Michigan Personal Injury Lawyers

Injured in Michigan? Start here

If you are reading this on your phone with an ice pack on your shoulder, we understand. A serious injury never arrives alone. It comes with pain, with medical bills that start before you have any answers, with an adjuster who keeps calling, and with work you cannot get back to. That is a heavy load to carry while you are still trying to heal.

Here is what we can offer. Your case review is free. On injury cases we work on contingency, which means no legal fee unless we recover compensation for you. We are a small father-and-son firm — two attorneys working out of one office in Okemos — and we handle injury cases across Michigan. We meet with clients in English and Spanish. If it is easier to write than to talk right now, you can send us a written summary of what happened and we will follow up from there.

What kind of case do you have?

If you already know the shape of your case, these pages go deeper. If you are not sure yet, start anywhere — the intake is the same, and part of our job is to help you figure out which path fits.

• Car accidents — crash-injury claims against at-fault drivers.
• Michigan no-fault and PIP — PIP benefits, denied treatment, and wage-loss disputes.
• Dog bites — strict owner liability under MCL 287.351.
• Slip and fall — premises claims after the 2023 change in Michigan law.
• Wrongful death — when a family loses someone to negligence.

Serious-injury work reaches beyond crashes and falls. When the harm comes from a medical provider, our medical malpractice practice handles those claims, and when the harm is abuse inside a school, church, or care facility, our survivor-centered institutional abuse practice is built around the people it happened to.

How a Michigan injury case actually works

Most crash cases start with your own insurance. Under Michigan's no-fault system, your policy's PIP benefits pay medical bills and wage loss first, no matter who caused the collision. The next question is whether you also have a separate third-party claim against the at-fault driver. That claim exists only if your injuries meet the threshold in MCL 500.3135 — death, serious impairment of body function, or permanent serious disfigurement.

Cases that do not involve a car — a fall on an icy walkway, a dog attack — skip the no-fault layer and go straight to liability and insurance: who was responsible, what they should have done, and which policy has to answer for it.

You do not have to figure out which of these buckets your case belongs in before you reach out. Separating the no-fault benefits question from the third-party liability question — and seeing where they overlap — is a large part of what the free case review is for. In many crash cases both questions are live at the same time, and they run on different clocks, which is one more reason not to wait to get organized.

Timing matters more than most people expect. Michigan's general deadline for injury claims is three years under MCL 600.5805, but the real deadline in your case can be far shorter. PIP benefits carry a one-year notice rule under MCL 500.3145, and claims involving a government entity can require written notice within six months. Michigan also uses modified comparative fault under MCL 600.2959, so your recovery is reduced by your own percentage of fault — and non-economic damages are barred entirely if you are found more than 50% at fault. None of that is a reason to give up. It is a reason to ask early, while the deadlines and the evidence are still on your side.

One office, statewide reach

We will be honest about geography. We work from a single office in Okemos, and from there we handle injury cases across Michigan — in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Jackson, and everywhere in between.

Michigan recorded 288,880 traffic crashes in 2024. We maintain a county-by-county crash statistics tracker because we think injured people deserve the actual numbers, not a slogan.

What your claim may cover

A Michigan injury claim can address economic losses — medical care and lost income — and non-economic harm such as pain and suffering. When an injury is fatal, the case follows its own statute, and our wrongful death page explains how that path works. We will not promise you a dollar figure. What a claim is worth turns on the proof, the available insurance coverage, and the injury itself — and those are exactly the things a free case review is meant to sort out.

Because we handle injury cases on contingency, getting started is a conversation rather than a retainer: there is no legal fee unless we recover compensation for you, and the review itself is free in English or Spanish. If you are not sure whether what happened to you rises to a claim at all, that uncertainty is exactly the kind of thing worth a short message or a phone call — before a deadline or a missing piece of evidence decides it for you.