Kitrick, Lewis & Harris In the News

 

Our Columbus Injury Law Firm’s Unique Office Space Featured in ABA Journal

Columbus personal injury attorney and firm president Mark Kitrick has been quoted in an ABA Journal article about small law firms getting great deals on real estate. The article highlights our custom-built, Mondrian-style, eco-friendly office space, which provides plenty of light to showcase Mark’s art collection. Mark also notes in the article that our office has a calming effect on our clients, who are often working through heavy physical, emotional and financial difficulty.

To come see our unusual office space and to tell your story to an experienced Columbus personal injury lawyer, contact Kitrick, Lewis & Harris Co., L.P.A. today for a consultation. To read more click on the link below:
AJA Journal Article

Columbus City Council Radio, Special Guest Mark Kitrick:

Our President Mark Kitrick was featured on the August 13, 2011 Columbus City Council Radio program. Mark was brought on to the program to help us understand what type of insurance coverage we need. Many Ohioans are not aware, Ohio has the second lowest requirement for liability coverage of the “at fault driver,” -the person who caused the crash. Our state only requires $12,500 per person or $25,000 for multiple people, no matter how severely a person is injured. This is why uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage is so important. The coverage would take effect on from your own policy in the incident that you are hit by someone with low coverage.
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Contingency Fees- The Key to the Courthouse, even When They Change the Locks

Partner Sean Harris wrote an article published in the Central Ohio Association for Justice journal. The article spoke about the importance of contingency fees, stating “the fees provide the key to the courthouse for poor and indigent people with meritorious claims who could not otherwise afford a lawyer.” Also the use of contingency fees “level the playing field with the corporations and insurance companies that can afford to hire the best or highest-paid lawyers around.” To read more click on the link below to download the full journal:
Contingency Fees

Partner Sean Harris Receives COAJ President’s Award

Kitrick, Lewis & Harris partner Sean Harris receiving the 2011 Central Ohio Association of Justice president’s Award, Presented by current President, Robert Wagoner.

 

Seven Simple Safeguards to Protect You and Your Family

The Safety Report February 5, 2011

1. Med Pay coverage: If you have Med Pay (MP) coverage in your automobile policy and you have good health insurance, then consider saving money by canceling your MP after talking with your insurance agent.
2. Prescription Drugs: Read the inserts and call your pharmacist to inquire about the medication and whether there are contraindications with other medications you are on, specifically mentioning your allergies. Read More

 

Playing With Safety: Dangerous Toys and the Role of America’s Civil Justice System

American Association for Justice December 2010

“Today’s toys are not your parents’ toys. Toys have grown in sophistication and technological advancement, but so have their dangers. In 1970, the most popular toy on the market was the then brand new Nerf Ball. Forty years later, Nerf is still popular but has morphed into a “Blaster” – armed with flip-up sight, red dot light beam, and shoulder stock with an extra ammo clip- and had to be recalled after the gun’s mechanism injured more than 45 children.” Read More

No jail time for driver who struck bicyclist

The Lantern February 28, 2011

“Michelle Kazlausky’s death was ruled a homicide after a car struck her during the Pelotonia charity bike race last August, but the driver who hit her won’t face jail time. . . Neither Blackston had liability insurance, said Mark Kitrick, the attorney for Kazlausky’s sister, Patti Byerly. . . The family wants to educate people about getting the proper insurance on their own car and hope that this lawsuit will help teach people what their options are to protect themselves, in case something like this happens to them, Kitrick said.”
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Family Files Civil Lawsuit in Pelotonia Fatality

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) February 3, 2011

“The family of Michelle Kazlausky, the 57-year old bicyclist fatally hit by a pickup truck while riding in the Pelotnia Tour for Cancer on August 21, 2010, has filed a civil lawsuit (case number: 11cv0021) in the Hocking County Court of Common Pleas against the truck driver who fatally struck her and his brother, the owner of the vehicle. . . . According to the Kazlausky family’s attorney, Mark Kitrick of the law firm Kitrick, Lewis & Harris, Co., L.P.A . of Columbus, Ohio the suit against Blackston and his brother Earl is intended to raise awareness of the need for everyone to carry uninsured motorists insurance and under insured motorists insurance.” Read More

“Bicyclist’s family wants answers in her death”

Sister hopes civil lawsuit also will raise awareness about liability insurance

The Columbus Dispatch January 29, 2011

Patti Byerly still has so many questions about the death of her twin sister this past summer.

She knows some details, of course, and they are forever etched in her mind: Michelle Kazlausky was riding the Columbus-to-Athens leg of the Pelotonia Tour for cancer research on Aug. 21 when she was hit by a pickup truck and killed at the intersection of Rts. 180 and 374 in rural Hocking County during a rainstorm. Read More

Supreme Court decision doesn’t sit well a year later

Worthington News January 19, 2011
Jan. 21 is the one-year anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC which bestowed First Amendment rights on non-human entities.
As a result, corporations have been – and will continue to be – free to secretly spend unlimited cash to control our elections. Citizens United illustrates, in glaring fashion, the fallacy of ‘corporate personhood.’ The word ‘corporation’ occurs nowhere in the Constitution. Corporations are not ‘we the people.’ Indeed they are not people at all.Read More