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21 August
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Attorney Jim Graves Discusses $600 Million Flint Water Crisis Settlement

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in In the Media, Injuries, WLAJ 53
Flint water crisis settlement, Flint Michigan skyline

Late in the day on Wednesday, August 19, 2020, word began to spread regarding a preliminary agreement in the settlement of the Flint water crisis with the state of Michigan. While the reports came from unidentified sources close to the case, media attention the following day, as well as messaging from Attorney General Dana Nessel, confirm a Michigan-backed $600 million Flint water crisis settlement has been reached. More details to come in the days and weeks ahead. As one of the many plaintiff's personal injury lawyers handling Flint water-related cases, Michigan personal injury attorney, Jim Graves expressed satisfaction with the...

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13 May
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Rights of Sexual Abuse Victims of Elementary School Teacher Patrick Daley

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in Injuries, Sexual Assault
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[vc_row triangle_shape="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] How Do Their Legal Rights Compare To The Victims of MSU’s Larry Nassar? As the Greater Lansing community was attempting to overcome the shock and grief caused by the decades of sexual abuse perpetrated by MSU doctor, Larry Nassar, we learned that there was another sexual abuse crisis at another school in our community. A former fifth-grade teacher at Holt Washington Woods Middle School, Patrick Daley, was charged in 2018 with 24 counts of 2nd-degree criminal sexual misconduct for sexual abuse he perpetrated on his students in his class. In October 2019, Mr. Daley was ultimately convicted of 18 counts...

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04 May
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Campus Sexual Assault – The Importance of Holding Educational Institutions Accountable

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in Injuries, Sexual Assault
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[vc_row triangle_shape="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] In late 2016, we started hearing the first public rumblings of campus sexual assault allegations at Michigan State University at the hands of now incarcerated, former sports doctor, Larry Nassar. In 2018, the country stopped what they were doing to listen to the victim impact statements from Sister Survivors and their unified call to hold educational institutions accountable for sexual misconduct and abuse. We watched in amazement as that disgraced former doctor received a sentence of 40-175 years in prison. We discovered in 2018 that MSU had issued two different versions of a Title IX report concerning a 2014 Title XI...

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27 April
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Dangers of Propane Gas – Common Causes and What to Do After a Gas Explosion and Fire

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in Burn Injuries, Injuries
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Authored by Kalamazoo injury lawyer, Steve Weston The term "natural gas" actually encompasses several types of gases, including propane, butane, ethanol, and methane. Propane is separated from these other gases and sold for residential and commercial uses. It is naturally odorless and colorless and requires the addition of an odorant so humans can detect it in case of a gas leak. Propane is pressurized into a liquid state for storage and transportation and is therefore called "liquified propane" or LP. Because of this pressurization, even a small discharge of liquified propane will create a serious hazard of ignition or explosion. While...

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11 November
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Burn Survivor Attorney Steve Weston Attends 2019 World Burn Congress

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in Burn Injuries, Events, Injuries
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Kalamazoo personal injury attorney, Steven Weston, has been representing and advocating for burn survivors for 34 years. Steve has a reputation among burn treatment professionals across the nation as an attorney who has taken the time to study the medical, psycho-emotional, and social-family challenges and needs of burn survivors. He has also been active in supporting efforts at burn prevention. While Sinas Dramis has advocated for the rights of burn survivors since we opened our doors in 1951, we knew when Steve Weston joined the firm, it was an opportunity to provide additional expertise and resources to this group of...

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21 October
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Putting Clergy Sexual Abuse in the Past

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in Injuries, Sexual Assault
stained glass window with "investigations aim to put clergy abuse in the past" over it

Clergy sexual abuse has been headline news across the United States for years. However, media coverage has recently expanded following the release of a report from a Pennsylvania Grand Jury in 2018, concluding that 300 priests sexually abused more than 1,000 child victims over the span of seven decades. Since that time, the global movement to hold religious organizations responsible for abuse has remained in the media spotlight. On September 27, 2019, the Diocese of Lansing released a list of Michigan priests accused of sexual abuse. The release of priests’ names in Lansing is consistent with the growing nationwide trend...

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24 September
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Recognizing a Potential Roundup Case – Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Monsanto

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in Injuries
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The Michigan personal injury attorneys at Sinas Dramis Law Firm wrote this article to provide a current report on the widespread Roundup litigation across the United States. Individuals can also use the following information to determine whether they have a legitimate Roundup cancer lawsuit against Monsanto as a result of exposure to Roundup products. To date, over 18,000 individuals in America have filed lawsuits against Monsanto, and that number grows every day. People who have regularly used Roundup products at home or work for a number of years have brought the majority of lawsuits against Monsanto. Roundup Ingredient - Glyphosate -...

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14 June
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Food Poisoning From a Restaurant – What Are My Legal Rights?

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in Injuries
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Authored by Michigan personal injury attorney, Lauren Kissell  Contracting food poisoning from a restaurant is more common than some may think. Up to 48 million people sustain foodborne illness in the United States each year. For reference, take the recent case of Chipotle. Last year, Chipotle made headlines for causing hundreds of people to get sick when the establishment served contaminated food. The restaurant chain caused such bad food poisoning that Chipotle provided extra food training to employees around the nation. With such prevalence, and so many families enjoying an evening dining out, understanding your legal rights is essential in cases...

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21 February
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The Hidden and Explosive Dangers of Electronic Cigarettes

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in Burn Injuries, Injuries

Update: In 2019, a proposed ban on flavored vaping products was put on a temporary hold due to individual and organization opposition. For more information, check out the video at the end of the article. E-cigarettes (also known as vape pens, electronic cigarettes, or electronic nicotine delivery systems [ENDS]) were first widely introduced to the U.S. market in 2007. Since then, the popularity of e-cigarettes has grown dramatically—and continues to expand at an incredible pace. As of 2015, an estimated 2,750,000 people use e-cigarettes in the United States. Furthermore, sales of e-cigarette devices and accessories exceed $2.8 billion dollars.1 However, with such...

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20 September
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$800,000 Settlement for Sexual Assault at an Apartment Complex in Chicago’s Cook County

Posted by Steve and Tom Sinas
in Injuries, Results, Sexual Assault
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A person's home is supposed to be a safe place. Unfortunately, sexual assault at an apartment complex is all too common due to inadequate security and landlord negligence. The following outlines a recent successful settlement for one Chicago resident obtained by Sinas Dramis partner and attorney, Jim Graves. Recently Jim Graves and co-counsel Jennifer Irmen of Irmen Law Group, LLC successfully settled a complicated apartment complex sexual assault case in Chicago’s Cook County Circuit Court. An $800,000 settlement on behalf of his client was obtained in early August as the jury trial in the case commenced. The case arose from a sexual assault...

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