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I’m happy to write about a new, positive development: Boston is the first city in the country requiring side guards on large commercial trucks. This includes all trucks either owned or contracted by the city. Boston is doing this in an effort to prevent truck accidents involving pedestrians, cars and bicyclists on busy city streets. …
I’m excited to announce an important development in truck safety: Boston is now the first city in the U.S. requiring side guards on large trucks either owned by the city or city-contracted, to prevent serious injury and death to bicyclists and pedestrians. As a truck accident attorney, I’m looking forward to helping expand this law …
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And why this record 2014 trucking crash lawsuit isn’t really about the money at all Recently, I secured $34 million for a serious truck accident lawsuit. This is the largest-reported truck case in the nation for 2014. It is also the largest truck accident settlement ever by a Michigan attorney, according to the VerdictSearch reporter. …
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Attorney Steven Gursten weighs in on Channel 4 News, after two SMART bus accidents in one week left one dead and one critically injured On Thursday, reporter Kimberly Gill of Channel 4 News stopped by the office to interview me on bus safety – in the wake of two serious SMART bus accidents involving pedestrians. …
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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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Michigan Auto Law attorney Steven Gursten settles trucking accident lawsuit for $34 million Last Thursday, I settled a truck accident lawsuit for $34 million. I’m limited by the terms of a confidentiality agreement and cannot share the names of the parties or insurance companies, or discuss the injuries involved in the case, but some broad …
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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 …
