Serious injury representation from a lawyer who rides.
Bicycle crashes can turn on details that are easy to miss: road position, visibility, bike handling, equipment, traffic movements, and the mechanics of a collision. Attorney Joseph Ryan combines more than a decade of injury litigation and trial experience with a firsthand understanding of cycling.
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Cycling is part of Joe's life outside the courtroom.
Joe rides approximately 5,000 miles each year on road, gravel, and mountain bikes. He races in the Wisconsin Off Road Series (WORS), participates in local cycling groups, and volunteers as a mountain-bike coach in Shorewood.
His riding has included Unbound Gravel, the Marji Gesick, Riverwest 24, Shorewood 12, Scenic Shore 150, and the Dairy Roubaix.
That experience gives Joe a practical understanding of cycling—from bike handling and equipment to road conditions, visibility, braking, cornering, and interactions with motorists. When the facts of a crash are disputed, those details can matter.
Building the Bicycle Injury Case
Drivers and witnesses may disagree about what happened, and insurers may argue that the cyclist caused or contributed to the collision. These cases can require careful attention to roadway evidence, sight lines, bicycle and vehicle damage, witness testimony, electronic evidence, and crash mechanics.
Understanding the Injury
Joe's practice has involved spinal injuries and fusion surgery, traumatic brain injuries, and significant orthopedic injuries involving the knees, hips, shoulders, wrists, feet, and ankles. He has personally deposed nearly 100 treating orthopedic and neurological surgeons.
Prepared for Trial
Joe has tried approximately 30 cases to Wisconsin juries involving liability, medical causation, or both. Cross-examining physicians and other expert witnesses is a central part of his trial practice.
Joe knows how insurers evaluate injury claims.
Joe spent more than a decade defending personal-injury claims for insurance companies. He understands how insurers investigate liability, evaluate injuries, examine claimants, retain experts, and challenge damages.
That experience now informs his representation of injured cyclists: identify the issues early, develop the medical and factual evidence that matters, and prepare the case so it can withstand scrutiny.
Serious injuries require an understanding of the medicine.
Joe has deposed hundreds of injured plaintiffs and nearly 100 treating orthopedic and neurological surgeons. His work routinely involves diagnosis, treatment, medical causation, prognosis, and whether an accident caused or aggravated a particular condition.
He focuses on identifying weaknesses in expert opinions, testing their foundations, and making complicated medical evidence understandable to a jury.
Representing seriously injured cyclists in southeastern Wisconsin.
If you have been seriously injured while riding, Ryan Law Firm can evaluate the collision, the available insurance coverage, the medical issues involved, and the evidence necessary to pursue the claim.
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