Top Rated Workers' Compensation Attorney in Columbus, OH

Honors/Awards:

• Ohio Super Lawyer, Ohio Super Lawyer, 2017
• Ohio Super Lawyer, 2012
• Ohio Super Lawyer, 2013

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Contributor and speaker for continuing legal education seminars on the issue of workers’ compensation case law update.

Verdicts/Settlements:

• Keaton v. Abbruzzese Bros. Inc., 2010-Ohio-3969, 189 Ohio App.3d 737, 940 N.E.2d 603.   Appellate Court decision in which the trial court’s decision was overturned as they had improperly allowed the cross-examination testimony of our medical expert’s prior criminal conviction.    
• Scheiderer v. Morrow County Commissioners 2014-CV-274.  Prevailed in a bench trial allowing my client to participate in the workers' compensation fund for a significant head injury.  Later in the administrative process successfully argued my client was totally disabled. , 2016
• State ex rel. Woodhull v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, 2011-Ohio-4921.  I obtained a writ of mandamus for my client which vacated the Industrial Commission's prior order finding that the injured worker was not entitiled to an award for total loss of use of a thumb.  In so doing, the Court relied and expanded upon the recently decided Supreme Court case, State ex rel. Kroger Co. v. Johnson (2011), 128 Ohio St.3d 243.  

Educational Background:

• B.S. Indiana Univeristy,, 2001
• J.D. Capital Univeristy, Cum laude, 2005