Our brain injury lawyers at the law firm of Goodman Acker P.C. frequently represent clients who have suffered a brain injury or closed head injury as a result of a Michigan accident. The most common type of closed head injury is a concussion. It is often the result of a car accident or a sports-related accident. A concussion can […]
According to a recent report done by the National Safety Council, more teens are killed in a car accident in roughly a 100-day summer period that stretches through Labor Day than any other time in the year. In fact, in 2012, nearly 1,000 people in the U.S. died in motor vehicle crashes involving a teen driver […]
It’s been said that a picture speaks a thousand words. The photos posted and shared at Marcello’s memorial reflected such thoughts as Angelic, Beautiful, Too Young, A Blessing. Nearly three years after 2 month old Marcello Vasquez’s death, his parents Jimmy and Natasha, received $500,000 in a wrongful death settlement from the Los Angeles City Council. While nothing can replace the […]
Our personal injury lawyers at the law firm of Goodman Acker, P.C. recently filed a lawsuit in the Wayne County Circuit Court on behalf of a nine-year-old girl who was seriously injured after a bank of fourteen lockers fell on top of her. The young girl was attempting to pull her coat of out her locker when the lockers […]
A new bill proposed in Michigan, HB5453, will double the fines for overweight trucks. Currently the law is that the gross cargo weight of a tractor-trailer combination cannot legally exceed 80,000 pounds. Even with this law in place many truck companies do not follow it. The new bill was proposed to combat this in hopes that truck […]
Being injured in a Michigan car accident can be frightening enough, and the outcome of a possible lawsuit is probably the last thing on a victims’ mind. However once the initial shock of the incident settles down, for many auto injury victims their life forever changes both personally and financially. For victims injured in a Michigan […]
A tree, fresh with new spring growth, displays the scars from a recent automobile accident that claimed the lives of two teenagers in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina during the early morning of March 28th. While hundreds of teenagers and their parents flooded the gymnasium of Hilton Head High School, to mourn the loss of their classmates, […]
It is estimated that 36.1 million people are gearing up for a trip of some kind this weekend. That is an increase of 1.5% from last year which saw 35.5 million people traveling during the holiday weekend. This year may in fact be the highest number of people on the move. Due to this reason, […]
In the days following March 24, 2014, media across the country broadcast disturbing images of a Chicago CTA Blue Line train that had derailed at the O’Hare International Airport station. Reporters explained that the train had failed to stop at its terminal station, jumped the platform, and ended up on the escalator that led from […]
This past Sunday, May 18th 2014, Goodman Acker held its first ever Community Law Day in the parking lot of their law office in Southfield, Michigan. The event started at 10:00 a.m. and was open to the public. Our very own Detroit personal injury lawyers were there providing free legal advice to those who had questions regarding a […]
