No-Fault Benefits You May Not Know About

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September 27th, 2010 at 4:06 pm star

As you have learned this past month through my blogs, no-fault benefits may be payable in circumstances where you may not have thought they would be because the injury was not caused by a typical motor vehicle crash. However the injury DID involve a motor vehicle.

We know that in order for Michigan No Fault benefits to be payable you need to ask the following question: Was there an accidental injury that arose out of the ownership, operation, use or maintenance of the motor vehicle as a motor vehicle? If the answer is yes, then the Michigan motor vehicle injured victim may be entitled to no fault benefits.

Here are a few examples of unusual circumstances where benefits may still be payable:

Not Logical or Fair:

If a man is intoxicated, walks across a highway at night dressed in all black and is hit by a car, he is entitled to PIP.

Maintenance:

A man that is working on his car and it falls on him may be entitled to PIP.

If a man is changing a tire and the car falls off the jack, injuring him, he is entitled to PIP.

A man that is watching the driver open the radiator cap and is burned from steam is entitled to PIP.

A man who is burned pouring oil in a van is entitled to PIP.

Eye injury from a dropped, flailing power wash hose when washing car at self-serve car wash is entitled to PIP.

Burn injury when patient used cutting torch to add on to his trailer is entitled to PIP.

Injury when a man attempted to start his car by warming the oil pan by burning charcoal under it is entitled to PIP.

Posted in Legal, News by Jason Waechter, Esq.

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