LONGSHOREMEN & MARITIME

The firm of Kenneth J. Allen & Associates approaches work injury cases with one fundamental understanding. No employee should ever be faced with the decision, “Should I do the job as asked, in a way that is not safe, or should I go home, risking my paycheck if not my job?” Yet each day across the United States, we know this is exactly the false choice employees are given.

Kenneth Allen was born in Gary, Indiana, a few miles from a steel mill. Everyone he knew worked there or had a loved one who did. He worked in the mills during his summers off from school and to this day remains a 25-year member of the Carpenter’s Union. He’s a former union teamster and railroad track laborer. He recalls it being “hot nasty work.” That memory fuels him and his team each day when they sit down in their comfortable air-conditioned office to fight for working people. It makes it easy to come in early and stay late.

In addition to medical and engineering experts, the firm also employs former OSHA inspectors to help build such cases. They are familiar with the minutia of industry standards and regulations.