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I am an expert on stomach surgery (been there, done that, got the T shirt)you have had a rough time but what you did not say in your brief memo is whether there is malpractice here. If you find a doctor (surgeon) who is willing to say there is malpractice here and is willing to testify for you, then you have the start of a case. Understand however that the original doctor will likely say you just had a bad result and he will likely get 3 or 4 of his golfing buddies to testify for him.

In Michigan your husband is covered for No Fault Benefits, which includes life time medical care, under his own policy so it is irrelevant whether the other vehicle/driver are/aren't insured. So your husband does have lifetime medical benefits for conditions that are caused by the crash. You/your attorney will want to see if there was any umbrella/excess coverage available to the other parties in addition to the primary liability limit. The likely problem with your uninsured claim against your own carrier is that it won't apply if indeed there is insurance on the other vehicle/driver. If you also have underinsured coverage, it would apply, but usually offsets the policy limit you collect ($100k per your question) against the coverage you purchased, so there may not be a full, or any, benefit due from your insurer for the uninsured/underinsured coverage, but you'll need to read your policy to see what the terms of coverage are.

If you can show that your sister's wrongdoing or negligence was the cause of your son's broken leg, then yes. With the information you provided, it doesn't sound like you know how your son's leg was broken. A child can fall, for example, with a parent standing right there. It doesn't mean the parent did anything wrong. Arguably your sister should have contacted you immediately, but waiting a few hours did not necessarily cause any additional injury to your son. You would need to show either 1) your sister caused the broken leg injury or 2) her doing nothing about the leg for a few hours caused additional injury to him.