Kim R. Houser

Partner

Cases Handled: -Workers’ Comp -Unemployment Comp -Employee Discharge -Fire Departments -Corporate -Estate Planning (Contains: Wills, Living Wills, Power of Attorney (POA) Etc.) -Personal Injury -Auto Accident -Membership Issues with Fire Departments -Municipal Issues -By-Laws, SOP/SOG, Etc -Corporate Issues -Volunteer Fire company mergers -501 (c) 3 issues -Relief Association Problems -Federal Grant issues -Fire Station Theft issues -Municipal vs Fire Company -Command Officer Liability

BIRTHPLACE

Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION

-U.S. Air Force Academy

-Washington & Jefferson College, B.A. Magna Cum Laude, 1978

-Washington & Jefferson College Graduate School, Master's Degree in Psychology with 32 credits

-Duquesne University, Juris Doctor (J.D.), 1982

ASSOCIATIONS

-Westmoreland County Bar Association

-Allegheny County Bar Association

-Pennsylvania Bar Association

-Pittsburgh Claims Association

-Westmoreland Employers' Workers' Compensation Association

-Pennsylvania Solicitor's Association

-Solicitor of the Borough of Delmont, 1983-1999

-Member of Westmoreland County Department of Emergency Management, 1991-1997

-Solicitor of the Township of Salem, 1994-1999

-Solicitor of the Township of Hempfield, 2000-2004

-Solicitor of the Borough of Bolivar, 1989-1995, 2000-present

ACCOLADES/AWARDS

-Westmoreland County Academy of Trial Lawyers

INSTRUCTOR FOR:

-National Fire Academy

-Westmoreland County Community College

-Pennsylvania Fire Academy