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In the wake of experiencing a birth injury, families need compassionate, devoted legal representation. That’s where Carlson Bier steps in; serving as sterling advocates for the residents of Schiller Park and across Illinois in their most challenging times. Specializing in Birth Injuries law, we aim to ensure families receive deserved compensation whilst valuing your emotional investment at every stage of this hard journey. We interrogate medical reports meticulously and engage top experts uniquely tailoring strategies ensuring maximal results. Given our impressive record dealing with complex birth injuries cases alike yours and our unwavering perseverance against adversarial healthcare institutions or insurance firms lends us an unrivalled edge over many law offices refreshing testament to why Carlson Bier is an optimum choice when seeking out a lawyer for battling birth injuries lawsuits alongside you today. Our commitment to each case resonates throughout Illinois making us not just lawyers but partners sharing the same objective – To obtain justice! Yes—the dedication from team Carlson Bier reaches beyond borders— passionately championing your cause while expertly navigating through intricate nuances that surround Birth Injury Laws.

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Birth Injuries Lawyers in Schiller Park Illinois

At Carlson Bier, we understand that birth injuries can be one of the most emotionally distressing situations for a family. When you expect the arrival of your child to be filled with joy and happiness, it turns into an unsure future dealing with potential short or long-term disabilities. We’re here to affirmatively state that if your newborn’s injury is due to medical negligence, then you have rights. Being firm personal injury advocates based in Illinois, our committed legal team works relentlessly to protect these rights.

Birth injuries are broad ranging – they can occur during pregnancy, labor, delivery, or post-partum stage. However, identifying them promptly and realizing their potential cause demands significant medical expertise. Yet a few common types of birth injuries include – Cerebral Palsy; Erb’s Palsy (Brachial Plexus Injuries); Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE); Klumpke’s Palsy; Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL); and many others.

• Cerebral Palsy: This neurological disorder affects body movement and muscle coordination because of damage to a child’s developing brain.

• Erb’s palsy: Is often caused by shoulder dystocia during birth which further leads damaged nerves resulting in partial or complete paralysis of baby’s arm.

• Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE): Lack of oxygen or blood flow from mother to baby before or during delivery causes HIE leading potentially severe consequences on cognitive development.

• Klumpke’s palsy: Injuries during a difficult delivery may result in this type of brachial plexus injury causing weakness or paralysis in hand and wrist.

• Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL): This coagulation condition majorly affects premature infants causing fluid-filled areas around ventricles leading likely neurological dysfunctions.

Carlson Bier specializes in handling such complex cases of medical negligence. We believe in meticulously scrutinizing each aspect of the situation, which includes extensive review of medical records, consulting with top-tier healthcare professionals for expert opinion and gathering everything necessary to construct a compelling case.

Additionally, it must be remembered that Illinois law mandates a strict time limit, known as ‘Statute of Limitations,’ within which claim for birth injury must be filed. After this period, you may lose your right to seek legal remedy for your suffering and loss. To ensure that such significant rights aren’t forfeited because of technical breaches or unawareness, Carlson Bier is here guiding you through the complex web of statutes.

Assessment of potential damages also stands crucial in any personal injury lawsuit. With birth injuries – both economic (medical bills, rehabilitation costs etc.) and non-economic damages (pain and suffering) come into play. The lifelong impact on child’s health can overtly inflate these expenses higher than generally anticipated.

At Carlson Bier we don’t just offer representation; we build partnerships with our clients deepened by empathy connecting them directly with senior attorneys managing their case throughout its lifecycle – right from initial discussions to settlement negotiations or trial verdicts should litigation become necessary.

By now it’s apparent that dealing with birth injury claims necessitates comprehensive understanding about not only relevant law, but equally critical are acceptance norms amongst insurers, procedural awareness about how different courts operate along with strong anticipation capabilities about evolving jurisprudence.

We invite you to take advantage of our vast knowledge-base and dedicated service approach as your trusted counselor in these trying times. Ready to explore how much your case could potentially be worth? Allow us at Carlson Bier to assist you accordingly after detailed examination of every single aspect related to your claim. Please click on the button below – Our fraternity is committed towards ensuring best compensatory justice for every family going through hardships due to situations like birth injuries.

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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 Schiller Park

Pedal Cycle Accidents

Expert in legal assistance for persons injured in bicycle accidents due to other parties' negligence or risky conditions.

Thermal Injuries

Providing expert legal advice for people of serious burn injuries caused by mishaps or carelessness.

Medical Incompetence

Offering professional legal services for persons affected by clinical malpractice, including misdiagnosis.

Commodities Liability

Taking on cases involving unsafe products, delivering specialist legal services to clients affected by defective items.

Elder Misconduct

Representing the rights of elders who have been subjected to malpractice in nursing homes environments, ensuring restitution.

Fall and Slip Occurrences

Professional in addressing slip and fall accident cases, providing legal assistance to victims seeking recovery for their suffering.

Infant Traumas

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

Auto Crashes

Crashes: Devoted to aiding individuals of car accidents secure fair recompense for hurts and harm.

Scooter Collisions

Focused on providing legal advice for individuals involved in bike accidents, ensuring justice for losses.

18-Wheeler Accident

Ensuring expert legal representation for drivers involved in semi accidents, focusing on securing rightful recompense for hurts.

Building Mishaps

Focused on defending workers or bystanders injured in construction site accidents due to oversights or irresponsibility.

Cerebral Damages

Expert in providing dedicated legal support for victims suffering from brain injuries due to accidents.

Dog Attack Traumas

Expertise in handling cases for clients who have suffered wounds from K9 assaults or creature assaults.

Foot-traveler Collisions

Focused on legal support for foot-travelers involved in accidents, providing effective representation for recovering damages.

Unwarranted Demise

Standing up for loved ones affected by a wrongful death, supplying sensitive and professional legal representation to ensure redress.

Spinal Cord Harm

Expert in advocating for individuals with vertebral damage, offering dedicated legal representation to secure redress.

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