BELINDA

My name is Belinda and I got hurt at work. If it wasn’t for E.S. Gallon and Associates I don’t know what I would have done. I’ve been through a lot – three different accidents, and they’ve been behind me with every one of them. It wasn’t like going to a lawyer’s office and them making you feel like you’re underneath them, they made you feel like you’re a part of them. I was trying to get back to work and I just couldn’t. Attorney Jim Piercy made me comfortable going to the hearings.

I went through a lot of depression over fighting all this stuff, but E.S. Gallon was there for me. They’ve got it in their heart to help people and that’s what I needed.

With the settlement, he got me I’m going to have a life again. If you’re looking for a good lawyer look for ES Gallon, cause they were they for me they’ll be there for you.

PAM

My name is Pamela and I was hurt at work many years ago.

I was working as a social service staff member and I was driving one of our nursing home residents to a doctor’s appointment and I was injured in a car accident. In an hour after the accident I started feeling the stiffness and soreness in my back and my neck. I was off work for about a year. I ended up going to a pain clinic in Cincinnati, it was a very harsh treatment but that was what I needed at the time. I continued to struggle and work off and on for a number of years.

I got my nursing license and worked as a nurse for 20 years.

One day I reached a point when I just couldn’t do it anymore. My body hurt every day and emotionally I was a mess because of the stress of having to get up and go to work every day. I went to my back doctor’s office and had a meltdown.

So I went back to ES Gallon Attorney Joe Ebenger.

The doctor agreed I couldn’t go back to work.

We applied to get permanent total disability

I couldn’t believe it. The day Joe Ebenger called me to tell me the good news – I wanted to jump around for joy but I couldn’t do it because I hurt too bad. I was on the verge of losing my house, I had no other source of income, I was depleting my retirement money,

Now I have the money to live off of for the rest of my life. I’m in the process with the bank to keep the house and I feel like I’m in heaven.

JOE EBENGER

What’s unique about Pam’s case – she was hurt in 1990, but we continued to represent her over the years with the ultimate goal of making sure that she was taken care of for the rest of her life.

This is why we’re in existence, this is what we do and why we do it for our clients and I’m pleased to tell you that Pam now enjoys lifelong financial security.

Her benefits will never end.

PAM

I’m so happy that I came to ES Gallon and not somebody else.

When I was hurt at work I came to ES Gallon and it was many years ago and over the years they’ve been wonderful working with me and the best thing I have to say is that they worked hard enough I don’t have to worry about having to work to live. They got me a lifetime award for my injuries.

DONNA

My name is Donna and I was hurt at work and my company didn’t want to take care of me and give me the benefits I needed to survive on a day to day basis. I came to E.S. Gallon and was referred to Attorney Jim Piercy. And Mr. Piercy was the one who gave what I needed to survive. He made it possible for me to have my groceries, my rent and utility payments. He took care of me.

I’ve been hurt three times with the same company. And all I asked was an apology and they wouldn’t even give me that. He won me a lifetime award, where the company has to pay me every two weeks for the rest of my life.

He is interested in his people, he looks at you as a family member and treats you as such. He really took all my needs into consideration and it was a blessing to have him come into my life. In a lot of ways he saved my life.

I couldn’t walk anymore and my job requires that I’d be on my feet for eight hours a day. I had major back surgery and I couldn’t stand more than five minutes on my feet. I had a broken hand I had my shoulders messed up. I loved my job.And now I have the means to where I can take care of myself and do what I have to do. I could even get myself a better home to live in. I could get me a lift chair to go upstairs and just little things that may not mean a lot to a lot of people but it means a lot for me. That’s what all this settlement means to me.

DAVE

My name is Dave Salyer. I was a client at ES Gallon and Associates.

Back in about 1984 I was working in construction and I was on my way to a job driving a van. In the process of another accident happening in front of me and immediately getting out to help out I ended up being pinned between vehicles.

I had a rather severe fracture to my right wrist – and I was right handed – and to my left leg.  I was in surgery within an hour of the accident.  I was taken to Miami Valley Hospital.  I didn’t know anything about bills.  I didn’t know anything about how I was going to handle my time off from work.  I didn’t know how I was going to navigate life at all.

Things had suddenly gotten out of control.

And I was hurting, and I knew I was hurting.  I was in surgery and it was painful. They put pins and wires in my wrist.

It was through my employer, oddly enough, they said “Maybe you should get a lawyer.”

I was in an auto accident, but it was also while I was on my way to a job.  So, I called ES Gallon and Associates.  I hired two lawyers, one for the Workers’ Comp and one for the auto accident claim.  ES Gallon did a tremendous job, really, both on the Workers’ Comp case as well as the personal injury case against the inusrance company against the person who was at fault for the auto accident.

I was able through that process as a client to rely on ES Gallon and my attorneys to do the very best job for me and they did that – they actually did that.

In the Workers’ Comp claim they were able to get my medical bills paid so I didn’t have to worry about those and even a percentage of my income while I was off from work and all the awards that went with that under the Workers’ Comp system.  That actually helped me to survive, to be able to go through all that while being completely off work.

At the same time I had a lawyer for the auto accident so that when the auto accident claim finally settled I was able to get enough of a recovery that I was able to take that money and invest it, really, in a new career.
You see, from the accident and my injury to my wrist, that had harmed me in such a way that I couldn’t bend my wrist any longer and because I couldn’t bend my wrist any longer, I couldn’t hold a hammer any longer.  I couldn’t do a hole punch any longer.  I couldn’t do those things that I had really come to enjoy for six years in construction.

When the doctor told me that, then I had to evaluate what can I do. And part of that was with the success that ES Gallon had done resolving my claim. I took a portion of that money and headed off in a new career path and ultimately went to law school and became a lawyer.

What’s interesting now is that I am an associate attorney with ES Gallon and Associates, the very law firm that represented me as a client and did such a tremendous job of gaining my trust, that they really knew what they were doing, that they were really interested and concerned for me.  In that process I was able to take the best of a very bad situation and redirect it into a new career such that now I’m not you, thinking about whether to retain ES Gallon, I actually was you, and now I’m on the other side of the fence, wanting to gain your trust and I think we’re up to the task.

So I’m asking you, if you have a case that you think “Well, the lawyer just doesn’t care, he just doesn’t know what I’m going through,” I can tell you I do.  Give us a call at ES Gallon and Associates.  My name is Dave Salyer and I’m an associate attorney for ES Gallon.