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The Hanover Law Group, Southfield
Christopher Aluia began his career working for a small plaintiff firm and now represents insurers in auto negligence, no-fault, and workers compensation cases. Mr. Aluia’s past cases involved injuries regarding severe TBIs, multiple surgeries, and permanent disfigurements resulting from the accidents. He is licensed in Michigan and Ohio and has successfully argued in front of the Michigan Court of Appeals.
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Atnip & Associates PLLC, Rochester
Heather J. Atnip is the founder and lead trial attorney at the firm. Ms. Atnip's practice focuses on litigating negligence and catastrophic injury matters. She has more than two decades of experience representing seriously injured clients across Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne Counties, with case results that include multiple seven-figure resolutions. Ms. Atnip is a frequent lecturer and has presented on...
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Garan Lucow Miller PC, Troy
A partner at her firm, Rachel A. Bissett practices in the areas of personal injury defense and litigation; commercial litigation; real estate, mortgage and title litigation; real estate transactions and agreements; and housing accommodations, business formation, construction lien litigation, and premises liability. Her bar affiliations include the State Bar of Michigan and the Oakland County Bar Association. Ms. Bissett was...
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Butler ADR PLLC, Livonia
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Secrest Wardle PC, Troy
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Kramer Corbett Harding & Dombrowski, Royal Oak
Thomas J. Dombrowski is one of the managing attorneys at the firm, house counsel for the Auto Club Group. Mr. Dombrowski has 30-plus years of experience in insurance defense, focusing on the No-Fault Act. As a trial attorney, he has tried scores of no-fault cases and has extensive experience in defending catastrophic and high-exposure PIP cases. Mr. Dombrowski has served...
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Prestige Accounting & Consulting, Atlanta, GA
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Marko Law, Detroit
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3rd Circuit Court, Detroit
Hon. Edward Ewell, Jr. was appointed to the Wayne County Circuit Court in 2003. Judge Ewell currently serves in the Civil Division as a business court judge. He served in the Criminal Division for eleven years, serving five years as presiding judge. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Ewell served as general counsel for Wayne County and...
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Willingham & Cote PC, East Lansing
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Zausmer PC, Farmington Hills
Brandon S. Heintzelman serves as a litigator in insurance defense. Mr. Heintzelman has experience with first-party and third-party claims, premises liability, property loss disputes, and insurance fraud. He represents clients at every level of Michigan’s courts, including the Michigan Supreme Court, and is trained in arbitration, dispositive motions, and appeals. Mr. Heintzelman serves as a trusted advisor for major insurance...
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Logeman & Iafrate PC, Ann Arbor
James A. Iafrate practices in the areas of personal injury and insurance law. He is a member of the Michigan Association for Justice, the State Bar of Michigan, and the Washtenaw County Bar Association. He has more than 27 years of experience involving complex no-fault issues. Mr. Iafrate has extensive jury trial experience and has argued cases in the...
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Collins Einhorn Farrell PC, Southfield
Matthew S. LaBeau focuses his practice on defense litigation in all areas of automobile law, as well as premises liability, general liability, and contractual disputes. He has also successfully defended numerous corporations against product liability and construction defect claims. Mr. LaBeau has extensive experience defending catastrophic injury claims, as well as consulting insurers regarding catastrophic claims before litigation. He has...
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Secrest Wardle PC, Troy
Matthew C. Lindgren, executive partner at the firm, has 10 + years of experience litigating and trying cases in a wide range of civil matters while maintaining a focus on first and third-party No-Fault actions. Mr. Lindgren often represents insurers in the more complex and high exposure legal actions involving rescission, claims coverage, exclusions, subrogation rights, insurance order of priority,...
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Logeman & Iafrate PC, Ann Arbor
Adrienne D. Logeman specializes in complex no-fault issues including priority of carriers, home modifications, health insurance priorities, spinal cord and TBI cases, and overlapping probate issues. Ms. Logeman has experience handling matters in both State and Federal Court. She is a member of the Michigan Association for Justice and the Washtenaw County Bar Association. For more than a decade,...
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Miller & Tischler PC, Farmington Hills
Wayne J. Miller practices in the areas of no-fault benefits and auto negligence and frequently serves as a mediator and arbitrator on such cases. He is a member of the executive board of the Michigan Association for Justice. Mr. Miller has been the recipient of the 2001 Brain Injury Association of Michigan's Legacy Award and the 2007 Michigan Defense Trial...
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Weber Olcese, Birmingham
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Fran Murphy Law PLC, Saint Clair Shores
Frances Murphy has been practicing law for ten years. Ms. Murphy practices in plaintiff personal injury, handling mostly personal protection insurance cases and third-party automobile negligence cases on behalf of injured claimants and medical providers. She also handles dog bites, slip-and-falls, nail salon injuries, dram shop actions, and other personal injury matters. Prior to starting her own practice, Ms. Murphy...
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Sigal Law Firm PLLC, Southfield
Matthew Scott Payne, lead trial lawyer at the firm, focuses his practice on no-fault provider litigation. He has also represented individuals in various tort claims, including premises liability and dramshop matters. He has had numerous victories, from dispositive motions through appeals. Mr. Payne is a member of the MAJ amicus committee and is also licensed to practice law in South...
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Raitt Law PLLC, Ann Arbor
Robert M. Raitt is the founder of the firm. Mr. Raitt represents clients injured in auto accidents and other personal injury situations. He has successfully tried dozens of cases to verdict including multi 7-figure verdicts for auto crashes, premises and negligent cases involving spinal injuries and traumatic brain injuries. Mr. Raitt is past president of the Michigan Association for Justice,...
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Ruggirello Burke Reizen & Fox PC, Mount Clemens
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Law Offices of Ronald M. Sangster PLLC, Troy
Michael Sangster is an associate at the firm and focuses on matters related to the defense of first party no-fault insurance claims and insurance coverage issues. Mr. Sangster is a member of the Macomb Bar Association, the Oakland County Bar Association, and the State Bar of Michigan.
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Law Offices of Ronald M. Sangster PLLC, Troy
Ronald M. Sangster, Jr., is the managing member of his firm, which focuses its practice on personal injury protection claims for both claimant and medical provider suits. Before opening his own law firm in 2005, Mr. Sangster practiced for 17 years with the law office of Barry F. LaKritz, first representing injured plaintiffs and then insurance companies. He has litigated...
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Sinas Dramis Law Firm, Lansing
Stephen H. Sinas is a partner at the firm. He specializes in representing people who have been injured or harmed by the negligence or wrongdoing of another person, company, institution, or governmental entity. Mr. Sinas also specializes in litigating against insurance companies that have wrongfully denied coverage or benefits to injured people. He has litigated cases in numerous state and...
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Sinas Dramis Law Firm, Grand Rapids
Thomas G. Sinas is a shareholder at his firm and specializes in personal injury, auto negligence, and auto no-fault litigation. Following his graduation magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, he practiced with a national law firm in Minneapolis, where he represented catastrophically injured individuals and their families. Mr. Sinas later worked for Minnesota's premier state prosecution...
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Suzanne C. Stanczyk PLLC, Grosse Pointe Park
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Christensen Law, Southfield
Sarah Stempky-Kime is the managing partner at the firm. She has been working as a trial partner to founder Dave Christensen since 2009. Ms. Stempky-Kime has won several multiple million-dollar verdicts and settlements on behalf of clients suffering from traumatic brain injuries, wrongful death, and other catastrophic injuries. She has earned numerous accolades including her most recent recognition as an...
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Zausmer PC, Farmington Hills
Stephanie L. Strycharz is a shareholder at the firm. She specializes in the defense of insurance carriers and their insureds in a variety of claims both in- and out-of-state. Ms. Strycharz has taken more than a dozen cases to verdict as lead trial counsel and has additionally presented arguments on multiple occasions to the Michigan Court of Appeals. Her practice...
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Marcy Tayler Mediation Services, Harrison Township
Marcy Tayler devoted the first 35 years of her litigation practice defending complex first and third-party insurance matters. Ms. Tayler has extensive trial experience, having served as first chair trial counsel in dozens of trials. Having recently retired from her litigation practice, she started Marcy Tayler Mediation Services in 2023. Ms. Tayler is a state certified mediator and has also...
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22nd Circuit Court, Ann Arbor
Hon. Tracy Van den Bergh was elected by the voters of Washtenaw County in 2020 and took the bench on January 1, 2021. Judge Van den Bergh currently hears civil, PPO, and dependency cases. She belongs to the Michigan Association for Justice, Michigan Judges Association, Women Lawyers Association, and National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Before practicing law,...
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Buckfire Law Firm, Southfield
Dondi R. Vesprini is a trial lawyer with the firm. Mr. Vesprini has recovered millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for his injured clients and specializes in issues affecting motorcyclists such as motorcycle accidents, roadway defect accidents, and Michigan no-fault claims. He also litigates wrongful death, automobile negligence, slip and fall, dog bite attacks, and other personal injury...
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Miller & Tischler PC, Farmington Hills
Milea M. Vislosky, a partner in the firm and member of its management team, has been representing medical service providers and the catastrophically injured in no-fault insurance litigation since 2007. She has successfully litigated cases throughout Michigan, including the federal and appellate courts. Ms. Vislosky has presented at conferences and testified in front of the state legislature on various issues...
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Garan Lucow Miller PC, Detroit
Having joined his firm in 1993 and been a shareholder since 1998, John W. Whitman practices in the areas of insurance law, criminal defense, and personal injury defense and litigation. Focusing his practice primarily on Michigan no-fault insurance law, Mr. Whitman has tried over 125 cases to verdict in state and federal courts. He has served as a neutral mediator...
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Moffett Sims Gauthier & Willoughby PC, Birmingham
Braeden R. Willoughby joined the firm in March 2022. Mr. Willoughby manages a team dedicated to insurance defense matters, including automobile negligence, insurance coverage disputes, trucking and commercial transportation liability, premises liability, personal injury, and property damage. He specializing in catastrophic claims, insurance carrier subrogation and defending no-fault coverage disputes, first- and third-party actions that include complex legal issues, fraudulent,...
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Michigan Court of Appeals, Grand Rapids
Hon. Christopher P. Yates was appointed to the Michigan Court of Appeals by Governor Gretchen Whitmer on March 16, 2022. He was previously a judge in the Kent County Circuit Court and served in both the Criminal/Civil Division and the Family Division. He was assigned to run the court's specialized business docket in 2012. Prior to his judgeship, he served...
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