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If you, or a loved one, has experienced an unexpected personal injury in Westfield and need top-notch legal support, Carlson Bier can be your unfailing partner. As seasoned Illinois experts with a solid reputation, we specialize in Personal Injury law. Our undying commitment is ensuring victims receive deserving compensation for their physical and emotional trauma. With years of vast experience up our sleeves handling intricate laws surrounding personal injuries cases nationwide; we blend tactical prowess and litigation skills to navigate effectively through the complexities these accidents pose. Whether it’s automobile accidents, slips-and-falls or workplace-related injuries- the exhaustive breadth and depth of our team’s knowledge are unparalleled as they effectually turn unfortunate events into justified outcomes for victims seeking rightful redressal from liable parties. Opting for Carlson Bier as your Personal Injury lawyer is choosing relentless pursuit towards justice embodied by methodical strategizing through every legal action taken on behalf of clients—a representation that serves more than just advocating your rights but also reclaims peace back into lives turned upside down after such life-altering incidents.

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Personal Injury Lawyers in Westfield Illinois

Carlson Bier, renowned across Illinois for expert personal injury representation, strives to assist clients through complex legal situations. As a distinguished law firm, our dedicated attorneys are proficient in navigating varied personal injury cases while empathizing with the emotional toll these incidents often impose on victims. We believe in not only delivering results but also enriching your understanding of ‘personal injury’ as a vital concept under law.

Personal Injury Law is an expansive domain that covers instances where damage has occurred either physically or emotionally due to negligence or misconduct by another party. It extends beyond mere accidents; it applies even when harm arises due to professional malpractice like medical negligence or defective products among others.

• Negligence-related Cases: These constitute scenarios wherein one suffers harm owing to another’s neglectful actions (or lack thereof). For instance, car accidents stemming from someone’s careless driving falls under this category.

• Deliberate Actions: Personal Injury laws encompass incidents where the injury resulted from intentional behavior like assault.

• Defective Products: Injuries caused by faulty merchandise can be addressed through this platform too

• Professional Malpractice: Breach of professional duty by individuals like physicians that cause injuries can be legally contested via personal injury claims.

At Carlson Bier, we stand by you leveraging our robust experience and competencies at every step of the process while managing your unique case dynamics and working towards achieving adequate compensation for your trauma and burdens faced.

Here at Carlson Bier, we place immense value on transparency during all stages of processing your claim. Effective communication forms the cornerstone of every attorney-client relationship and it is no different with us. We firmly keep you abreast with insights about expected timelines, strategies explored, potential outcomes to ensure clarity throughout proceedings which translates into a seamless legal journey for you.

Our commitment goes beyond judicious advocacy – we seek to empower you with knowledge essential for making informed decisions related to your overall case strategy.​ Providing comprehensive consultations sharing key insights about case evaluation, the probability of winning, potential redressal avenues all with upfront and honest communication is our cardinal principle.

• Understand your rights: At Carlson Bier, we help you understand your rights in a personal injury scenario.

• Comprehensive Case Analysis: We offer an extensive analysis of your situation to outline possible outcomes.

• Aggressive Representation: Our attorneys are renowned for their assertive representation skillset.

• Extensive Experience: Having catered to numerous personal injury cases, we bring a rich fountain of experience to benefit every client interaction

• No Win No Fee Promise: With us, you only pay if we succeed in securing compensation or win at trial; otherwise, you owe us nothing.

As daunting as bringing forth a lawsuit may seem initially, remember that understanding your legal rights bolistically can potentially road-map your path to justice. Being informed not only empowers but also lends an edge during litigation. Familiarizing one’s self with these underlying principles equips individuals with requisite awareness should they suffer any physical/emotional harm due to someone else’s liability however inadvertent or intentional it may be.

Accidents and injuries arrive unannounced causing unimaginable distress both physically and emotionally. Nevertheless, having familiarized yourself now about ‘personal injury’, its dimensions under law and role played by attorneys handling such cases like us at Carlson Bier provides reassurance for unforeseen adversities lying ahead. Equipped with this insight now imagine knowing exactly how much value does your unique case command bearing conceivable factors? Sounds empowering right? Becoming aware often trivializes the associated insecurities around personal trauma tagging along huge medical bills among others anxiety-inducing concerns hence click on the button below which could pave way towards definitive monetary respite while locating yourself closer than ever before to realizable justice within permissible law boundaries just hours away from now!

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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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Bike Mishaps

Focused on legal advocacy for individuals injured in bicycle accidents due to other parties' indifference or perilous conditions.

Flame Wounds

Offering expert legal advice for sufferers of serious burn injuries caused by mishaps or recklessness.

Healthcare Misconduct

Providing dedicated legal advice for victims affected by hospital malpractice, including surgical errors.

Commodities Fault

Handling cases involving unsafe products, extending expert legal guidance to individuals affected by defective items.

Aged Malpractice

Defending the rights of nursing home residents who have been subjected to abuse in senior centers environments, ensuring justice.

Stumble and Slip Mishaps

Skilled in managing trip accident cases, providing legal representation to persons seeking redress for their damages.

Birth Wounds

Delivering legal aid for relatives affected by medical malpractice resulting in neonatal injuries.

Motor Incidents

Mishaps: Dedicated to aiding patients of car accidents secure just payout for damages and destruction.

Motorbike Incidents

Focused on providing representation for victims involved in scooter accidents, ensuring rightful claims for losses.

Big Rig Accident

Providing adept legal support for victims involved in semi accidents, focusing on securing fair compensation for losses.

Construction Site Accidents

Focused on representing workers or bystanders injured in construction site accidents due to safety violations or carelessness.

Neurological Traumas

Expert in providing professional legal services for persons suffering from cognitive injuries due to misconduct.

Dog Bite Harms

Proficient in addressing cases for people who have suffered harms from canine attacks or animal attacks.

Jogger Crashes

Dedicated to legal assistance for joggers involved in accidents, providing dedicated assistance for recovering claims.

Unwarranted Passing

Standing up for families affected by a wrongful death, supplying empathetic and professional legal assistance to ensure restitution.

Backbone Damage

Committed to supporting persons with backbone trauma, offering professional legal guidance to secure compensation.

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