in 2010 to 109 in 2011 (Michigan State Police (MSP) Criminal Justice Information Center).
Sadly, that likely will not be the case after the helmet repeal. My own hunch as a lawyer helping people injured in motorcycle accidents is that
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May 1 marks a day to change the way we drive
We call them “accidents.” It’s in our everyday vernacular. As an attorney who only helps people seriously injured in car crashes, it’s always curious to me that people usually refer to these as “accidents.” This is almost never the case, of course.
Most car accidents are completely preventable. People aren’t paying attention, or they are being reckless and they run a red light, or slam into the back of the car in front of them because they are speeding.
It is even worse when children are involved. As a lawyer, it’s heartbreaking every time a child is involved. When a driver is speeding in a neighborhood street, or looking down texting on his phone, and hits a child, it is never truly an accident. No
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April 29th, 2012
For several years now, Kevin Seiferheld has been turning heads with his results in truck accident cases. This week, Kevin was invited to speak to several thousand personal injury lawyers on the subject of how he litigates trucking cases. The seminar is in Atlantic City, New Jersey and is a joint presentation to the New York and New Jersey trial lawyer associations.
The majority of Kevin’s practice is Michigan bus accident and truck accident injury cases. He’s tackling this subject because many attorneys who aren’t familiar with the intricacies of truck accident law, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Rules and complicated insurance issues that
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