Personal Injury
I provide the high-stakes, human-centric advocacy required to level the playing field and secure the fair compensation you need to restore your life after a catastrophic injury.
Personal Injury & Malpractice
Insurance companies have armies of lawyers designed to deny your claim. You have me. And I level the playing field against powerful corporate and medical entities to secure the compensation you deserve.
For over two decades, I've represented injury victims against insurance companies, hospitals, and corporations that prioritize profits over accountability. Unlike 'settlement mill' firms that push quick payouts, I prepare every case for trial—because defendants settle better when they know you're willing to fight. Whether you're injured in a slip and fall, suffered medical malpractice, or facing catastrophic injury consequences, you need an attorney who doesn't back down.
My personal injury practice focuses on premises liability cases where negligent property owners caused your injuries, medical malpractice cases involving hospital negligence and surgical errors, and catastrophic injury claims requiring long-term care and substantial compensation. I also handle civil liability defense for individuals and businesses facing injury lawsuits—protecting assets and reputations when you're on the other side of a claim.
I don't take every case. I focus on claims with clear liability, significant damages, and defendants with insurance or assets to pay. If I take your case, you get thorough investigation, expert witnesses, aggressive discovery, and trial-ready representation designed to maximize your recovery. No settlement mill mentality. No quick payouts that leave you undercompensated. Just strategic litigation focused on getting you what you're owed.
The Elite Advocacy Standard
Not every injury attorney is willing to take on a major hospital system, a self-insured corporation, or an insurance carrier that has already decided your claim is worth nothing. I am—and I build every case to prove it.
Michigan's personal injury landscape is dominated by high-volume settlement mills—firms that market aggressively, sign as many cases as possible, and resolve them as quickly as the insurance company allows. Quick settlements keep the volume moving. They also routinely leave injured clients with a fraction of what their case is actually worth, because the firm never prepared for trial and the insurance company knows it.
Recognized among Michigan's elite trial attorneys, I build every personal injury case for trial from day one—retaining liability experts, reconstructing incidents, obtaining complete medical records, and calculating full damages including future care costs, lost earning capacity, and non-economic damages that settlement mills routinely undervalue. Insurance adjusters and hospital defense counsel recognize trial-ready preparation. It changes how they negotiate, how much they offer, and how quickly a case resolves on terms that actually serve the client.
Complex cases are our standard: I focus on cases that require real litigation—premises liability with disputed notice, medical malpractice against credentialed physicians and hospital systems, and catastrophic injury claims where lifetime care costs are the central damages issue. These cases require expert testimony, Daubert-standard evidence, and trial counsel who has actually tried cases to verdict. That is the standard I bring to every matter I accept.
I don't take every case—and that selective approach is the point. When I accept your case, it is because I believe it has the facts, the liability, and the damages to warrant full trial preparation. You get an attorney who is invested in the outcome, not a case number rotating through a high-volume associate's desk.
Personal Injury Practice Areas
High-stakes injury litigation across Michigan's most complex personal injury categories
Protecting the Vulnerable from the Powerful
Insurance companies have claims adjusters, staff attorneys, defense firms, and decades of experience minimizing payouts. You have the right to an advocate who is equally prepared—and equally committed to winning.
When you are injured by someone else's negligence—a property owner who ignored a known hazard, a physician who deviated from the standard of care, a corporation whose recklessness caused catastrophic harm—you enter a claims process designed by the defendant's insurance company to limit its exposure. The adjuster who calls you is not on your side. The form they ask you to sign is not in your interest. The initial settlement offer is not what your case is worth.
Against insurance companies: Michigan's no-fault system is among the most complex auto and premises insurance frameworks in the country. Carriers use coverage disputes, causation arguments, and recorded statements to reduce or deny legitimate claims. I know how Michigan insurers defend these cases because I've litigated against them for over two decades. I prepare discovery that exposes their claims-handling decisions, retain independent medical experts who are not beholden to the carrier, and pursue bad-faith remedies where the conduct warrants it.
Against hospital systems and medical institutions: Medical malpractice defendants include not only the individual provider but the hospitals, health systems, and credentialing bodies that employed them, trained them, and retained them despite documented deficiencies. Large health systems carry institutional defense resources and risk management teams whose sole function is limiting malpractice exposure. I retain qualified medical experts, analyze standard-of-care documentation, and build cases that hold institutions—not just individual providers—accountable for systemic failures.
The contingency commitment: I handle personal injury cases on a contingency fee basis—meaning I only get paid when you recover. That alignment of incentives means every decision I make is focused on maximizing your recovery, not minimizing my time investment. When I prepare a case for trial, it is because trial preparation produces better outcomes. When I recommend settlement, it is because the offer reflects the full value of your claim and the litigation risk of continuing. The advice I give you is the same advice I would want if I were the one who was injured.
Frequently Asked Questions
What injury victims need to know before their first call
Personal Injury FAQ
The steps you take immediately after an injury significantly affect the strength of your case:
- Seek medical treatment immediately—even if you believe the injury is minor. Delayed treatment is the first argument insurers use to deny claims.
- Document the scene with photographs and video before conditions change or evidence is removed
- Obtain contact information for any witnesses present
- Report the incident to the property owner, employer, or responsible party and obtain a written incident report
- Preserve any physical evidence—torn clothing, defective products, shoes worn at the time of a fall
- Contact an attorney before speaking to any insurance representative
Evidence in personal injury cases disappears quickly. Surveillance footage is overwritten, witnesses become unreachable, and conditions are remediated before they can be documented. Early attorney involvement preserves the record.
Any attorney who gives you a number before investigating your case is guessing—or selling.
Case value is determined by the interaction of several factors that must be investigated before any honest assessment is possible:
- Liability: How clear is the defendant's negligence? Is contributory fault an issue that will reduce recovery?
- Economic damages: Medical bills (past and future), lost wages, lost earning capacity, and cost of long-term care are calculated from documented records and expert projections
- Non-economic damages: Pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, and emotional distress—subjective damages that vary significantly based on injury severity and jury venue
- Insurance coverage: The defendant's policy limits and assets available to satisfy a judgment cap practical recovery in many cases
- Jurisdiction: Some Michigan counties produce substantially higher jury verdicts than others for comparable injuries
We provide a candid case evaluation after reviewing your medical records, incident documentation, and insurance coverage information—not before.
Michigan follows a modified comparative fault rule—you can still recover as long as you are not more than 50% at fault for your own injuries.
Under MCL 600.2959, your recovery is reduced by your percentage of fault. If a jury finds you 25% at fault and awards $400,000, you recover $300,000. If you are found 51% or more at fault, recovery is barred entirely.
This makes early investigation and narrative control critical. Insurance companies aggressively argue comparative fault to reduce payouts—claiming you were distracted, wearing improper footwear, ignored warning signs, or contributed to the condition that caused your injury. How we frame and document the defendant's negligence relative to your conduct shapes how fault is ultimately allocated.
Do not assume partial fault bars your claim. Discuss the specific facts with us before concluding you have no case.
Michigan's general personal injury statute of limitations is three years from the date of injury under MCL 600.5805. But critical exceptions apply—and some are shorter.
- Medical malpractice: Two years from the date of the negligent act, or six months from when the plaintiff discovered or should have discovered the injury—whichever is later, but no more than six years from the act (MCL 600.5838a)
- Claims against government entities: You must file a Notice of Claim with the governmental unit within 60 days of the injury. Missing this notice period can permanently bar your claim regardless of its merits
- Wrongful death: Three years from the date of death, not the date of injury
- Minors: The limitations period is generally tolled until the minor reaches age 18, with additional rules depending on claim type
Waiting to contact an attorney until close to the deadline compromises the investigation, the evidence, and the leverage. The earlier you act, the stronger the case we can build.
Because insurance companies know which firms go to trial and which ones don't—and they price their offers accordingly.
High-volume personal injury firms are built around efficiency: maximum cases, minimum time per file, fastest path to resolution. That model produces consistent revenue for the firm and consistently undervalued settlements for clients. Insurance adjusters know their settlement patterns, know their case capacity, and know they will settle rather than try a difficult case. That knowledge costs you money.
- Settlement mills rarely retain independent liability experts or accident reconstructionists—experts who can shift the liability narrative and dramatically increase case value
- They routinely settle before full medical treatment is complete, locking in damages before the full extent of injury is documented
- They do not prepare pre-suit demand packages that force carriers to evaluate cases seriously before litigation begins
- They avoid complex cases—medical malpractice, disputed liability, catastrophic injury—that require real trial preparation and carry real litigation risk
I take fewer cases than a settlement mill. I prepare each one for trial. That preparation changes what insurance companies offer—and it is the only model that serves the client's interest rather than the firm's throughput.