Secrest Wardle PC
Troy,
Michigan
John L. Weston specializes in motor vehicle litigation, with a sub-specialty in trucking regulation and litigation. He has successfully represented insurance companies, private corporations, and individuals in no-fault first- and third-party automobile negligence claims, including bodily injury, uninsured, and underinsured motorist claims. He has tried cases in both federal and state courts throughout Michigan, as well as Arizona, California, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Missouri. Mr. Weston’s trucking practice encompasses the representation of both American and Canadian clients. He provides assistance with trucking regulation, customs, and coverage issues, as well as defending trucking companies in both personal injury/accident and environmental/property damage claims. He has obtained defense verdicts in motor vehicle cases in Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb counties, and has had motions for summary disposition based upon the threshold injury requirement of the Michigan No-Fault Act granted in those counties as well. Mr. Weston has conducted numerous seminars on Michigan no-fault law for corporate and insurance clients in both Michigan and Canada. He acted as a keynote speaker at the Canadian National Fleet Safety Conference in Toronto, Ontario. He also authors articles for several of the firm's newsletters and has been published in periodicals for the Defense Research Institute (DRI) and "The Administrative Law Review" of The American University. Mr. Weston has received an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Top Lawyer by “DBusiness” magazine. From 2015 through the present, Mr. Weston has been voted by his peers as a Super Lawyer by Michigan Super Lawyers, an honor accorded to only 5 percent of Michigan lawyers, and was selected as one of the top 100 lawyers in Michigan in 2019. For the past 10 years, he has served as a defense case evaluator in both Oakland and Wayne counties, and has recently expanded his practice to serve as an independent facilitator.
|