Our Story
Our Story
For over 45 years, Michael Hance has been fighting for the rights of people injured or families of those who have lost their lives due to the negligence and carelessness of others. Clients face life-altering experiences, leaving them with physical pain, emotional trauma, and the prospect of an uncertain future. Our dedicated team understand the challenges you are facing and is prepared to face them with you.
Whether your case involves medical negligence, injury from defective drug or product, car wreck, tractor-trailer accident, nursing home negligence or negligently maintained premises, we are here to guide you down the path to recovery. Regardless of the complexity of the case or the size of the corporations and insurance companies that pursue profits over safety, we are dedicated to holding those responsible accountable for their actions.
In the early years, the cases were not always clients with the most devastating of injuries, but they still mattered. The clients were ordinary people who had been hurt or watched a negligent act go unaddressed by everyone else who should have noticed. Michael noticed.
Two Lawyers, One Practice
Chandrika Srinivasan joined the practice after earning a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology she earned before law school. In 2001 she earned her law degree from Brandeis School of Law and was admitted to the Kentucky Bar.
The combination of her two degrees was not accidental. Personal injury law, at its most demanding, is about understanding what happened to a human body, why it happened, who is responsible, and how to make that case understandable to a jury of people who were not there. Chandrika’s scientific background makes her uniquely equipped for exactly that work.
Together, they have developed a reputation throughout Kentucky’s legal community as a firm that takes seriously and prepares them without shortcuts.
“Prior to filing a lawsuit, we thoroughly investigate the facts and applicable law. Sometimes we have to turn away a case, but we promise to honestly explain why. The cases we do take, we take completely and treat it as the most important case we have.”
– Michael R. Hance
Our Clients
Clients come to us because someone they trust — another attorney, a doctor, a judge — told them we’d show up when it matters. And we do.
Our clients come to us when the situation is overwhelming or unclear. Most clients come to us looking for answers. They want to know what happened, and why. Clients trust us to be there for them when it matters most.
That’s why we exist. To uncover the truth. To make things right. And to fight for the people who need more than a settlement — they need someone to believe them and in their case.
Four Decades of Showing Up
Michael Hance has been practice personal injury law for over four decades. In that time, the practice has handled cases involving car and commercial vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, surgical error, birth injury, nursing home neglect, pharmaceutical harm, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, wrongful death, and the full range of serious personal injury claims that Kentucky law recognizes.
The firm has never grown beyond what it can manage with integrity. That has meant turning down cases that did not have merit. It has meant telling clients the truth about claims that looked promising but were not. It has meant spending more time on individual cases than a volume-driven firm would find economical.
It has also meant that the clients who came through the door were treated as people whose situations mattered, not files to be processed. That is not a positioning strategy. It is the reason the practice has survived and grown on referrals alone for four decades.
Where We Are Now
Today, Hance & Srinivasan continues to operate the same way it always has. Michael Hance and Chandrika Srinivasan handle every case personally. They take cases injury and neligence, from the straightforward to the highly complex. They prepare every case as if it going to trial.
While most cases settle, it is a function of how Hance & Srinivasan has prepared the case. When the other side knows a case is properly prepared and will go to trial, their settlement calculus changes. That is by design.
The practice is located at 8700 Westport Road in Louisville, Kentucky, but the attorneys will travel through Kentucky to represent its clients. The phone number is (502) 426-4301.The cases are personal. That has not changed. reachable. The cases are personal. That has not changed.