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Thomas Craig v Walsh Construction Company of Illinois, U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, plaintiff brought suit against Walsh Construction Company of Illinois as general contractor for injuries from a construction accident. Craig fell approximately 25 feet from shoring which was being dismantled by his employer’s […]

Manier v MIC General Insurance Corporation, Washtenaw County Circuit Court.  Plaintiff filed suit seeking a declaratory judgment that MIC had improperly rescinded and reformed an auto liability insurance policy based on a misrepresentation in the application. The minor plaintiffs were all severely injured in an auto accident and sought recovery […]

Machining Enterprises, Inc. v Wausau Business Insurance Company, Oakland County Circuit Court number 04—056494—CK, claim by Machining Enterprises, Inc. for insurance coverage for underlying claims made against Machining Enterprises, Inc. (“MEI”) based on a General Motors recall, in which MEI sought in excess of $10,000,000 for indemnification and defense costs.  […]

Jimmy Kasmikha, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Selma Kasmikha, Deceased v Integon National Insurance Company, Oakland County Circuit Court, plaintiff filed a claim for underinsured motorist benefits seeking the underinsured motorist limits of $250,000 as a result of an auto accident with an alleged underinsured motorist which allegedly […]

Latta v Nationwide Property & Casualty Insurance Company and Kimberly Byrne, claim for bad faith and breach of contract seeking to enforce an alleged settlement agreement of an underlying claim by Chad Latta against a Nationwide insured, Glenwood Apartments, for an alleged premises injury claim. The plaintiff’s claim in the […]

Mike won a defense verdict in a two week paramedic malpractice wrongful death case, wherein the decedent’s survivors alleged that the decedent, after having sustained a fall and a C2 odontoid fracture, was mishandled by the paramedic and EMS crew, resulting in a shift and/or displacement of an odontoid fracture.  […]

This is a wrongful death product liability case in which Vernon Wingard was caught between the end of a conveyor and fixed barrier guarding.  He was crushed to death.  The Estate claimed that the conveyor was negligently designed, was defective and was unreasonably dangerous.  The case was defended on the […]

United States District Judge David Lawson has granted a Motion for Summary Judgment filed by Dennis and Mel in this product liability case in which the quadriplegic Plaintiff claimed that his use of an allegedly defective ROHO air cushion caused a stage 1 pressure sore which did not heal and […]

HKPC won three cases for Bravokilo, Inc., the operator of many Burger King restaurants in Michigan, without even having to appear for oral arguments.  Two of the cases were pending in Washtenaw County Circuit Court and the third was filed in Saginaw District Court. Two of the cases alleged food […]

An electrical utility company acquired a prescriptive easement to run electrical lines across a parcel of property but the property owner challenged the right of a cable operator to piggyback on that easement to string its television and internet wire.  Judge Morris ruled, however, that the cable company’s wire did […]