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About Steven Gursten
Steven Gursten is an Attorney at Michigan Auto Law in Detroit, Michigan. He has been designated a Michigan Lawyer of the Year and consistently ranked among Michigan's top 50 attorneys by Super Lawyers.
Gursten earned his Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Phi Beta Kappa). He is admitted to practice in Michigan.
At age 28, Gursten became the youngest attorney in Michigan history to secure a million-dollar jury verdict. He has recovered the largest auto/truck accident settlement by a Michigan attorney: $34 million. He serves as President of the American Association for Justice's Distracted Driving Litigation Group and is past-president of the Belli Society, the AAJ Traumatic Brain Injury and Truck Accident Litigation Groups, and the Motor Vehicle Trial Lawyers Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Steven Gursten secured $9 million for a Michigan man who lost both legs after an Atsalis Brothers work truck rear-ended and split his Saturn on I-94, a figure Michigan Lawyers Weekly reported as the state's largest pain-and-suffering recovery of the preceding decade.
A Macomb County jury awarded Tony and Lisa Broeren $5.65 million after a Chrysler employee ran Tony over with a company pickup and left him with a brain injury, and the trial judge upheld the verdict in full.
Steven Gursten secured a $3.9 million wrongful death settlement after a gravel hauler driven by a trucker on epilepsy medication, in a rig that was out of service in more than five ways, killed Patrick Nunez on I-75 in Detroit.
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