This article is a companion piece to this video In this episode of our informational YouTube and podcast series about subrogation, On Subrogation: Independent Contractor Defense, RG founder and subrogation attorney Kim Rathbone explains the use of the Independent Contractor Defense Read more…
This article is a companion piece this video In this episode of RG’s educational YouTube series on subrogation laws and litigation, On Subrogation: Made Whole Doctrine, subrogation attorney Jason Sullivan unpacks the Made Whole Doctrine: an ever-present, ever-changing piece of state Read more…
This article is a companion piece to the video below: In this episode of our educational series on subrogation law and procedure, On Subrogation: The Graves Amendment, Rathbone Group subrogation lawyer Jason Sullivan discusses how the Graves Amendment affects pursuit of recovery in Read more…
This article is a companion piece to the video below: In this special episode of our On Subrogation YouTube series, Subro LIVE! – Subrogation When Your Insured has Out of Pockets, Kim Rathbone discusses OOP expenses with attorney Susan Benson live during a National Association Read more…
This article is a companion piece to the video below: In this episode of RG’s subrogation education series, On Subrogation: Parental Liability, Rathbone Group subrogation attorney Kim Rathbone discusses how and in what ways parents can be held liable in subrogation claims Read more…
This article is a companion piece to the video below How do you hold an at-fault party accountable in a subrogation claim if that party is a cow? In this episode of our video series, On Subrogation, RG attorney Jason Read more…
This article is a companion piece to this video When it comes to insurance subrogation law and how best to resolve subrogation suits and claims, the devil is in the details. In the above YouTube episode of RG’s educational series Read more…
This article is a companion piece to this video In this episode of our video and podcast series, On Subrogation: Vicarious Liability – Respondeat Superior Doctrine, RG subrogation lawyer Kim Rathbone discusses vicarious liability in the context of subrogation claims. Vicarious Liability: Read more…
Is it possible to seek subrogation recovery from the federal government in cases of loss due to negligence or tortious behavior? The quick answer: yes! But the long answer is much more involved; successfully subrogating cases like these is not Read more…
RG subrogation attorney Jason Sullivan is now licensed to practice law in: Alabama Alaska Arkansas Colorado Florida Hawaii Indiana Iowa Kansas Maine Massachusetts Minnesota Missouri Montana North Carolina Nebraska New Hampshire Ohio Oregon South Carolina Utah Washington West Virginia Wyoming Jason Read more…
Jason Sullivan is one of forty insurance professionals from across the United States to win the Business Insurance 2020 Break Out Award. This award recognizes managers and executives for their outstanding leadership capabilities within the insurance industry. Sullivan specifically won this Read more…
Rathbone Group was named for the third straight year to the Northeast Ohio’s 150 Top Workplaces by Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. The prestigious award represents employee feedback in the areas of Alignment, Effectiveness, Connection, Management, Employee Engagement, Leadership, and Read more…
Steven Alsip was recently named to the 2020 Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Stars list for the second year in a row. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas. The Super Lawyer Rising Star Read more…
Rebecca Wright, a subrogation attorney at Rathbone Group, is now licensed to practice in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Rebecca has worked in subrogation law for over a decade. A talented litigator who’s passionate about educating companies on subrogation, Read more…
Rathbone Group is honored to be featured by the Center for Executive Excellence in its Business in Focus segment. This article, titled highlights Rathbone Group as a subrogation company that consistently exhibits leadership excellence, and explores our strong organizational culture Read more…
Rathbone Group was named the Subrogation Law Firm of the Year in the Global Awards 2018 by Finance Monthly. This prestigious award is given to legal professionals that have demonstrated innovation, delivered results, and provided expert advice for their clients. Read more…
Experienced subrogation lawyer and founding partner of Rathbone Group Kimberly Rathbone has earned the AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Martindale-Hubbell uses a peer review process to evaluate legal ability, communication ability and ethical standards, who are rated on three levels of Read more…
As a firm focused in insurance and subrogation law, Rathbone Group strives to stay ahead of the industry curve with cost-efficient, tech-savvy strategies, both for our subrogation clients and for our own internal use. Serving clients nationwide throughout all steps Read more…
Founding partner of Rathbone Group and has been selected as an honoree for the 2018 National Women in Law Awards. Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel magazines wanted to spotlight female leaders in law who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership and business Read more…
RG subrogation attorney Jessica Lobes was named to the 2018 Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional Read more…
Rathbone Group was named, once again, to the Northeast Ohio’s 150 Top Workplaces by Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. The prestigious award is a result of feedback in the areas of Alignment, Effectiveness, Connection, Management, Employee Engagement, Leadership and Benefits Read more…
The National Association of Subrogation Professionals published Ana Zgela’s article “Beyond the Courtroom – Maximum Recovery in Arbitration Forums Leads to $165,000 Property Damage Award” in their Summer 2018 issue of The Subrogator. Ana Zgela is the lead attorney of Rathbone Group’s arbitration Read more…
The National Association of Subrogation Professionals published Mark Demian’s article “Tricks, Tips, and Pitfalls to Recovering Underinsured Claims” in their Summer 2018 issue of Subrogator. This is Demian’s third piece featured in NASP’s subrogation education magazine. Recovering on underinsured cases is one of Read more…
Experienced subrogation lawyers Jason Sullivan and Rebecca Wright discuss the effect that social media is having on subrogation recovery and its potential impact on claims in AM Best’s podcast, “How Social Media is Changing Insurance Claims Subrogation.” Sullivan and Wright speak on the risks Read more…
Mark Demian, a founding Partner at RG and an experienced subrogation attorney, has earned a CSRP Designation as a result of passing the national examination, administered by NASP. “The Certified Subrogation Recovery Professional (CSRP)® Designation is the specialized designation for subrogation Read more…
Mark Demian, one of Rathbone Group’s founding partners, has been selected to present a seminar focused on Trucking Litigation in the 21st Century for the National Association of Subrogation Professionals at their Annual Conference. Mark’s presentation will focus on the Read more…
Subrogation attorneys Rebecca Wright and Adam Wilk have been selected to present a seminar entitled “Other People’s Torts: Third Party Liability in Subrogation Claims” for the National Association of Subrogation Professionals’ November 2018 Annual Conference. In auto collisions, liability is not limited to the Read more…
Subrogation attorney Rebecca Wright has been chosen to do a webinar on recovering non-performing judgments for the National Association of Subrogation Professionals. This webinar will focus on how to economically enhance your bottom line by tapping into the older judgments in your Read more…
Subrogation attorneys Steven Alsip and Rebecca Wright gave a presentation called “Negative Inference Cases: Your Invisible Smoking Gun” at the National Association of Subrogation Professionals 2018 Subrogation Litigation: Skills and Management Conference. This session discussed strategies for subrogation attorneys to carry the Read more…
Rathbone Group was named an Honoree at the 2018 Smart Culture Awards by Smart Business Magazine. The Smart Culture Awards recognize organizations that have developed a culture that bolsters productivity, enhances job satisfaction, and provides a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Rathbone Group Read more…
Subrogation and insurance dispute attorneys Rebecca Wright and Steven Alsip were selected to speak at the National Association of Subrogation Professionals 2018 Litigation: Skills and Management Conference. Their talk is entitled “Fire: Burning Down the House”, and examines strategies to carry the burden of Read more…
Two of our skilled subrogation lawyers, Rebecca Wright and Steven Alsip, were featured in the February 2018 National Association of Subrogation Professionals Newsletter regarding their upcoming talk, entitled “Negative Inference Cases: Your Invisible Smoking Gun” at the NASP 2018 Litigation: Skills and Management Read more…
The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal published Kimberly Rathbone and Ana Zgela’s article “Wait – You Haven’t Used Arbitration Forums Yet?” in their February 2018 issue. The article explores how the alternative dispute resolution system of Arbitration Forums can be utilized by non-members Read more…
Experienced subrogation attorneys Jason Sullivan and Rebecca Wright presented at the NASP Annual Conference in Austin, Texas on Underinsured Motorist Subrogation: Tackling the Combined Challenges of Insured and Uninsured Subrogation. This presentation included information about subrogation laws across different state jurisdictions on how best to Read more…
Jason Sullivan and Rebecca Wright have been selected to speak at the NASP Annual Conference in Austin, Texas this year. Attorneys focused in subrogation law, Sullivan and Wright often present to groups looking for education on subrogation. Their NASP presentation Read more…
Mark Demian, a skilled subrogation lawyer and one of the Founding Partners at Rathbone Group, has been named to the National Association of Subrogation Professionals Board of Directors. The NASP’s mission is to enhance the stature and effectiveness of subrogation Read more…
Rathbone Group won the NASP Facebook Picture Contest! Our team took this picture (below) as we celebrated Subrogation Professionals Day with a field trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Social engagement outside the office relieves stress and builds Read more…
Rathbone Group’s Managing Partner Kimberly Rathbone taught a continuing legal education class for the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association entitled “The Fortune Cookie: A Fresh Look at Subrogation in Ohio.” This CLE colloquium focused on many of the recent hot topics in Ohio Read more…
Rathbone Group was named one of Northeast Ohio’s 150 Top Workplaces by Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. The prestigious award represents employee feedback in the areas of Alignment, Effectiveness, Connection, Management, Employee Engagement, Leadership and Benefits. The employees of Rathbone Read more…
Subrogation lawyer Jessica Lobes is now licensed in Illinois and Texas. Jessica joined Rathbone Group in 2015, and has since negotiated numerous settlements for insurance clients that allowed them to get maximum recovery. Jessica has several years of focus on Read more…
Rathbone Group was featured in a recent FreshWater Cleveland article about an innovative company offering a new approach to human resources. ConnectedHR is a firm that combines the services of HR professionals with the flexibility of a temp agency and a la carte services. Read more…
Subrogation lawyers Jason Sullivan and Rebecca Wright presented on the cutting-edge topic of “Driverless Cars and Damages: Subrogation in a New Era”. The session focused on rapidly-developing car automation technology, its potential impact on driver safety, and how it will affect the subrogation industry. Read more…
The National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP) published subrogation attorney Mark Demian’s article, “Tales from the Kids Table: Overcoming Impediments When Asserting Subrogation” in their Fall 2016 issue of The Subrogator. The subrogation process is riddled with inherent challenges, one of which is Read more…
The National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP) published an article co-authored by subrogation attorney Matthew Fink titled “Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: When the Policyholder Recovers, but You Don’t!” in their Fall 2016 issue of The Subrogator. The article discussed three Read more…
Two of Rathbone Group’s subrogation attorneys, Jason Sullivan and Rebecca Wright, presented an automobile track session called “Common Fund: Uncommon Strategies to Account for This Doctrine”. The program focused on how to preserve and maximize subrogation recovery, even when lien reductions may be Read more…
Steven Alsip, an experienced subrogation attorney, is now licensed in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. In 2019 & 2020, Steven was put on the Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Stars list as recognition for his work in litigation. The intense selection process involves Read more…
Mark Demian presented on “Conveying Your Conclusions: Biomechanics and Accident Reconstruction” at the 2015 NASP Litigation: Skills & Management Conference. An experienced subrogation litigator, Demian often consults on the complications of injury and motor vehicle accident subrogation claims. His talk, “You Read more…
Jason Sullivan, a trial attorney specializing in subrogation claims, presented on the value of using social media in subrogation claims at a session called “Friend or Unfriend: Can Social Media Help or Hurt Your Case?” at the NASP Annual Conference Read more…