Yes, MI is a no-fault state, and one of the strongest, but it won't matter. I think the threshold in MI is $2500, and obviously this case will be worth well over that. In many states, you CAN bring a claim against a relative, and if the brothers were not living together, that makes it even more likely that a case can be brought. I have been a claims adjustor for 10 years, and am glad I don't have to deal with that one. Not much appears clear cut about what happened, and I don't know much about MI law, but you can bet that this case will be ongoing for a long time.
Do you believe in fate?
The following three stories have happened within the last month.
The invisible lightning story is one of the strangest things I have heard of.
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Lightning kills man beneath cloudless sky
Source: TERE FIGUERAS NEGRETE AND LUISA YANEZ lyanez@MiamiHerald.com
With no rain or even clouds to warn him of the danger, death came literally out of the blue Thursday to a self-employed landscaper. The killer was a powerful bolt of lightning that cracked through perfectly clear skies.|A Dade landscaper died after being struck by an unusual type of lightning that's stronger, hotter, lasts longer and strikes from clear skies. David Canales, 41, of West Miami-Dade, was on the job at a Pinecrest home when the bolt hit. It first seared a tree, then
Published on June 22, 2007, Page 1A, Miami Herald, The (FL)
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Tree topples on pickup in freak accident, killing Gresham driver
12:17 PM PDT on Wednesday, July 11, 2007
By TERESA BELL, kgw.com Staff
A Gresham man was killed in a freak accident when a huge tree snapped and fell on his pickup truck Tuesday night, police said.
Clackamas County sheriff's Office/kgw.com photo
The tree fell onto this moving pickup truck and smashed the cab.
Michael Freres, 28, was driving his truck eastbound on SE Dodge Park Boulevard in Sandy when the tree, located about 50 feet from the roadway, broke in half and crashed down onto his truck. The impact crushed the cab of the truck and police said Freres was probably killed on impact also.
“This crushed vehicle is further reported to have continued traveling at least 450 feet from the impact site before veering off from the roadway and coming to a complete stop,” said Jim Strovink, with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
(the guy was going aprox. 50 mph when the tree smashed him)
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Dude struck by lightning, blames iPod
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: July 06, 2006 - 08:25PM CT
Well, at least we can't say that Apple's iPod branding hasn't managed to weave its way through all facets of the media. It appears as if a Colorado teenager was out wandering around during a storm, listening to his iPod when the (I guess) inevitable happened:
Jason Bunch was listening to Metallica on his iPod while mowing the lawn outside his Castle Rock home Sunday afternoon when lightning hit him.
[...]
Next thing he knew, he was in his bed, bleeding from his ears and vomiting. He was barefoot and had taken off his burned T-shirt and gym shorts. He doesn't know how he got back in the house.
Ride the Lightning, Jason. Ride the Lightning.
So, what exactly does the iPod really have anything to do with the whole thing? Well, the teen's ears, face, and neck were burned along where his iPod's cord was hanging, all the way down to his hip where the iPod was. The reasoning that Mr. Bunch and his mother are using to connect the iPod with the lightning strike is a little bit of a stretch, though. They claim that the iPod is what attracted the lightning to him, as there were taller things around him (such as trees) that were not struck. Experts, however, disagree with this reasoning:
"There is no scientific evidence to show that lightning is 'attracted' to items like an iPod. However, if someone wearing earbuds is struck, current may travel along the wires into the ears," said Gregory Stewart of the Denver-based Lightning Reference Center. "There are documented cases of lightning traveling through wired telephones and killing the users. "
Objects such as loose change in victims' pockets have left first- and second-degree burns after a lightning strike, Stewart said.
Rest assured, loyal iPod users, that listening to your iPod out in the middle of a lightning storm isn't going to increase your chances of being struck by lightning. We think.
So, aside from a dull hope that this media bubble around Mr. Bunch and his lightning-struck iPod doesn't turn into some crazy lawsuit against Apple for manufacturing electronic killing machines that play awesome music, the best part of the article comes from this little blurb:
Then, he called a girl he was supposed to meet for a date.
"I said, 'I did not stand you up. I was struck by lightning."'
Good show, Jason. You know, if that girl doesn't forgive you, maybe I could hook you up with a friend of mine...
The following three stories have happened within the last month.
The invisible lightning story is one of the strangest things I have heard of.
***
Lightning kills man beneath cloudless sky
Source: TERE FIGUERAS NEGRETE AND LUISA YANEZ lyanez@MiamiHerald.com
With no rain or even clouds to warn him of the danger, death came literally out of the blue Thursday to a self-employed landscaper. The killer was a powerful bolt of lightning that cracked through perfectly clear skies.|A Dade landscaper died after being struck by an unusual type of lightning that's stronger, hotter, lasts longer and strikes from clear skies. David Canales, 41, of West Miami-Dade, was on the job at a Pinecrest home when the bolt hit. It first seared a tree, then
Published on June 22, 2007, Page 1A, Miami Herald, The (FL)
***
Tree topples on pickup in freak accident, killing Gresham driver
12:17 PM PDT on Wednesday, July 11, 2007
By TERESA BELL, kgw.com Staff
A Gresham man was killed in a freak accident when a huge tree snapped and fell on his pickup truck Tuesday night, police said.
Clackamas County sheriff's Office/kgw.com photo
The tree fell onto this moving pickup truck and smashed the cab.
Michael Freres, 28, was driving his truck eastbound on SE Dodge Park Boulevard in Sandy when the tree, located about 50 feet from the roadway, broke in half and crashed down onto his truck. The impact crushed the cab of the truck and police said Freres was probably killed on impact also.
“This crushed vehicle is further reported to have continued traveling at least 450 feet from the impact site before veering off from the roadway and coming to a complete stop,” said Jim Strovink, with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
(the guy was going aprox. 50 mph when the tree smashed him)
***
Dude struck by lightning, blames iPod
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: July 06, 2006 - 08:25PM CT
Well, at least we can't say that Apple's iPod branding hasn't managed to weave its way through all facets of the media. It appears as if a Colorado teenager was out wandering around during a storm, listening to his iPod when the (I guess) inevitable happened:
Jason Bunch was listening to Metallica on his iPod while mowing the lawn outside his Castle Rock home Sunday afternoon when lightning hit him.
[...]
Next thing he knew, he was in his bed, bleeding from his ears and vomiting. He was barefoot and had taken off his burned T-shirt and gym shorts. He doesn't know how he got back in the house.
Ride the Lightning, Jason. Ride the Lightning.
So, what exactly does the iPod really have anything to do with the whole thing? Well, the teen's ears, face, and neck were burned along where his iPod's cord was hanging, all the way down to his hip where the iPod was. The reasoning that Mr. Bunch and his mother are using to connect the iPod with the lightning strike is a little bit of a stretch, though. They claim that the iPod is what attracted the lightning to him, as there were taller things around him (such as trees) that were not struck. Experts, however, disagree with this reasoning:
"There is no scientific evidence to show that lightning is 'attracted' to items like an iPod. However, if someone wearing earbuds is struck, current may travel along the wires into the ears," said Gregory Stewart of the Denver-based Lightning Reference Center. "There are documented cases of lightning traveling through wired telephones and killing the users. "
Objects such as loose change in victims' pockets have left first- and second-degree burns after a lightning strike, Stewart said.
Rest assured, loyal iPod users, that listening to your iPod out in the middle of a lightning storm isn't going to increase your chances of being struck by lightning. We think.
So, aside from a dull hope that this media bubble around Mr. Bunch and his lightning-struck iPod doesn't turn into some crazy lawsuit against Apple for manufacturing electronic killing machines that play awesome music, the best part of the article comes from this little blurb:
Then, he called a girl he was supposed to meet for a date.
"I said, 'I did not stand you up. I was struck by lightning."'
Good show, Jason. You know, if that girl doesn't forgive you, maybe I could hook you up with a friend of mine...
