A Michigan auto accident victim suffered a leg injury after an accident in which his bicycle collided with a motor vehicle.  The victim brought a lawsuit for non-economic damages, i.e., tort liability, claiming that he had suffered a serious impairment of a body function (one of three allowances for non-economic damages pursuant to M.C.L. 500.3135(7).
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The Michigan Court of Appeals has recently found that injuries sustained by a car accident victim, who was struck by a driver while he was riding his bicycle, were a serious impairment of a body function, as the injuries affected his general ability to lead his normal life.
To recover for tort liability, a car accident [...]

The Michigan Court of Appeals recently held that the Detroit Medical Center was entitled to recover from an insurance company the medical expenses it incurred in treating an injured driver because the injured driver was not the “owner” of the uninsured vehicle she was driving at the time of the accident. Under M.C.L. 500.3113 of [...]

In a recent case, the Michigan Court of Appeals has found that a car accident victim failed to prove that she sustained a serious impairment of a body function.
In this case, the car accident victim was injured in a Michigan auto accident  when the car she was driving was rear-ended by a car driven by [...]

The Michigan Court of Appeals has held that, in a lawsuit for injuries filed by a Michigan car accident victim, the trial court erred b refusing to consider a Ph.D psychologist’s opinion and other evidence regarding whether the car accident victim suffered a closed-head injury in the Michigan automobile accident.
The car accident victim, proceeding through [...]

The Michigan Court of Appeals has affirmed that a Michigan car accident victim is entitled to judgment in her favor in the amount of $173,703.46. In 2002, the car accident victim sustained injuries in a Michigan automobile accident. She was discharged from the hospital to a residential brain injury rehabilitation institute, where she spent three months before being transferred to the Ann Arbor Rehabilitation Center (AARC). State Farm provided the plaintiff’s no-fault automobile insurance, and paid for her treatment at AARC until May 2004, when it discontinued payments to AARC. The plaintiff then retained a Michigan car accident lawyer and filed suit, seeking recovery of allowable expenses incurred after May 2004. On August 29, 2006, a jury returned a verdict in her favor.