{"id":6956,"date":"2018-12-19T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2018-12-19T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:32:13","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Spells Out Significance of Attorney-Client Contingency Contract in Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defendant attorney appealed from a Circuit Court order that reduced his contingent fee for legal representation in a motor-vehicle settlement case. The order had been entered in <a href=\"http:\/\/mcg.mcdonough.il.us\">McDonough County<\/a>, Ill. The plaintiff, the injured party, William K. Kelso, deceased, by his wife and executor, cross-appealed, arguing that the defendant attorney was, at most, entitled to <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.law.com\/Default.aspx?selected=1692\"><em>quantum meruit<\/em> <\/a>recovery of his attorney fees.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Kelso, the plaintiff, and her late husband, William Kelso, were involved in a car crash in Arizona in February 2011. He died as a result of the accident, and his wife was seriously injured. The incident was the fault of the other driver, Shauna Nowicki. Nowicki was underinsured, with limits of $15,000 per person and $30,000 per accident. The Kelsos had their own insurance policy with $1 million underinsured coverage through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auto-owners.com\">Auto Owners Insurance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On March 21, 2011, Sharon signed a contingency contract retaining the services of the defendant Richard Beuke for her claim. She signed a second, virtually identical, contract on April 13, 2011, as William&#8217;s wife, to recover for William&#8217;s injuries. Beuke was a friend of the Kelsos&#8217; son. Both contracts stated that Sharon was retaining Beuke to prosecute a claim or cause of action against Nowicki and\/or others responsible for the Kelsos&#8217; injuries (and his death) in the crash. The contract stated that Beuke and his law firm were being retained to &#8220;prosecute a claim or cause of action against Shauna L. Nowicki and Daniel Raymond Porth, and\/or other persons or entities responsible for the injuries sustained by&#8221; Sharon Kelso (in the first contract) and William Kelso (the second contract).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/#more-6956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defendant attorney appealed from a Circuit Court order that reduced his contingent fee for legal representation in a motor-vehicle settlement case. The order had been entered in McDonough County, Ill. The plaintiff, the injured party, William K. Kelso, deceased, by his wife and executor, cross-appealed, arguing that the defendant attorney was, at most, entitled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,19,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-insurance-claims","category-uninsuredunderinsured-motorist-claims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Spells Out Significance of Attorney-Client Contingency Contract in Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Claims &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The defendant attorney appealed from a Circuit Court order that reduced his contingent fee for legal representation in a motor-vehicle settlement case.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Appellate Court Spells Out Significance of Attorney-Client Contingency Contract in Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Claims &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The defendant attorney appealed from a Circuit Court order that reduced his contingent fee for legal representation in a motor-vehicle settlement case.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Kreisman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Illinois Appellate Court Spells Out Significance of Attorney-Client Contingency Contract in Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Claims &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"The defendant attorney appealed from a Circuit Court order that reduced his contingent fee for legal representation in a motor-vehicle settlement case.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Illinois Appellate Court Spells Out Significance of Attorney-Client Contingency Contract in Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Claims &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","twitter_description":"The defendant attorney appealed from a Circuit Court order that reduced his contingent fee for legal representation in a motor-vehicle settlement case.","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Kreisman","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/"},"author":{"name":"Robert Kreisman","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"headline":"Illinois Appellate Court Spells Out Significance of Attorney-Client Contingency Contract in Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Claims","datePublished":"2018-12-19T10:00:46+00:00","dateModified":"2018-12-19T12:32:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/"},"wordCount":1528,"articleSection":["Auto Accidents","Insurance Claims","Uninsured\/Underinsured Motorist Claims"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/","name":"Illinois Appellate Court Spells Out Significance of Attorney-Client Contingency Contract in Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Claims &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-12-19T10:00:46+00:00","dateModified":"2018-12-19T12:32:13+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"description":"The defendant attorney appealed from a Circuit Court order that reduced his contingent fee for legal representation in a motor-vehicle settlement case.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-spells-out-significance-of-attorney-client-contingency-contract-in-uninsured-or-underinsured-motorist-claims\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Illinois Appellate Court Spells Out Significance of Attorney-Client Contingency Contract in Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Claims"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/","name":"Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Chicago Illinois Accident Attorney \u2014 Robert Kreisman","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b","name":"Robert Kreisman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Kreisman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com"]}]}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7H0vI-1Oc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6975,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions\/6975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}