Michigan Attorney Steve Gursten has reached his breaking point with bad truckers. With years of experience representing people injured or killed by dangerous trucks and truckers in truck accidents and a former president of the Truck Litigation Committee for the American Association of Justice (AAJ), Gursten says he is frankly “disgusted” with what he sees.

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Yes, I’m not ashamed of being a personal injury lawyer, so those who refer to us collectively in a negative way can forget embarrassing us. If we are embarrassed about anything it’s the ignorance of those who on the one hand criticize us and then run to use our services when they get a boo-boo. Of course the reason why they criticize the personal injury lawyers is because they were turned away by us and are angry about not being able to take advantage of the system to make thousands of dollars for a boo-boo; the very thing they criticize us for doing. There’s a lot of mis-information out there about what we do as personal injury lawyers and presently fear mongers are making a good living off of selling hate, so these bozo’s keep at it out of spite.

Lawyers get a bad rap–personal injury attorneys even more so. But the need is clearly there, responsible and experienced personal injury lawyers help more true victims than not, and you’ve got to keep up the fight of fighting misinformation, not just about lawyers but personal injury laws as well.

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Michigan is one of three states where the “no-fault” automobile insurance requires each of us to carry and pay for personal injury protection, even if it is mostly a duplication of other coverage we may have.

Apparently in 47 of the other states, I could have saved that money. But not in Michigan, Florida or New Jersey.

And our United States Congress has passed a law that requires that the auto coverage be primary and pay instead of Medicare when it is carried on the auto policy.

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