Brian Keeley Ltd - Injury Law Office

Brian Keeley Ltd - Injury Law Office Dedicated to representing people who are injured while working or because of another person's negligence.

10/25/2025

Halloween 🎃 is rapidly approaching. That means that young children dressed in costumes (some of which might limit their vision) will be walking, and running around, in unfamiliar areas. Please remember that little children normally don’t understand traffic laws.

Please drive slowly on Halloween and watch out for small children who might dart out into the street. Children are always the future. Please protect them.

Brian Keeley’s Injury Law Office has moved down the hall to Suite 200B, in the same building as before (440 W. Boughton ...
05/27/2024

Brian Keeley’s Injury Law Office has moved down the hall to Suite 200B, in the same building as before (440 W. Boughton Road, Bolingbrook, IL 60440). Representing injured people for the past 35 years. Working hard, and smart, to obtain the maximum recovery for injured people.

10/30/2023

It's Halloween tomorrow night and the weather forecast is calling for potential snow bursts and other bad weather. The first snowstorm of the year always catches many drivers by surprise because they find out that they can't stop or control their vehicle as easily when the roads are dry. This presents a dangerous condition when there are a lot more small children crossing the streets. Please drive slower than you normally do tomorrow night and test your stopping capability before you go to far. Driving more carefully than normal is a small price to pay to possible save the life of a child.

06/08/2023

File this information in the category under insurance companies are not your friend.

This week I spoke with two senior citizens who were injured in motor vehicle collisions and decided to try to settle their claims for their injuries by themselves. One woman, underwent shoulder surgery and wasn't happy with the settlement offer made by the insurance company so she decided to sue the insurance company on the last day that she could file a lawsuit. Unfortunately for her, she didn't realize that you have to sue the other driver and not the insurance company. The insurance company sent in one of their attorneys who filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against them. The Judge granted their motion to dismiss. I had to tell the woman that she waited too long to try to sue the other driver and now her injury claim was finished.

The second person told me that she had settled her relatively small injury case with the insurance company with a verbal understanding that the insurance company was going to pay her medical bills and the $3,000.00 that she was receiving was for her pain and suffering. The woman got a letter from Medicare claiming that they had paid some of her bills were seeking reimbursement of approximately $3,000.00 for those payments. The woman told me that Medicare was seeking the full amount by the end of the month from her or they would start adding interest. I had to tell her that unless the settlement agreement specifically included language that the insurance company was going to pay those bills (which I'm sure the settlement agreement didn't include that language), she was at the mercy of the adjuster for the insurance company to work something out with Medicare.

The moral of these tales is that you can't trust insurance companies to do the right thing for you. They are for profit corporations who don't care about you and are trying to save money on any claim that is made against one of their insureds. I felt bad for both of these senior citizens because they both believed you could still trust people who were part of large corporations.

If you are in one of these situations, consult with an attorney and find out what rights you have, and what you need to know. Don't assume that an insurance company will do what is best for you.

12/21/2022

As the first major winter snowstorm approaches, here are some practical tips if you have to drive during the brunt of the upcoming storm: (1) Make sure your vehicle has a full tank of gas and that your tires are in good shape, there is no snow obscuring your head and tail lights and that you have a windshield scraper, snow shovel, bag of salt, bottled water, and blankets in the event that you get stuck; (2) Limit your trips to streets that will be plowed and salted; (3) Even if you have all wheel or 4 wheel drive, assume that it will take you longer to slow down and stop; (4) Drive slower than you normally would on any given road; (5) Drive more defensively than normal and keep a look out for people driving too fast or having a hard time staying in their lane of traffic; (6) If the roads seem really slick due to ice or snow turn on your emergency lights, stay in the right lane if you have more than two lanes of traffic and proceed slowly.

11/01/2022

Here’s the importance of taking photos of the accident scene if you are involved in any kind of incident. A semi truck driver was driving south on a four lane street at 6:15 in the morning with the right of way. An SUV pulled out of a side street trying to make a left turn and struck the passenger side of the semi tractor. When the semi came to a stop the driver got out of the semi and took some photos of the damage to the vehicles. The driver of the SUV claimed that the semi jumped the curb and struck the SUV while it was legally stopped at the stop sign. The insurance company for the SUV took the position that their driver was not at fault and offered $500 to settle the truck driver’s claim even though he had $9,000 in medical bills and $4,500 in lost income. At the arbitration of the case, the SUV driver still claimed that semi tractor jumped the curb and struck the stopped SUV. At that point, we showed the arbitration panel a photo that the truck driver took right after the collision. The photo showed the curb which the truck supposedly jumped. The photo demonstrated that the semi never jumped the curb because it would have created deep ruts in the parkway, and there were none. The arbitration panel awarded my client $15,000. They did so because in this case the photo that my client took proved that the other driver was telling a lie. Take photos at the scene of any incident because you never know how important they might become.

07/25/2022

Have you noticed lately that a lot of truck drivers don't even honk their horns when they are going to blow a red light at an intersection? Years ago, the more experienced truck drivers would at least honk their horn when they knew they were traveling too fast to stop for a red light. Be safe, always look both ways before you enter an intersection on a green light. It might save your life.

01/23/2022

It's wintertime, and with wintertime comes ice and snow. Please be careful and aware of your surroundings when you are either walking or driving. There is a common misperception that if you slip on ice outside someone's home or business that person or business is responsible for your injuries. Unfortunately, it is much more complicated.

If you slip on ice, the first issue is how did the ice get there. If the area was out in the open and the ice was the result of snow or sleet, it would probably be considered a "natural condition," or an "Act of God." Generally, this type of situation would mean that you couldn't recover for your injuries from the owner of that property.

In order to recover for a fall on slip and ice you must prove that the landowner did something that caused the ice and snow to accumulate in the area where you fell. Since that issue might not be readily apparent, the best thing to do if you have fallen on snow or ice is to take pictures of the area where you fell, especially if it is close to a down spout or an area where it appears that snow was shoveled. Show the pictures to an attorney so that they can try to determine if the snow was created by someone else's negligence.

If you report the slip and fall to the owner of the property, don't speak to an insurance adjuster because they have been trained to get you to say things that will hurt your claim.

11/03/2021

Do you believe the auto insurance company representative when they tell you not to worry about your medical bills because they will take care of them for you? Don't believe them. It is an old trick played on people over and over.

You should also use your own insurance to cover your medical bills. That's why you pay for it. The responsible person's insurance adjuster knows that there is a limited time to submit your medical bills to your health insurance and won't pay your bills when you send them to the adjuster. When you start getting collection notices from the medical providers and you call the auto insurance adjuster, they will tell you that they will make you one settlement offer after you are done with all of your medical treatment. Then they delay because they know that you will get desparate after receiving multiple calls from collection agencies. Then they will tell you that the medical providers overcharged for their services or you treated too long for your injuries. Eventually, they make a total offer that is less than the amount of your medical bills and it's too late to submit the bills to your health insurance.

Don't fall for this trap. If you have questions about what to do in this scenario call an attorney who regularly handles personal injury claims and find out the best way to avoid this problem.

08/23/2021

When you have been injured in a car accident, the biggest mistake you can make is believing that the insurance company for the person who caused the collision is on your side. The other person's insurance is actually working against you because you don't pay any premium to them, and you are about to cut into that insurance company's profit margin. Don't ever believe that they are going to be fair to you. The insurance adjusters who contact you may take different approaches (i.e. make it seem like they are your friend or completely ignore you) but the end result that they are trying to achieve is the same: pay the least amount of money to settle your claim.

One frequent trap that people fall for is when they ask the insurance adjuster if the insurance company will pay their bills. Usually, the insurance adjuster tells the person "just send your bills to me." The unsuspecting injured person believes that the auto accident insurance company is going to pay his/her bills in a timely manner. Eventually, the person starts to get notices from collections agencies and after many unanswered phone calls finally gets in touch with adjuster many months later and asks "why aren't their medical bills being paid?" The adjuster replies to the person "when you are done with all of your medical treatment we will evaluate your claim and then make you an offer but we won't pay any of your bills before that happens.

Many months later, the injured person finally gets in touch with the adjuster and is told that some of the medical providers bills were too expensive, and then makes an offer that doesn't even come close to covering the full amount of the medical bills. At this point, the collections agencies have been hounding the injured person for months and now it is too late to submit the bills to the injured person's own health insurance. At that point, the person usually either gives up or calls an attorney.

How could this all have been avoided? Stay tuned on what to do if you are in an accident.

08/23/2021

Please continue to see motorcycles. I have represented many motor cycles riders over the years who have been involved in collisions with other cars and trucks. In almost every one of those instances, the other person always claimed that: "I didn't see him." Please don't be distracted by your phone or anything else in your vehicle when you are driving because although it is easy to recover from your distraction when you see a large object in front of you (i.e. a car or truck), it is hard to recover from a distraction when you barely notice the other vehicle because motorcycles are much smaller than cars or trucks.

07/24/2021

It's summer, it could be hot, it could be raining. One thing is certain: There are more distracted drivers on the road today than ever before. Part of being a safe driver is keeping an eye on the road. In today's world you also need to keep an eye out for distracted drivers. If you are behind a vehicle that is weaving within it's lane and it's not 2 a.m. on a weekend, you probably have a driver in front of you that is texting. Slow down, stay behind them by a safe distance or try taking an alternate route around them. Don't pass them and end up in front of them because now there is a greater chance that they will hit you because they aren't paying attention.

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