The Michigan Attorney General’s office announced earlier this year it was joining several other states in investigating allegations of sexual abuse and assault of children and others by Catholic priests from the 1950s till today. All 7 Michigan Catholic Dioceses are being investigated. Bishop Earl…
MSU Makes $500 Million Settlement to Survivors As we begin to finalize the allocation for each of our 111 survivors of the initial 333 who settled with MSU in the largest university sexual assault scandal in history, we turn our focus on behalf of over…
McLaren Lapeer Region nurse Richard Brown has been accused of sexually assaulting 3 women between August 2017 and June 2018. According to reports, all of the assaults happened with patients and on the hospital property. Authorities say the women were mentally impaired and Brown abused…
After investigation by federal authorities, six doctors at a Detroit-area pain clinic now face a grand jury indictment for alleged health care fraud and illegal prescriptions. It is alleged that between 2013-2018, the doctors engaged in, among other things, issuing more than 13.2 million dosage…
Most patients look forward to knee replacement surgery and the opportunity to resume normal activities of daily living. Unfortunately, many patients who underwent a total knee replacement procedure with DePuy’s Attune knee replacement system are now looking forward to a revision surgery to have the…
In cities across Michigan and across the country, shareable electric scooters are popping up on street corners, popular venues, and college campuses. Meant to be a helpful alternative where cars are not practical or available, the two-wheeled motorized devices are unlocked and paid for by…
In 2016, the standard Michigan State Police traffic crash form was revised to include a specific category for documenting distracted driving. Since then, tracking distracted driving crashes, and injuries suffered in those crashes, has become quite a bit easier. Based on publicly available data, the
Authorities have charged Patrick Daley, a fifth-grade teacher at Washington Woods Middle School in Holt, with five counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of assault with intent to commit second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Second-degree criminal sexual conduct can occur whe
Detroit medical malpractice attorney Scott Weidenfeller discusses “medical kidnapping”& Michigan’s Patient Bill of Rights Last year, an 18 year old who had been making her own medical decisions while a patient at the Mayo Clinic, was refused transfer to another hospital. Since the hospital would…
Sexual assault attorney Mick Grewal discusses the sexual abuse scandal in Pennsylvania and how the grand jury believes the number of children abused by priests, bishops and other clergymen is in the thousands. A Pennsylvania Grand Jury released a 1,300 page report this week that…
A California jury awarded $289.2 million last week to a 46-year-old groundskeeper who alleged that the popular weed killer Roundup, a Mansanto product, caused his terminal non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Dewayne Johnson, the plaintiff, used the spray regularly for two years in the course of his job. …
Willow Creek Church, a large and influential church located near Chicago, has been the focus of growing allegations of sexual misconduct and inadequate responses to congregants’ complaints. Former pastor Bill Hybels resigned in April after numerous allegations of inappropriate conduct with coworker
