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About Carlson Bier Associates

When dealing with Spinal Cord Injuries, you need the support of an experienced attorney. Carlson Bier is a respected personal injury law firm serving clients across Illinois, including Channahon. With years of experience, our expert team has represented numerous individuals suffering from spinal cord injuries in securing the compensation they rightfully deserve. We understand your right to justice and are committed to fighting relentlessly for it. Navigating through legal procedures can be challenging after such a traumatizing event; hence we take carefulness in guiding our clients step-by-step while handling all legal aspects involved diligently and efficiently. What sets us apart is not just our deep knowledge about spinal cord related cases but also empathy towards each client’s unique situation. Our unwavering dedication ensures that every case gets the personalized attention it deserves as we strive to achieve maximum recovery possible under the law for them. Trusting Carlson Bier means entrusting your sensitive Spinal Cord Injury case into hands dedicated solely toward actualising your deserved reparation.

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Spinal Cord Injuries Lawyers in Channahon Illinois

At Carlson Bier, we are specialized personal injury attorneys who understand the life-altering devastation of spinal cord injuries. We’re based in Illinois and are dedicated to providing comprehensive legal support for individuals navigating the complex landscape following a devastating spinal cord injury.

Spinal cord injuries have substantial direct implications on an individual’s life, often requiring long-term medical attention and ongoing therapy. They can result from various mishaps, including workplace accidents, vehicular collisions, or slip-and-fall incidents – any one of which could dramatically influence your mobility functionality

Several different types of spinal cord injuries exist:

– Complete Spinal Cord Injury: This renders the involved person unable to function below the level of injury.

– Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: Here, some functioning remains possible below the level of injury.

– Paraplegia & Quadriplegia: These involve paralysis affecting lower limbs or all four limbs.

These physical outcomes undoubtedly bear a heavy emotional cost as well and create an urgent need for financial compensation to manage these burdens adequately.

Carlson Bier takes pride in our highly effective litigation approach backed by deep empathy for our clients’ plight. We thoroughly understand every unique case that comes our way concerning spinal cord injuries: their causes attributed risk factors, immobilizing symptoms, excruciating pain involved, potential complications over time, available treatment options requiring substantial economic investments right down to mental health impact.

By leveraging this wealth of knowledge about spinal cord injuries combined with our extensive law practice experience in this domain specifically designed for such cases, we ensure ardently fighting for maximizing your entitled compensation against the party responsible—covering aspects like lost earnings due to inability to work post-injury or partial/temporary disability income loss as well owing to recovery phase absence.

We’re steadfastly committed at Carlson Bier towards ensuring you efficiently navigate through this testing time while obtaining just recompense swiftly so you can shift focus on healing instead—an aspect often heavily compromised by the strenuous legal wrangling involved. We aim to use our extensive expertise in spinal cord injuries related law to effectual advantages for our clients—thereby providing assurance of justified expulsion from financial burdens catapulted heavily due to such severely crippling mishaps.

Analyzing each case’s distinctive details, we relentlessly push for securing reimbursement covering lifetime medical bills—including regular physiotherapy or behavioral therapy sessions. Also ensure coverage of costs running up high during initial treatment phase involving surgeries, rehabilitation expenditure—bearings towards which insurance policies generally limit their liability extent.

Furthermore, we steadfastly pursue compensation beyond simply medical bills: ensuring your hardship endured emotionally is duly recognized and fittingly compensated monetarily including aspects like pain suffering caused by the unfortunate accident and additional mental anguish borne coping through surprise life transitions subsequent upon severe spinal injuries like these

We primarily measure our success based on how meaningfully we can make a difference in Managing Post-injury distress situations with as much ease as humanly possible across both immediate near-term monetary needs long-term functionality well-being perspective.

At Carlson Bier, we strongly believe there needn’t be any trade-off between life quality restoration post-debilitating injury eventual financial stability guarantee – given rightful entitlements properly fought for will go a considerable distance in soothing troubled minds grappling with worry over potentially sky-rocketing medical bills but knowing they’re standing strongly supported would indeed offer significant stress relief.

Understanding that every spinal cord injury case is unique—and so are you—we encourage you to know more about what your case could be worth. Click on the button below for an insightful glimpse into the potential compensation value tied with your distinct situation, thanks to our person-specific approach at Carlson Bier rather than applying generic one-size-fits-all norms—an inherently flawed technique bereft of humanistic touch fundamentally required in cases such as these relating handsome stakes concerning life-altering outcomes affecting immensely deep personal levels.

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Notable Illinois Appellate Wins

Moruzzi v. CCC Servs., Inc., 2020 IL App (2d) 190411, 171 N.E.3d 61
Background: Insured motorist filed action against insurer for declaratory judgment seeking construction of automobile insurance policy issued to insured and that was in effect when insured was injured by an underinsured driver. The Circuit Court, DuPage County, Bonnie M. Wheaton, J., granted the insurer's motions for summary judgment. Insured appealed.Holdings: The Appellate Court, Zenoff, J., held that:1 medical payments reduction clause in automobile insurance policy conflicted with underinsured motorist provisions so as to render reduction clause ambiguous, and thus medical payment benefits were deductible from insured's damages;2 law firm representing insured did not create common fund or common funds when it reached settlement with underinsured motorist, and thus law firm was not entitled to recover fees under common-fund doctrine; and3 collateral estoppel did not bar automobile insurers from litigating whether common-fund doctrine applied in insured motorist's declaratory judgment action.Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Maier v. CC Servs., Inc., 2019 IL App (3d) 170640, 132 N.E.3d 795
Background: After insured, who was injured in automobile collision with another driver, recovered full liability limits of driver's policy, she filed amended complaint for declaratory judgment against her own automobile insurer, alleging that insurer breached contractual duty to pay for insured's damages in accordance with uninsured/underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage in insured's policy and that insurer acted in bad faith in denying insured such coverage. The Circuit Court, La Salle County, Troy D. Holland, J., granted the insurer's motion to dismiss claims as time-barred. Insured appealed.The Appellate Court ruled that neither the insurer nor the insured could add amended policy provisions to the court record. It was decided that the policy's requirement for a written arbitration demand applied to both uninsured and underinsured motorist claims. The court found that a letter from the insured's attorney to the insurer wasn't a valid arbitration demand nor a proof of loss to toll the statute of limitations. Finally, the insurer was permitted to use the defense based on the two-year statute of limitations period. The court's decision was affirmed.
Econ. Premier Assurance Co. v. Country Mut. Ins. Co., 2021 IL App (1st) 192364-U
Holding: The circuit court's order that granted defendant's motion for summary judgment and denied plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment was proper where defendant had no duty to indemnify its insured with respect to the underlying complaint and therefore plaintiff was not entitled to recover against defendant on its subrogation or unjust enrichment claims; affirmed.
Country Preferred Ins. Co. v. Westerheide, 2023 IL App (5th) 220343-U
Holding: The court affirmed judgment of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff where the defendant failed to make a written demand for arbitration within two years from the date of the accident as required by the underinsured provisions of the defendant's automotive insurance policy.
Country Mut. Ins. Co. v. Olsak, 2022 IL App (1st) 200695, 216 N.E.3d 291
In a complex legal case, an insurer sought to avoid defending or indemnifying a hockey player under a policy issued to the player's stepfather after the player was sued for assaulting his coach. The initial Circuit Court ruling favored the insurer, but the Appellate Court reversed this decision, leading to a protracted legal battle. Ultimately, the Appellate Court determined the insurer was liable only up to the $3 million policy limit and found the insurer's four-year delay in seeking a declaratory judgment to be reasonable. This case highlights important aspects of insurance litigation and policy limit liabilities.
Country Mut. Ins. Co. v. Durkin Elec. Co., Inc., 2022 IL App (1st) 210293-U, appeal denied, 199 N.E.3d 1187 (Ill. 2022)
Holding: The circuit court's order that denied plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment and found that defendant was an additional insured under the policy was proper. The circuit court's order that denied defendant's motion for summary judgment and found that plaintiff did not have a duty to defend or indemnify defendant under the policy was proper; affirmed.
Country Preferred Ins. Co. v. Groen, 2017 IL App (4th) 160028, 69 N.E.3d 911
Background: Uninsured motorist (UM) carrier brought action against insured for declaratory judgment that it owed no benefits since workers' compensation received by insured exceeded policy limits. The Circuit Court, Sangamon County, Chris Perrin, J., entered summary judgment in favor of the carrier. Insured appealed.Holdings: The Appellate Court, Harris, J., held that:1 employer's medical payments entitled carrier to setoff, and2 setoff clauses were enforceable.Affirmed.
Country Mut. Ins. Co. v. Frobish, 2021 IL App (3d) 190473-U
Holding: Allegations in the underlying complaint that a township employee caused property damage by excavating and digging out a ditch failed to impose a duty to defend under township employee's individual farm insurance policy.
Country Mut. Ins. Co. v. Jones, 2018 IL App (1st) 173154-U
Holding: The judgment of the circuit court of Cook County is affirmed; plaintiff is entitled to summary judgment on its claim for a declaratory judgment that it has no duty to defend or indemnify its insured against the underlying complaint because the loss claimed in the underlying complaint is subject to an exclusion. The court held that it would also enter judgment for plaintiff because the underlying complaint does not allege an “occurrence” causing bodily injury within the meaning of the policy.
Country Mut. Ins. Co. v. Schmitt, 2021 IL App (5th) 190173-U
Holding: The appellate court reversed and remanded the judgment of the circuit court where plaintiff had no duty to defend its insured and thus was not stopped from raising policy defenses to coverage for the underlying tort action contained in the amended declaratory action.
Country Mut. Ins. Co. v. Livorsi Marine, Inc., 222 Ill. 2d 303, 856 N.E.2d 338 (2006) (the late Keith Carlson)
Liability insurer brought action against insureds for a declaratory judgment based on failure to provide timely notice of lawsuits against them. The Circuit Court, Cook County, Stephen A. Schiller, J., entered judgment for the insurer. Insureds appealed. The Appellate Court, Wolfson, J., 358 Ill.App.3d 880, 295 Ill.Dec. 665, 833 N.E.2d 871, affirmed. Leave to appeal was granted.Holdings: The Supreme Court, Garman, J., held that:1 if the insurer did not receive reasonable notice of an occurrence or a lawsuit, the policyholder may not recover under the policy, regardless of whether the lack of reasonable notice prejudiced the insurer, overruling Rice v. AAA Aerostar, Inc., 294 Ill.App.3d 801, 229 Ill.Dec. 20, 690 N.E.2d 1067, and Cincinnati Insurance Co. v. Baur's Opera House, Inc., 296 Ill.App.3d 1011, 230 Ill.Dec. 624, 694 N.E.2d 593, and2 insured did not need to prove that it was prejudiced by delayed notice of lawsuits.Affirmed.
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Spinal Cord Injury FAQ​

Spinal cord injuries are commonly caused by traumatic events such as vehicle accidents, falls, sports injuries, and acts of violence like gunshot wounds. Medical conditions like arthritis, cancer, or infections can also lead to spinal cord damage.

Symptoms of a spinal cord injury can vary depending on the severity and location of the injury. Common symptoms include loss of movement, loss of sensation (including the ability to feel heat, cold, and touch), loss of bladder or bowel control, exaggerated reflex activities or spasms, changes in sexual function, pain or an intense stinging sensation caused by damage to the nerve fibers in the spinal cord, and difficulty breathing, coughing, or clearing secretions from your lungs.

The permanence of a spinal cord injury depends on the severity and type of injury. Complete spinal cord injuries, where all feeling and ability to control movement are lost below the spinal cord injury, have a lower chance of recovery. Incomplete injuries, where there is some motor or sensory function below the affected area, may allow for significant recovery. However, there is currently no cure for a spinal cord injury.

Immediate treatments for spinal cord injuries focus on minimizing further damage and include immobilization, surgery, and medications. Long-term treatment involves rehabilitation, which can include physical therapy, occupational therapy, and counseling to help with the emotional aspect of the injury. Technological advances such as exoskeletons, electrical stimulation devices, and ongoing research into cell regeneration and repair are also promising areas for treatment.

The impact of a spinal cord injury on daily life varies widely and depends on the severity of the injury. It can lead to reduced mobility or paralysis, requiring the use of wheelchairs or other assistive devices. It often necessitates modifications to living spaces, vehicles, and workplaces. Spinal cord injuries can also impact personal care, bladder and bowel management, and sexual health. Support systems, adaptive technologies, and rehabilitation can play significant roles in helping individuals lead fulfilling lives post-injury.

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Areas of Practice in Channahon

Cycling Crashes

Expert in legal support for persons injured in bicycle accidents due to others's indifference or unsafe conditions.

Scald Damages

Giving specialist legal assistance for individuals of serious burn injuries caused by accidents or indifference.

Clinical Incompetence

Ensuring professional legal assistance for clients affected by clinical malpractice, including medication mistakes.

Merchandise Liability

Managing cases involving defective products, offering specialist legal support to customers affected by product-related injuries.

Geriatric Misconduct

Supporting the rights of nursing home residents who have been subjected to abuse in elderly care environments, ensuring justice.

Tumble and Slip Accidents

Professional in addressing stumble accident cases, providing legal assistance to victims seeking recovery for their damages.

Childbirth Damages

Delivering legal help for families affected by medical negligence resulting in newborn injuries.

Vehicle Mishaps

Collisions: Committed to helping patients of car accidents gain fair settlement for hurts and losses.

Two-Wheeler Collisions

Dedicated to providing legal services for victims involved in motorbike accidents, ensuring rightful claims for harm.

Truck Crash

Providing expert legal advice for drivers involved in lorry accidents, focusing on securing appropriate compensation for injuries.

Construction Incidents

Dedicated to supporting staff or bystanders injured in construction site accidents due to carelessness or irresponsibility.

Cerebral Harms

Committed to providing compassionate legal representation for clients suffering from head injuries due to negligence.

Dog Bite Wounds

Specialized in managing cases for people who have suffered harms from puppy bites or beast attacks.

Pedestrian Accidents

Dedicated to legal advocacy for pedestrians involved in accidents, providing dedicated assistance for recovering compensation.

Wrongful Death

Standing up for families affected by a wrongful death, supplying caring and experienced legal services to ensure restitution.

Backbone Damage

Expert in advocating for persons with backbone trauma, offering specialized legal support to secure settlement.

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