The Michigan personal injury lawyers of Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C. are proud to announce the release of updated redesign of their website, the best Michigan lawyer website, www.BuckfireLaw.com. The best Michigan lawyer website includes information about our areas of expertise, such as car accident, motorcycle accident, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, slip and fall, dog bite injuries, and all other personal injury accident cases. The customized site is designed to provide the best possibility usability experience for visitors.

What Does The Best Michigan Lawyer Website Offer?

In addition to professional profiles about our experienced attorneys, visitors can learn about the firm’s successful track record of personal injury settlements and verdicts in Michigan. Another section of the website is dedicated to the most extensive library of legal articles specifically writing for injury victims in Michigan. It contains a frequently asked questions section that provides answers in great deals to common questions posed by anyone injured in Michigan. It also includes the about the rights of injury victims in Michigan and answers those questions in great Buckfire Law blog, which is dedicated to providing visitors with current legal news and educational information for the public on Michigan accidents and law.

The best Michigan lawyer website also offers many great resources to the public. There is a section that provides free downloadable legal forms for submitting no-fault insurance claims after a Michigan car accident. There are also informational videos by our attorneys on a great number of legal topics. Visitors can also visit the site to request any of our free consumer injury guides on Michigan car accidents, motorcycle accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, dog bite injury, and much more.

Why We Have the Best Michigan Lawyer Website?

“It was very important to our Michigan law firm to create a great website for accident and injury victims in Michigan. At Buckfire & Buckfire, we realize the importance for consumers to be able to access legal information, especially if they are looking to educate themselves about a specific type of accident they were recently involved in. In fact, we realized over forty years ago that our best clients were the ones who understood their legal rights and educated themselves on how the system works. With the rampant use of the internet, we figured that this would be the best way to provide the public this valuable information,” says Partner and Attorney Daniel Buckfire.

Visiting the Best Michigan Lawyer Website

By visiting the best Michigan lawyer website, www.BuckfireLaw.com, visitors will be able to quickly download our Free Michigan Accident Lawyer App for their iPhone or Android to prepare themselves in case of a car accident. The website also has a number of client reviews about the firm, including a number of video testimonials. Our new video scribing story, also known as whiteboard animation, is the featured video on the main header of the website.

“We not only want to be your Michigan personal injury lawyers,we want to be your resource for important information on your legal rights. On our site, you will find important information that can be of use to every person at critical moments in their lives following an accident, injury, or wrongful death in Michigan,” says Daniel Buckfire.

The Michigan personal injury lawyers at Buckfire & Buckfire P.C. have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Macomb County apartment complex in connection with the death of a 1-year-old girl. The child died on October 19, 2011 of strangulation injuries after becoming entangled in the mini-blind cord near her bed in her family’s rented unit in a Chesterfield Township apartment complex. Police did not press criminal charges against the girl’s parents as they found no wrongdoing.

However, the mini-blinds in which the girl was strangled to death had a dangerous loop cord. Putting in a simple safety device or shortening the blind cords and providing tassels could have prevented this tragedy. But the apartment owner or manager did not make these safety devices available to this family. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), over the past decade or so, 102 children have been reported strangled by cords attached to window coverings. Hundreds of others have been severely injured. Many children have even suffered brain damage because when a child is strangled, oxygen to the brain can get cut off causing irreversible brain damage.

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Medical malpractice or medical negligence affects more than 1 million people in the United States, according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Losing a loved one as the result of a medication error or a surgery error can be devastating for families. Families of deceased victims of medical negligence may choose to file a medical malpractice lawsuit or a wrongful death lawsuit.

What’s the difference? Wrongful death is defined as the death of an individual that occurs as a direct result of someone else’s negligence. The defendant could be a doctor, a hospital employee or a hospital. Wrongful death claims are usually filed by a spouse, children, siblings, parents or other individuals who were financially dependent on the victim. Some of the most common instances of medical negligence include surgical or medication errors, infections, birth injuries or diagnosis errors. Proving a medical malpractice case can be extremely complicated.

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Spinal cord injuries, which involve damage to the spinal cord, are among the most common and most devastating types of injuries caused by auto accidents. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 250,000 Americans injure their spinal cord each year. About 52 percent of these individuals are considered paraplegic and 47 percent quadriplegic. A majority of these spinal cord injuries occur between the ages of 16 and 30. The most common cause of spinal cord injuries is auto accidents (37 percent) followed by acts of violence (28 percent) and falls (21 percent).

Spinal cord injuries can result in permanent disabilities, which can have devastating emotional and financial consequences for the injured victim and his or her family. Some of the symptoms of a spinal cord injury include loss of sensation and mobility, loss of bowel or bladder control, chronic pain, breathing problems, weakness, paralysis and numbness in the extremities.

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Grief wears a lot of different faces. Some people sink into depression, others lash out in anger. Some try to drown their pain in work, and yet others might tend to dwell on their loss. But among all its various forms, the survivors of killed victims share one common desire: justice. What constitute justice, though, depends on the situation. For instance, when it comes to deaths born of another party’s negligence or reckless behavior, as opposed to an intentional killing, justice might change. If a person decides to kill her neighbor because she is angry about the leaves in her yard, the punishment she deserves would be much different than if she killed her neighbor because she failed to look behind her as she backed up her car.

Although the justice system took care of the first type of killing, it didn’t have a remedy for the second. For years, this hole in the law went unfilled, and the families of victims had virtually no recourse or compensation for the loss of a family member.

Today, however, that hole has been filled by the creation of wrongful death statutes, which every state in the country has now adopted. These laws allow you to file a civil lawsuit against a party who wrongfully causes a death of a family member, and if the court finds in your favor, the party will be obligated to pay you a certain amount in monetary compensation for their act. A Utah wrongful death lawyer can help you when experiencing a wrongful death.

What is a Wrongful Death?

A wrongful death is a death that occurs because of the negligence or carelessness of another party. In most cases this involves a situation where the guilty party did not intend to kill the victim, but because of a careless or unwise act on their part, still resulted in the death of the victim. (more…)

When a car accident caused by another person’s fault results in the death of a loved one, the surviving family member may bring a Massachusetts wrongful death claim against the negligent party.

Unlike criminal charges, a wrongful death lawsuit is filed by a personal injury attorney in a civil court to recover money damages for your loss. These damages can include:

• medical expenses,
• funeral expenses,
• loss of consortium,
• lost earning capacity,
• pain and suffering,
• and others.

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The California personal injury lawyers at Bisnar | Chase are suing a Las Vegas church in a wrongful death suit after one of their incredibly bizarre religious rituals claims the life of a 16-year-old girl. Brianna Benbo was allegedly instructed by the Church of Divine Appointment, a.k.a. The Moment of Truth Ministries, to ingest a substance that contained bee pollen, which she was allergic to.

Benbo’s allergic reaction sent her into anaphylactic shock and she died from cardiac arrest and respiratory failure only hours later. The lawsuit is being brought against church owners Glories Powell and Lula Davis by Brianna’s mother Bridgette Jennings-Benbo. Powell can be seen ranting and raving in several youtube videos of her sermon, and from the videos, it seems her shock and awe performances are volatile and even dangerous.

Negligence and Wrongful Death in Nevada

The lawsuit claims that the capsules ingested by Benbo contained many ingredients, all of which weren’t known by the church, and included bee pollen which has been known to cause fatalities in people that are allergic to it. Despite these facts, the church still thought it was alright to give the pills to teenagers.

Brian Chase said, “The Defendants acted negligently, recklessly and tortuously by administering a potentially deadly cocktail of bee pollen and other chemicals to a girl with severe allergies to the substance.” He continued, “Not only did they manufacture and distribute the supplement while ignoring its health risks, they provided no warning to parishioners about its possible side effects. In short, their actions are directly responsible for Brianna’s unnecessary and untimely death.”

Bisnar | Chase is seeking damages for not only the negligence and wrongful death, but for compensation for Brianna’s mother for grief, mental anguish, sorrow, and mental and physical pain, as well as funeral and burial costs.

Call us at 1-800-561-4887 if you or a loved one has been injured in any way due to negligence of any sort. We will stand up for you and get you the compensation you deserve.

A grand jury in Middlesex County, NJ, has indicted a former Rutgers University student who allegedly used a webcam in 2010 to record his roommate engaging in a romantic encounter with another male student. The roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide shortly after the video was made public. His death inspired a national conversation on the issue of bullying, and cyber-bullying in particular.

The 15-count indictment against Dharun Ravi, of Plainsboro, NJ, charges him with bias, invasion of privacy, witness and evidence tampering, and other charges relating to Clementi’s suicide. Ravi and another classmate had previously been criminally charged with invasion of privacy. (more…)

A tragic escalator accident in an Auburn mall which claimed the life of a 4-year-old Massachusetts boy resulted in a generous gift to four people after the boy’s family donated his organs.

The little boy, Mark DiBona, of Dudley, lost his life earlier this month after he fell from an escalator on the second floor of a Sears store at the Auburn Mall. He suffered fatal injuries to the head in the fall and died at a hospital the next day.

His family announced at his funeral that little Mark’s heart will be donated  to an 8-year-old boy waiting for a heart transplant. Furthermore, Mark’s liver was donated to a 6-month old baby, and his kidneys were given to two other patients. The identity of the recipients were not disclosed.

We have nothing but respect for Mark DiBona’s family who found strength in their pain to honor their boy by giving life to four other people in a desperate need of organ transplants. (more…)

Did you know that 5,288 fatalities from the overall traffic fatalities in 2009 were individuals aged 65 and older (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)? The most at-risk groups for pedestrian accidents are children aged between 5 and 9 years as well as adults aged 65 and older.

Arizona pedestrian deaths in 2009 were 15 percent or 120 persons killed from the 807 total fatalities. It is almost equivalent to the total motorcyclists who were killed due to vehicular accidents on the same year. Unfortunately, the number of pedestrian fatalities is only slightly lower than the number of deaths in 2008.

Around 3 a.m. last Friday, another pedestrian was struck by a car while trying to walk across a freeway ramp in Phoenix (AZ Family 03/04/11). Investigators believed that the victim, a 61-year old man, jumped over the retainer wall and crossed the street when the car heading west on the 202 to the 10 hit him. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. (more…)