Practice Areas

• Personal Injury Our Marion, IL law firm represents individuals involved in controversies alleging a wrong or damage to another's person, rights, reputation, or property resulting from events or activities such as motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, defective or unsafe products, unsafe property, unsafe working conditions, infliction of emotional distress, intentional misconduct, and negligence.
  
  
• Motor Vehicle Accidents Many personal injuries result from motor vehicle accidents. Motor vehicle accidents may involve negligence on the part of drivers, including drunk driving and reckless behavior. If you are injured in a motor vehicle accident, our firm can assist you in receiving compensation for your injuries, lost wages, and other damages.
  
  
• Medical Malpractice Our firm can help clients determine whether or not medical malpractice has occurred when you or someone you love is injured as a result of negligence or misconduct of individuals in the medical field. We can also help you with questions about and disputes with health care benefits, health insurers, and health providers.
  
  
• Products Liability We have years of experience in representing individuals who have been injured as a result of an unsafe product that was designed, manufactured, sold, and/or furnished by a person or company. We assist those injured individuals in bringing their claims and being fairly compensated for their injuries.
  
  
• Nursing Home Neglect If you or your loved one has been injured in a nursing home or long-term care facility as the result of negligence, abuse, malnutrition, or improper restraint, please contact our firm. We have experience representing clients against nursing homes and other managed health care facilities.
  
  
• Workers' Compensation We represent employees who are injured on the job in claims for lost wages and medical treatment expenses against private industry, state, and local government employers and their workers' compensation insurers. Our firm handles issues dealing with defenses, fraud, subrogation, and appeals.
  
  
• Professional Malpractice Law We can help clients determine whether or not malpractice has occurred where someone or something is injured as a result of negligence or misconduct of individuals in the dental, legal, medical, and other professional fields.
  
  
• Legal Malpractice Legal malpractice is defined as negligence, professional misconduct, or the failure to exercise a reasonable level of skill that results in injury, loss, or damages. Our firm represents clients in legal malpractice claims against lawyers who fail to exercise ordinary skill, judgment, or diligence in the course of providing legal services to their clients.
  
  
• Insurance Disputes Our firm helps injured individuals and their families with insurance claim disputes with auto, fire, disability, and homeowners policies involving scope of coverage, liability, bad faith, and the failure to pay a proper claim.
  
  
• General Litigation Our firm represents and advises clients who are or might become involved in a lawsuit, including prevention and settlement, in such areas as personal injury, medical malpractice, workers' compensation, insurance claims, and professional and legal malpractice.
  

Howerton, Dorris & Stone
Attorneys At Law

300 West Main Street
Marion, Illinois 62959-2445
Phone: (618) 993-2616
Fax: (618) 997-1845