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Rear-ended in a Detroit drive-through and now Medicare wants my settlement

A low-speed crash can still wreck your neck, and if Medicare covered the treatment in Detroit, part of any settlement may already be spoken for.

ARTICLE by Frank Kowalczyk

i'm dead tired after getting rear-ended on I-96 and now the insurance company says my bad back makes this pointless

A Grand Rapids overnight security guard got rear-ended in traffic and now the insurer is trying to pin everything on an old back issue while the clock keeps running.

ARTICLE by Ahmed Hassan

i got rear ended on the shoulder near Grand Rapids and now they're saying he wasn't working

A treatment gap after a shoulder-side crash near Grand Rapids can wreck the value of your injury claim fast, especially when the company tries to dodge responsibility by saying its driver was off duty.

ARTICLE by Tina Blackwell

borrowed truck, loose cattle, no ticket - and now they're acting like your injuries are your problem

A ranch hand gets hurt in a chain-reaction crash and then by panicked livestock, and the mess gets worse when the borrowed truck's owner says their insurance won't cover it.

ARTICLE by Ahmed Hassan

Your Flint crash payout can disappear into a hospital lien fast

A bad lane shift can wreck your car, your income, and then the hospital comes after the settlement before you ever touch it.

ARTICLE by Deborah VanDyke

Hit going straight on a green in Sterling Heights and your boss says stay quiet?

The biggest deadline is not the lawsuit deadline - it's the first year after the crash, and a scared worker can lose benefits fast.

ARTICLE by Jorge Delgado

Do I lose a Michigan injury claim if I already had a back problem?

No. Michigan law does not block an injury claim just because you had a pre-existing back condition. If a crash in Sterling Heights made that condition worse, the driver who...

A lot of money can ride on this document, because it can shape how much is set aside for future treatment, equipment, home help, and lost independence after a serious injury....

Can my Detroit boss fire me for seeing my own doctor after a work crash?

Worst case: after a crash on I-94 by the Lodge in Detroit, a supervisor tells you to "use our clinic only," then starts trimming your shifts when you ask for another doctor....

residual functional capacity

A person's residual functional capacity is the most they can still do in a work setting, on a regular and sustained basis, despite physical or mental limits caused by injury,...

occupational disease

It can decide whether medical bills, wage loss, and long-term care get paid - or denied. When an illness is tied to the conditions of a job rather than a single accident,...

Not a one-time lung irritation from breathing dust on a jobsite or after a single cleanup, silicosis is a serious, long-developing lung disease caused by inhaling very small...

Steps To Take After a Jackknifed Semi Crash

What actually matters in the first hours and days after a Michigan semi-truck crash, especially when weather, road closures, and multiple insurers get involved.

ARTICLE by Frank Kowalczyk

Michigan Crosswalk Claims When the Driver Says They Never Saw You

In Michigan, a driver saying "I didn't see you" does not wipe out a pedestrian claim, especially if the crash happened in or near a marked crosswalk and the insurer is trying to dump blame on you.

ARTICLE by Frank Kowalczyk

Is it worth filing workers' comp if a Lansing shuttle crash wasn't my boss's fault?

What the insurance company does not want you to know about this is that in Michigan, you may have two claims at the same time: workers' compensation against your employer's...

Why does the apartment insurer want my old back records after a Warren fall?

If you hand over years of records without limits, the insurer may use your old back problem to argue the fall didn't cause anything new and push you toward a cheap settlement...

What trips people up most is that harm can be real long before symptoms show up. A latency period is the span of time between an exposure, event, or harmful condition and the...

A toxic tort is a civil claim alleging that exposure to a harmful substance - such as chemicals, dust, fumes, asbestos, lead, pesticides, or contaminated water - caused...

occupational therapy

Not the same as physical therapy, which focuses mainly on strength, movement, and pain control. Occupational therapy is treatment that helps a person regain the ability to do...

My coworker said undocumented workers can't file after a Kalamazoo work crash, true?

"Were you working when the crash happened, and who were you driving for?" That is the adjuster's key question, because in Michigan the answer can decide whether workers'...