Jerry R. Newman has extensive experience in civil litigation with specialty areas of workers’ compensation defense and subrogation matters.  He was the leader in subrogation recoveries nationally throughout his career in the Staff Counsel system.  Jerry’s also defends employers with matters involving employment discrimination, civil rights and wrongful termination. 

Jerry was a Senior Trial Attorney in the Texas and Michigan Staff Counsel Offices of a major national insurance company prior to joining the Detroit office of Kopka, Pinkus Dolin & Eads.  While practicing in Houston, Mr. Newman was involved with a case which ended the sexual discrimination for membership in the Cadet Corps at Texas A & M University.  He was also involved in the case of Abrams v Baylor College of Medicine which dealt with religious discrimination in rotation assignments of doctors.

Jerry has conducted seminars for legal and claim professionals on workers’ compensation investigations as well as subrogation procedures and investigations.  He is a member of the Michigan Self-Insurer’s Association, the Workers’ Compensation Committee of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) and the Negligence Law and Workers’ Compensation Sections of the State Bar of Michigan.  

He is admitted to the practice of law in Michigan and Texas as well as in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.  He received his J.D. Degree from South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas and his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.