Michigan Personal Injury Attorneys - Car Crash and Auto Accident Law Firm - Farmington Hills, MI Lawyers

Representative Case Results

Motor Vehicle Accidents

$3.45 million settlement against a cement company whose truck crossed a center line causing three deaths and severely injuring a four-year-old boy. The settlement was $450,000 in excess of available insurance.
$625,000 motor vehicle accident settlement for a 38-year-old construction supervisor who returned to work three weeks after suffering a moderate closed head injury.
$1.4 million dollar settlement on behalf of father and son suffering from Huntington's Chorea, who died after running over a spare tire which had been dropped from a semi-tractor trailer.
$118,000 verdict in a rural county on behalf of a 55 year-old woman who suffered a facial tic and knee cartilage damage after an intersection collision with a school bus.
$300,000 settlement on behalf of a 45 year-old man with a mild closed head injury as a result of motor vehicle collision.
$1 million settlement on behalf of a 60 year-old woman with a mild closed head injury due to County Road Commission negligence.
$100,000 settlement (policy limits) on behalf of a 56 year-old woman in a rural county with an ankle fracture as a result of a motor vehicle collision.
$100,000 settlement (policy limits) for fetus (7 1/2 month gestation) who died as a result of an intersection collision.
$200,000 settlement in a rural county for 4 year-old who died as a result of truck/pedestrian collision.
$500,000 settlement for a 65 year-old woman suffering paraplegia in a contested liability accident.
$825,000 settlement on behalf of a 25 year-old man in a rural county with a peroneal nerve injury as a consequence of an automobile/truck collision.
$136,000 verdict in a rural county on behalf of a 40 year-old woman who suffered a back injury in a contested liability motor vehicle collision. The verdict tripled the mediation award.
$1.3 million Federal District Court settlement on behalf of a mother and daughter in a car/truck collision. Mom suffered a pancreas injury but returned to full time employment within six months; eight year-old daughter suffered an aggravation of a pre-existing learning disability as well as a ruptured spleen.
$100,000 (policy limit) settlement on behalf of a 38 year old woman who developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy six months after her motor vehicle collision.
$290,000 wrongful death settlement on behalf of a 12 year-old boy who, according to four independent witnesses, was riding his bike on the shoulder of a road when he swerved into traffic, causing a collision. At their depositions, the four witnesses recanted their prior statements, indicating that the driver of the van that hit the decedent may have been on his cell phone at the time of the accident.
$800,000 settlement on behalf of the mother and father of a six year-old boy who, while running across the street, was hit and killed by a right-turning vehicle.
$170,000 settlement on behalf of the estate of a 20 year-old man who was killed as a result of a drunk driving collision. Insurance coverage was only $70,000; the owner of the drunk driver's vehicle paid $100,000 personally.
$600,000 settlement in a rural county for a young man who injured his right arm in one vehicle rollover-accident. The settlement exhausted all available insurance coverage.
$1 million settlement for a 52 year-old woman in a rural county who broke both ankles and suffered a retro bulbar hemorrhage of her right eye after being struck by a gravel truck.
$290,000 settlement on behalf of a 7 month old infant who died in an automobile accident.
$680,000 arbitration award against a local transportation authority for a minor impact collision resulting in a cervical disc injury.
$250,000 policy limit settlement for a 65 year old woman who suffered a calcaneus fracture as a result of an intersection collision.
$600,000 settlement on behalf of 2 families who were injured when a tire dislodged from a passing boat trailer and struck their vehicle.
$1.744 million settlement against a 19 year-old driver and the fraternity where he was drinking immediately prior to a head-on collision that killed a 52 year-old husband and father of 3 children.
$500,000 policy limit settlement for a woman injured when a car crossed the center line striking her vehicle.
$400,000 court judgment for a young man injured in an automobile accident.
$260,000 arbitration award for young woman with heel fracture.
$275,000 settlement for motorcyclist with knee injury.
$125,000 settlement for woman with mild closed head injury.
$135,000 settlement for man with femur fracture and neck injury.
$200,000 settlement for woman injured in police chase case.
$100,000 policy limit settlement for man with splenectomy and shoulder injury.
$250,000 settlement for man with shoulder injury.
$200,000 structured settlement for a young girl with facial scarring.
$162,500 settlement for man with leg injury.
$232,500 arbitration award for a man with pre-existing back injury.
$175,000 settlement for woman with mild closed head injury.
$750,000 to family of 27 year-old passenger killed in rear-end collision.
$415,000 to family of college student killed in disputed liability collision with rental car.
$750,000 to family of passenger killed in collision on icy road.
$750,000 to family of child struck by car waiting for school bus before dawn in rural area.
$500,000 settlement to family of woman killed by underinsured driver.
$400,000 settlement to office worker who suffered ankle injury in automobile collision.
$1.5 Million settlement for 64-year old retiree who was killed in an intersection collision.

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Premises Liability

$300,000 settlement for the estate of a 12 year-old boy in a rural county, who died after being accidentally shot by a neighbor.
$270,000 settlement on behalf of a 24 year-old man who lost his eye after being accidentally shot by a friend.
$780,000 settlement to the family of a young man who died after being asphyxiated by smoke in his apartment building.
$500,000 settlement for the family of a 55 year-old man who died as a result of being accidentally shot during a hunting accident.
$100,000 settlement for the family of an infant who died as a result of the negligent supervision of the grandmother (policy limit).
$265,000 settlement on behalf of a 58 year-old delivery man who fell into an open manhole, rupturing his left rotator cuff.
$302,500 settlement on behalf of a five-year-old girl bitten by her pediatrician's dog.
$1.4 million from Sears Department Store for a 32 year-old woman who developed Thoracic Outlet Syndrome after lifting a jewelry display case of her 2 year-old daughter. The jewelry display was alleged to be top heavy thereby allowing the 2 year-old daughter to pull it down with a minimum of effort.
$500,000 settlement for a woman who was hit on the head when a clock fell from a wall.
Settlements totaling over $1 million from claims resulting from an apartment building fire.
$75,000 settlement for burns resulting from negligent fireworks display.
$250,000 settlement for accidental shooting death case.

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Medical Malpractice

$100,000 policy limit settlement for young child whose mother had undiagnosed rubella during pregnancy.
$1 million settlement to family of 37 year-old woman who died from complication of punctured lung.
$700,000 settlement to family of woman who died from complications of stomach surgery.

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Product Liability

$2.5 million verdict for three year-old boy burned when shirt caught fire and melted.
$110,000 verdict to man who suffered leg burns from wet concrete

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Police Pursuit

Settlement of $1.2 million to family of 33 year-old man killed in collision with wanted driver fleeing police.

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Drowning

$360,000 settlement to family of three year-old boy who drowned in creek behind mobile home park.
$325,000 settlement to family of two year-old boy who drowned in neighbor's pool.

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Workplace Injury

$375,000 settlement to worker injured by falling material on the job.

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911 Negligence

$675,000 settlement to family of woman who died of respiratory arrest after delayed emergency response.

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Highway Defect

$800,000 settlement to neck injury victim whose car lost control on flooded road and was struck by another car.

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Nursing Home Negligence

$190,000 settlement to family of 88 year-old Alzheimer's patient dropped by nursing home staff.