InjuryBoard Grand Rapids Archives

• Supreme Court's Latest Victim

  Tim Smith | November 25, 2007 7:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Less than a week after the Michigan Supreme Court victimized Carolyn Jones [see below], Justice Cliff Taylor and his fellow Justices Young, Markman and Corrigan are at it again. On the day before Thanksgiving, they threw out the case of Michele Kaseta despite the fact that her trial Judge in Macomb County Circuit Court and the Michigan Court of Appeals both held that her case had merit and she...

• Car Crash Plaintiff Victimized Twice

  Tim Smith | November 20, 2007 5:19 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  In 2005, Cynthia Jones was a pedestrian crossing the street. She was run over by a driver that wasn't paying attention. The impact snapped her leg in half. The surgeon had to cut her leg open and use plates and screws to piece her leg back together. She was in the hospital for 4 days following the surgery and required in-home health aides once she was discharged home. Early on, whenever she...

• Employment Discrimination at Morgan Stanley

  Tim Smith | November 07, 2007 9:25 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Discrimination

  Lawyers for Morgan Stanley announced Monday, October 29 that their client had agreed to pay $46,000,000 in cash to resolve a class action gender discrimination lawsuit filed by female employees of the company. The terms of the settlement include not only the financial compensation but requires Morgan Stanley to make changes to the manner in which it compensates and promotes employees as well as...

• You're in "Bad Hands" with Allstate

  Tim Smith | November 05, 2007 4:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  In Lexington, Kentucky, Attorney J. Dale Golden filed suit against Allstate on behalf of one of their insureds, Geniva Hager. Internal documents obtained during discovery against Allstate Insurance Company show that the company and their consultants created a computer program to generate low settlement values for injury claims, sent fraudulent data to government regulators to avoid...