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If you or a loved one have been injured in a car accident in Wayne County, Michigan, you can count on Personal Injury Attorney Matthew Bedikian and the Michigan Advocacy Center to represent you and help you obtain compensation.
Cars are deeply connected to Wayne County’s heart, as Detroit has always been at the center of automobile production. Unfortunately, Detroit also has one of the country’s highest rates of car crashes, both in Michigan and the country, especially for fatal collisions. The sheer volume of cars, coupled with sometimes older infrastructure, is a recipe for accidents and serious injuries.
Accidents in Wayne County often leave victims, if they are fortunate enough to survive, with severe injuries. Worse still, they are then in the hands of an extremely expensive and unjust healthcare system, made even more difficult to navigate by insurance company behavior.
In the face of these injustices, and the difficulty for Detroit and other Wayne County residents to pay for the serious injuries incurred in car accidents, personal injury attorney Matthew Bedikian oppened the Michigan Advocacy Center, PLLC. The law firm focuses exclusively on personal injury law: helping car accident victims obtain justice and compensation for their injuries and all the costs associated with them.
With its county seat, Detroit, at the heart of the American Automobile industry since its start, Wayne County has been constantly dealing with cars, car traffic, and, unfortunately, car accidents. In their early years, cars competed with horses, buggies and pedestrians on roadways that were entirely unadapted for their speed.
Accidents were frequent and horrific. Wayne County was at the forefront of innovating solutions that could improve road safety and efficiency. The very first mile of paved highway was in Wayne County, and while highways now crisscross the country, they are also, unfortunately, host to some of the most dangerous and deadly crashes.
It was after witnessing a near miss of a head-on collision that Wayne County Road Commission (formed all the way back in 1906!) commissioner Edward N Hines supposedly came up with one idea that has been described as the single greatest innovation in road safety: the lane. He had the idea of painting a center line on roadways which drivers would not be allowed to cross.
While we take the dividing line and lanes for granted now, it is important that we remember that there was a time when they were not there to help prevent fatal car accidents and serious injuries.
There is nothing fair about a car accident that has been known since the first early automobile struck a pedestrian or horse-drawn carriage. One vehicle will always come out in worse shape, and one or more drivers, passengers, or pedestrians that had nothing to do with causing the accident often end up dead or seriously injured.
When the negligence of one driver, whether it is carelessness, recklessness, or downright illegal behavior and disregard for the safety of others on the road, causes a car accident, they are never the only person to suffer. There will always be at least one person who despite bearing no or little blame for the collision, ends up injured, paralyzed, disabled, or worse.
In theory Wayne County accident victims like these should be able to, at the very least, obtain compensation for their injuries. Unfortunately when accidents do occur, that is not always the case.
With its long history of struggling against car accidents and injury injustices, Michigan was one of the few states to push for a no-fault personal injury insurance system. Under this law, any injured motorist is supposed to file a claim against their insurance company for damages suffered in a car accident.
On paper this sounds great, no need to worry about who is to blame, or finding someone to pay. In practice however it creates as much injustice as it solve. Individuals have to pay higher premiums if they want their Personal Injury Protection (PIP) insurance to cover higher total damages, which means poorer Wayne County residents may not be able to afford the same protections, without being any less likely to suffer severe accidents.
Furthermore the no-fault insurance doesn’t cover all damages you might suffer. While insurers generally accept demonstrated economic damages, such as most medical costs, lost wages and other easy to calculate harms, non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering, a loss in quality of life, or the loss of companionship and labor of a spouse are rarely fully compensated, if at all.
Luckily, Wayne County car accident victims do have other options to recover compensation for their injuries. If you are injured in a car accident and your own insurance will not cover the full extent of your harms and damages, either because the amount is above your policy limit, or because the types of damages are not recognized or compensated by your insurance, you have the right to file a personal injury claim against the person, or institution, responsible for the accident and your injuries.
As long as the car accident you were in was caused by the negligence of one or more individuals or groups, such as a reckless driver causing a crash or a truck company failing to pay for crucial maintenance on their rig, you can claim compensation from them. This means you can demand that they pay the remainder of the damages you suffered, which your insurance company did not pay for, and sue them for the money if they refuse to pay.
Doing so is not easy, however. Proving negligence is not always obvious or easy, and the methods and experts needed to demonstrate and calculate non-economic damages are even more complex. Furthermore, insurance companies are reluctant to pay out any more than they have to and will try everything from denying and delaying your claim to dishonest or deceptive tactics to pay you less.
This is why it is so important to work with an experienced personal injury lawyer after a car accident. Fortunately for Wayne County residents, the Detroit based Michigan Advocacy Center helps accident victims from all walks of life fight injustices and insurance companies to claim the compensation they need.
Michigan Advocacy Center | Personal injury attorneys fighting for Wayne County, Michigan, and Detroit Car Accident Injury Victim’s rights, justice and compensation.
Started just a decade ago by personal injury lawyer Matthew Bedikian, the Michigan Advocacy Center represents car accident victims and other injured residents of Detroit, Wayne County, and all of Michigan. The firm is not afraid to take on insurance companies, and is always pursuing both justice and much needed compensation.
Their impressive results since speak for themselves and stand as a testament to what they can do for injury victims throughout the state. They are helping to make Wayne County roadways safer and more just for drivers in the finest traditions of the state.
Therefore, if you have been injured in a car crash or other accident in Detroit, Wayne County or anywhere else in Michigan, you can and should call the personal injury lawyers of the Michigan Advocacy Center at (248) 266-7600 to make sure you are not deprived of the compensation you deserve.
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