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When your way of life is interrupted or completely derailed because you were injured in an accident caused by someone’s negligence, you deserve to be made whole again. You have a chance to recover compensation in an Illinois personal injury claim, but to truly get justice, you will need to hire a trustworthy and reputable Bloomington, IL personal injury attorney on your case, fighting fiercely for you and your family and making the insurance company pay the full value of your damages.
Burger Law’s team of Bloomington, IL personal injury attorneys has more than 70 years of combined experience standing up for the injured and vulnerable and making insurance companies pay. We will do the same for you. Having recovered more than $170 million for our deserving clients, we are the Bloomington, IL law firm you want on your side.
A personal injury case can arise from all kinds of situations. If you suffered injuries because of something another person did or did not do, you could have a personal injury claim in Illinois. Personal injury cases are cases of preventable injuries that are caused by negligence. If it was not for that person’s inattention or recklessness, you would not be injured.
When you have been injured through no fault of your own, it is important to get prompt medical care and speak to an experienced personal injury attorney in Bloomington, IL as soon as possible. If you have been hurt, call (314) 500-HURT now. Some of the most common types of personal injury claims our Bloomington, IL attorneys handle and win are described below.
Motor vehicle accidents involving one more more vehicle often lead to injuries. If someone else’s behavior, such as another driver, caused your accident that injured you, you may be able to make an Illinois personal injury claim. This category of personal injury cases includes any number of various causes. Your accident could involve cars, trucks, busses, motorcycles, pedestrians, bicycles and other modes of transportation.
Car crashes and other traffic accidents occur due to many different actions and outside variables. Some of the most likely causes of car accidents include speeding, distracted driving, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and drowsy driving. While many studies cite figures that blame human errors for something like 95% of car crashes, often there are also failures leading up to the accident – things like poor weather, poor lighting and other vision obstructions and other road conditions. Nevertheless, if someone else on the road caused you to be injured in a motor vehicle accident in Bloomington, IL, you should be compensated for your personal injury damages by the responsible party’s insurance company. Burger Law’s personal injury attorneys in Bloomington, IL have more than 70 years of combined experience in car accident cases and the resulting injuries. We will help you receive a great settlement in your Bloomington, IL car accident personal injury case.
Construction accidents are one of the top causes of unintentional injuries in Bloomington and the United States. In 2020 the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 74,520 cases of injuries on the job resulting in missed work solely in the field of construction. In the annual report of work safety violations recorded by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 2021, half of the top ten most frequently cited violations were in the construction industry. While an individual can be hurt on the job in any setting and accidents resulting in injuries happen in all kinds of workplaces, there is no denying that construction sites can be dangerous, and accidents in construction often lead to serious injuries.
The most common construction site injuries are fall injuries (including slips and falling from a height), being struck by an object, being stuck between two objects and equipment malfunctions. If you were hurt on the job while working in construction, you may have an Illinois workers’ compensation claim through your employer’s workers’ compensation insurance.
In many cases of those who have been injured on construction sites in Illinois, the primary means of recovery will come from a Illinois personal injury claim. If you were on the job, you may have another claim against a third party — a negligent person involved in the cause of your accident, and if you were not working at the time, a personal injury claim will be your sole way to be compensated. Your Bloomington, IL personal injury attorney from Burger Law will help you make sense of your options and demand maximum compensation from any and all liable parties. When you are hurt in a construction accident, turn to a personal injury lawyer in Bloomington, IL who is experienced in construction accidents. Burger Law’ s expert personal injury team in Bloomington, IL will bring you the recovery you deserve.
Fall injuries can happen anywhere. Even the most graceful individuals will trip or slip at some point. In terms of personal injury claims, most fall-related injuries happen due to a hazardous condition that the property owner or person in charge of the property did not properly address or provide adequate warning about. This could be a slip and fall accident — such as when a grocery store employee neglects to put up a “wet floor” sign while mopping or the landlord of a retail complex fails to remove ice and snow from a walkway after a storm — or a fall from a height — maybe a hole in the floor has no signage, covering or rope around it to caution visitors or a broken board on a landing or staircase gives way under a regular amount of weight.
Each year, there is an average of 8 million emergency room visits in the United States due to slip and fall accidents. While a slip and fall might sound like a minor, albeit embarrassing incident, that is unfortunately not always so. In fact, slip and fall accidents lead to more than half a million hospitalizations and 20 thousand deaths every year in the United States. While anyone can fall when a property is unsafe, older adults are most vulnerable and likely to be severely injured or killed in slip and fall accidents.
A slip and fall or any kind of fall can happen anywhere: at a residence, in the workplace or another place such as a retail store, an attraction or cofffee shop. When you are harmed because of a hazard that someone else was responsible for, you may file a personal injury claim for premises liability in Illinois. The Bloomington, IL personal injury lawyers of Burger Law have over seventy years of experience winning premises liability claims for those who have been injured in slip and falls and other accidents.
Like many, all of us on the Burger Law team are major dog lovers. In fact, some of us, including Gary Burger, volunteer to foster pets who need good homes. However, we also know that some dogs sometimes bite, and those bites can cause major injuries. According to the CDC, there are approximately 4.5 million dog bite incidents in the U.S. annually. Many of them are minor and require no medical care; about 800,000 dog bite injuries are damaging enough to call for some kind of medical treatment. If you are bitten by a dog that you did not provoke, and the bite causes you injuries that require medical care, you can collect a recovery with the help of an experienced personal injury attorney in Bloomington, IL.
Dog bites can cause all kinds of injuries, which in part depend on where on your body the dog bit you. Wounds from dog bites can be anything from negligible surface scrapes to deep puncture wounds, broken bones and internal bleeding and damage, not to mention scarring and disfigurement. However, whatever initial injuries they inflict, dog bites come with a risk of infection. It is imperative to follow your doctor’s directions to care for your wounds and do anything you can to combat infections.
We humans can have a difficult time comprehending what a dog or any animal is thinking or feeling, and it can be shocking when a dog bites. Studying dog behavior can reduce the chances that you are bit by a dog and injured. Dogs bite to protect against a perceived threat; they might feel scared, startled, trapped, in pain, or could be protecting or guarding something they care about — even a human family member. An innocuous situation could be perceived as a threat and prompt the dog to strike out. This can happen with any dog, but is most likely in dogs with trauma due to life in an abusive environment. The onus is on all of us to give dogs love and respect and avoid creating an environment where a dog could feel threatened, but this does not give dogs and dog owners an excuse or free pass to bite. If you were bitten and injured by a dog near Bloomington, IL, you may have an Illinois personal injury claim. Burger Law’s personal injury attorneys in Bloomington, IL have successful backgrounds in dog bite cases and will get you a great recovery for your dog bitedamages.
When you receive medical care from a professional, they are governed by a certain standard of care. Health complications happen, but you should be confident that your doctor is skilled and responsible enough to provide the treatment any patient expects from their provider. You should not have to worry about suffering a preventable injury or illness. When your medical care provider fails to provide the care that “a reasonably prudent and careful health care provider would have under similar circumstances,” and that failure leaves you injured or ill in a way that you would not have otherwise been, you have an Illinois medical malpractice case. Burger Law’s Bloomington, IL medical malpractice lawyers have helped those in Bloomington injured by their medical providers recover millions of dollars in compensation and will demand the same for you.
Medical malpractice injuries are preventable, and an error or failure on the part of your doctor or nurse can be expensive and can be lethal. In fact, medical errors account for up to 400,000 deaths per year, which makes medical errors the number three cause of death in the country. When a physician prescribes the wrong dosage or medication, fails to document critical information to another treating physician, makes a surgical error or failed to make a diagnosis or identify a treatment method that any other doctor would have, and you become sick or injured as a result, contact a personal injury lawyer in Bloomington with experience in cases of medical malpractice. Cases against medical professionals and institutions are very complex, and you need an attorney in Bloomington, IL who has experience winning cases like your and will demand full compensation.
Some of our clients come to us with personal injury cases from the use of a consumer product that is defective and dangerous to users. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is the U.S. agency responsible for enacting and enforcing laws and standards consumer products must follow in order to shield the public from harm. When a product violates these standards or causes an unacceptable risk of harm when used, the product will be recalled by the CPSC. You have a right to further legal remedy. If you were injured by a harmful product, you can demand a financial recovery by filing a personal injury claim in Bloomington, IL. If the company that produces goods irresponsibly sells a product to the public that is dangerous to use, you have a product liability case in Bloomington, IL.
Any kind of product could potentially be involved in a product liability case in Illinois and elsewhere in the U.S. If you or a family member used a children’s toy, an article of clothing, hygiene product, recreational equipment, household item or any other consumer good and were injured by it, Burger Law’s Bloomington, IL personal injury attorneys specializing in product liability claims will help you recover and hold the manufacturer responsible. Product liability cases can form even if a part on an automobile fails and causes an accident or injures you on its own. Medical devices and pharmaceutical products, regulated by the Food and Drug Administration are also common culprits in product liability injuries. If your prescription medication or medical device has caused you harm, call Burger Law’s personal injury attorney immediately to discuss your case.
While no exact data is available, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that in 2005 – the last year with available data – about 26,950 civil cases went to trial. Sixty percent, or 16,170, of those cases were personal injury claims. As only four to five percent of personal injury cases go to trial, there are likely over 400,000 personal injury claims in the United States annually.
Our Bloomington-based Illinois personal injury attorney team has seen injuries caused by negligence can occur in a variety of accidents and know how to build your case and demand your full compensation. Call our Bloomington, IL personal injury team now at (314) 500-HURT to discuss your case for free with an experienced Bloomington, IL personal injury attorney.
In personal injury claims, you are legally entitled to economic damages, noneconomic damages and, in some rare cases, punitive damages. The amount of compensation you receive will depend on the severity of your injuries, how they have impacted you financially, emotionally and physically and the skill of your personal injury attorney in Bloomington, IL.
Economic damages have clear monetary value, and will typically be the sum total of all of the money you spent or lost because of your injuries. Examples of economic damages your Illinois personal injury attorney in Bloomington, IL will help you receive are:
Noneconomic damages are less tangible, and are meant to compensate you for the physical and emotional pain you experience from your accident. According to 735 ILCS 5/ §2-1115.2, the state of Illinois states that noneconomic loss is, including but not limited to:
Punitive damages seek to punish the liable party for gross misconduct and to deter future misconduct. According to 735 ILCS 5/ §2-1115.5 stipulates that in order to receive punitive damages, your personal injury attorney must prove:
by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant’s conduct was with evil motive or a reckless and outrageous indifference to a highly unreasonable risk of harm and with a conscious indifference to the rights and safety of others.
The burden of proof is much higher than the preponderance of the evidence standard used to award noneconomic and economic damages. In Illinois, punitive damages cannot be more than three times the economic damages you receive.
The Bloomington-based Illinois personal injury attorney firm at Burger Law investigates every aspect of your case and insists that you recover the maximum compensation possible. Only you know the full scope of the consequences your injury has had on your life. If you have been playing piano since you were a child and now no longer have use of your hand, it is impossible to put a true dollar amount on how your injury has affected you. The Bloomington and Illinois personal injury attorney team at Burger Law does everything possible in order to help make you as whole as possible. We know how to put Bloomington, Illinois insurance agents, judges and juries in your shoes and ensure you receive the best possible financial recovery for your injuries.
You did not deserve to be injured by a negligent actor. It is not fair that you now have to deal with pain and disability, the hassle of ongoing medical care, the emotional trauma of the incident, and many other consequences ranging from inconveniences to major limitations and life changes. You have a chance to recover and be made whole, but you have only one shot, limited time and will need the help of an experienced professional. Burger Law’s Bloomington, IL personal injury attorneys will fight for your recovery and demand justice in the form of maximum compensation for you.
Our Bloomington, IL personal injuries are committed to not only providing you the best available legal representation and advocacy from collecting evidence at the beginning of your case to securing full compensation by negotiating a great settlement to bring this matter to a close, but also to offering you the resources and education you need to feel confident and prepared as a plaintiff in your personal injury case. Check out our wealth of online resources from ebooks, podcasts, videos, a directory of resources in the state of Illinois.
Do not waste another moment; speak to a personal injury attorney in Bloomington, IL today. Call (314) 500-HURT or reach us online to speak to an experienced lawyer about your case today.
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This law firm is absolutely amazing. They took on my case, when nobody else would! They fought hard for me when it seemed there was no hope. They kept me informed and always asked for my input before making decisions on my case. Gary puts himself into every case unlike most law firm owners. Gary and his team really care about every one of their clients, and fights hard to get you a fair settlement. They actually won my case out of court, and then reduced my fees to make sure I could get my car fixed and be able to get back to some normality. I would recommend Burger Law over and above any other firm! If you go somewhere else you aren’t getting the best!
7 months ago I am very happy with the staff at Burger Law. I mostly worked with Michael Sheldon, and he did an amazing job. I trusted him completely with my case, and he did not disappoint. I would definitely recommend this team if your ever in need of good attorneys.
3 months ago Burger Law Firm is fantastic. Laura and Genevieve were so amazing and helpful throughout the entire process. They helped me with my personal injury case every step of the way and succeeded at getting me the results I desired.
a year ago We had a great experience with Burger Law for representing us after a serious car accident. Truly impressed by how professional and supportive the entire team is. And, many thanks to Genavieve and Laura – you are amazing!
a year ago They did an amazing job on my case! Communication with them was great!!! Kept me informed and in the loop with everything that was going on!!! Will definitely be the 1st ones I’ll call if ever I’m in another accident!!! Thank you very much!!!
5 months ago Let me tell you something about Burger Law.. they are so attentive and kind. Jennifer is my savior!! I love the whole team!!! They are truly a miracle team!! I appreciate their business and would recommend it to others.
2 months ago Absolutely the best law firm in the St. Louis area. No matter the size of your case you are treated as if you are the only client on the roster. Will explain anything thoroughly and they work around your availability. Very impressed and appreciative of the service.
11 months ago Gary and Casey took great care of me for 2.5 years as my lawsuit was finally settled. I feel he helped me achieve justice for me and my 4 children after their father died from medical malpractice and neglect. Thanks to Gary, my kids now have a great start to their college and adult lives. Thank you Gary and Casey, for fighting for us so hard at our most trying and difficult time in our lives thus far. Love and God bless from my family to yours!
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Genevieve and Laura have assisted me in my personal injury claim and have made the process so much less stressful. They are extremely knowledgeable, professional, and attentive. Laura is always on top of everything and very sweet. I had no idea how to navigate this process and they have made me feel at ease and like they truly cared about the outcome.
It has been a long 4 years, but it is finally over! Burger law did a great job handling my case. Grant Doty answered all my questions, promptly returned my phone calls, frequently kept me updated and insured me that he was fighting for me. Jennifer Zini also did a wonderful job, great customer service. It was pleasure getting to know the Burger Law team!
After a driver unexpectedly pulled out right in front of my motorcycle & I suffered injuries, the at-fault driver’s insurance company offered me a $10,000 settlement. I hired Burger Law & they won a $109,000 settlement. I was very happy with the outcome. They were easy to work with & fully explained each step of the process & kept me informed along the way.
At Burger Law | St. Louis Personal Injury Lawyer, we are a team of personal injury attorneys who have earned many distinctions and peer-reviewed awards for our civil litigation and trial work in Missouri and Illinois. A few of the honors we have earned include the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Top 100 Trial Lawyer Award, a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating, Super Lawyers selection as one of the top attorneys in the field of personal injury and board certifications in Civil Litigation.
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