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Blackwell, W. Allan

Name:Blackwell, W. Allan
Practice In: Accident & Injury ,Personal Injury ,Criminal ,Misdemeanor ,Divorce & Family Law ,Child Custody ,Child Support ,Divorce ,Family Law ,Industry Specialties ,Entertainment ,Lawsuit & Dispute ,Litigation ,Cars & Motor Vehicle ,Traffic
Law Firm: Keith, Carter & Associates PLLC
Location:241 Summit Avenue Suite 103
Greensboro, NC 27401
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Fax: 336-574-0338
http://www.keithassociateslaw.com
 

Brett Bissonnette has always loved solving problems, and as a Workers' Compensation and Personal Injury lawyer- he gets to do just that. Brett is a very smart man and is also a Certified Public Accountant as well. He joined Hochman and Plunkett in 2004 and has been practicing for 6 years. In 2009 Brett was named a 2009 Rising Star by Cincinnati Magazine.

Brett feels great when he puts a smile on his clients' faces by helping them with their personal injuries and workers' compensation cases.

Brett talks about a certain case that he remembers:

My most memorable case involved a teenager working in his first job, because it illustrate the lengths that the firm will go to in order to prove a point that benefits injured workers all across Ohio. Like many teenagers, his first job was at a fast food restaurant, a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise. Our client was injured when he made a mistake in cleaning out a boiler – a mistake that caused him serious pain, and an in-patient stay at the burn unit.

The employer was not satisfied with terminating our client. Instead, the employer sought to make an example of our client by asserting that his voluntary choice to clean the boiler in the manner he chose was essentially a choice by our client to quit his job. Since he quit his job, the employer reasoned, he didn't have a job to be disabled from, and this would cause him to forfeit his workers' compensation bi-weekly benefits.

Our firm represented him before two hearings at the Industrial Commission – the first we won; the second, we lost. Next, we filed a request in the court of appeals to have the Industrial Commission's second decision overturned. We won. Undeterred, the employer filed an appeal of their own into the Ohio Supreme Court, which ruled against us. We were not finished, however.

We remained unconvinced that the Ohio Supreme Court had come to the right result, so we filed a request for reconsideration, pointing out the flaws in the Supreme Court's reasoning, and showing how the outcome next time would be even more egregious. Despite the fact that the Ohio Supreme Court had not reversed itself in the same case in seven years, that is exactly what they did. After hearing our arguments, the court looked at its previous precedent and came to the conclusion that we had proposed, and that they had themselves declared, more than sixty years previously – that workers' compensation was not a fault-based system. So long as the injured worker proved the injury was otherwise compensable, it was irrelevant that the injured worker had been negligent in causing his own injury. A mistake is a mistake, and it shouldn't cost a down-on-his-luck injured worker the benefits he is entitled to under Ohio law. This case was especially memorable to me because of my substantial involvement in the case as well as the way it displayed that our firm doesn’t back down from a fight when we know we are right.

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