Since 1977, attorney Rubin Guttman has devoted his legal practice to helping injured people throughout northeast Ohio seek justice. Focusing on this mission for more than 30 years, his experience in personal injury, medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, wrongful death, traumatic brain injury and Social Security Disability law is broad and deep.

Aggressive, Passionate and Effective Advocates

We work aggressively to get you the settlement or verdict you deserve, and are known throughout the legal community as personal injury lawyers who passionately represent our clients. Attorney Rubin Guttman has earned an AV-rating* through Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Round table, an exclusive group of attorneys who have successfully obtained verdicts in excess of one million dollars for their clients.

He has regularly authored articles and appeared on television and radio shows to discuss personal injury, nursing home abuse and neglect and medical malpractice in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. For several years he was the featured legal affairs and personal injury attorney on TV-3's Golden Opportunities with Armond Budish. A number of his cases have been featured in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio Lawyer's Weekly, and other publications. He has been included in the Super Lawyers listing of Law & Politics magazine as one of the top 5% of Ohio lawyers in his practice area.

Contact Rubin Guttman & Associates, L.P.A. today if you need legal assistance with any of the following:

• Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
  • Bed sores and nursing home inattention
  • Nursing home falls and other preventable injuries
• Medical Malpractice
  • Delayed diagnosis of cancer and other serious medical conditions
  • Misdiagnosis
• Motor Vehicle Accidents
  • Serious car accidents
  • Bicycle accidents
• Catastrophic Injury and Wrongful Death
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Delayed Diagnosis of Cancer or Other Serious Medical Conditions
• Defective Products/Products Liability
• Pharmaceutical
• Spinal Injuries

Rubin Guttman is partnered with his longtime colleague, attorney Ann Stockmaster. Their staff includes of a nurse medical consultant, two legal assistants, and two Social Security Disability Case Managers. We work with life care planners, vocational rehabilitation specialists and economists to ensure that when your loved one is catastrophically injured or has died, your loved ones and you will be compensated. We have a physician on retainer and access to a network of consulting physicians in a variety of specialties.

Everyone at our firm is committed to achieving positive results while providing caring, responsive and attentive support through the difficult time following an injury or the wrongful death of a loved one.

Pursuit of Full and Fair Compensation

Whether a surgery has caused undiagnosed internal bleeding or an untreated infection that has resulted in the death of a loved one, or an elderly parent has suffered an injury due to negligent nursing home care, or a bicyclist has been struck by a car and suffered catastrophic injuries, we are here to help pursue full and fair compensation for:

• Medical expenses, including costs of future care (life care plan)
• Lost earnings, including future lost earnings
• Damages for lost quality of life (hedonic damages)
• Pain and suffering damages
• Loss of companionship and support of a loved one (loss of consortium)

We will arrange a convenient time and place to meet with you to discuss your case and talk about your legal options. Our lawyers handle nursing home neglect, personal injury, medical errors and wrongful death cases on a contingency fee basis. This means that you pay no attorney's fee unless we are able to recover damages for you. Russian, Hebrew and Spanish language services are available.

If you or a loved one needs the help of an experienced Cleveland, Ohio Personal Injury Attorney, call Rubin Guttman & Associates, L.P.A. today at 866-928-2081, or complete the contact form provided on this site to arrange your free initial consultation.

Professional Profile

If you or a loved one needs the help of an experienced Cleveland, Ohio Personal Injury Attorney, call Rubin Guttman & Associates, L.P.A. today at 866-928-2081, or complete the contact form provided on this site to arrange your free initial consultation.

ADDRESS OF THE FIRM:
Rubin Guttman & Associates, L.P.A.
55 Public Square, Suite 1860
Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: 866-928-2081
Hours: M-F, 8:00AM-5:00PM

Attorney Rubin Guttman

Rubin Guttman is the principal in Rubin Guttman & Associates, L.P.A. Mr. Guttman has been practicing law in Cleveland, Ohio, for over 32 years. He graduated from Cleveland State University School of Law in 1977, where he was both a member of Law Review and a teaching assistant.

Rubin Guttman is a Cleveland, Ohio trial lawyer whose practice focuses on social security disability (SSD & SSI), personal injury, with a particular emphasis upon serious injury, medical malpractice, traumatic brain injury, nursing home neglect and wrongful death.

Rubin Guttman has also been involved leadership roles in many charitable endeavors, and sits on the Board of seven charitable organizations in the Cleveland area. Mr. Guttman is a frequent public speaker who has appeared on the Merle Pollis and other radio shows. He has also done radio interviews with Gerald Posner and other authors and political personalities.

Mr. Guttman has regularly appeared on WKYC TV-3, discussing Ohio nursing home neglect, medical malpractice and personal injury law from the consumer's point of view.

Mr. Guttman has authored numerous articles and has been the subject of several articles in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He appeared as a speaker on Ohio medical malpractice before a seminar sponsored by the National Business Institute and has been featured at a seminar focusing on nursing home neglect litigation. In 1999, Mr. Guttman was nominated to be a lifetime member in the "Who's Who In America."

Since 2000, Mr. Guttman has been a member of the "Million Dollar Advocates Forum," an exclusive group of attorneys who have obtained jury verdicts in excess of One Million Dollars.

We're very proud that Rubin Guttman has been nominated an Ohio Super Lawyer each year since 2007 by a poll of Ohio lawyers and Law and Politics, recognizing him as among the top 5% of Ohio lawyers in his field.

Mr. Guttman is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, American Association for Justice, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers and the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR). He is married and resides with his wife, Eileen, and three children in Beachwood, Ohio.

Bar Admissions

• Ohio, 1977
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1977
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1980
• Supreme Court of the United States of America, 1993

Education

• Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Juris Doctorate - 1977
  • Honors: Teaching Assistant
  • Law Review: Cleveland State University Law Review, Member
• Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York
  • B.A., Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude) - 1974

Honors and Awards

• Lifetime Member, Who's Who In America
• Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• Ohio Super Lawyer, 2007 - Present

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Ohio State Bar Association, Member
• Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, Member
• National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR)

Attorney Ann M. Stockmaster

Ann M. Stockmaster is a graduate of Cleveland State University, having obtained her Juris Doctor degree cum laude in 1996, where she was both an editor of the Law Review and vice chairman of the Moot Court. She also received the Spangenberg Award for pretrial advocacy. Ms. Stockmaster is an accomplished trial lawyer who has been practicing with Rubin Guttman & Associates, L.P.A. since her graduation from law school. She became a shareholder in the firm in 2003. Ms. Stockmaster is an active member of her community, having served as President of her condominium association.

Ms. Stockmaster is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, Cleveland Bar Association, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR).

Bar Admissions

• Ohio, 1996

Education

• Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Juris Doctorate (Cum Laude) - 1996
  • Honors: Vice Chairman, Moot Court
  • Law Review: Cleveland State University Law Review, Editor

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Ohio State Bar Association, Member
• Cleveland Bar Association, Member
• Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, Member
• National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR)

Recent Awards and Settlements

On behalf of our Ohio injury clients, Rubin Guttman & Associates has:

• Won a mediation award of almost $3,000,000.00 in a wrongful death case on behalf of the family of a 42 year old mother of three.
• Won 2.85 million dollars for the family of a woman whose death was caused by medical negligence.
• Won almost $1,000,000.00 on behalf of a business executive who was seriously injured in an automobile collision.
• Won over $500,000.00 for the wrongful death of a 71 year old COPD patient whose cancer was not timely diagnosed.
• Recovered $825,000.00 for a young woman who sustained multiple fractures in a serious automobile collision.
• Obtained a policy limits settlement for a woman who sustained damaged hearing as a result of a motor vehicle accident.
• Recovered insurance policy limits for a seriously ill man who suffered a serious ankle injury in slip & fall accident.
• Recovered six figure insurance policy limits for a woman whose hearing was impaired as a result of an automobile collision.
• Won almost 1 million dollars for a young mother badly injured in an automobile accident in which her SUV rolled after being struck by another vehicle.
• Negotiated numerous settlements on behalf of other injured clients.
• Won a structured settlement with payments exceeding $11 million over the lifetime of a fourteen year old girl who suffered head and facial injuries in a motor vehicle accident.
• Girl Hurt in Crash Settles with Dad for $1.65 million.
• Couple wins $1 million in malpractice lawsuit. Israeli couple gets nearly $1 million in malpractice suit.
• Insurers pay in unexpected places.
• Won $1 million for the family of a nineteen year old student killed by a drunk driver.
• Obtained a one million dollar verdict against the Cleveland Clinic Foundation for an Israeli patient whose liver was lacerated during mitral valve repair surgery.
• Obtained an $825,000 settlement for the wrongful death of a woman who died as a result of her doctor's failure to timely diagnose and treat a pulmonary embolism. This case had been declined by one of the most prominent law firms in Cleveland, but we felt that a wrong had been done and pursued the case to a successful conclusion.
• Obtained a policy limit settlement against a surgical group whose failure to timely treat necrotizing fasciitis (the flesh eating bug) resulted in the loss of a leg.
• Obtained a mid six figure recovery for a client involved in a minimal impact ($348 in property damage) accident which resulted in three herniated disks.
• Obtained a $750,000 settlement on behalf of three adult children for the wrongful death of their 72 year old widowed father, a heart surgery patient who bled to death in the cardiac intensive care unit after surgery.
• Won a substantial jury verdict for a woman whose knee condition was aggravated in a minor car accident.
• Won a six figure result in mid jury trial for a man whose wrist x-ray had been misread by both the emergency room physician and radiologist.