Joel Zimmerman

Attorney at Becker Law Office
Louisville, KY9 years experienceAdmitted 2016

About Joel Zimmerman

Joel E. Zimmerman is a Personal Injury Attorney at Becker Law Office in Louisville, Kentucky. His practice areas include nursing home litigation, elder law, medical malpractice, automobile negligence, and complex litigation.

Zimmerman earned his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 2016 and his Bachelor of Arts (double major in History and Religion) from Miami University in 2005. He is admitted to practice in Kentucky.

A Louisville native and Ballard High School graduate, Zimmerman previously had a successful career in politics and government affairs, working closely with Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson. He also served as Director of Government Affairs and Marketing for a healthcare employer providing daycare services to medically fragile children.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Becker Law Office

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After a neurosurgeon slipped on a wet hospital pantry floor and developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy that ended his surgical career, an Evansville jury found St. Mary's Medical Center fully at fault and awarded $16.95 million, a verdict the Indiana Court of Appeals later affirmed.

Vanderburgh Superior Court, Evansville, Indiana · 2001Slip & FallRead the full story →
$5.8 millionVerdict

A retired Connecticut school principal who developed invasive breast cancer while taking Wyeth's hormone drug Prempro won a $5.8 million failure-to-warn verdict that the trial judge refused to cut.

U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut · 2012Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Miami University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kentucky, admitted 2016

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$10 Million Verdict for Family of Christopher Short, Killed by Fatigued Marvin Keller Trucking Driver on I-64

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.