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Collins Einhorn Farrell PC Ranked in 2025 “Best Law Firms”

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC’s Appellate Practice Group has been recognized nationally for the 9th year in a row. The 2025 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list names the Appellate Practice Group as a National Tier 3.  CEF is also proud to be recognized as Metropolitan Tier 1 in 9 practice areas. “Firms...
Collins Einhorn Farrell PC’s Appellate Practice Group has been recognized nationally for the 9th year in a row. The 2025...
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10 Collins Einhorn Attorneys Named 2025 “Top Lawyers” by DBusiness Magazine

  Collins Einhorn Farrell PC is pleased to announce that ten of our colleagues have been named to the 2025 “Top Lawyers” list by DBusiness magazine: David C. Anderson – Legal Malpractice Law Theresa M. Asoklis – Legal Malpractice Law Donald D. Campbell – Legal Malpractice Law Trent B. Collier – Appellate Law Michael J....
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25 Collins Einhorn Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers 2025

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC is pleased to announce that 25 lawyers have been included in the 2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, including two receiving “Lawyer of the Year” distinction.  Ten of the 25 lawyers have been included in the Ones to Watch edition, which recognizes attorneys who are early in their careers...
Collins Einhorn Farrell PC is pleased to announce that 25 lawyers have been included in the 2024 editions of The...
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CEF obtains historic Supreme Court decision overruling “Denney damages”

The Michigan Supreme Court ended its term with a historic decision, overruling so-called “Denney damages.” Collins Einhorn attorney Michael Cook represented the defendants in the Supreme Court and successfully argued for the overruling. In 2016, the Michigan Court of Appeals dramatically changed Michigan law on wrongful-death damages in a case named, Denney v Kent County...
The Michigan Supreme Court ended its term with a historic decision, overruling so-called “Denney damages.” Collins Einhorn attorney Michael Cook...
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21 Collins Einhorn Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers

  Collins Einhorn Farrell PC is pleased to announce that 21 of our firm’s lawyers have been included in the 2024 editions of Super Lawyers.  Five of the 21 recognized lawyers have been included in the Rising Stars edition, which recognizes attorneys who are early in their careers for their outstanding professional excellence in private...
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Collins Einhorn CEO, Kellie Howard, Discusses AI Ethics with FOX2

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an integral part of our daily lives, whether we realize it or not.  Despite ongoing speculation about AI having the capacity to replace us all, we assure you it does not.  There is, however, an ongoing enthusiasm to harness the technology, which has been around for decades, but has recently become...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an integral part of our daily lives, whether we realize it or not.  Despite ongoing speculation...
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10 '14

Court of Appeals: negligent-procurement claims are subject to a three-year period of limitations

October 22, 2014

Insurance agents are licensed professionals. They have to complete accredited coursework and pass a licensing examination. But the Michigan Court of Appeals recently decided that that isn’t enough to give them the protections of the shorter limitation period for malpractice claims (2 years). Instead, in Stephens v Worden Insurance Agency, LLC, the Court held that,…

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10 '14

No-fault insurance policies cover people, not vehicles.

October 10, 2014

Michigan’s no-fault insurance law is grounded in the 1972 no-fault act. But the Michigan legislature couldn’t anticipate every potential issue when it drafted and revised that legislation, so there are many judicial decisions interpreting the act. Although these cases can be confusing to attorneys and laypeople alike, there are a few bright-line rules. Michigan courts…

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09 '14

Can an insurer (accidentally) breathe life into a long-dead PIP claim by making a payment?

September 29, 2014

Statutes of limitation are great, or terrible, depending on which side of the “v” you’re on. They exist to prevent stale lawsuits. They basically say, “You can’t wait forever to sue someone.” But in Jesperson v Auto Club Insurance Association, the Court of Appeals had to decide whether a single payment of an insurance benefit…

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09 '14

The case-within-a-case doctrine spells the end for a plaintiff’s legal malpractice lawsuit

September 23, 2014

Legal malpractice lawsuits in Michigan are subject to the case-within-a-case doctrine. This rule applies when a plaintiff alleges that she was unable to pursue an underlying claim because of an attorney’s malpractice. It holds that a plaintiff can recover in malpractice only if she can prove that the underlying claim would have been successful. In…

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09 '14

The Michigan Court of Appeals applies two well-established rules to reject an apartment tenant’s negligence claims

September 11, 2014

Lawyers use the terms “black-letter law” and “hornbook law” to refer to legal principles that have become well-established over the years. These principles often begin life as a holding in a single case, and are then reapplied and refined in subsequent cases. Eventually, they are so entrenched that they can be taught as actual rules…

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09 '14

Joint enterprise theory of liability not viable where each attorney does not have an equal right to control the client’s legal representation and joint responsibility for decision-making

September 9, 2014

Originally printed in Michigan Defense Quarterly, July 2014 edition. Souden v Attorney Defendant, unpublished opinion per curiam of the Court of Appeals, issued April 17, 2014 (Docket No. 314143) The Facts: Plaintiff sued to divorce his wife in Berrien County. Plaintiff retained the attorney defendant and, against the attorney defendant’s advice, plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his…

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09 '14

Notices of Intent and the 182-Day Waiting Period

September 5, 2014

Originally printed in Michigan Defense Quarterly, July 2014 edition. An application for leave to appeal the Court of Appeals’ decision in Furr v McLeod is currently pending before the Michigan Supreme Court. This opinion was issued by a special panel of the Court of Appeals convened after the court declared a conflict with Tyra v…

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09 '14

Over Forty Percent of Collins Einhorn Farrell PC Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers©

September 2, 2014

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC announced today that 13 attorneys have been named to the 2014 Michigan Super Lawyers list. An additional 4 attorneys were named to the 2014 Michigan Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a…

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08 '14

The “prison mailbox rule” doesn’t save a prisoner’s untimely legal malpractice complaint

August 25, 2014

It’s beyond dispute that prisoners have a constitutional right to access courts. But in Dayson v. Meinberg, the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the notion that this right of access doesn’t exempt prisoners from statutes of limitations—even when a prisoner’s complaint would be timely under the “prison mailbox” rule. Dayson, a prisoner in the Michigan…

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