Legal Question in Personal Injury in Michigan
Compensation for pedestrian/auto accident
In $ amounts, fair compensation
for a person hit by a car while
jogging on a rural road. Driver
was negligent. Injuries sustained
were 2 broken bones in wrist and
badly bruised arm. No surgery
was required and injury was to
non-dominant hand. Injury required
a cast for six weeks and one month
of hand therapy. Pedestrian's insurance
paid all medical bills.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Compensation for pedestrian/auto accident
It is really hard to decide what a jury would give you. You must also realize that under recent decisions (Kriener) in Michigan by the ultra right winged Supreme Court who is in the pocket of the insurance industry, such a case may be dismissed if the judge decided that it did not alter the course of the injured party's life. Then the jury would never get to decide the case and the injured party would get nothing. That is why these cases are worth substantially less than they used to be. During the elections when you heard the Democrats explaining what the Republicans were trying to do to individual rights, you probably thought it was just campaign talk. Now that you are the victim, you can see it was not just talk. They have walked on you. In the meantime, have your insurance rates dropped a dime? William S. Stern 248-353-9400
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