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About Carlson Bier Associates

If you’ve experienced a spinal cord injury in Sheffield, it’s essential to secure legal representation that specializes in such complex cases. Carlson Bier has an exceptional track record of securing appropriate compensation for victims of spinal cord injuries. With profound knowledge and understanding of Illinois law, we offer clients the highest level of advocacy with meticulous attention to detail concerning these sensitive cases.

Our attorneys are renowned for their expertise and compassionate approach in handling every aspect regarding spinal cord injuries- be it managing health care costs, loss of income or rehabilitation expenses. We aim to empathetically guide our clients through this challenging process while diligently working to defend their rights each step along the way.

At Carlson Bier, we provide innovative yet realistic solutions by negotiating tactfully and litigating strategically when required; winning favorable outcomes that offer relief and hope even during unfortunate times. Your recovery journey is as important to us as achieving justice on your behalf.

Selecting Carlson Bier as your trusted counsel ensures comprehensive legal support dedicated tirelessly towards obtaining rightful remuneration due to a spinal cord injury sustained in Sheffield – having successfully represented countless satisfied clients throughout Illinois exemplifies our firm competence, reliability, and commitment.

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Spinal Cord Injuries Lawyers in Sheffield Illinois

Carlson Bier is a distinguished law firm that specializes in personal injury cases and we pride ourselves on being devoted advocates for those who have suffered spinal cord injuries. Located in the heart of Illinois, our team of seasoned attorneys unceasingly fights to ensure optimal results are achieved for each client.

A primary focus area at Carlson Bier is dealing with cases involving spinal cord injuries – catastrophic events that can turn the victim’s life upside down.

Spinal Cord Injuries refer to damages to any part of the spinal cord or nerves at the end of the spinal canal. Often resulting from sudden, traumatic blows, they could lead to permanent changes in strength, sensation, bodily functions below the site of injury amongst other effects. There exist various classifications including but not limited to:

• Complete Spinal Cord Injury – A complete loss of motor function and sensibility below where the trauma occurred.

• Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury – Limited ability to transmit nervous signals from the brain after damage has occurred.

• Quadriplegia (or Tetraplegia) – This type involves impairment or loss of motor/sensory function in all four limbs along with certain physical capabilities.

• Paraplegia – Typically includes impairment or loss of motor or sensory function in lower extremities such as legs.

Educating oneself about these categories empowers you to understand their implications better thereby enabling you actively engage during your legal proceedings at Carlson Bier. We are well-versed with handling cases revolving around these types and bring forth knowledge amassed over years in practice while helping clients reclaim their lives after such unfortunate incidents.

We’ve curated extensive resources which aim toward explaining how medical expenses, long-term care costs & pain/suffering fit within compensation demands during case settlements for spinal cord injuries. Such information imparts knowledge allowing victims make informed decisions throughout legal procedure knowing full well that efficient representation comes as a basic right and not privilege.

Additionally it’s crucial for one to understand that it isn’t the size, power or money of an insurance company standing in way of victims’ ability to recover rightful compensation for traumatic spinal cord injury. We’ve surmounted such adversaries time and again, upholding fiduciary interest of each client. Having handled numerous spinal cord injury claims, we value transparency continuing to stand by our clients always ensuring them high quality representation.

In terms of costs involved with engaging professional legal help at Carlson Bier – we absorb all upfront costs associated with your case. Our approach remains contingent on successful recovery of damages from defendant parties taking away potential financial burdens from you. Essentially if we don’t shoulder calculated risks aiming towards delivering desirable outcomes – you don’t need worry about paying us anything!

With a powerful legacy built around zealous and dedicated representation for those who’ve suffered major setbacks like spinal cord injuries – at Carlson Bier, we strive pushing boundaries in safeguarding interests as well rights of every client turning adversities into opportunities for favorable settlements.

Your life shouldn’t be defined by accidents but rather how you rise above to emerge victorious knowing full well that your representative law firm aligns their goals with yours. If you or a loved one has faced spine injury involve us promptly so that timely evidence preservation crucial to your evidence collection can be conducted.

What value is our commitment and devotion to championing causes for individuals following severe incidents such as spinal cord injuries? Click on the button below now and begin a free case evaluation process aiming towards unveiling what your claim may be worth! Show us where it hurts….we will ensure justice prevails…at Carlson Bier; because at end-of-the-day none should bear burdens brought forth via unfair acts conducted by irresponsible individuals or entities!

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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 Sheffield

Bicycle Crashes

Specializing in legal advocacy for victims injured in bicycle accidents due to others's carelessness or unsafe conditions.

Flame Wounds

Providing expert legal assistance for sufferers of severe burn injuries caused by occurrences or negligence.

Medical Incompetence

Offering professional legal assistance for individuals affected by medical malpractice, including wrong treatment.

Goods Fault

Addressing cases involving faulty products, delivering adept legal support to customers affected by product malfunctions.

Nursing Home Abuse

Protecting the rights of nursing home residents who have been subjected to neglect in senior centers environments, ensuring fairness.

Stumble & Slip Injuries

Specialist in dealing with fall and trip accident cases, providing legal advice to victims seeking restitution for their damages.

Infant Wounds

Extending legal support for families affected by medical incompetence resulting in newborn injuries.

Automobile Accidents

Mishaps: Concentrated on supporting clients of car accidents receive reasonable recompense for damages and damages.

Scooter Accidents

Expert in providing legal support for victims involved in motorcycle accidents, ensuring adequate recompense for traumas.

Truck Collision

Providing specialist legal services for victims involved in big rig accidents, focusing on securing rightful compensation for hurts.

Worksite Incidents

Engaged in representing staff or bystanders injured in construction site accidents due to safety violations or negligence.

Cerebral Traumas

Dedicated to ensuring specialized legal representation for clients suffering from brain injuries due to negligence.

Canine Attack Wounds

Skilled in addressing cases for individuals who have suffered wounds from puppy bites or wildlife encounters.

Jogger Collisions

Committed to legal assistance for foot-travelers involved in accidents, providing expert advice for recovering restitution.

Undeserved Fatality

Standing up for loved ones affected by a wrongful death, delivering empathetic and experienced legal support to ensure justice.

Spinal Cord Harm

Focused on supporting individuals with spine impairments, offering expert legal assistance to secure compensation.

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