Michigan No-Fault, Coverage Litigation, and Appeals
Insurance is supposed to be there when everything goes wrong. When insurers delay, deny, or underpay legitimate claims, you need an insurance dispute attorney who knows how to hold them accountable. At Petrucelli & Petrucelli, we represent people, families, and small businesses—not insurance companies—across the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin.
A major part of our practice is Michigan no-fault insurance, including claims and appeals under the Michigan No-Fault Act, MCL 500.3101 et seq.
We handle:
- First-party Michigan no-fault (PIP) claims for:
- Hospital and medical expenses
- Attendant care, nursing, and case management
- Mileage and replacement services
- Wage-loss benefits and survivor’s loss
- Disputes under the post-2020 no-fault reform, including fee schedules and utilization review
- Underinsured and uninsured motorist (UIM/UM) claims
- Homeowners and commercial property policies (fire, water, wind, theft, vandalism)
- Health-insurance coordination with auto policies, Medicare, and Medicaid
- Bad-faith and unreasonable claims handling, including delay, denial, and underpayment of benefits
- Appeals from trial-court rulings in no-fault and other insurance coverage cases
Byrne & Ferdon – Trials and Appeals
Vincent Petrucelli’s insurance and personal-injury work includes decades of jury trials and appellate work in Michigan and Wisconsin, including:
- Byrne v Schneider’s Iron & Metal, Inc, 190 Mich App 176; 475 NW2d 854 (1991) – a serious injury case involving complex liability, damages, and coverage questions, where careful trial preparation and issue preservation were essential for appellate review.
- Ferdon ex rel. Petrucelli v Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund, 2005 WI 125, 284 Wis 2d 573; 701 NW2d 440 (Wis 2005) – a landmark Wisconsin Supreme Court decision addressing the constitutionality of noneconomic-damage caps in medical-malpractice cases, where Vincent Petrucelli served as guardian ad litem and appellate counsel for a catastrophically injured child.
These and many other cases shape our approach:
- Meticulous factual development to document injuries, medical needs, and economic loss
- Aggressive but strategic negotiation, backed by a willingness to try cases
- Trial-level protection of appellate issues, so legal errors can be corrected in the Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Supreme Court, or Wisconsin appellate courts
No-Fault and Insurance Clients Across Every U.P. Community
We regularly represent injured people and policyholders in:
Marquette, Ishpeming, Negaunee, Gwinn, Houghton, Hancock, Calumet, Laurium, L’Anse, Baraga, Ontonagon, Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Norway, Iron River, Crystal Falls, Escanaba, Gladstone, Manistique, Munising, Newberry, Sault Ste. Marie, St. Ignace, Menominee, Copper Harbor, Bessemer, Ironwood, Wakefield, Bark River, Stephenson, and the surrounding townships and rural communities of the Upper Peninsula. If you are looking for a Michigan no-fault attorney in Marquette, Escanaba, Houghton, Iron Mountain, Iron River, Sault Ste. Marie, Menominee, or any other town in the U.P., or you need an insurance bad-faith lawyer in Northern Wisconsin, Petrucelli & Petrucelli offers the experience and local knowledge needed to stand up to insurance companies.
Contact Vincent Petrucelli at (906) 265-6173 or vincent@truthfinders.com for a free consultation today.
