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NHTSA administrator announces: ‘ [E]very child on every school bus should have a three-point seat belt’ Children are our most precious “cargo” when we’re out on the roadways. Nice to see the nation’s top traffic safety organization now agrees, and after years of debate and some controversy (stemming from a 2006 position paper on seat …
Michigan Auto Law attorney Todd Berg gives autoinsurancecenter.com insight on what drivers can do if they’ve filed Michigan pothole claims for vehicle damage
Josh received a $170,000 settlement, including significant penalty interest and attorney fees for his Detroit client, on a $30,000 offer from Farmers Insurance First, let’s be honest. While insurance companies are improperly terminating hundreds, maybe even thousands of people from No Fault insurance benefits, the reality is that today there are only a small handful …
A 32-acre site is the testing ground for autonomous cars, and our attorneys hope will help create a future without car accidents MCity, the world’s first controlled test center for self-driving, cars opened last week on a 32-acre site on the University of Michigan’s north campus. And it’s a game changer for the rapid development …
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Check for improper adjustment, and get out and look! Poor mirror adjustment is one of the top causes of bus and truck accidents involving lane changes and pedestrians. For instance, I appeared on Channel 4 News on the issue after a rash of SMART bus accidents in Metro Detroit last year. As I told the …
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Formula created by Court Of Appeals in Agnone v. Home-Owners short-changes high-wage earning auto accident victims Wage loss reimbursement is one of the many essential No Fault (also known as PIP) insurance benefits that Michigan auto accident victims are guaranteed under Michigan’s No Fault law. No Fault benefits provide a critical lifeline for many people …
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Surprise! Humans are still way more dangerous than autonomous cars The media went crazy for about 24 hours with stories about the first injury-producing car accident involving a Google car. But, it turns out it was a human who caused the crash. After 1.9 million miles of test driving Google cars, these miraculous vehicles – …
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently proposed a new safety rule requiring single unit commercial trucks to now have rear underride guard protection. It’s an important rule that requires American trucks to have the same safety technology that trucks have had in Europe and Asia for years. And it’s going to save many …
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And why the Hours of Service safety rule needs to be revisited by the FMSCA Truck driver fatigue is one of the most common causes of preventable truck accidents. In fact, more than 750 people die and 20,000 more are injured each year due directly to fatigued commercial vehicle drivers, according to the Federal Motor …
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