This was plaintiff’s second lawsuit against his insurance company because the insurance company refused to pay attendant care benefits. The insurance company cut off all attendant care benefits on the basis of a medical examination with an insurance company doctor.Read More
The Michigan Association for Justice on Wednesday told the House Select Committee on Reducing Auto Insurance Rates that it asked its members to think about the worst actors in the auto insurance world and to ask themselves: “How do we put them out of business?”Read More
Plaintiff, now age 82, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2006 automobile accident. This was her second lawsuit against the insurance company relating to attendant care benefits. She had asked the insurance company for a cost- of-living increase in her attendant care benefits. She provided an economist’s report supporting her demand. The insurance company...Read More
On a Saturday evening in May 2017, Avoryanna Harper was a helmetless 21-year-old passenger on a motorcycle that hit a stopped SUV in a head-on crash in Cadillac.Read More
Plaintiff suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in a 2011 automobile accident. His treating doctors prescribed 24- hour attendant care. His insurance company would only compensate for aide-level care despite the complexity of the care provided by his mother, a registered nurse and also despite the prescription for attendant care by a treating physician at...Read More
Plaintiff, a highly educated and functioning husband, father and provider for his family before the automobile accident sustained a frontal lobe traumatic brain injury and associated significant impairments in his judgment and higher-level executive functions as a result of a catastrophic motor vehicle accident.Read More
On April 18, 2019 Michigan Lawyers Weekly will host our 11th annual luncheon and awards celebrating Leaders in the Law. Leaders in the Law are honored, among other things, for significant accomplishments or achievements in law practice, outstanding contributions to the practice of law in Michigan, leadership in improving the justice system in Michigan, seeking...Read More
Plaintiff was involved in a 2007 automobile accident suffering a traumatic brain injury. His doctors prescribed attendant care that was provided by his family members. The insurance company initially refused to properly pay attendant care benefits and this lawsuit was instituted. Defendant insurance company did not cooperate with discovery, which resulted in multiple motions and...Read More
Bloomfield Hills attorney Karen Seder has been told that at a young age she declared that she would be an attorney. Although practicing law is not a family business and nei- ther of her parents attended college, they successfully encouraged her and her sisters to get degrees. “I am driv- en by a sense of...Read More
Arthur Liss, Karen Seder and Nicholas Andrews, partners at Liss & Andrews, P.C., have all been certified as Lawyers of Distinction, by U.S. News and World Report. The partners are no-fault attorneys specializing in representing clients who have suffered significant brain and spinal cord injuries. The firm’s founder Arthur Liss made the announcement. In addition,...Read More
