Ann Arbor Personal Injury Lawyer

 

Personal Injury Results

$15.3 MILLION | AUTO ACCIDENT (WAYNE COUNTY, MI)

$6.5 MILLION | MEDICAL MALPRACTICE (OAKLAND COUNTY, MI)

$3 MILLION | PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT (INGHAM COUNTY, MI)

$2.1 MILLION | PREMISES LIABILITY (OAKLAND COUNTY, MI)

$2 MILLION | TRUCK ACCIDENT (OAKLAND COUNTY, MI)

$1.9 MILLION | AUTO ACCIDENT (WAYNE COUNTY, MI)

Our Ann Arbor, Personal Injury Lawyer Takes on The Fights That Other Law Firms Won’t

After you suffer injuries in a serious accident, you need and deserve compensation. To achieve the highest possible level of compensation, you will want to consider hiring legal representation. Parties responsible for injuries will rarely admit fault, and insurance companies do their best to steer clear of accountability. Sometimes, an Ann Arbor personal injury lawyer might even say your case is too difficult to tackle.

Our Ann Arbor personal injury lawyers at Goodman Acker are ready to step up to the challenge. We are proud and prepared to take on complex and high-stakes catastrophic injury claims that cause other law firms to shy away. Our tenacious and deliberate approach to casework and representation gives us a long history of incredible success representing our clients—and we don’t intend to change our winning methods now.

Goodman Acker Has A Long History of Winning Cases for Injured People

For a combined 150+ years, we have been helping our community members throughout the Ann Arbor metropolitan area. At Goodman Acker, we have a 99 percent success rate to prove it.

Trust that our Ann Arbor personal injury attorney will give your case our full attention. Our entire team is resilient and knowledgeable. We want to do everything possible to help you and your case.

How Goodman Acker Can Help Your Case

Our Ann Arbor Personal Injury Lawyer Has Significant Experience

No matter how you were injured, our Ann Arbor personal injury lawyers have the experience needed to work with you. With the shared experiences and insights from our personal injury lawyer team members, we can prepare for anything that the defense might try to use to escape liability. Thanks to our professional connections, we can also call upon experts from various fields to assist with an investigation like renowned doctors or accident reconstruction professionals.

Here’s what you should know about our Ann Arbor personal injury lawyer and our team:

  • We have 150+ years of combined legal experience.
  • We have a success rate of 99% for cases we conclude.
  • We are routinely featured by newsgroups, like Fox 2 News and Local 4 Detroit.
  • We are available 24/7 for client emergencies.
  • We have a growing group of completely satisfied clients.
  • We have won millions of dollars for our clients.
  • We offer free initial consultations to start the process.

In terms of personal injury cases, we handle car accidents, truck accidents, dog bites, pedestrian accidents, medical malpractice, truck accidents, premises liability cases, traumatic brain injuries, wrongful death cases, and much more.

We also have the legal talent and experience needed to assist you with long-term disability and Social Security disability claims. Essentially, suppose you have been hurt for any reason and deserve compensation in that case, an Ann Arbor personal injury lawyer from Goodman Acker can help you obtain the damages that you’re owed.

Why You Should Hire Our Ann Arbor Personal Injury Attorney

If you’ve been injured, you might think that you can handle the insurance companies alone or even defend yourself in court. However, working with our team will make you much more likely to recover the compensation you deserve. Our Ann Arbor personal injury lawyer can help with your case by:

  • Negotiating with insurers to make sure that they don’t cut your compensation short.
  • Handling your claim and administrative tasks and filing the paperwork while you focus on healing.
  • Investigate your case by reviewing accident reports, medical records, on-site surveillance, and other evidence.
  • Identifying at-fault parties who may be responsible for an accident and owe you compensation.
  • Involving expert witnesses like medical professionals and accident analysis professionals whose expertise can support your case.
  • Representing you at trial if your case must go to court when there is no other option for obtaining a fair settlement.

By teaming up with our Ann Arbor personal injury attorneys, you’ll have expertise and experience on your side. Few law firms in the state of Michigan can collectively match our experience level, which is more than 15 decades. We put this experience to use for you by relying on the strategies we used in the past to win cases similar to yours. We then go a step further. We tweak our strategies to precisely fit the facts in your case.

Every personal injury case is different, and we need to consider these differences, rather than trying to squeeze your case into a cookie-cutter formula. This technique gives us the edge in negotiations because we can focus on the items that are most important in your particular case.

At Goodman Acker, we take pride in being able to handle complex and high-stakes injury cases, and we know that our resiliency can benefit you. When you hire our Ann Arbor personal injury lawyer, we take over all negotiations with the insurer for you.

This is a significant benefit when the insurance company calls you constantly, bothering you with the same questions over and over. Plus, why tax yourself while you’re injured? Focus on your recovery, while we fight for your compensation.

Our Ann Arbor Personal Injury Lawyers Work Hard for Your Highest Possible Level of Compensation

Our Ann Arbor Personal Injury Lawyer Fights for Your Financial Future

The person or entity who caused your injuries should be the one who is held financially accountable for your damages—it is as simple as that. However, insurance companies rarely comply so easily. Instead, they will take steps to deny your claim and to minimize any settlement that’s ultimately offered.

We won’t stand for such treatment from the responding insurance companies. If you deserve $1 million in damages, then we will fight for $1 million in damages when acting as your legal representatives. We do not slow down until we achieve the optimal case result for you, which is how we’ve won 99% of our cases. At Goodman Acker, we can help you to seek damages for:

  • Doctors’ bills and medical expenses
  • Therapy costs and future medical expenses
  • Lost income and lost wages
  • Loss of quality of life
  • Pain and suffering
  • Loss of earning potential if injuries hinder your job performance.

How Does Our Ann Arbor Personal Injury Lawyer Prove Negligence?

In order to recover compensation after injury, we must demonstrate that a defendant was negligent. Essentially, if no one is accountable for an accident, compensation cannot be recovered. Our personal injury attorney looks for four key legal elements used to demonstrate negligence:

  1. Duty of care – The defendant owed you a duty of care to not cause harm.
  2. Breached duty – The defendant breached this duty by acting negligently.
  3. Cause – As a result of this negligence, you were injured.
  4. Damages – You suffered damages (meaning monetary expenses or losses) as a result of your injury.

Our Ann Arbor personal injury lawyer knows how to look at the facts of a case in order to identify where a defendant was negligent while fitting the definition of negligence in Section 8.9 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. After doing so, we can pursue the damages that you’re rightfully owed.

Personal Injury FAQs

Common Questions for Our Ann Arbor Personal Injury Attorneys

Below are some of the most common questions and answers that you might have for our Ann Arbor personal injury lawyer. You likely have other questions as well. So, reach out to learn more about how we can help.

Does filing a claim and working with your Ann Arbor personal injury attorney mean that I’ll have to go to court?

Working with our Ann Arbor personal injury attorney to pursue a claim does not necessarily mean that you will have to go to court. Injury cases are taken to trial only if there’s no other way for a plaintiff to obtain a fair settlement and to receive the deserved compensation amount. Going to trial is typically a last resort, not a go-to option.

Can your Ann Arbor personal injury lawyer tell me how much my personal injury case is worth?

Even for our experienced Ann Arbor personal injury lawyer, it’s impossible to know a case’s potential worth without reviewing the particulars. After consulting with an injury victim, it’s possible to have a clearer estimate of a case’s worth. If the medical expenses associated with an accident are higher, that means the case value will almost always be higher, too. Injury severity also affects case value.

What should I do after I’ve been injured in an accident?

After you’ve been injured in any type of accident, it’s important to seek medical attention right away. As ability permits, document your injuries and the scene by taking photos. You should also collect contact information from anyone involved and from any witnesses. Make sure that you notify the authorities if the situation permits. Finally, speak with Goodman Acker as soon as you’re able.

I was partially at fault for my accident. Can I still get compensation?

Michigan follows comparative negligence laws, which means that even if you were partially at fault for your accident, you might still be able to recover compensation. However, your compensation will be reduced by the extent to which you were at fault.

Can your Ann Arbor personal injury attorneys help me with the deadline to file a personal injury claim in Michigan?

Michigan has a three-year statute of limitations for most personal injury cases, as shown in Section 600.5805 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. This means that you have three years from the date your injury occurred to file a claim. If you miss this deadline, your claim will likely be dismissed. Our Ann Arbor personal injury attorneys promise to keep your case on track.

Questions are common when you are going through a personal injury case for the first time. That’s why the team at Goodman Acker makes itself available to answer your questions. We pay close attention to your goals for the case, and we focus our plan for representing you on trying to reach these goals. Answering your questions and taking the time to talk with you about the case is a key aspect of our representation.

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Call Our Ann Arbor Personal Injury Lawyer at Goodman Acker Today

For years, Goodman Acker has been helping the people of Ann Arbor and Southfield seek justice, compensation, and a sense of closure after serious accidents occur. If you want to know more about our law firm and how we can help you with your injury case, feel free to browse our client testimonials or check out some of our best case results.

You can call 248-286-8100 to arrange a no-cost, no-obligation case consultation with our team. We look forward to learning more about you and your case. We are committed to helping you. Goodman Acker. Good decision.
Attorney Barry Goodman

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Barry J. Goodman has devoted his professional life to keeping courthouse doors open for victims seeking justice. Always a tireless advocate for his own clients, Goodman sees his responsibility as a Detroit personal injury attorney in a broader sense as well. [ Attorney Bio ]

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