Rob A. Nestico is a founding partner of Kisling, Nestico & Redick and practices from the firm's Akron office in Fairlawn, Ohio. He focuses his practice on personal injury and class-action lawsuits, including car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, dog bites, wrongful death, and insurance bad faith claims.
Attorney Nestico has long had an interest in personal injury law. At the age of 15, he was injured in a car crash when another driver failed to stop at an intersection, resulting in a head-on collision that killed the other driver. He spent three months in the hospital recovering from injuries to both arms, one requiring a steel rod to be surgically attached. During this time, he and his family were vulnerable to the practices of insurance companies and were taken advantage of during one of the most difficult times in their lives. That experience became the foundation of his passion for personal injury law.
Attorney Nestico received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990 and a Specialized Honors of Political Science in 1992, both from York University. He received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, graduating in the top five percent of his class, from Touro Law School in New York in 1999. While in law school, he completed two internships as a visiting student at The University of Akron, one with a state judge and one with a federal judge. He then remained in Akron, where he still practices law today.
Nestico began his professional law experience with an insurance defense firm before switching to the plaintiff side of personal injury. In 2005, along with Attorneys Kisling and Redick, he became a founding partner of Kisling, Nestico & Redick. KNR has since grown from three to more than 35 lawyers and over 100 support staff, with offices throughout the state of Ohio.
Attorney Nestico has successfully tried cases to verdict and briefed cases before the Ohio Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He served as lead counsel representing over 200,000 claimants against Nationwide Insurance Company in Shannon VanHorn, et al. v. Nationwide Property and Casualty Insurance Company. He is a Life Member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an honor less than one percent of U.S. attorneys can claim. He has been recognized as a Rising Star and Super Lawyer several times by Super Lawyers Magazine, has been voted a Top 100 Trial Lawyer by The National Trial Lawyers, and is a Lifetime Member listed as a Top Lawyer in the Global Directory of Who's Who. Attorney Nestico is admitted to practice in Ohio, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is trilingual in English, French, and Italian.
Attorney Nestico is a first-generation Italian-American; both of his parents hail from Calabria, Italy. He lives in Summit County with his wife and their three children.
