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About Carlson Bier Associates

When faced with the traumatic fallout of a birth injury, residents of Gages Lake deserve exceptional legal representation. The experienced attorneys at Carlson Bier understand this need and are dedicated to providing unparalleled service in these complex cases. Our firm stands unyielding when pursuing justice for families impacted by birth injuries, employing professional diligence that proves instrumental in securing deserved compensation. Clients entrust us due to our proven expertise, empathetic approach and relentless work ethic; traits which affirm our status as a premier choice for Birth Injuries attorney services around Gages Lake area. With an impressive record of outstanding outcomes, each lawyer at Carlson Bier is committed to navigating you through the intricacies of Illinois state law all while ensuring your unique circumstances receive utmost consideration without compromising on professional reliability or integrity. Opting for Carlson Bier signifies choosing unwavering advocacy and personalised attention during this crucial time – invaluable assets when seeking reparative relief post a traumatic birth event.

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Birth Injuries Lawyers in Gages Lake Illinois

At Carlson Bier, we pride ourselves on providing expert legal representation for those who have been affected by Birth Injuries. We are personal injury attorneys based in Illinois, with vast experience and in-depth understanding of this complex area of law. As certified professionals, our foremost objective is to offer high-quality counsel and diligent advocacy for parents advocating for their injured child.

Birth injuries can occur due to various medical complications or negligence during or after childbirth. These injuries might include cerebral palsy, brachial plexus injuries, brain damage due to lack of oxygen (hypoxia), bone fractures, infections, among others. The aftermaths of birth injuries could be devastating at both emotional and financial levels for families. Answers seem difficult to find; however, an experienced legal team like Carlson Bier can guide you along the path towards justice.

• Cerebral Palsy: This condition manifests as a result of brain damage that causes impaired muscle coordination.

• Brachial Plexus Injuries: If the infant’s shoulder gets stuck during delivery, it may lead to nerve damage around the neck affecting arm movement.

• Hypoxic Brain Damage: When an infant doesn’t receive adequate oxygen before or during birth leading to potential lifelong disabilities.

• Bone Fractures: Commonly occurring fracture happens in the clavicle (collarbone) during difficult deliveries.

• Neonatal Infections: These occur from negligent prenatal care leading to severe illness or death if untreated.

Families should understand that consequences related directly or indirectly due to these injuries are neither unavoidable nor a ‘given.’ More often than not, they imply medical malpractice – when health professionals fail to demonstrate optimal vigilance and expertise expected within their profession under similar circumstances.

When such incident happens it involves violating a trust placed willingly by expecting parents in whose hands lies tending life’s most priceless possession – your child. As hard-hitting as it seems realizing birth injury was avoidable, equally empowering it could be getting the knowledge you can seek justice – and we are here to help you through that.

Allow us to clarify a key aspect – bringing cases related to birth injuries does not mean an assault against medical professionals or institutions. On contrary, it constitutes an appeal for accountability when due services weren’t delivered causing innocent lives paying undue price.

Being stationed in Illinois, our expert personal injury attorneys at Carlson Bier offer competent representation backed by empathy and understanding of your situation. We confront common legal challenges involved in these complicated medical cases every day – from establishing cause-effect relationship between negligence and harm done to determining accurate evaluation of damages inflicted; all intricacies well handled by our seasoned team thereby assuring relief is within sight for families affected.

We know compensation would never entirely eliminate pain endured, especially emotional scars left behind after such trauma. But also know it helps ease financial burdens possibly assisting facilitate better medical care for injured child or even support specialized therapies hopefully leading improved life quality in future where possible.

Trust is earned and proven over time – this exactly what we intend doing at Carlson Bier Group. With years of unparalleled professional achievements as personal injury lawyers purely focused on our clients’ needs combined with strong ethical standards applied into practice makes us uniquely qualified in fighting your case.

Dear reader; let’s take action together. The path towards justice starts from acknowledging your rights were violated which call now for redressal! To fuel this journey further, why not find out just how much potential compensation valuation your case can secure?

Eagerly click on the button below – let’s explore possibilities beckoning justice closer each step! Remember – hope renews only when instilled with undeniable faith invested rightly… Faith founded on competence matching unwavering dedication just like Carlson Bier.

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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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Birth Injuries FAQ

The most common birth injuries include:

  • Cerebral palsy: This is a group of disorders that affect movement and coordination.
  • Erb’s palsy: This is a nerve injury that can cause weakness or paralysis in the arm and hand.
  • Brachial plexus palsy: This is a group of nerve injuries that can cause weakness or paralysis in the arm, shoulder, and hand.
  • Spinal cord injuries: These injuries can cause paralysis or weakness below the waist.
  • Traumatic brain injuries: These injuries can cause a variety of physical, cognitive, and emotional problems.

Birth injuries can be caused by a variety of factors, including:

  • Medical malpractice: This can include mistakes made by doctors during pregnancy, labor, or delivery.
  • Oxygen deprivation: This can occur if the baby does not get enough oxygen during pregnancy or labor.
  • Physical trauma: This can occur if the baby is injured during labor or delivery.
  • Birth defects: Some birth injuries are caused by birth defects.

The signs and symptoms of a birth injury can vary depending on the severity of the injury. However, some common signs and symptoms include:

  • Weakness or paralysis: This may be in one or more limbs.
  • Seizures
  • Breathing problems
  • Feeding problems
  • Developmental delays
  • Learning disabilities

The treatment options for birth injuries will vary depending on the severity of the injury. However, some common treatment options include:

  • Surgery
  • Physical therapy
  • Occupational therapy
  • Speech therapy
  • Medications
  • Supportive care

Yes, you may be able to file a lawsuit if your child was injured due to medical malpractice or another factor. A birth injury lawyer can help you understand your rights and options, and can represent you in court if necessary.

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Areas of Practice in Gages Lake

Cycling Accidents

Dedicated to legal representation for people injured in bicycle accidents due to others's carelessness or perilous conditions.

Scald Burns

Providing skilled legal support for individuals of major burn injuries caused by accidents or misconduct.

Physician Incompetence

Extending dedicated legal advice for clients affected by medical malpractice, including misdiagnosis.

Commodities Responsibility

Taking on cases involving faulty products, delivering specialist legal support to clients affected by faulty goods.

Nursing Home Misconduct

Supporting the rights of seniors who have been subjected to abuse in nursing homes environments, ensuring compensation.

Stumble & Tumble Occurrences

Skilled in dealing with slip and fall accident cases, providing legal assistance to clients seeking compensation for their suffering.

Infant Damages

Delivering legal assistance for households affected by medical incompetence resulting in newborn injuries.

Auto Crashes

Crashes: Concentrated on aiding clients of car accidents obtain equitable settlement for hurts and impairment.

Motorbike Mishaps

Specializing in providing legal assistance for individuals involved in motorbike accidents, ensuring rightful claims for injuries.

Truck Crash

Delivering professional legal support for drivers involved in lorry accidents, focusing on securing fair settlement for injuries.

Building Site Accidents

Committed to supporting workers or bystanders injured in construction site accidents due to carelessness or carelessness.

Cerebral Damages

Expert in providing specialized legal services for clients suffering from cerebral injuries due to carelessness.

K9 Assault Traumas

Expertise in managing cases for individuals who have suffered wounds from canine attacks or animal assaults.

Cross-walker Collisions

Dedicated to legal support for foot-travelers involved in accidents, providing effective representation for recovering recovery.

Wrongful Passing

Advocating for relatives affected by a wrongful death, delivering understanding and professional legal representation to ensure compensation.

Spinal Cord Impairment

Expert in defending persons with vertebral damage, offering professional legal representation to secure compensation.

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