The MIchigan Court of Appeals has very recently issued a decision which holds that motorists who were seriously injured and required extensive long-term care prior to the 2019 changes in the No-Fault Act are entitled to keep the care they were getting before the law changed–and insurance companies who cut these long-term benefits since changes in the Act went into effect may have to start reimbursing medical and care providers of these car accident victims for the payments they cut at the previous, much higher rates.
This is a big win for the approximately 6,600 severely injured auto accident victims in Michigan receiving some form of long-term care and their families, as well as long-term care and rehab facilities. The insurance companies jumped on the changes in the law to start cutting payments for the care of people who were badly injured before the changes in the law took effect, though the law itself does not say that these previously injured people were intended to have their payments cut. Many rehab facilities were on the verge of going out of business due to the drastic cuts.
The Detroit Free Press has a goood synopsis of the Andary v. USAA Ins Co case here:
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/25/no-fault-michigan-insurance-crash-survivors/65419757007/
The losing insurance companies say they will appeal the case to the Michigan Supreme Court, so stay tuned!
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Also of interest is this related article: “Study finds skyrocketing number of severely injured car-crash patients have lost care”
https://www.michiganradio.org/politics-government/2022-08-11/study-finds-skyrocketing-number-of-severely-injured-car-crash-patients-have-lost-care
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