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Areas of Practice
PERSONAL INJURY AND WRONGFUL DEATH
Board-certified trial counsel and award-winning appellate counsel delivering personal service to insurance companies, businesses, and you.
- The Carr Law Office, LLC provides board-certified trial counsel and award-winning appellate counsel in personal injury and wrongful death cases. The Carr Law Office, LLC provides experienced and qualified counsel throughout Ohio in significant cases.
- Adam E. Carr is board-certified in civil trial advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Adam E. Carr is rated BV® Distinguished™ by Martindale-Hubbell. Adam E. Carr has received an American Jurisprudence Award in Appellate Practice. He has been recognized in 2010 Ohio Super Lawyers.
Adam E. Carr successfully defended a truck driver alleged to have caused the death of a motorcyclist after the truck turned into the motorcycle’s path. The motorcyclist was a 35-year-old small businessman who left behind a wife and young child. The truck driver’s employer denied responsibility, arguing that the driver acted outside the scope of his employment. Adam E. Carr recovered a judgment that the employer’s insurer was required to defend the truck driver and to pay damages on his behalf. The wrongful death case then settled for a low seven-figure sum with no payment by the truck driver.
Adam E. Carr successfully defended a teenage driver who had struck a teenage pedestrian in a crosswalk at a high rate of speed. The pedestrian’s treating psychiatrist claimed that the pedestrian suffered a head injury that caused a traumatic personality change. Using prior medical, school, and other records, Adam E. Carr was able to demonstrate that other factors were more likely the cause of the pedestrian’s mental health issues. Adam E. Carr was able to successfully negotiate a low six-figure settlement within the limits of the driver’s automobile insurance coverage.
Adam E. Carr successfully defended an SUV driver who had allegedly turned into the path of a motorcyclist who was attempting to pass. The motorcyclist suffered serious injuries and needed to have a prosthetic hip. He produced over $130,000 in past medical bills, and his treating physician estimated a need for future surgery. The jury found that the SUV driver was not at fault, and the motorcyclist received no payment. The case is discussed further on the News page on this website.
Adam E. Carr successfully defended a homeowner alleged to have been responsible for the actions of a dog that was living on the property. The dog had bitten off and permanently amputated part of the right thumb of a nun who had been walking along the public roadway. The nun incurred over $50,000 in medical bills for treatment that included two surgeries. The dog owner’s insurer had settled with the nun and refused to defend the homeowner. Adam E. Carr reached a reasonable low six-figure settlement with the nun for the homeowner’s insurer. He then successfully recovered the funds from the dog owner’s insurer.
INSURANCE COVERAGE
The Carr Law Office, LLC is listed in Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys. Adam E. Carr has been recognized in 2010 Ohio Super Lawyers. The Carr Law Office, LLC and Adam E. Carr advise and defend leading insurers in coverage disputes arising out of automobile, homeowner, commercial general liability, and other insurance coverage.
Adam E. Carr represented the successful insurer in the leading case in Ohio on conflicts of law in uninsured and underinsured motorist cases. Ohayon v. Safeco, 91 Ohio St.3d 474, 2001-Ohio-100, 747 N.E.2d 206.
Adam E. Carr represented the successful insurer in two of the companion cases to Westfield Ins. Co. v. Galatis, 100 Ohio St.3d 216, 2003-Ohio-5849, 799 N.E.2d 179. Galatis ended the Scott-Pontzer fiasco that had driven some leading insurers out of the Ohio insurance market. See In re Uninsured & Underinsured Motorist Coverage Cases (Nationwide Agribusiness Ins. Co. v. Wagner and Vicars v. McCray), 100 Ohio St.3d 302, 2003-Ohio-5888, 798 N.E.2d 1077.
Adam E. Carr represented the successful insurer in Alicea v. Beckinger, Trumbull App. No. 2008-T-0009, 2008-Ohio-5861, in which the court affirmed that an insurer had no duty to provide uninsured motorist coverage when an insured had validly rejected coverage under prior law, and that the rejection was equally binding upon her husband.
Adam E. Carr represented the successful insurer in Bauer v. Integon Genl. Ins. Co., Cuyahoga App. No. 85981, 2005-Ohio-6363. The insurer was permitted to deny underinsured motorist coverage because the limits of liability coverage had been exhausted by payments to other claimants. The insured had not received any payment from her own policy. The Supreme Court of Ohio recently ruled in favor of the insurer on a similar issue related to medical payments coverage. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. v Grace, 123 Ohio St.3d 471, 2009-Ohio-5934, 918 N.E.2d 135.
Adam E. Carr successfully appealed a contempt citation against an Allstate adjuster who had been sentenced to jail, ostensibly for appearing at court-ordered mediation without settlement authority. Adkins v. Hansen, Ashland App. No. 01COA01437, 2002-Ohio-2676. Adam E. Carr later convinced the judge who issued the contempt citation that Allstate owed no insurance coverage. This decision was affirmed on appeal. Adkins v. Ferguson, Ashland App. No. 02 CA 34, 2003-Ohio-403.
CIVIL LITIGATION
The Carr Law Office, LLC and Adam E. Carr represent
insurance companies, businesses, and individuals in significant cases throughout the State of Ohio and in federal court. We represent clients at every stage of the litigation process, from pre-suit investigation through discovery, trial, and appeal. The Carr Law Office, LLC and Adam E. Carr handle civil litigation of all types, including serious personal injury and wrongful death, insurance coverage, and other civil litigation.
Adam E. Carr successfully defended an out-of-state commercial truck dealer sued by a leading local dealer following nonpayment for a commercial tow truck. The out-of-state dealer had refused to pay because the local dealer had misrepresented the condition of the truck. The jury found that the out-of-state dealer was not required to pay for the defective truck or to return it.
Adam E. Carr successfully defended a prospective purchaser alleged to have broken the lid of an antique porcelain clock while handling the clock just before an art auction. The judge found that the prospective purchaser was entitled to conduct a reasonable inspection, which included turning over the clock to inspect the manufacturer’s markings for authenticity. The court also found that the dealer should have either secured the lid or warned that the object included two pieces.
Adam E. Carr successfully resolved a class action against an alleged junk fax broadcaster under the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Junk Fax Protection Act. Adam E. Carr reduced statutory damages from eight figures to five figures by demonstrating that the lead plaintiff lacked standing, the defendant lacked intent, and there were far fewer actual plaintiffs and actual faxes than originally claimed.
APPELLATE PRACTICE
Adam E. Carr received the American Jurisprudence Award in Appellate Practice, awarded in law school to the student who received the highest grade in this class. Adam E. Carr also worked as an extern for the late Honorable John T. Patton of Ohio’s Eighth District Court of Appeals and as the law clerk for the Honorable Sara R. Hunter of Ohio’s Cleveland Heights Municipal Court.
Adam E. Carr has represented clients in hundreds of cases in Ohio’s courts of appeal, in the Supreme Court of Ohio, and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Selected cases are discussed on the News page on this website.
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