![]() Due to the high costs of such care and changes to a Michigan law, he might be moved to an institution where restraints or medication would be necessary to keep him safe. Next week, Konstantinov is in danger of losing the round-the-clock care that has enabled him to remain home. Although he seems to comprehend questions, his answers are limited to a few words and aren’t always easy to understand. Now 55, he needs help walking, eating, drinking and brushing his teeth, and a caregiver stays awake while he sleeps in case he needs to walk to the bathroom. To see more, visit Michigan Radio.Since suffering severe brain damage when his drunken limousine driver crashed while Konstantinov was a celebrating the first of the Red Wings’ back-to-back championships in the late 1990s, the former NHL great and Red Army team captain has had to rebuild his life. The industry's trade group says the law is working as intended and the state legislature should stay the course.Ĭopyright 2022 Michigan Radio. Insurance companies - a powerful lobby in Lansing - oppose any change to the law. If that fails, he might have to move out of his home, into an institutional setting. He doesn't know what he'll do, other than try to get a judge to order his insurance company to pay reasonable rates for his care. Jason Tunnecliffe, who suffered a C6 spinal cord injury in 2008, will lose his 24/7 home care next month. More survivors are losing their care as each month passes with no fix to the law. "And I am one of the ones who are least affected," he said. ![]() Now, he's back in a wheelchair full-time. ![]() They discharged him as a patient as a result. His spinal cord injury was partial, and he said thanks to intensive physical therapy, he was close to being able to walk nearly a half mile with braces and a cane.īut the no fault law cut payments by nearly 50% to the caregivers who drove him to those PT appointments. The rally was attended by a few hundred injured survivors of catastrophic accidents, their families, friends, and caregivers.īraxton Wood survived a catastrophic car crash when he was 17. Our leaders need to admit their mistakes and fix this mess immediately," she said to sustained applause. "Crash survivors are suffering and dying. Other speakers at the rally said the 2019 auto no fault law has failed to fulfill any of its promises.ĭetroit City Councilwoman Latisha Jones said drivers in Detroit were promised relief from discriminatory rates.īut she said the law only made the discrimination worse.Ī recent report shows that many Detroit residents now pay more for the lowest tier of personal injury coverage than non-Detroit drivers pay for the highest tier of injury coverage.Īnd Jones said people in Detroit and across the state are losing care. McCarty called the retroactivity of the law "ridiculous." Let's be great together, let's have that compassion together." "We're Michigan, for gosh sakes," he said. Now, he can't find caregivers to drive him to PT, due to 45% cuts in their pay under the auto no fault law. With intensive physical therapy, he said he was close to being able to walk with a cane for nearly half a mile. Michigan Radio Braxton Wood was 17 when he suffered a partial spinal cord injury in a car crash.
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