Bryan Schefman is the lead litigation attorney at Schefman & Associates in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has more than 40 years of experience serving clients in the Detroit metropolitan area and throughout the state of Michigan. He remains committed to helping his clients who have been physically and emotionally injured, families that have had their lives upended as a result of a loved one’s brain injury, and represented individuals and families seeking to hold others accountable for the injury or wrongful death of a loved one. Recovering tens of millions of dollars for clients, he will tell your story, and win.
Over the first 10 years of his legal practice, Mr. Schefman focused on representing plaintiffs and physicians in medical malpractice cases, as well as injured victims in automobile, complex medical and drug product cases. He co-founded the Great Lakes Health Plan, Inc., in 1994, a licensed health maintenance organization, and served for several years as its general counsel before becoming its CEO. After the sale of the company to UnitedHealthcare in 2002, he returned to private practice.
With his extensive experience in the insurance industry, Mr. Schefman has developed a comprehensive understanding of benefits coordination, ERISA liens and reimbursements, government and insurance lien law, Medicare Secondary Payer claims, subrogation and general business law. Using this knowledge, he has been able to help injured clients and medical providers recover tens of millions of dollars. He also assists neurosurgeons and other rehabilitative care clients with no-fault insurance claims as well as conflicts arising from competing or superseding coverages.
In addition to having served as a lobbyist and a director of the board of a health maintenance organization and a managed care trade association, Mr. Schefman is one of the founding members of Citizens for Affordable No-Fault, a non-profit entity dedicated to the preservation of Michigan’s no-fault system. DBusiness Magazine nominated him to its Top Lawyers list for multiple years. He had been a runner-up for Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young in 1998 for his formation and financing of an insurance company with venture capital funds.
Mr. Schefman attended the University of Michigan to receive his bachelor’s degree in education in 1977. He graduated with his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 1983. He obtained his license to practice law in 1983 and is eligible to practice in all Michigan and U.S. district courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.