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Byline: correye.stephenson An employment discrimination lawsuit against Huron Valley Correctional Facility was properly dismissed based on governmental immunity where the plaintiff failed to file the required statutory notice, the Michigan [...]

Byline: correye.stephenson A vague and ambiguous arbitration clause that lacked a decision necessary to trigger its application did not apply to a breach of contract suit, a panel of the [...]

Byline: correye.stephenson An accounting malpractice claim was not time-barred because of a continuing professional relationship, a divided panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled, reversing summary disposition. Philip [...]

Byline: correye.stephenson An engineering student could bring a sexual harassment claim against her former university and her physical resistance to her advisor's sexual advances constituted opposition under Title VII, a [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A woman's lawsuit was timely filed because administrative orders issued by the state's highest court during the COVID-19 pandemic regarding litigation deadlines [...]

Byline: Correy E. Stephenson A member of The Romantics lost his challenge to an order granting summary disposition in favor of another band member and the band's corporation and requiring [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A restaurant that sought to compel appraisal of an insurance claim under MCL 500.2833(1)(m) for damages from a kitchen fire was properly [...]

Byline: Correy E. Stephenson After more than a decade of litigation, a trial court judge entered final judgment last April in favor of the town of Holden in its dispute [...]

Byline: Correy E. Stephenson For Boston lawyer Bridget A. Zerner, 2023 yielded two significant victories. In federal court, she won summary judgment on behalf of rape victim Kira Wahlstrom in [...]

Byline: Correy E. Stephenson In August 2023, Erica L. Brody reached a settlement with the Department of Children and Families on behalf of four foster children placed in the Oxford [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An arbitrator's award requiring the Michigan State Police, or MSP, to reinstate a female trooper who was terminated after several male coworkers [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An employee who did not submit a request for religious exemption from a city's vaccine mandate did not have a claim under [...]

Byline: Correy E. Stephenson The second of two profiles honoring RILW's 2023 Lawyers of the Year. The first profile appeared in the issue of Dec. 4. It sounds like the [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A rideshare driver was not entitled to underinsured motorist, or UIM, benefits after getting into an accident in his rental car because [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A city attorney should not have been granted an ex parte personal protection order, or PPO, against a private citizen who repeatedly [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson When a contract confers discretion on a party, a breach of contract action will lie for an alleged bad faith exercise of [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An award of expert witness fees and case evaluation sanctions consisting of attorneys' and paralegal fees was proper, a panel of the [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An insurer's decision to rescind a policy post-accident does not trigger the exclusion in MCL 500.3135(2)(c), a unanimous Michigan Supreme Court has [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A healthcare provider was allowed to file suit seeking payment for services provided to an insured because the no-fault act does not [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson Retired employees of the Allen Park Police Department are entitled to retiree healthcare benefits beyond the durational terms of the collective bargaining [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A trial court erred when it ordered a change in custody for two minor children from the father's sole legal custody to [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An adjunct professor established a prima facie case of age discrimination and sufficiently cast doubt on a college's reasons for not hiring [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson The federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH, preempts the Michigan Medical Records Access Act, a panel [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson Despite finding delays by the Department of Health and Human Services deeply troubling, the Michigan Court of Appeals reluctantly affirmed the denial [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An assignee is not bound by a judgment obtained by the predecessor in interest after the assignment, the Michigan Court of Appeals [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An insurer was on the hook to defend and indemnify an insured under a commercial general liability policy and could not pin [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A trial court improperly evaluated whether a company was an employer when it should have considered whether a worker was an employee, [...]

Byline: Correy E. Stephenson A law school graduate's racial discrimination claims against his alma mater should be dismissed, a federal judge determined, finding the factual allegations insufficient to keep the [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A trial court properly enforced an arbitration award between a home construction company and a property owner, the Michigan Court of Appeals [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A motion for sanctions based on the alleged spoliation of a missing recording should be denied where the missing recording was produced, [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson Where a father did not exercise equal parenting time, the trial court was allowed to modify a child support order that required [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A zip line strung across the backyard of a couple that rented the property next door to the plaintiff was an open [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A terminated employee can sue his former employer for retaliation where he presented sufficient evidence of pretext to create a dispute of [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A circuit court has limited personal jurisdiction over a company that texted a potential client in Michigan about renewing a sales relationship [...]

Byline: Correy E. Stephenson An out-of-state internet retailer whose only local contacts were through its use of apps, cookies and content delivery networks could not be required to pay taxes [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An employee provided sufficient notice of his need to take intermittent leave pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act, or FMLA, [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson Legal malpractice actions are constrained to the scope of representation where an attorney and a client expressly limit the terms of the [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A settlement agreement between a woman and her former lawyer included all potential claims between the parties, both known and unknown, so [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A trial court erred when it issued an order that altered a prior consent judgment without applying the appropriate evidentiary standard where [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson Where factual and legal uncertainties existed about which insurer was responsible for no-fault benefits, it was error for a trial court to [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An insurer must pay for the legal and guardianship services provided by a court-appointed guardian for tasks delegated to staff members as [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A homeowners insurance policy was properly rescinded where the homeowner made a material misrepresentation in his application about whether business was conducted [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson Statements offered during litigation do not fall under MCL 500.3173a(4), the statutory provision governing fraudulent insurance acts in the no-fault personal protection [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A plaintiff who filed a motion to amend his complaint to add new defendants tolled the applicable statute of limitations while the [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson The one-year statute of limitations period in MCL 500.3145(1) does not apply to the Michigan Property & Casualty Guaranty Association, or MPCGA, [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A plaintiff's notarized signature on her notice of intent constituted a verification pursuant to MCL 600.6431(2)(d), a panel of the Michigan Court [...]

Byline: Correy Stephenson, BridgeTower Media Newswires The repeated use of a racial epithet by the 6-year-old grandson of the owners of an assisted living facility was sufficient to support a [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson An estate's claim that a doctor and medical center failed to timely diagnose the decedent's recurrence of colorectal cancer, causing her death, [...]

Byline: CORY LINSNER By Correy E. Stephenson A certified registered nurse anesthetist plausibly alleged claims for disability discrimination and retaliation when she said her hours were reduced after she worked [...]

Byline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Correy E. Stephenson A plaintiff asserting claims about the treatment of a patient cannot amend her complaint based solely on a violation of a medical [...]