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Matthew M. Golitko

Matthew M. Golitko

Location:
Carmel, Indiana
Phone:
317-566-9600
Fax:
317-566-9606

Matt Golitko was born in July of 1975 in Kokomo, Indiana. He graduated from Maconaquah High School in Miami County in 1993. He played Basketball and Baseball in the Patriot League for Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Mr. Golitko graduated from Lafayette College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Business, and a Minor in Music in 1997.

Mr. Golitko graduated from Nova Southeastern Law School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 2000 and passed the Indiana Bar Exam and began his practice after being admitted to the Indiana Bar that same year. 

Matthew focuses his practice in the areas of Worker's Compensation, Employment Law (more specifically wrongful and retaliatory discharges), Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Claims, and Medical Malpractice.

He is currently Chairman of the Workers Compensation Section of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association and sits on the Board of Directors with several of Indiana's top rated trial lawyers. 

Matthew has handled a wide variety of injury cases throughout his career.  He has handled complicated workers compensation issues involving medicare set asides, social security disability off sets, and several lien issues involving medicare, medicaid, and a variety of other issues that arise in the world of workers compensation.  He helps injured workers recover lost wages, medical cost and treatment, and permanent impairments and disabilities that result from serious work accidents.

He has taken on insurance companies and hospitals and nursing homes in medical malpractice claims involving accidental overdoses, sub-standard care cases, nursing home neglect and falls, many resulting in loss of life and limbs. 

Mr. Golitko has represented hundreds of clients in a variety of automobile, motorcycle, trucking, and many other car accident injury cases and wrongful death cases and helped them to receive the compensation they deserved.

Matt is poised and ready to take your case and bring his focused practice and experience to benefit how your case gets resolved, whether by settlement, court, or by jury.

He is licensed to practice in the State of Indiana and handles cases before the Indiana State and Federal Courts and the Indiana Worker's Compensation Board. He is a sustaining member of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice, Indiana State Bar Association, Indianapolis Bar Association, Howard County Bar Association, Miami County Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice - Worker's Compensation and Workplace Injury Section.

Bar Admissions

  • Indiana, 2000
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana

Education

  • Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
    • JD - May, 2000
  • Lafayette College, Easton, PA
    • Bachelor of Arts - May, 1997
    • Major: Economics and Business
    • Minor: Music

Classes/Seminars

  • Rules to Live by when you have a Personal Injury Case that Involves Worker's Compensation Claim AKA: The 3rd Party Case!, INDIANA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, November 2007

Honors and Awards

  • Board of Directors, Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, May 1, 2010 - Present
  • Chairman, Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, Workers Compensation Section, May 1, 2010 - Present

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, Workers Compensation Section, Chairman
  • Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, Sustaining Member
  • American Association for Justice, Member
  • American Association for Justice, Worker's Compensation and Workplace Injury Sections, Member
  • Indiana State Bar Association, Member
  • Indianapolis Bar Association, Member
  • Howard County Bar Association, Member and Past President
  • Miami County Bar Association, Member
Office Locations

Carmel Office
716 Adams Street
Suite A
Carmel, IN 46032
Phone: 317-566-9600
Fax: 317-566-9606

Kokomo Office
317 West Alto Road
Kokomo, IN 46902
Phone: 765-865-9300
Fax: 765-865-9305

Indianapolis Office
201 North Illinois Street
16th Floor - South Tower
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone: 317-566-9600
Fax: 765-865-9305