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Areas of Practice
PERSONAL INJURY AND WRONGFUL DEATH
Board-certified trial counsel delivering personal service to businesses, insurance companies, and you.
The Carr Law Office, LLC provides board-certified trial counsel to businesses, insurance companies, and individuals who may need a legal defense. We consider customer service just as important as quality legal representation and we understand that the lawyer should serve the client, not the other way around.
Businesses, insurance companies, and individuals who are involved in litigation or expect to become involved should consult with experienced counsel who can best advise them. The Carr Law Office, LLC provides quality legal representation and personal service. Better informed clients make better choices.
Experienced, aggressive counsel such as Adam E. Carr will help clients put their own best foot forward before the jury.
- Adam E. Carr is Board-Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Adam E. Carr is Peer-Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Adam E. Carr has received an American Jurisprudence Award in Appellate Practice. He has been approved for listing in Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys and in Who's Who in American Law.
- Adam E. Carr has represented clients before the general trial courts in forty of Ohio's eighty-eight counties, before seven of Ohio's state courts of appeal, and before the Supreme Court of Ohio. He also represents clients in federal court at the trial and appellate levels.
- Adam E. Carr contributed three chapters to a handbook on tort law entitled Baldwin's Ohio Practice Series: Tort Law). He has continued to update his work annually since 2005. The book is marketed to Ohio lawyers, judges, and law libraries. You can buy the book by contacting your Thomson West sales representative or by clicking on this link: http://west.thomson.com/store/product.aspx?product_id=40234622
INSURANCE COVERAGE
The Carr Law Office, LLC and Adam E. Carr have been approved for listing in Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys. The Carr Law Office, LLC and Adam E. Carr advise and defend leading insurers in coverage disputes arising out of automobile, commercial general liability, homeowner, 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 Bauer v. Integon Genl. Ins. Co., Cuyahoga App. No. 85981, 2005-Ohio-6363, in which the Cuyahoga County Court of Appeals permitted an insurer to deny underinsured motorist coverage when the insurer had paid liability coverage under the same policy, even though the insured had not received any payment.
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. With trial court dockets becoming more and more crowded, there has been a disturbing trend by many Ohio courts to use similar coercive means to force insurers to settle cases that ought to be defended. Adkins v. Hansen demonstrates that these efforts can be successfully resisted in the right case. Adam E. Carr later convinced the same trial 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.
EMPLOYMENT LAW
The Carr Law Office, LLC offers advice on avoiding, and
experience in defending, employment law claims such as:
- Sexual harassment, retaliatory discharge, and wrongful discharge
- Title VII and Ohio R.C. Chapter 4112 employment discrimination
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and other wage claims
- Other types of employment, wage, or discrimination claims
BUSINESS LITIGATION
The Carr Law Office, LLC helps businesses, insurance companies, and individuals to defend and resolve business litigation such as breach of contract, construction, commercial landlord and tenant, and other matters. Hiring experienced counsel can help clients minimize damages, adverse publicity, and distractions to the business.
The Carr Law Office, LLC offers advice on avoiding, and experience in defending, claims under consumer protection statutes such as:
- Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act (Ohio CSPA)
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA)
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
These and other consumer protection statutes allow a successful plaintiff to recover attorney fees from a deep-pocketed defendant. There are often arcane and technical regulations associated with the statutes, along with minimum statutory penalties that award windfall damages to plaintiffs without any regard for the plaintiff’s actual damages or the defendant’s culpability.
Coupled with the attorney fee provision, the windfall damages provisions make it possible for small businesses to be sued for minor, technical violations from which no actual harm has resulted. Experienced counsel can assist in defending against these claims.
Adam E. Carr successfully defended a recent TCPA case in which the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas determined that the advertiser in a publication entitled "Fax Daily" could not be held liable for statutory damages under either the TCPA or Ohio CSPA to a plaintiff who claimed to have received the unsolicited telephone facsimile transmissions ("faxes").
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