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About Carlson Bier Associates

When a pedestrian accident strikes in West Peoria, the expertise of Carlson Bier steps into action. This exceptional team of personal injury attorneys brings to bear extensive experience and dedication in handling complex Pedestrian Accident litigation situations. Their aim is simple – to secure the rightful compensation you deserve for your injuries or loss. Whether a vehicle operator failed their duty of care leading to an accident, or there are city design flaws contributing to your misfortune – Carlson Bier has got you covered.

Their industry-informed approach ensures they can fully comprehend and appreciate every unique particularity revolving around your case. They hold onto the highest standard of advocacy with effective legal argumentation steeped in evidence-based strategies that increase chances for success.

So why choose Carlson Bier? Count on their meticulous attention to detail wrapped up neatly with empathetic understanding towards each client’s predicament – delivering utmost legal services uniquely shaped by each individual’s need without compromising integrity.

Remember: When it comes down to dealing with immense physical pain along with financial strain after such incidents, turn towards those who understand best – trust Carlson Bier as your Pedestrian Accident lawyer group choice today!

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Pedestrian Accident Lawyers in West Peoria Illinois

At Carlson Bier, we are a dedicated team of personal injury attorneys, specializing in various areas, including Pedestrian Accident. As specialists located in Illinois, we play an imperative role by providing comprehensive and knowledgeable representation to individuals victimized due to negligence resulting in pedestrian accidents. We offer unparalleled resources driven towards protecting your rights while ensuring you receive the right compensation for your physical, emotional and financial damages.

Pedestrian accident law is quite complex – it involves an array of intricate details that need careful review and thorough understanding. Essentially, this realm of law identifies a “pedestrian” as any individual moving on foot in traffic environments. Even wheelchair users or other forms of non-motorized conveyances fall under this category.

Now, when does such an incident qualify as a ‘Pedestrian Accident?’ It typically occurs when a person walking on the sidewalk or crossing the road gets struck by a vehicle due to driver negligence or recklessness. In some incidents, unmaintained sidewalks or parking lots causing trips and falls can likewise lead to legal claims.

A plethora of factors contribute to these unfortunate circumstances:

• Driver Distraction: This pertains to instances where drivers get distracted possibly due to texting while driving.

• Excessive Speeding: Accidents often occur when drivers exceed speed limits or drive too fast considering the conditions.

• Disregard Traffic Control Devices: Failure to observe stop signs or control devices may result in collisions leading to pedestrian injuries.

• Impaired Substance Driving: Operating vehicles under influence of alcohol/drugs frequently leads to serious accidents.

At Carlson Bier, our vantage point lies not just highlighting these typical causations but essentially piecing together correlating facts so as effectively argue your case before negotiating with insurance companies or proceeding with lawsuits.

Our earnest endeavor entails gaining detailed insight into specifics involving every single case – from scene analysis through accident reconstruction professionals’ inputs (if required) down pre-existing medical history reviews. Leveraging such insights, we devise the best-suited legal strategies to maximize your claim’s potential.

Understanding pedestrian accident repercussions forms an integral part of our representation. Such incidents often lead to severe injuries like traumatic brain injury, spinal cord damage, broken bones or even wrongful death. Extensive medical care and rehabilitation could require significant expenses leading to financial distress. Further, there may be job disruption leading to loss of wages; not forgetting the colossal impact on personal and social life due to emotional trauma.

At Carlson Bier, our groundwork thus involves thorough comprehension of these aspects which are then factored into the claims seeking rightful compensation covering all resulting economic and non-economic losses.

Choosing Carlson Bier services means partnering with champions who ardently fight for your rights by guiding you through intricate legalities while providing empathetic liaison throughout this challenging phase. We strive towards attaining optimal results considering every specific angle relevant to your case – from dissecting statute limitations in Illinois down analyzing possible contributory negligence instances affecting settlement outcomes.

Personal Injury law continues evolving and staying updated is pivotal – a factor prominently characterizing our modus operandi at Carlson Bier thereby ensuring apt representing armed with updated legislations/laws underpinning cases effectively pursued pertaining Pedestrian Accidents.

Your opportunity towards reclaiming entitled justice starts here! Don’t let doubts intimidate you out of pursuing justifiable compensation post such unfortunate incidents. Start eliminating uncertainties right away by clicking on the button below which will give rapports on what potentially could be worth your case based on key inputs provided around facts surrounding your incident occasioned due negligent behavior causing undue hardships imposed upon you unjustly being victimized as an unsuspecting pedestrian caught up innocuously minding precautions exceeded by no fault borne by you!

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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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Areas of Practice in West Peoria

Bike Mishaps

Focused on legal assistance for people injured in bicycle accidents due to responsible parties' indifference or risky conditions.

Thermal Wounds

Offering skilled legal support for people of grave burn injuries caused by incidents or negligence.

Healthcare Malpractice

Providing expert legal support for persons affected by healthcare malpractice, including medication mistakes.

Merchandise Responsibility

Dealing with cases involving defective products, providing expert legal services to individuals affected by harmful products.

Aged Mistreatment

Supporting the rights of seniors who have been subjected to neglect in elderly care environments, ensuring protection.

Fall & Stumble Occurrences

Specialist in managing stumble accident cases, providing legal assistance to persons seeking redress for their damages.

Newborn Harms

Offering legal guidance for kin affected by medical malpractice resulting in newborn injuries.

Auto Crashes

Accidents: Devoted to aiding patients of car accidents secure fair remuneration for harms and impairment.

Bike Mishaps

Dedicated to providing legal assistance for individuals involved in motorcycle accidents, ensuring adequate recompense for damages.

Big Rig Mishap

Offering experienced legal advice for persons involved in truck accidents, focusing on securing just compensation for injuries.

Building Site Collisions

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

Head Harms

Focused on providing expert legal assistance for individuals suffering from cognitive injuries due to carelessness.

Dog Bite Damages

Specialized in tackling cases for individuals who have suffered injuries from dog attacks or beast attacks.

Pedestrian Accidents

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

Undeserved Demise

Striving for bereaved affected by a wrongful death, extending understanding and experienced legal representation to ensure compensation.

Backbone Harm

Specializing in representing patients with backbone trauma, offering dedicated legal support to secure redress.

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