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Kaufman, Payton & Chapa - Grand Rapids, MI

161 Ottawa Avenue NWSuite 205-C Grand Rapids, MI 49503

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Updated: 09/02/2018

Grand Rapids Personal Injury Law Firm

Overview

Since its founding in 1975, Kaufman, Payton & Chapa has earned a reputation as one of Michigan's most successful law firms with special experience and capabilities in the areas of insurance law, product liability, medical malpractice, professional liability, liquor liability, excess and reinsurance law, municipal, international insurance, life, health and accident law, environmental impairment, commercial, and property law...

About Kaufman, Payton & Chapa

Previous Law Firm Name

  • Kaufman and Payton

Practice Areas

  • Personal Injury
  • Car Accidents
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
  • Social Security -- Disability
  • Construction Accidents
  • Brain Injury
  • Dog Bites
  • Wrongful Death
  • Liquor Liability
  • Slip and Fall
  • Boating Accidents
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Antitrust & Trade Regulation
  • Automobile
  • Aviation
  • Bad Faith Insurance
  • Business & Commercial Law
  • Business Organizations
  • Business Planning
  • Catastrophic Losses
  • Commercial Law
  • Computer
  • Construction Law
  • Contracts
  • Corporate
  • Directors and Officers Liability
  • Eminent Domain
  • Employment Law -- Employer
  • Employment Practices Law
  • Environmental
  • Estate Planning
  • Excess Insurance
  • Fire and Arson
  • Health & Health Care Law
  • Insurance Defense
  • Insurance Law
  • Insurance Law and Coverage
  • International Law
  • Labor Law
  • Land Use & Zoning
  • Legal Malpractice
  • Life, Health and Accident
  • Litigation & Appeals
  • Litigation Audits
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Municipal Liability
  • Natural Resources Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Personal Injury -- Defense
  • Pharmaceutical Liability
  • Premises Liability
  • Product Liability
  • Professional Liability
  • Professional Malpractice Law
  • Property
  • Public Officials Liability
  • Railroad Worker Injury/FELA
  • Real Estate
  • Reinsurance
  • Science & Technology Law
  • Taxation
  • Toxic Tort
  • Transportation Law
  • Workers' Compensation Law

Published Works

  • Insuring Real Property and Related Risks, Homeward Bound Seminars Real Property Law Section, State Bar of Michigan, January, 1991
  • Apportionment of Defense Costs and Indemnity Payouts Between Covered and Noncovered Claims Coverage Disputes in Catastrophic Eventss, American Bar Association National Institute, March, 1991
  • Liquor Liability Law, Matthew Bender, 1987

Fees

Offers Free Initial Consultation

Office Information

Address

161 Ottawa Avenue NWSuite 205-C Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Fax

  • 248-626-2843

Other Offices

Kaufman, Payton & Chapa (Main Office) 200 Kaufman Financial Center 30833 Northwestern Highway Farmington Hills, MI 48334 (248) 626-5000

Kaufman, Payton & Chapa 40 1/2 East Ferry Street Detroit, MI 48202 248-626-5000

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