Personal Injury Settlements

$3.45 million settlement against a cement company whose truck crossed a center line causing three deaths and severely injuring a 4 year-old boy. The settlement was $450,000 in excess of available insurance.

$1.74 million settlement against a 19 year-old driver and the fraternity where he was drinking immediately prior to a head on collision that killed a 52 year-old husband and father of 3 children.

$1.3 million Federal District Court settlement on behalf of a mother and daughter in a car/truck collision. Mom suffered a pancreas injury but returned to full-time employment within six months; eight year old daughter suffered an aggravation of a pre-existing learning disability as well as a ruptured spleen.

$1 million settlement for a 52 year-old woman in a rural county who broke both ankles and suffered a retrobulbar hemorrhage of her right eye after being struck by a gravel truck.

Matz Injury Law obtained a $1,000,000 settlement for a woman in Northern Michigan who fractured both ankles as a result of being rear-ended by a gravel truck.

A settlement of $3,450,000 ($450,000 more than the insurance policy limits) for a family who lost loved ones as a result of an inattentive cement truck driver.

$100,000 uninsured motorist settlement (policy limit) for family of passenger killed in Detroit in suspected joyriding incident.

$1 million settlement on behalf of a 60 year-old woman with a mild closed head injury due to County Road Commission negligence.

$950,000 settlement on behalf of the mother of a young boy who died while a passenger in a one-vehicle crash.

$750,000 to the family of a passenger killed in a collision on an icy road.

$285,000 settlement on behalf of a 52 year-old woman who suffered from fibromyalgia after hurting her shin resulting from an auto injury.

$475,000 for a 42 year old-man who suffered a neck injury as a result of an automobile crash in Oakland County.

$600,000 settlement on behalf of 2 families who were injured when a tire dislodged from a passing boat trailer and struck their vehicle.

$170,000 settlement on behalf of the estate of a 20 year-old man who was killed as a result of a drunk driving collision. Insurance coverage was only $70,000; the owner of the drunk driver’s vehicle paid $100,000 personally.

$212,000 arbitration award for a 16 year-old with a wrist injury.

$750,000 to the family of a 27 year-old passenger killed in a rear-end collision.

$800,000 settlement on behalf of a 45 year-old man with a traumatic brain injury who returned to work 3 weeks after the accident.

$187,500 awarded to two brothers who were passengers in a single-car rollover incident.

$450,000 settlement for a 23 year-old woman with a fractured calcaneus and kneecap fracture.

$475,000 settlement to a father and daughter whose car was struck by a commercial vehicle.

$100,000 settlement (policy limit) for a fetus (7-1/2 month gestation) who died as a result of an intersection collision.

$200,000 (policy limit) settlement for the wrongful death of a recent immigrant.

$290,000 for a 70 year-old woman whose car was broadsided by a driver who claimed he had the green light at an intersection.

$680,000 arbitration award in Wayne County against a local transportation authority for a minor impact collision resulting in a cervical disc injury.

$680,000 arbitration award for a 42 year-old with back injuries requiring fusion.

$136,000 verdict in a rural county on behalf of a 40 year-old woman who suffered a back injury in a contested liability motor vehicle collision. The verdict tripled the mediation award.

$750,000 to the family of a child struck by a car while waiting for a school bus before dawn in a rural area.

$400,000 settlement to an office worker who suffered an ankle injury in an automobile collision.

$500,000 settlement to the family of a woman killed by an underinsured driver.

$450,000 settlement to a college student injured when his vehicle was struck by an uninsured lawn-service vehicle.

$260,000 to a family whose car was struck by an uninsured vehicle.

$825,000 settlement on behalf of a 25 year-old man in a rural county with a peroneal nerve injury as a consequence of an automobile/truck collision.

$150,000 on behalf of a 17 year-old girl who was struck by a motor vehicle while jogging.

$250,000 (policy limit) settlement for a 65 year-old woman who suffered a calcaneus fracture as a result of a intersection collision.

$290,000 wrongful death settlement on behalf of a 12 year-old boy who, according to four independent witnesses, was riding his bike on the shoulder of a road when he swerved into traffic, causing a collision. At their depositions, the four witnesses recanted their prior statements, indicating that the driver of the van may have been on his cell phone at the time of the accident.

$415,000 to the family of a college student killed in a disputed liability collision with a rental car in Washtenaw County.

$100,000 (policy limit) settlement on behalf of a 38 year-old woman who developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy six months after her motor vehicle collision.

$100,000 (policy limit) settlement for a nurse suffering from temporomandibular joint disorder.

$187,500 on behalf of a 19 year-old man who suffered a hip injury as a result of an automobile crash.

$300,000 (policy limit) settlement on behalf of a 45 year-old man with a mild closed head injury as a result of a motor vehicle collision.

$490,000 settlement for a 42 year-old woman involved in an automobile/motorcycle crash.

$475,000 settlement for a truck driver in a contested liability accident in Calhoun County, with an aggravation of an underlying knee condition.

$500,000 to the estate of a woman killed when her car was rear-ended by an uninsured driver.

$500,000 settlement for a 65 year-old woman suffering paraplegia in a contested liability accident.

$350,000 to a woman who suffered a broken arm when her vehicle was struck by a semi.

$100,000 (policy limit) wrongful death settlement in a contested liability case.

$118,000 verdict in a rural county on behalf of a 55 year-old woman who suffered a facial tic and new cartilage damage after an intersection collision with a school bus. The verdict was $98,000 larger than the mediation award.

$480,000 settlement on behalf of a 52 year-old man who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury.

$750,000 settlement to a family whose SUV was struck by a commercial vehicle.

$200,000 settlement in a rural county for a 4 year-old who died as a result of a truck/pedestrian collision.

$155,000 settlement on behalf of a 49 year-old passenger in a motor vehicle crash who suffered a wrist injury.

$750,000 settlement to the family of a young driver whose car was struck from behind by a semi.

$100,000 settlement (policy limit) on behalf of a 56 year-old woman in Tuscola County with an ankle fracture as a result of a motor vehicle collision.

$125,000 settlement for a retiree with rib injuries following a collision.

$600,000 settlement in a rural county for a young man who injured his right arm in a one vehicle rollover accident. The settlement exhausted all available insurance coverage.

$220,000 settlement on behalf of a 56 year-old man who suffered a neck injury as a result of a motor vehicle crash.

$400,000 settlement for a passenger killed when a driver ran a red light and collided with another vehicle.

$1.5 million wrongful death auto injury settlement for a 65 year-old retired gentleman.

$3 million settlement for a couple struck by an oncoming car while they were riding a motorcycle.

$316,000 wrongful death settlement on behalf of a family against a corrections officer and the bar where she was drinking.

$310,000 on behalf of a 19 year-old man who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury as a result of a school bus crash.

$200,000 settlement on behalf of a young woman who suffered leg and foot fractures after an automobile/pedestrian collision.

$300,000 settlement on behalf of an 80 year-old man who drove his pickup truck into the rear of a farm tractor on an unlit back road suffering multiple fractures of his foot.

$170,000 settlement for a construction worker who suffered a shoulder injury when struck by a driver on an icy road in Clare County.

$165,000 to a snowplow operator who suffered a back injury when his truck was struck by an uninsured driver.

$245,000 to a high school student who suffered a broken arm when her vehicle was struck by a hit-and-run driver.

$300,000 uninsured motorist settlement on behalf of a 41 year-old woman who was a passenger on the back of a motorcycle.

$325,000 settlement on behalf of an 18 year-old man who suffered a wrist injury as a result of an automobile/truck crash in Kent County.

$495,000 settlement for the family of a man killed by a reckless driver in Kent.

$525,000 settlement for a 72 year-old retiree who suffered a head injury as a result of a hit-and-run accident.

$600,000 settlement for a mild closed head injury victim.

$625,000 motor vehicle accident settlement for a 38 year-old construction supervisor who returned to work 3 weeks after suffering a moderate closed head injury.

$340,000 settlement for a high school student with a mild closed head injury.

$325,000 settlement on behalf of a 42 year-old man who suffered a shoulder injury as a result of an automobile/pickup truck crash.

$100,000 (policy limit) settlement for a young woman in Marquette with a soft tissue back injury.

$400,000 for a vacationing motorist whose SUV was struck by a pickup truck that crossed the center line on an icy northern Michigan road.

$360,000 settlement on behalf of a 28 year-old dairy worker who suffered a separated shoulder.

$360,000 arbitration award for a 32 year-old farmer with a shoulder injury.

$350,000 settlement for a 56 year-old man who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury as a result of a highway collision.

$123,500 on behalf of a 73 year-old woman who suffered a shoulder injury as a result of an automobile crash.