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Dangerous Trucks News * USA - Michigan Attorney says Time to Put the Brakes on
Michigan Attorney, Steve Gursten, has reached his breaking point with bad truckers
Southfield,MI,USA -Lawyers and Settlements, by Brenda Craig -September 7, 2009: ... With years of experience representing people injured or killed by dangerous trucks and truckers in truck accidents and a former president of the Truck Litigation Committee for the American Association of Justice (AAJ), Gursten says he is frankly “disgusted” with what he sees... The lack of safety in the trucking industry is a “national public safety crisis” according to Gursten and he has the facts to back him up... Gursten recently obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) application for his home state of Michigan. Gursten says the documents revealed more startling information about an industry that continues to recklessly roam American roads. “There are 1,072 trucks just in Michigan that have less than satisfactory ratings according to the federal government,” says Gursten, "and about one in four is dangerously out-of-service according to road side checks”... Gursten is a recognized leader in personal injury litigation against truckers and the trucking industry and probably handles more trucking cases than any other attorney in the state of Michigan. His firm has at least 50 cases going through the courts right now.... As Gursten sizes up the situation, financial troubles in both the trucking industry and state agencies are making an already dangerous situation even worse. “You have trucking companies cutting back on safety because money is tight and at the exact same time you have less regulatory authority from state agencies because governments have no money,” he says... Even more troubling to Gursten is Michigan law that prevents courts from awarding punitive damages in personal injury and wrongful death suits against trucking companies--a situation he believes allows trucking companies to take chances they wouldn’t take in other states...
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