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Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel urges drivers to call 911 about potholes; Rep. Marilyn Lane wants to stop auto insurance increases based on pothole damage No one can accuse Macomb County leaders of swerving around the issue of Michigan’s pothole-pocked roads. Leading the charge is Macomb County Executive Mark A. Hackel and Rep. Marilyn Lane …
Jones v. Home-Owners Insurance confirms a person must be ‘actively seeking employment’ but also that his ‘unemployed status’ need not be permanent I regularly sit as a case evaluator for several different counties in Michigan, and I see many different types of legal issues in the personal injury cases arise. But no area of our …
Study shows ‘driving while cannabis-impaired’ ‘doubles car crash risk,’ but drunk driving still may be more dangerous Drivers who are high on marijuana are twice as likely to get in a crash as sober drivers. That’s the conclusion of a study that was recently published in the Society for the Study of Addiction’s journal Addiction …
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How many thousands of innocent and seriously hurt people lose everything because of so-called “independent medical exams,” such as this example by Michigan psychiatrist Dr. Rosalind Griffin? Update: To see the latest on this story, read my February 17 blog post, “Attorney’s blog constitutes protected free speech under state and federal constitutions” and my Jan. …
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 …
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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During the fourth of July holiday, I blogged about what happens when there’s a rear-end car accident involving vehicles that are hauling things like jet skis, trailers or boats. I’ve received quite a bit of follow-up questions, but the point to remember is the Michigan mini tort is mostly limited to motor vehicle accidents and …
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Detroit, Grand Rapids, Warren & Sterling Heights named among largest cities with the ‘safest drivers’ in Allstate’s 2014 ‘America’s Best Drivers Report’ If you live – and drive – in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Warren or Sterling Heights, then congratulations to you. You are among the “best drivers” in the country “in terms of car collision …
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