Grand Rapids is Michigan’s second largest city and growing. As the area grows and local economy booms, more residents walk to work or school, increasing the flow of people on sidewalks and using crosswalks. Motorist crashes with pedestrians are rising....
During the early evening rush hour of August 1, 2013, a road construction company blocked and backed up northbound traffic on US Highway 31 in Manistee, Michigan, congesting the nearby intersection of a cross street. Traffic traveling west on the...
Medical Crime A nightmare of criminal fraud: a doctor pumping poisonous chemotherapy drugs into hundreds of patients for years, falsely telling them they had cancer when they did not. The same doctor intentionally over-treated terminal cancer denying them the right...
A year ago, in June 2014, comedians Tracy Morgan and James ”Jimmy Mack” McNair suffered catastrophic crash injuries riding as passengers in a limo bus. The limo flipped over when a Walmart semi truck rear-ended the limo on the New...
The Michigan legislature, under claims of “tort reform,” has in the last 20 years enacted statutory barriers to justice for patients injured or killed by medical malpractice. Legal barriers include requirements denying or delaying an injured patient access to the...
Six (6) babies of every 1,000 births in the United States suffer a birth injury or birth trauma. In 2014, for instance, over 23,700 babies were injured at birth in this country. Some injuries resolved quickly or were easily treated,...
For a patient injured by medical malpractice, Michigan law allows the person to get back only one type of loss suffered: compensatory damages. Only actual losses can be reimbursed. In contrast to other states such as New Mexico, where in...
There is a statute of limitations (i.e., a legal time clock) in Michigan that limits the time an injured person has to file a lawsuit. If that time period expires before a lawsuit is filed in a Michigan court, the...
Via: https://www.woodtv.com/ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The family of a Forest Hills seventh grader who died after an accident during surgery is suing Spectrum Hospitals and the surgeon who performed the procedure. Quiniece Henry died on February 13, 2014,...
By: Angie Jackson Via: mLive.com GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The family of a Forest Hills teen who died last year after a medical treatment-related accident has filed a malpractice lawsuit against Spectrum Health and a pediatric surgeon. Parents of Quiniece...
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