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(248) 266-7600If you or someone you love has been injured in a motorcycle accident in Wayne County, Detroit personal injury lawyer Matthew Bedikian can help you get justice and compensation.
Wayne County, in Michigan, is one of the most dangerous places to drive, especially on a motorcycle. Detroit and the highways that crisscross the county are witnesses to catastrophic injuries and tragic fatalities every year when motorcycles get hit or are run off the road by negligent drivers.
When that happens, motorcycle accident victims get insult added to injury when insurance companies refuse to pay some or all their costs and losses, leaving many to struggle physically, emotionally, and financially.
Fortunately, injured motorcycle accident victims and their families do have some allies in Wayne County: personal injury lawyers like Matthew Bedikian work hard to help them obtain the justice and financial compensation they deserve.
Detroit is regularly ranked among the deadliest cities to drive in, with one of the highest accident fatality rates in the county. Wayne County, of which Detroit is the county seat, has by far the highest number of fatal accidents in Michigan, and while this is partly driven by the higher population from Detroit, it is also pushed up by the number of horrific motorcycle accidents on its roadways.
In 2022, while motorcycle riders were involved in barely 1% of accidents in the region, they accounted for 13% of all serious injuries and 14% of all fatalities. Motorcycle riders and passengers do not benefit from the protections of a vehicle, and even helmets, while helpful, cannot prevent many serious injuries and fatalities.
Survivors of such difficult accidents are not much better off, however, as severe injuries are common, life-changing, debilitating, and extremely expensive. Between medical bills and time lost from work, motorcycle accident victims can often find their finances in dire straights. Meanwhile, the insurance companies that are supposed to help them often leave them stranded or deliberately deny, delay or diminish their personal injury claims.
Motorcycle accident victims are often confronted by three key barriers, each of which blocks or siphons away some of the crucial compensation they both need and deserve. Only with the help of skilled personal injury representation from dedicated lawyers and attorneys from firms like the Michigan Advocacy Center are injured motorcycle accident survivors able to get past them.
Car and truck drivers in Wayne County benefit from Michigan’s no-fault insurance rules. This means that they can recover all damages to themselves and their vehicle if they are in an accident, regardless of who is to blame. Motorcyclists, however, are not entitled to these benefits.
If you are hurt in a motorcycle crash in Wayne County, you do not automatically get access to Michigan's no-fault personal injury protection laws. Therefore, unlike all other drivers, you are not allowed to claim your medical costs and other losses unless an “actual” automobile was involved in the crash.
While they do not have to have hit you, a car or truck must have driven you off the road for you to benefit from the no-fault insurance coverage. This can make recovery very complicated and is one of the main reasons why you will want a personal injury attorney with motorcycle accident injury experience on your side after a crash.
Even if you are able to get access to personal injury insurance, either by paying for your own or by claiming against the insurance of a driver involved in your accident, the amount you can recover is limited by the policy coverage.
Because motorcycle accidents are so serious and often involve such dire injuries as traumatic head injuries or spinal injuries, the costs associated with them are likely to be quite high. Coupled with the time you have to take off from work to recover medically, the amount of damages you desperately need to claim can quickly exceed the amount of insurance available, if there is any accessible at all.
Michigan’s no-fault insurance, if you can even get access to it after a Wayne County motorcycle accident, covers your direct economic damages, but that is it. While you can claim compensation for your medical bills and other economic damages like lost wages or even vehicle damage, you cannot claim damages for non-economic costs and harms you endured due to the motorcycle accident.
This means that any emotional trauma, loss in the quality of your life, or other non-economic damages you suffered as a result of your motorcycle accident injuries will not be compensated. This can severely limit the financial compensation you are able to claim, not to mention the amount you will receive to help put your life back together.
The odds are certainly stacked against the survivors of serious motorcycle accidents in Wayne County. Between the life-threatening and life-changing injuries and the difficult and often impeded insurance rules, it can be a struggle to get by at all.
Fortunately for accident victims in Wayne County and nearby Michigan, personal injury attorney Matthew Bedikian founded the Michigan Advocacy Center to help the victims of motorcycle and other accidents pursue that elusive but essential extra compensation. With his help, you will have a much better chance of obtaining the full and fair compensation you need and deserve.
But only if you reach out in time.
Michigan Advocacy Center | Personal injury lawyers ready to help motorcycle accident victims from Wayne County are ready to help you take on Michigan laws and insurance companies alike.
If you have had the misfortune to be in a serious motorcycle accident but the good luck to have survived it, the path to compensation can seem endless and difficult. Fortunately, you do not have to walk it alone.
Based out of Detroit, the Michigan Advocacy Center was started by personal injury lawyers sick of seeing the injustice of motorcycle accident victims and many others injured by third-party negligence, deprived of the care and compensation they need and deserve. They are ready to help, working under contingency so that no additional financial strain is placed on victims like you.
But they can only help if you reach out in time, and the sooner you call (248) 266-7600 or contact them after your motorcycle accident, the sooner they can help you successfully navigate the complexities of Wayne County personal injury laws and beat the insurance companies determined to deny you.