Articles Posted in Personal Injury

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 19, 2026. One collision can produce claims that expire in different years, and the periods are set by different statutes that do not cross-reference each other. A single crash can leave one claim live and another…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 11, 2026. Michigan’s no-fault act abolished most tort liability arising from the use of an insured motor vehicle, and then carved out a handful of exceptions. One of them lets a driver recover vehicle damage directly…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. A verdict figure and a judgment figure are different numbers in Michigan, and the distance between them is set by statute rather than by negotiation. A jury returns an amount for pain and suffering,…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. A Michigan medical malpractice claim runs on a two-year limitations period that begins at the act or omission rather than at the moment a patient learns something went wrong. The mandatory notice of intent…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Michigan writes nursing home residents’ rights into statute rather than leaving them to facility policy. That matters for families trying to judge whether something is wrong, because the most useful warning signs are not…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. The obviousness of a hazard no longer decides whether a Michigan property owner owed a duty to the person hurt by it. That question moved to two later elements of a negligence case, and…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Michigan drivers have been choosing how much personal injury protection coverage to carry since policies issued or renewed after July 1, 2020. The choice was presented as a premium decision. It is also a…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Michigan’s no-fault act sets more than one deadline, and the two that matter most in a personal injury protection claim both run for a year while doing completely different jobs. One decides when a…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan personal injury attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated July 15, 2026. A Michigan wrongful death recovery does not simply pass to the estate and then to whoever inherits under a will. The proceeds are distributed by court order, after a hearing, among a class of people…