R. Michael Shickich
About R. Michael Shickich
R. Michael Shickich is the founding attorney of the Injury Law Firm in Casper, Wyoming, with more than 30 years of experience in civil litigation. He spent eight years in insurance defense before switching to plaintiff's personal injury work, giving him direct knowledge of how the insurance system operates from both sides. Licensed in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico state and federal trial courts, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals, Shickich handles serious injury and wrongful death cases throughout the Rocky Mountain region. He holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating, has been selected to the Mountain States Super Lawyers list every year since 2013, and is listed in Best Lawyers. He is a graduate and faculty member of the Trial Lawyers College, served as President of the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association from 2003 to 2004, and is a current board member of that association. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which require million-dollar and multi-million-dollar results for clients. He is a fourth-generation Wyoming resident and served as Dean of the People's Law School, a citizen education program sponsored by the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association at Casper College.
Notable case results
Received in Medicare false claims whistleblower action
For client severely injured in a head-on motor vehicle collision
For driver who sustained cervical injuries when an unsecured load fell from a commercial vehicle
For a severely injured mother in a car crash
Policy limits settlement for a motorcyclist who lost his leg below the knee after being sideswiped by a semi-truck
For a young man who suffered serious aorta injuries in a head-on collision with a drunk driver
For a married couple injured when their stopped vehicle was rear-ended
For a woman who slipped and fell on an unnatural accumulation of ice
In a head-on trucking collision
For an oil field worker who sustained severe burn injuries in an explosion due to negligence
Settlements totaling more than $7 million for multiple clients
Settlements for more than 40 clients in multi-district litigation against American Home Products
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.