WORK INJURY TURNS INTO PASSION FOR LOCAL ATTORNEY
WILMINGTON - Prominent worker's compensation attorney, and former Salesianum Graduate, Michael Freebery knows all too well the ins and outs of the Industrial Accident Board's system. In the early eighties, Michael was working as a local police officer when he was injured while arresting a suspect. He was left with a permanent, long term injury to
his lower back, eventually forcing his retirement from the department. Shortly after, he found himself the claimant in a worker's compensation case. Three years later, this injured officer graduated from law school and was elected President of his law class. After passing the Delaware and Pennsylvania Bars, one of his first jobs was for the Delaware Attorney General's Office working in the Criminal Unit. "Naturally coming from a law enforcement background, I loved he AG's office," Michael states, "but I felt like something was missing." As a result, he left to join one of the largest workers' compensation defense firms in Wilmington. "I was trained by the best and the brightest in the field of insurance defense, but still a void remained." Only recently has Michael discovered the remedy to fix this void. Michael was able to take 20 years of representing both employers and employees in front of the Industrial Accident Board and create the Delaware Workers' Compensation Legal Center of the Law Office of Michael P. Freebery, PA* Michael knows what happens when you're injured at work. "I can sympathize with injured workers-I was one of them." Since its inception, The Delaware Workers' Compensation Legal Center of the Law Office of Michael P. has devoted most of its time to representing the injured employee. "Most people don't even know what their rights are when it comes to a work injury. They believe the employer will take care of them, but when it comes right down to it, it's the big insurance companies who decide the claim. An experienced work comp attorney can determine if the injured worker is entitled to compensation for total or partial disability, permanent impairment, scars and disfigurement, medical expenses, mileage, and commutation." Michael considers his past experience as a claimant the fuel for his present career as a Claimant's attorney. "Representing injured workers is very personal to me. I know all too well the pain of the injury itself, not to mention the hassle that often ensues financially." His firm offers free, no obligation consultations in his convenient Hockessin Office. In addition to Workers' compensation, the firm also handles Personal Injury and Criminal Matters.
