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At Carlson Bier, we pride ourselves on successfully representing clients who have experienced spinal cord injuries. We understand the life-altering implications such devastating events can harbor and are here to assist you in navigating these troubled waters with unyielding legal counsel. Our team of dedicated attorneys is deeply versed in Illinois statute, thus proactively advocating for your rights throughout your case’s progression. With decades-long experience standing against negligent parties causing harm unwittingly or knowingly, we recognize the significant recovery amounts required to manage spinal cord related conditions optimally. Therefore, every case strategy at ensures that clients receive both justice served and full financial compensation necessitated by their circumstances – medical costs recovery included- while navigating post-injury transitions seamlessly towards resuming normal daily functions as much as possible. Involve us in understanding your situation better because we know how profoundly it might impact lives around you apart from yours alone; our empathy-century background helps us build robust cases reflected through generous settlements won often than not! Trust Carlson Bier expertise when considering Spinal Cord Injuries Attorney representation in Illinois’ complex landscapes today.

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Spinal Cord Injuries Lawyers in Schaumburg Illinois

At Carlson Bier, we understand that experiencing a spinal cord injury can be life-altering. This severe type of personal injury often leaves victims grappling with extensive medical bills, loss of wages, and an unsure future. Based in Illinois, our dedicated personal injury attorneys at Carlson Bier leverage their comprehensive legal experience to fiercely advocate for your rights if you have sustained such profound trauma.

The severity of Spinal Cord Injuries (SCIs) can greatly differ from case to case; these are not only physically debilitating but can also engender emotional and financial distress. The two significant types are complete injuries where the victim loses all feeling and ability to control movements below the spinal cord damage site and incomplete injuries where there is some motor or sensory function below the affected area.

• Damage to Cervical Spinal Cord: This may result in quadriplegia/tetraplegia.

• Damage in Thoracic Region: Can lead to paraplegia or even affect organ functionality.

• Lumbar Sacral Spine Injury: It’s possible this could cause loss of function in hips/legs

Recovery from SCIs requires significant medical procedures like surgeries, physiotherapy, occupational therapy etc., alongside lifelong treatment plans which could potentially spiral into astronomical figures over time. Moreover, the rehabilitation process highly impacts an individual’s capacity to work post-injury inviting wage loss issues.

Navigating through complex legal landscapes following a traumatic spinal cord injury demands considerable expertise. That’s exactly why our accomplished team at Carlson Bier stand beside you every step as more than just lawyers – but as trusted advisors – committed to helping you access justice where it truly counts. Our mission pivots on exhausting all avenues in order to ensure compensation claims genuinely reflect damages incurred due economic hardships caused by costly treatments & therapies coupled with emotional anguish & physical suffering ensuing SCI.

Moreover, fault determination becomes a vital element while processing your claim for maximum remuneration potential. Whether it was a negligent driver, unsafe work conditions, or a faulty product that caused your SCI, the skilled lawyers at Carlson Bier leave no stone unturned in establishing liability to justify your need for maximum compensation.

By choosing us as your legal champions, you align with a team zealously devoted towards advocating for spinal cord injury victims across Illinois. Our client-centered approach enables us to fight tooth and nail for what’s rightfully yours. One of our firm’s significant features is how we utilize years of experience alongside an aggressive yet compassionate style of representation driven by an intimate understanding of the physical pain & emotional turmoil clients endure who are living with SCIs.

We aim at enlightening our potential clients about their rights and options following an SCI accident not just through consultation but also via comprehensive educational content available on our website focused around different facets linked to Spinal Cord Injuries. We want you to be fully aware of your situation whilst knowing that there’s always help waiting for you at Carlson Bier – ready & eager to make a difference in your life.

Your path towards healing both physically and mentally incorporates obtaining rightful justice served through due process of law which ultimately aims at providing you financial relief resonating the extent of hardship encountered due to Spinal Cord Injury. It is one less thing for you and your family to worry about during this challenging time; let us take on the fight while you focus all energies on rehabilitation.

If you’ve been affected by a spinal cord injury because of someone else’s negligence or malicious intent don’t stay in shadows bearing load alone – reach out now! Your journey towards restitution must start immediately & we’re here ensuring nothing gets left off from subpoenaed evidences till calculated remuneration claims encompassing every aspect hitched up with endured ordeal.

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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 Schaumburg

Cycling Mishaps

Focused on legal services for clients injured in bicycle accidents due to responsible parties' lack of care or perilous conditions.

Thermal Injuries

Supplying skilled legal services for individuals of serious burn injuries caused by mishaps or carelessness.

Physician Misconduct

Extending expert legal assistance for patients affected by medical malpractice, including wrong treatment.

Items Responsibility

Managing cases involving unsafe products, extending skilled legal services to customers affected by harmful products.

Senior Abuse

Protecting the rights of elders who have been subjected to malpractice in care facilities environments, ensuring compensation.

Slip & Tumble Injuries

Specialist in tackling stumble accident cases, providing legal services to individuals seeking justice for their suffering.

Newborn Wounds

Delivering legal guidance for kin affected by medical incompetence resulting in childbirth injuries.

Vehicle Collisions

Accidents: Committed to guiding individuals of car accidents obtain just settlement for wounds and harm.

Bike Incidents

Dedicated to providing legal services for individuals involved in bike accidents, ensuring rightful claims for harm.

18-Wheeler Mishap

Offering specialist legal support for victims involved in truck accidents, focusing on securing rightful settlement for injuries.

Construction Site Incidents

Engaged in supporting workmen or bystanders injured in construction site accidents due to safety violations or carelessness.

Brain Damages

Focused on ensuring specialized legal services for persons suffering from cognitive injuries due to negligence.

Dog Bite Damages

Specialized in addressing cases for individuals who have suffered wounds from puppy bites or creature assaults.

Jogger Incidents

Dedicated to legal support for cross-walkers involved in accidents, providing effective representation for recovering restitution.

Wrongful Fatality

Striving for bereaved affected by a wrongful death, providing sensitive and experienced legal services to ensure redress.

Spinal Cord Injury

Committed to assisting clients with spine impairments, offering professional legal guidance to secure recovery.

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