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About Carlson Bier Associates

When seeking justice for medical malpractice, count on Carlson Bier to tirelessly advocate for your rights. Our Illinois-based law firm specializes in personal injury cases, honing our expertise specifically towards Medical Malpractice. Our dedicated lawyers comprehend the intricacies of this mildly complex legal space and have successfully handled numerous cases within Morgan Park among other areas; firmly establishing ourselves as reliable allies to wronged patients. The formidable reputation we’ve built is grounded in victory stories from countless individuals who found recourse through us after horrific experiences with negligent healthcare professionals and institutions. We make accurately deciphering medical jargon and hospital procedures easy while proactively gathering relevant case evidence, ensuring every client gets well-deserved compensation due their circumstance. Trusting Carlson Bier means being guaranteed fervent representation coupled with strategic legal navigation specific to your situation — factors vital in pursuing a victorious claim outcome. Secure Central Justice: Seek Carlson Bier’s seasoned services if you are battling personal injury linked to medical malpractice.

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Medical Malpractice Lawyers in Morgan Park Illinois

At Carlson Bier, we are dedicated to serving those injured through another’s negligence. As personal injury attorneys based in Illinois, our expertise and extensive knowledge extends across various areas including Medical Malpractice. This falls under the umbrella of personal injury law, but it is a specific niche that requires deep medical understanding and legal prowess – both of which we have honed at our firm.

Medical Malpractice occurs when healthcare providers such as doctors or nurses make errors or ignore professional standards, resulting in injury or harm to patients. It stretches far beyond obvious mistakes like surgical errors; it may include misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, medication errors or even communication failures among healthcare professionals, all leading to substantial patient distress.

The complexities within medical malpractice require one to be thorough about fundamental key aspects:

• The existence of a patient-doctor relationship: This sets the ground for any foreseeable medical responsibility.

• Proof of negligence: No matter how unhappy we might feel about subsequent treatment outcomes, not all can qualify for legal liability unless incompetence is proven.

• Discoverability rule: Victims must file claims within a specified time from when they first recognized possible malpractice occurrences.

• Damage caused by the doctor’s negligence: The practitioner should have directly induced harm after diverging from quality care norms.

At Carlson Bier we strive hard for you! We diligently examine your case’s peculiarities concerning these points while persistently communicating with you throughout the process– ensuring your piece of mind on our collective pursuit towards full restitution.

Illinois laws guiding medical malpractice litigation are unique and contain strict procedural rules. Deadlines known as Statute of Limitations exist dictating cases’ timeliness filed by victims of potential medical malpractices. In Illinois,you have two years from when an individual recognizes (or should) that they’ve fallen victim, but never more than four years after occured malfeasance – apart from underage victims who get until their 22nd birthday.

We believe it’s vital that victims are appropriately compensated not only for physical suffering and restoration but for accompanying emotional stress as well. Payouts may span across dimensions from past, present even anticipated medical bills to lost earnings alongside subsequent wage-loss probabilities resulting from the injury. Pain, suffering and the impact on one’s quality of life are also considered in determining restitution claims.

Suppose you suspect your adverse health condition is linked with possible negligence on your healthcare provider’s part, or worse still a loved one has suffered untimely demise possibly associated with such circumstances – Our empathetic yet professional attorneys can help! We understand the critical balance between legal pursuit vigor and client trauma sensitiveness needed in wading through Medical Malpractice cases.

This is about seeking justice! The stakes in medical malpractice cases go beyond compensation; accountability invariably stimulates reforms within individual practitioners and broader systems preventing future episodes of identical nature—the ripple effect carries an immeasurable societal benefit.

At Carlson Bier, our repertoire as experienced personal injury lawyers quips us right to explore any conceivable grievance you think might exist ensuring no stone is left unturned. We work relentlessly for you, fighting cases aggressively leveraging every litigation aspect that shapes outcomes favorably towards comprehensive compensation packages rightly deserved by our clients.

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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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Medical Malpractice FAQ​

Medical malpractice is negligence on the part of a healthcare professional that causes harm to a patient. Negligence occurs when a healthcare professional fails to meet the standard of care that is expected of them.

The most common types of medical malpractice include:

  • Misdiagnosis: This occurs when a healthcare professional fails to diagnose a patient’s condition correctly.
  • Delayed diagnosis: This occurs when a healthcare professional does not diagnose a patient’s condition until it is too late.
  • Surgical errors: These errors can occur during or after surgery.
  • Medication errors: These errors can include prescribing the wrong medication, prescribing the wrong dosage, or failing to monitor a patient for side effects.
  • Anesthesia errors: These errors can occur during or after surgery.

The signs and symptoms of medical malpractice can vary depending on the type of malpractice that occurred. However, some common signs and symptoms include:

  • Unexplained injuries: This could include injuries that occurred during surgery or injuries that were not properly treated.
  • Worsening condition: If a patient’s condition worsens after receiving medical care, it may be a sign of medical malpractice.
  • Unexpected death: If a patient dies unexpectedly after receiving medical care, it may be a sign of medical malpractice.

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

  • Surgery: Surgery may be required to correct injuries that were caused by medical malpractice.
  • Physical therapy: Physical therapy may be required to help patients regain their strength and mobility after suffering an injury.
  • Occupational therapy: Occupational therapy may be required to help patients learn to perform activities of daily living after suffering an injury.
  • Medications: Medications may be required to treat pain and other symptoms of medical malpractice injuries.

Yes, you may be able to file a lawsuit for medical malpractice if you have been injured due to the negligence of a healthcare professional. A medical malpractice 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 Morgan Park

Two-Wheeler Crashes

Proficient in legal representation for victims injured in bicycle accidents due to others's negligence or dangerous conditions.

Flame Traumas

Offering adept legal support for patients of intense burn injuries caused by occurrences or negligence.

Clinical Incompetence

Delivering dedicated legal support for individuals affected by medical malpractice, including negligent care.

Commodities Fault

Dealing with cases involving unsafe products, providing skilled legal services to customers affected by harmful products.

Senior Mistreatment

Protecting the rights of the elderly who have been subjected to misconduct in aged care environments, ensuring justice.

Stumble & Tumble Accidents

Specialist in dealing with slip and fall accident cases, providing legal services to individuals seeking recovery for their losses.

Newborn Harms

Supplying legal assistance for kin affected by medical negligence resulting in childbirth injuries.

Vehicle Collisions

Collisions: Focused on guiding victims of car accidents secure appropriate payout for injuries and harm.

Bike Incidents

Expert in providing legal services for bikers involved in two-wheeler accidents, ensuring fair compensation for injuries.

Semi Accident

Extending specialist legal representation for clients involved in truck accidents, focusing on securing just recompense for damages.

Building Collisions

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

Cognitive Injuries

Dedicated to providing specialized legal representation for clients suffering from cerebral injuries due to accidents.

Canine Attack Traumas

Proficient in tackling cases for people who have suffered harms from puppy bites or animal attacks.

Foot-traveler Mishaps

Specializing in legal services for joggers involved in accidents, providing comprehensive support for recovering recovery.

Unwarranted Demise

Standing up for grieving parties affected by a wrongful death, delivering compassionate and experienced legal assistance to ensure restitution.

Spinal Cord Trauma

Focused on supporting individuals with vertebral damage, offering dedicated legal assistance to secure redress.

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