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Practice Areas

My practice is limited to:

Serious Injuries/Wrongful Death resulting from:

Serving the following counties in Ohio:

Adams County · Allen County · Ashland County · Ashtabula County · Athens County · Auglaize County · Belmont County Brown County Butler County Carroll County Champaign County Clark County Clermont County Clinton County Columbiana County Coshocton County Crawford County Cuyahoga County Darke County Defiance County Delaware County Erie County Fairfield County Fayette County Franklin County Fulton County Gallia County Geauga County Greene County Guernsey County Hamilton County Hancock County Hardin County Harrison County Henry County Highland County Hocking County Holmes County Huron County Jackson County Jefferson County Knox County Lake County Lawrence County Licking County Logan County Lorain County Lucas County Madison County Mahoning County Marion County Medina County Meigs County Mercer County Miami County Monroe County Montgomery County Morgan County Morrow County Muskingum County Noble County Ottawa County Paulding County Perry County Pickaway County Pike County Portage County Preble County Putnam County Richland County Ross County Sandusky County Scioto County Seneca County Shelby County Stark County Summit County Trumbull County Tuscarawas County Union County Van Wert County Vinton County Warren County Washington County Wayne County Williams County Wood County Wyandot County

Serving the following cities in Ohio:

Akron Alliance Amherst Ashland Ashtabula Athens Aurora Austintown Avon Avon Lake Barberton Bay Village Beachwood Beavercreek Beckett Ridge Bedford Bedford Heights Bellbrook Bellefontaine Bellevue Belpre Berea Bexley Blacklick Estates Blue Ash Boardman Bowling Green Brecksville Bridgetown North Broadview Heights Brook Park Brooklyn Brunswick Bryan Bucyrus Cambridge Campbell Canfield Canton Celina Centerville Cheviot Chillicothe Cincinnati Circleville Clayton Cleveland Cleveland Heights Clyde Columbus Conneaut Cortland Coshocton Covedale Cuyahoga Falls Dayton Defiance Delaware Delphos Dent Dover Dry Run Dublin East Cleveland East Liverpool Eastlake Eaton Elyria Englewood Euclid Fairborn Fairfield Fairlawn Fairview Park Findlay Finneytown Forest Park Forestville Fostoria Franklin Fremont Gahanna Galion Garfield Heights Geneva Girard Grandview Heights Green Greenville Groesbeck Grove City Hamilton Harrison Heath Highland Heights Hilliard Hillsboro Howland Center Hubbard Huber Heights Hudson Huron Independence Ironton Jackson Kent Kenton Kenwood Kettering Kirtland Lakewood Lancaster Landen Lebanon Lima Lincoln Village Logan London Lorain Louisville Loveland Lyndhurst Macedonia Madeira Mansfield Maple Heights Marietta Marion Martins Ferry Marysville Mason Massillon Maumee Mayfield Heights Medina Mentor Mentor-on-the-Lake Miamisburg Middleburg Heights Middletown Milford Monroe Montgomery Moraine Mount Healthy Mount Vernon Napoleon New Philadelphia Newark Niles North Canton North College Hill North Madison North Olmsted North Ridgeville North Royalton Northbrook Northgate Northridge Norton Norwalk Norwood Oakwood Oberlin Olmsted Falls Oregon Orrville Oxford Painesville Parma Parma Heights Pataskala Pepper Pike Perry Heights Perrysburg Pickerington Piqua Port Clinton Portage Lakes Portsmouth Powell Ravenna Reading Reynoldsburg Richmond Heights Rittman Riverside Rocky River Rossford Salem Sandusky Sandusky South Seven Hills Shaker Heights Sharonville Sheffield Lake Shelby Shiloh Sidney Solon South Euclid Springboro Springdale Springfield St. Marys Steubenville Stow Streetsboro Strongsville Struthers Sylvania Tallmadge Tiffin Tipp City Toledo Trenton Trotwood Troy Twinsburg University Heights Upper Arlington Upper Sandusky Urbana Van Wert Vandalia Vermilion Wadsworth Wapakoneta Warren Warrensville Heights Washington Wauseon Wellston West Carrollton City Westerville Westlake Wheelersburg White Oak Whitehall Wickliffe Willard Willoughby Willoughby Hills Willowick Wilmington Woodbourne-Hyde Park Wooster Worthington Wright-Patterson AFB Wyoming Xenia Youngstown Zanesville

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Fast Fair Results

Fast

The Problem.  The legal system is anything but fast; the system is simply not equipped to handle the number of cases filed.  When a personal injury or medical malpractice case is filed, the trial date is likely one to two years down the road, sometimes longer.  If you consider the possibility of appeal, cases can drag out for many years.

The Solution.  An experienced trial attorney using cutting edge technology can quickly evaluate your case by meeting with you, getting the needed information (medical records, medical bills, lost income verification, etc.), and communicating effectively with the insurance companies involved.  When both the injured person and the insurance company are acting reasonably, most cases can be settled fairly quickly.  When either party is unreasonable, the case goes into the SLOW bin (the court system).

Alternative Dispute Resolution.  Arbitration and mediation are two under-utilized methods of getting cases resolved without the delay of the court system.  Arbitration is a forum whereby the case is submitted (i.e. tried) to usually three arbitrators, who actually decide the case (i.e. determine who was at fault, and award reasonable compensation for the losses suffered).  Arbitrations can be either binding or non-binding.  Mediation is a process whereby the parties meet with a neutral mediator, and try to settle the case.

Many of our cases are resolved using these alternative dispute resolution methods, and we often encourage our clients to try these techniques to get their case resolved quickly and fairly, particularly when our client needs to have a fast resolution of their case. Alternative dispute resolution offers our clients a faster, less expensive means of getting their case resolved.  Make no mistake, we are ready, willing, and able to take your case into the court system and present your case to a jury, if that is in your best interests.

Fair

The Problem.  It’s like the old David vs. Goliath story.  Our judicial system is adversarial, meaning it pits one party against another (plaintiff vs. defendant; accident victim vs. insurance company; patient vs. physician; etc.).  Most of our cases are against insurance companies and those they insure. The plaintiff (victim) is often against a multi-billion dollar insurance company with unlimited financial resources.  The plaintiff, on the other hand, normally has few if any resources to fight a huge insurance company when the insurance company does not treat them fairly.

The Solution.  At The Donahey Law Firm, we have the skills and resources to take on the insurance companies.  We have been doing it for many years, and we do it every day.

I personally have represented all sides (plaintiffs, defendants, injured parties, insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, employers, employees, etc.) in virtually every context (motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice cases, product liability cases, work-related injuries, etc.), and this gives me a broad perspective that many attorneys do not have.  It is very advantageous to know your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses.  Having worked both sides, I have that advantage.

Results

Please see, Verdicts & Settlements

Jeff Beausay

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Verdicts & Settlements

Saturn, as seen by the cassini spacecraft

Below is a small sampling of some of the recent verdicts and settlements we have obtained for our clients.

$525,000 Medical malpractice; wrongful death; delayed diagnosis of prostate cancer

$1.25 Million Medical negligence; wrongful death; negligent anesthesia care during routine knee operation.

$1.5 Million Work-related injury; severe burns; failure to maintain safe workplace.  OSHA violations.

$650,000 Motor vehicle accident; truck-automobile collision; multiple injuries.

$400,000 Medical malpractice; delayed diagnosis of uterine cancer.

$400,000 Medical malpractice; wrongful death; failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism.  Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT).

$750,000 Medical malpractice; brain injury; failure to diagnose subarachnoid hemorrhage.  Severe Headache.  “Worst headache of my life.”

$1.25 Million Medical malpractice; loss of limb; failure to diagnose arterial occlusion.  Blue toe syndrome.

$100,000 (Policy Limit) Auto Accident; broken leg.

$100,000 (Policy Limit) Car Crash; fractured vertebra.

$100,000 (Policy Limit) Car Accident; multiple injuries.

$1.2 Million Medical Malpractice; birth injury; cerebral palsy; anoxic brain injury caused by failure to respond to fetal distress shown on electronic fetal monitoring (EFM). Non-reassuring fetal status; periventricular leukomalacia. 

$1 Million (Policy Limit) Medical Malpractice:  Negligent anesthesia service; paralysis after epidural steroid injection.

$1.1 Million Medical Negligence; wrongful death:  Failure to diagnose bacterial meningitis in 5 year old.

$800,000 Medical Negligence; stroke; patient underwent procedure to correct atrial fibrillation; patient was taken off Coumadin to undergo the procedure.  The procedure failed (i.e., patient went back into a-fib after 24 hours), so the patient had to be put back on his Coumadin.  Instead of giving the patient his customary 5 mg dose, the physician prescribed .5 mg (1/10 the baseline dose).  The patient had a massive stroke before his family recognized the medication error.  The patient survived but was severely disabled by the stroke.

$2.25 Million:  Medical Negligence; birth injury; mismanagement of Hypertension in Pregnancy; improper use of Atenolol in pregnancy; periventricular leukomalacia; cerebral palsy; pregnant patient with mild hypertension was prescribed Atenolol (a beta blocker), which is not recommended for use in pregnancy.  Mother took Atenolol throughout pregnancy.  Atenolol causes placental disruption, which occurred in this case.  Obstetricians also did very little fetal evaluation in the critical third trimester.  Child has cerebral palsy, spastic diplegia (the specific brain injury is periventricular leukomalacia).

$350,000.  Wrongful death from Prostate Cancer.  Patient was not screened for prostate cancer, resulting in delayed diagnosis of prostate cancer, which had metastasized.

$1.2 Million: Medical Malpractice; delayed diagnosis of Glaucoma causing blindness; optometry malpractice/negligence.

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About Me

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T. Jeffrey Beausay

Born:  Toledo, Ohio, 1962

Education:

High School:  Perrysburg High School (1976-1980)

Undergraduate:  The Ohio State University (BA 1984)

Law:  University of Toledo, College of Law (JD 1987)

Experience:

2001-Present:  The Donahey Law Firm (Columbus, Ohio)

2000-2001:  Roetzel & Andress (Columbus, Ohio)

1996-2000:  Reminger & Reminger (Columbus, Ohio)

1990-1996:  Lane Alton & Horst (Columbus, Ohio)

1988-1990:  Schottenstein Zox & Dunn (Columbus, Ohio)

1987-1988:  Robison Curphey & O’Connell (Toledo, Ohio)

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My Philosophy

I know, this has nothing to do with civil litigation, but I enjoy astronomy, and it’s a good “universal” message. 

The astronomer Carl Sagan gave the following remarks at a university commencement speech.  It’s a good read, especially for those who are prone to self-importance. 

Reflections on a Mote of Dust

– Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Pale Blue Dot

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space, over 4 billion miles away] and, if you look at it, you see a dot (encircled). That’s here.  That’s home.  That’s us.  On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.  The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.  Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.  Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot.  How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.  Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.  In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.  It is up to us.  It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience.  To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.  To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

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