Personal Injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) happens when a sudden injury causes damage to your brain. A "closed head injury" may cause brain damage if something hits your head hard but doesn’t break through your skull. A "penetrating head injury" happens when an object breaks through your skull and enters your brain. The CDC has found...

Legal terminology can be confusing—even for some lawyers. Many of these “words of art” come from Latin, and few of us are fluent in that language. For example, “ex parte” means on behalf of” and “donatio mortis causa” is Latin for a deathbed gift. We won’t try to teach a course on Latin, but...

The short answer is no. Spouses, children, and other relatives typically aren’t responsible for any of the outstanding debts of a relative who passes away. A decedent's debt is usually paid from their estate, which is money or property they left behind. When a person dies with debt, it may impact the beneficiaries of...

Michigan Supreme Court recently ruled that Court of Appeals erred by failing to apply the framework of an earlier case since that decision was never clearly superseded by the Legislature or overruled by the Supreme Court. The holding in Baker v. Slack (1948) that damages for lost earning capacity are not available under the...

There were more than 88,000 motorcyclists killed and injured in motorcycle accidents nationally in 2021. In Michigan in 2022, there were 3,158 motorcycle accidents, and 173 motorcyclists were killed, with 2,466 injured. Statistics show that 84% of motorcycle-vehicle crashes happen on streets in the Wolverine State, rather than on highways. Because of this, all...