Michael Hickey

Michael J. Hickey is listed by Garvin & Hickey, LLC as a workers’ compensation attorney in Columbus, Ohio, and helped establish the firm with Preston Garvin in 1997. The firm’s stated practice is representing employers in workers’ compensation matters.

Before representing employers in private practice, Hickey represented Ohio’s Industrial Commission and Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. He began that work as an assistant attorney general in the Ohio Attorney General’s Workers’ Compensation Section, handling litigation in trial and appellate courts, including the Ohio Supreme Court. Four years later, he was appointed section chief. The position put twenty-four trial attorneys under his supervision; he was also chief outside legal counsel to both agencies. His next firm was Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, where his workers’ compensation practice was exclusively on behalf of employers.

In 1996, the Ohio State Bar Association appointed Hickey to the Workers’ Compensation Law Specialty Board, with confirmation by the Ohio Supreme Court. The board’s assignment was to develop and administer the examination for attorneys seeking certification as workers’ compensation specialists.

The firm’s biography also describes Hickey’s work defending intentional tort actions. Workers’ compensation and intentional tort were subjects of his lectures, with speaking engagements for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Ohio Self-Insurers Association and Central Ohio Self-Insurers Association among those identified in the biography. Garvin & Hickey lists its Columbus office at 181 East Livingston Avenue.