CRASH TO VERDICT

At 7:18 on a Monday morning, Laura Bennett had a green light and an ordinary day planned. Six seconds later she had a case — and almost every piece of evidence that would decide it three years later was already being created, or already disappearing.

She did not know that. Almost nobody does.

CRASH TO VERDICT follows one Michigan car accident from the intersection to the final check. Written by a Michigan trial lawyer with more than thirty years of experience, it shows the same events twice — once as the injured person lives them, and once from the other side of the curtain, where a file is quietly being built.

You will see why a frightened sentence at 7:31 in the morning becomes a trial exhibit. Why a pharmacy camera that overwrites itself on Friday can matter more than an MRI. Why two fingers mentioned once in a nursing record decide a causation fight two years later. And why a forgotten chiropractor visit from four years earlier is dangerous only if you deny it.

Inside

• Why one Michigan crash creates two separate claims — and why your own insurer is involved even though you did nothing wrong
• What the other driver’s adjuster is actually collecting during that friendly first phone call
• The legal threshold that decides whether you can sue at all — and what really proves it
• How the defense turns “degeneration” into a defense, and how chronology answers it
• What a deposition, a defense medical examination, and surveillance are genuinely for
• How to decide whether to take the number on the table — and how to judge that decision afterward
• What happens inside a jury trial, from selection through verdict
• The closing statement, line by line — a $465,000 verdict followed all the way down to the amount that actually reached her

It also answers fifty questions injured people ask, organized by the problem you have right now, plus a first-24-hours checklist, a deadline guide, a plain-English glossary, and the full statutory reference.

Written for people in the middle of it

This book will not promise you a large recovery. It will not tell you every case is worth millions. What it will do is show you honestly how a Michigan car accident case is actually built — and how an ordinary person can destroy truthful proof without ever knowing it.

Joseph Dedvukaj has represented injured people throughout Michigan for more than three decades and is the author of several books on Michigan injury law published by Square Lake Press. See all titles →