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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 estate planning attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Michigan has no living will statute. The document that does that work here is the patient advocate designation, and it does it by appointing a person rather than by stating instructions, which means the…

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 Social Security Disability attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 9, 2026. A Michigan workers’ compensation case that ends in a redemption produces one check, and Social Security treats that check as if it were still being paid out week by week. The offset that…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan criminal defense attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Michigan asks a driver stopped on suspicion of operating while intoxicated to blow into a device twice, at two different points, under two different statutes. Refusing the first carries a civil infraction. Refusing the…

By Kelly M. Neumann, a Michigan family law attorney and Principal Attorney at Neumann Law Group. Last updated September 8, 2026. Michigan divides the marital estate equitably and generally leaves each spouse’s separate property alone. Two statutes cut into that second rule, and they do so on grounds that have nothing to do with whether…