Ryan & Ryan Law Serving Southwest Michigan Since 1932
For more than 80 years, Ryan & Ryan has served the injured and those with disabilities in southwestern Michigan, including Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, Van Buren, Allegan and St. Joseph counties. Attorney William J. Ryan’s reputation for integrity and results is well known both by clients and the legal community. Ryan & Ryan maintains its principal office in Kalamazoo and a satellite office in Coldwater.
Ryan & Ryan’s legal practice centers on genuinely knowing people and about their life after injury and disability. Ryan & Ryan is experienced, effective, compassionate, and knowledgeable. Ryan & Ryan has represented thousands of clients and won cases related to Personal Injury (auto, truck motorcycle crashes, and dangerous premises), Workers’ Compensation, and Social Security Disability claims.
Since 1932, Ryan & Ryan’s philosophy is that the disabled and injured need (and deserve) experienced and skilled legal advocacy with a passion and proven ability to challenge the insurance industry. In Ryan & Ryan’s eighty-year history, it has never represented an insurance company—Ryan & Ryan is built on serving real people. This philosophy began with the founder, Edward Ryan, and continues this day, now led by William Ryan. Bill Ryan’s professionalism, skills and personal integrity have continued to preserve Ryan & Ryan’s decades-long solid reputation with the legal community, including judges and attorneys.
Personal Injury and Wrongful Death negligence law in Michigan develops rapidly. Basic negligence law holds that a duty of reasonable care is owed by one person to another. Although this basic law remains intact in civil litigation, appellate courts frequently change the requirements for injured persons and their families to successfully sue for claims. Successful claims result in money damages for pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of earnings and earning capacity and, in wrongful death cases, loss of the “society and companionship” of the family member.
Personal Injury Learn MoreMichigan law provides wage loss benefits, medical coverage and vocational rehabilitation to injured workers and their families. The workers’ compensation laws are based on a “no fault” system whereby benefits are paid by the employer and the insurance company regardless of whether or not the employer was at fault for the injuries.
Workers Compensation Learn MorePeople who become unable to work in “substantially gainful employment” and have paid into Social Security are entitled to Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits which include monthly payments and Medicare coverage. People who have not paid into Social Security and become disabled may still be entitled to monthly benefits under a program called Supplemental Security Income or SSI.
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Upon graduation from George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C., Bill Ryan served as trial counsel for the Federal Power Commission. He and his family moved back to Michigan in 1974 to join his father, Edward Ryan, in the practice of law. Since returning to Kalamazoo, Bill Ryan has concentrated his law practice in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, workers compensation, disability litigation and representation of labor unions.
William Ryan has lectured at seminars sponsored by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education and the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association. He is the past president of the Kalamazoo County Young Lawyers Association and has served on boards of local agencies, including the Constance Brown Hearing & Speech Center and the Pretty Lake Vacation Camp for underprivileged boys and girls. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Kalamazoo and has recently served as its president. The community, region and residents have always been important to the law firm.
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