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For the fourth consecutive year, Attorney Matthew T. Hurm, Esq. has been named a Rising Star by Super Lawyer magazine. The Rising Star designation is particularly meaningful because it involves a multi-phase nomination including both peer evaluations and independent research, and no more than 2.5% of lawyers in Ohio receive this honor. 

First responders are often the first people you see when you suffered a car accident or have a medical emergency. They provide professional help when you need it most. Frequently, as a result of their jobs, first responders are exposed to violent and disturbing images and events. This can cause psychological damage which we are […]

I have spent my whole career fighting for working people, but my creation of a law firm built entirely around that premise was always a dream. That dream became a reality one year ago when the Hurm Law Firm, LLC was launched. We have had our share of bumps along the way, but the Hurm […]

According to a study published in The American Journal of Medicine, two years after a cancer diagnosis, 42.4 percent of patients depleted their entire life’s savings. To help Ohio firefighters avoid such a tragedy, Ohio passed the Palumbo Act in 2017. Unfortunately, according to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, only 26 of the 124 claims […]

One of the biggest reasons employers in Northeast Ohio have been successfully avoiding their workers’ compensation obligations for years is that they never inform their employee of their rights under the law. To counteract this disturbing trend, the Hurm Law Firm offers free minute workers’ compensation trainings to unions and their membership. The Hurm Law […]

If you have kids, you know that you should not leave money on the table – it tends to disappear. If you are an Injured Worker and accept wage continuation without filing a Workers’ Compensation claim, you are potentially leaving money on the table. Wage Continuation offered by an Employer to an Injured Worker can […]

Workers across the country are winning major victories by defeating “no-poach” clauses. While corporations frequently broadcast their love of the free market economy when fighting against minimum wage laws, many of those same corporations undercut the free market by entering into what are called “no-poach” agreements with their competitors. A “no-poach” clause is an agreement […]

The United States Supreme Court altered over forty years of precedent in its decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31. Prior to this travesty, the Supreme Court’s decision in Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Ed., 431 U. S. 209 (1977) was the law of the land. Under Abood, employees had a right to deny its union the power to […]

The United States Supreme Court approved Ohio’s voter purge plan making it more likely that eligible voters will be denied access to the polls.  In Husted v. A. Phillip Randolph Institute, the Supreme Court approved Republican Ohio Secretary of State Husted’s plan to remove registered voters from the voter rolls. According to the approved plan, if a voter […]

The Supreme Court just decided a case which could have a massive impact on workers across the country. In Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, the Supreme Court found that employees can waive their right to litigate their discrimination or wage theft cases in federal court by signing an arbitration agreement with their employer. In the past, […]