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About Carlson Bier Associates

When dealing with complicated Construction Site Accident cases in Morgan Park, having Carlson Bier at your side is not just a decision—it’s an advantage. We are renowned personal injury lawyers based in Illinois who specialize in the complexities of construction site accidents and we’re dedicated to protecting the rights of injured workers and their families across our state. Equipped with decades-long experience, top-rated skills, relentless commitment to clients, we’ve turned challenging situations into gratifying results again and again. Our success isn’t serendipity; it’s built upon solid legal strategies combined with intricate knowledge about safety regulations specific to construction sites. Understanding how critical time factor plays after such incidents occur, our hands-on approach ensures immediate attention towards assessing liability while securing vital evidence. Choosing us isn’t merely hiring a lawyer–it’s investing for ensuring justice served weathering through harsh receptors like accident scene complexity or insurance negotiation intricacies. By prioritizing client needs over everything else-Fighting fiercely yet caring deeply defines Carlson Bier’s ethos better than anything else can possibly do!

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Construction Site Accident Lawyers in Morgan Park Illinois

Carlson Bier is a premier Illinois-based personal injury attorney group, with an expert and experienced team dedicated to serving individuals injured on construction sites. Construction site accidents happen frequently despite safety regulations, and these occurrences can turn victims’ lives upside down. Dealing with the repercussions of such incidents requires knowledge and understanding.

Construction sites are strewn with inherent dangers – heavy machinery, hazardous materials, elevated platforms, and scaffolding only scratch the surface of potential hazards workers face every day. Any negligence in maintaining safety standards can result in serious accidents resulting not only in physical harm but also financial distress due to medical bills and loss of income. Injuries may include fractures or breaks from falls, burns from explosions or fires, injuries caused by defective equipment just to name a few.

At Carlson Bier, we advocate for victims of jobsite accidents that lead to life-altering consequences including long-term disability or wrongful death. We delve into each case thoroughly, examining all angles that could have led to the accident.

Key aspects of our work include:

• Thorough Investigation: Our team leaves no stone unturned when investigating each case. From visiting the accident scene to examining safety protocols followed (or not followed) – every aspect matters.

• Determining Liability: A significant part of our work involves determining who bears legal responsibility for an accident.

• Full Compensation Claims: As skilled negotiators, we strive hard to ensure you receive full compensation for your losses which includes medical bills, future healthcare costs if any disabilities resulted from the accident as well as lost earnings.

We operate throughout Illinois but comply seriously with local regulations around advertising – ensuring nothing implies a location-specific representation that does not exist physically.

Understanding your rights after suffering an injury at a construction site is crucial. At Carlson Bier Personal Injury Lawyers Group- one can expect personalized attention combined with collective knowledge and experience covering numerous successful claims over years of service across Illinois towns and citiesIncluding Chicago’s suburbs where we have delivered relief and justice to numerous accident victims.

Beyond just understanding, it is important to act swiftly too. While Illinois law allows workers injured on the job two years from the accident date to file a claim (known as the Statute of limitations), actions should be taken immediately following an incident. Gathering valid evidence from the scene, filing necessary paperwork and fighting for compensation become increasingly difficult as time passes – all while you are dealing with physical injuries that may include hospitalization or continued medical treatment.

Our primary goal remains delivering your entitled compensation, meanwhile also helping create a safer workplace environment through further industry-wide consequences of negligent behaviour. After all, no individual should have to suffer because of someone else’s negligence- especially when confronted with severe hazards prevalent in construction sites every day.

Without question – facing a construction site injury alone can be intimidating. But having experienced legal representation at hand changes everything. At Carlson Bier, we strive not only to deliver favorable verdicts but i ensuring our clients feel supported and heard throughout their journey toward healing and recovery.

If you’ve been hurt due to a construction site accident or know someone who has gone through such an ordeal – invite them to find out what their case could be worth by clicking on the button below. With Carlson Bier beside you, rest assured that justice will be pursued fervently and skills honed over decades will come into playto help secure optimum compensation for your losses.

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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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Construction Site Accidents FAQ​

The most common causes of construction site accidents in Chicago include:

  • Falls: Falls from heights are the leading cause of fatalities on construction sites.
  • Struck-by accidents: Struck-by accidents occur when workers are hit by falling objects, moving vehicles, or other equipment.
  • Electrocutions: Electrocutions can occur when workers come into contact with live wires or electrical equipment.
  • Caught-in/between accidents: Caught-in/between accidents occur when workers are caught between two moving objects or between a moving object and a stationary object.
  • Overexertion injuries: Overexertion injuries can occur when workers lift heavy objects or perform repetitive tasks.

If you are injured in a construction site accident in Chicago, you should:

  • Seek medical attention immediately. Even if you don’t think you’re seriously injured, it’s important to get checked out by a doctor.
  • Report the accident to your supervisor and to OSHA. OSHA is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and they are responsible for investigating workplace accidents.
  • Contact a construction site accident lawyer. A lawyer can help you understand your rights and options, and can represent you in court if necessary.

As a construction site accident victim in Chicago, you have the right to:

  • Seek compensation for your medical expenses, lost wages, and other damages.
  • File a lawsuit against the person or company responsible for your accident.
  • Have your case heard by a jury.

In a construction site accident lawsuit in Chicago, you may be able to recover the following types of damages:

  • Medical expenses: This includes the cost of ambulance rides, hospital stays, doctor’s appointments, and physical therapy.
  • Lost wages: This includes the wages you lost while you were unable to work because of your injuries.
  • Pain and suffering: This includes compensation for the physical and emotional pain you have endured as a result of your injuries.
  • Loss of enjoyment of life: This includes compensation for the activities you can no longer enjoy as a result of your injuries.
  • Property damage: This includes the cost of repairing or replacing your personal belongings that were damaged in the accident.
  • Punitive damages: These damages are awarded to punish the defendant for egregious or reckless conduct.

The statute of limitations for construction site accident lawsuits in Illinois is two years. This means that you have two years from the date of the accident to file a lawsuit.

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Areas of Practice in Morgan Park

Two-Wheeler Accidents

Dedicated to legal services for victims injured in bicycle accidents due to responsible parties' lack of care or hazardous conditions.

Burn Burns

Supplying expert legal support for patients of major burn injuries caused by occurrences or recklessness.

Healthcare Malpractice

Ensuring dedicated legal support for clients affected by healthcare malpractice, including medication mistakes.

Products Obligation

Dealing with cases involving problematic products, delivering expert legal help to clients affected by defective items.

Senior Mistreatment

Representing the rights of seniors who have been subjected to mistreatment in senior centers environments, ensuring protection.

Fall and Slip Accidents

Adept in dealing with fall and trip accident cases, providing legal representation to individuals seeking recovery for their suffering.

Infant Damages

Delivering legal help for relatives affected by medical malpractice resulting in newborn injuries.

Motor Incidents

Crashes: Devoted to guiding victims of car accidents obtain reasonable compensation for hurts and destruction.

Motorcycle Crashes

Specializing in providing legal assistance for victims involved in motorbike accidents, ensuring adequate recompense for traumas.

Semi Crash

Ensuring professional legal representation for persons involved in trucking accidents, focusing on securing appropriate recovery for losses.

Construction Site Collisions

Concentrated on supporting staff or bystanders injured in construction site accidents due to carelessness or recklessness.

Cerebral Impairments

Specializing in offering specialized legal services for persons suffering from brain injuries due to incidents.

Canine Attack Harms

Adept at handling cases for persons who have suffered harms from K9 assaults or animal attacks.

Jogger Mishaps

Expert in legal support for pedestrians involved in accidents, providing professional services for recovering claims.

Unjust Demise

Fighting for grieving parties affected by a wrongful death, extending empathetic and expert legal representation to ensure justice.

Vertebral Damage

Expert in supporting clients with spine impairments, offering professional legal guidance to secure compensation.

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