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How to help juries to understand and empathize with an auto accident victim with commonly misunderstood injuries Why are so many people who suffer from TBI, or chronic pain, found so unlikeable by juries? And what things can you as a trial attorney do to help make your client more likeable so a jury will …
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State Farm offers $0, bad faith case against State Farm is next Kevin Seiferheld, an excellent trial lawyer at Michigan Auto Law, recovered a $1.485 million jury verdict for his client in Macomb County. What is notable about this case is that the insurance company for the defendant, State Farm, offered $0 – that’s right …
I serve on the executive board of the traumatic brain injury lawyer group of the American Association for Justice, and lately there has been a lot of talk and e-mails about something that seems more like science fiction than reality – a blood test to detect brain injury. An article in PopSci magazine is just …
How DTI can diagnose concussion and traumatic brain injuries, and help lawyers explain these injuries to juries when insurance company lawyers deny responsibility and attack TBI victims The topic of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) has been coming up a lot lately. DTI is an imaging scan that helps assess traumatic brain injuries and closed head …
According to MedlinePlus (the National Institutes of Health’s Web site) every year, millions of people suffer a head injury. But the danger is that so many head injuries can be difficult to recognize. Sometimes symptoms of head injuries begin to manifest immediately following a trauma. However, very often head injury symptoms don’t become recognizable until …
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TED talk by Dr. Elliot Krane says chronic pain is not just a symptom of injury, but an injury itself I often write about the connection between car accident injuries like TBI and chronic pain syndrome. Sadly, so many of these injuries fall into a legal double standard and the victim of these terrible injuries …
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Our brain injury lawyers participated in March’s Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month to help car accident victims with TBI Last month was Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Awareness Month. To get people talking about the importance of understanding this complicated injury, our brain injury lawyers have made a donation to the Brain Injury Association of Michigan. …
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Michigan’s No-Fault law delineates the insurance required to pay your PIP insurance benefits when occupying limousines, airport shuttles, etc. This is the third blog in my series about who pays No-Fault PIP benefits for people who are injured in auto accidents under different scenarios. Michigan has “priority” laws – rules contained in our No-Fault Act …
How the prevalence of motor vehicle accident-related brain injury is reflected in MI auto law governing pain and suffering compensation for accident victims Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) resulting from Michigan car accidents fall into a special category under our auto laws. Unlike other personal injuries to the body and unlike any other auto accident-related injury, …
