Auto collisions
Rear-end, left-turn, commercial vehicle, ride-share, pedestrian, bicycle. UM/UIM claims against your own policy when the at-fault driver's limits aren't enough.
Personal injury
Hurt by someone else? Your call first, not theirs.
The first day after an injury, the party who should be worried about you is the insurance carrier. Too often it's the other way around. The office helps clients take the right first steps — get treated, document what happened, and stop giving statements that aren't in their interest — and then handles the claim through settlement or trial.
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Cases handled
What counts as a personal injury case here.
If someone else's carelessness hurt you or someone in your household, the office can help. The common threads are a negligent party, measurable harm, and an insurer on the other side who wants the matter to go away cheap.
Slip, trip & fall
Retail stores, restaurants, apartment complexes, parking lots, icy sidewalks. Premises liability turns on notice — what the owner knew or should have known.
Premises liability
Negligent security, inadequate lighting, unsafe stairs, broken railings, dog attacks, pool injuries, improperly maintained property.
Products liability
Defective products — design defects, manufacturing defects, failure-to-warn cases. Often involves expert engineering review, which is where a technical background is useful.
Dog bites & animal attacks
Ohio is generally a strict-liability state for dog bite cases. The question is usually coverage and damages, not liability.
Wrongful death
When negligence takes someone's life, the claim belongs to the estate and statutory beneficiaries. The work is painful, slow, and rarely only about money.
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First hours, first week
The things that protect the case before anyone hires a lawyer.
- Get treated. If you're hurt, see a doctor — not because it helps the case, because you need it. The case falls apart when injuries aren't documented because nobody went to urgent care.
- Don't give a recorded statement to the other side's insurance company. They are not your carrier and they are not trying to help you. The office handles every insurer conversation once retained.
- Keep the evidence. Photos of the scene, the vehicle, the injury, the hazard. Names of witnesses. Business cards of responding officers. Anything on your phone — save it, don't delete it.
- Report to your own carrier promptly if required by policy — but only the facts, not a legal theory. UM/UIM and MedPay coverages can matter later.
- Don't settle quickly. The first offer is almost never the last offer, and it's almost never close to full value. Serious injury cases often reveal their real cost over months, not days.
- Save every medical bill, every pharmacy receipt, every missed-work note. Paper and phone screenshots are both fine.
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How the case runs
From first call to resolution — no surprises.
Step 01
Intake & investigation
Free first call. If the case makes sense, we sign a contingency agreement, put the carrier on notice, and start preserving evidence and medical records.
Step 02
Treatment & documentation
While you treat, the office builds the file: police reports, photographs, expert opinions where needed, wage-loss documentation, complete medical records.
Step 03
Demand & negotiation
Once treatment has stabilized, we prepare a demand package for the insurer. Most cases settle — not because the first offer was right, but because preparation makes it expensive to fight.
Step 04
Trial, if that's what it takes
When the insurer won't pay a fair number, we file suit and try the case. For complex or high-value matters, the office brings in co-counsel who tries PI cases every week — you stay with the same office through the whole process.
Hurt in an accident? Don't wait.
Two years feels like a long time. Between medical treatment, insurance back-and-forth, and getting life back on track, it disappears faster than you'd think. The first call is free, and it's the right first step.