LEGAL PRACTICES

Wrongful Death

We are dedicated to helping families confronted with the devastating emotional and psychological harm, and financial ruin that families feel when a family member dies due to negligence.  The loss of a loved one, spouse, child, son, daughter, mother, father, aunt, uncle, grandmother or grandfather causes grief and heartache.

Whether such a wrongful death is caused by an automobile accident, motorcycle accident, defective or poorly maintained machine or product, workplace accident, boating accident, or airplane crash, we have the expertise and experience to help.

We listen, learn, and work to understand the significant harm and loss families experience in wrongful death.  We work to address financial hardship exploring all potential insurance benefits and government benefits.  We preserve evidence.  We interview witnesses before memories fade.  We involve qualified experts early to analyze the accident scene, inspect the automobile, motorcycle, product, boat, airplane or helicopter, and assess the magnitude and duration of financial loss.

We meet with healthcare providers and witnesses to determine whether wrongful death caused conscious pain and suffering for the deceased.  We meet with EMTs, emergency department doctors and nurses, pathologists, and medical examiners.  We work to recover 911 tapes before they are lost or destroyed.  We meet with police officers.

We communicate with grieving families each step of the way.  We work from the first day to achieve maximum and fair compensation for families who have suffered wrongful death.  We work to prepare a video story to make insurance companies understand human loss.

If a loved one suffers wrongful death, it is important that you act quickly to hire an attorney who has experience and specializes in wrongful death.  You should also hire an attorney who has trial verdicts.  Insurance companies will not pay maximum settlements to attorneys who do not regularly present matters to juries.

We are experienced and specialize in wrongful death cases.  We have handled wrongful death cases through trial and jury verdict.  We provide support and pride ourselves on comforting our clients.  We make ourselves available to meet each family’s needs.

We would be honored to help your family make a full recovery for the significant harm and loss you suffer from wrongful death.

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 Traumatic Brain Injury or Closed Head Injury

We recognize that adults and children who suffer traumatic brain injuries face unique challenges that can be lifelong, require specialized care, and create tension and struggle for their families.  We specialize and have significant experience representing adults and children who have sustained traumatic brain injury or closed head injuries.

We have worked extensively with neurosurgeons, radiologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, social workers, neuro therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech and language therapists to learn about the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury or closed head injury.

We create video stories that make it easy for insurance companies and juries to understand the life altering effects of traumatic brain injury.  We work to demonstrate how the injury occurred using experts in biomechanics.  Insurance companies and jurors need to understand how an automobile accident, motorcycle accident, defective or poorly maintained product, boat accident, malpractice, or airplane crash can cause a significant traumatic brain injury.  Insurance companies and juries must be taught how an injury that cannot be seen dramatically changes lives, creates financial loss, and requires continuous specialized care.

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Automobile Accidents

We understand that lives change in an instant when an automobile accident occurs.  People wonder who will pay medical bills, who compensates for harm, loss and pain, who will modify our home to meet needs, who will pay lost wages, who will pay for the funeral.

Michigan’s No Fault law is confusing.  We can help.  We can guide.  We can maximize insurance benefits, settlements, and verdicts.

We have extensive experience representing adults, teenagers and children injured in automobile accidents.  These cases have involved wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, serious, permanent and progressive physical injury, and denial of insurance benefits.

It is important that you contact a qualified and experienced attorney soon after an automobile accident.  Weather will wash away the evidence at the accident scene.  The vehicles may be destroyed before they are inspected.  Witnesses become harder to find and memories fade.  Medical records need to be ordered.  Healthcare providers and police officers need to be interviewed.  We get right to work.

Unlike attorneys who advertise on television, we accept a limited number of cases.  We know our clients need attorneys to answer questions, gather evidence quickly and efficiently, hire the right experts, and most importantly, take the time to understand your needs, and the harm and loss you have suffered.

We know that auto accident victims need healthcare providers to testify effectively for them to maximize insurance benefits, settlements, and verdicts.  Because we have represented doctors and hospitals, we may have a personal relationship with your doctor or will earn his or her respect with our extensive knowledge of medicine.  We continue to help doctors and hospitals with regulatory compliance and maintain positive relationships in the healthcare field that are valuable to our clients.

We create video stories to help insurance companies and juries understand the accident and harm and loss.

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Motorcycle Accidents

We know that motorists sometimes don’t see motorcyclists.  Motorcycle accidents result in wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, and permanent, progressive, painful and debilitating physical injuries.  The law, focusing on compensation of victims of motorcycle injuries, is different than the law that applies in automobile accidents, defective and poorly maintained products and machines, malpractice, and airplane crashes.

We have experience representing teenagers and adults injured in motorcycle accidents.  We know the law.  We know experts specializing in motorcycle accident investigation.

We will get to know you and your family.  We will hire qualified experts.  We will use our contacts and extensive knowledge of medicine to assemble medical testimony.  We will create a video story to maximize insurance benefits, settlement and verdicts.

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Defective Machines and Products/Negligence Product and Machine Maintenance

Defective products and negligently maintained products cause wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, closed head injury, burns, and permanent, progressive, and painful physical injury.  These injuries happen at home, in the workplace, and with rented products, machines, and equipment.

We act immediately to preserve evidence, retain expert witnesses, develop protocols for inspection to determine how our client was victimized by the product or machine.  We learn how the product was designed, who modified the product, gather maintenance records and product manuals.  We research product and machine recalls and similar accidents.  We discover the qualifications of the mechanics involved in maintenance.  We determine each company’s commitment to design, maintenance, and safety.

We work hard to figure out how our client was injured and how the product, machine, or equipment caused the injury.  We anticipate and work to defeat the inevitable attempt to blame the victim for his or her own injury.

We interview co-workers.  We meet with doctors, nurses, and psychologists and social workers to learn about conscious pain and suffering or assess how an injury has changed the victim’s life and the lives of their family.  We videotape interviews with doctors, nurses, psychologists and social workers.  We take pictures to depict accident scene and injures.  We weave these videotapes and photographs into compelling video stories.

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Plane Crash and Aviation Accidents

When an aircraft crashes, wrongful death, traumatic brain injuries, burns, and permanent, progressive, and painful physical injuries are inevitable.  Victims and families are devastated.  We help victims and their families answer the complex question:  Why did the plane crash?

We work with experts in all aspects of aviation.  Expert pilots assess pilot error, expert aircraft engineers assess engine malfunction or failure, expert metallurgists assess stresses or heated metal, expert aerospace engineers assess design defects, expert mechanics assess maintenance, experts in radar assess flight path, and experts in air traffic control assess miscommunication as a cause of the crash.

We create compelling video stories to underscore the devastation, harm, and loss an airplane crash causes.

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We will learn about the victim and their family.  We will work as we would for a member of our own family.

Mediation

We apply over 30 years of experience to help people craft their own solutions when they find themselves in a dispute.  We have participated in hundreds of mediations and have tried complex cases in the courts.  We are qualified to mediate or arbitrate any civil dispute.  We work with folks to find solutions pre-suit, during litigation, and post judgement.

We are experienced trained mediators and arbitrators.  We prepare.  We listen.

We will work as long and as hard as is necessary to reach a settlement.  We recognize that reaching resolution may take time.  We also realize that an impasse may occur early in the process.  We exercise judgement to determine when an unsuccessful mediation should end or be adjourned and when to push forward.

We enjoy playing a role in helping parties resolving differences.  We would very much like to help you.