Practice Areas Overview

Experienced Injury Attorneys

Shay & Associates - Decatur, Illinois

At Shay & Associates, we offer accident victims and injured workers throughout the Central Illinois region more than four decades of combined legal experience and the kind of strong, aggressive representation that can help you and your family to obtain fair compensation for your losses. Specific areas of our practice include:

Personal Injury: We handle all types of motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, construction site accidents, injuries caused by defective products, wrongful death and more.

Auto Accidents: Our practice includes fatal car accidents, accidents caused by drunk drivers, rear-end collisions, accidents involving cars and commercial vehicles and more.

Motorcycle Accidents: Our attorneys represent catastrophic personal injury victims and surviving family members of motorcyclists who died because of another driver's careless actions.

Trucking Accidents: We handle all types of commercial vehicle accidents involving semi-trucks, big rigs, tractor-trailers, delivery trucks, shuttle buses, vans, corporate vehicles and more.

Railroad Accidents: Our practice includes cases of defective or inadequate warning devices, negligence and railroad crossing accidents involving cars, trucks and motorcycles.

Drunk Driving Accidents: We advocate for victims of drunk driving accidents and their families. We pursue personal injury and wrongful death claims to hold the drunk driver accountable for these serious accidents.

UM/UIM Claims: Our lawyers handle both uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage claims.

What to do After an Auto Wreck: There are steps you can take after an auto accident to protect your interests against insurance companies who are working to minimize or deny your claim.

Medical Malpractice: We handle medical malpractice cases involving surgical errors, failure to diagnose, emergency room errors, birth injuries, lack of informed consent and more.

Surgical Errors: Our law firm holds negligent surgeons and other health care professionals liable for their negligence in the operating room, such as scalpel slips, missed foreign objects, wrong site surgery and more.

Failure to Diagnose: Our practice includes failure to diagnose an illness or medical condition, delayed diagnosis, cancer misdiagnosis, failure to recognize symptoms of a heart attack and more.

Birth Injuries: Our practice includes injuries to the mother, failure to diagnose fetal distress, cerebral palsy, Erb's palsy and more.

Nursing Home Abuse: Nursing home abuse includes cases of neglect or abuse by staff, medication errors, bed sores, dehydration, malnutrition and more.

Products Liability: We handle cases involving a wide range of dangerous and defective products including workplace equipment failures, deadly household products and more.

Construction Accidents: We handle product and premises liability cases involving construction accidents and scaffolding failures, subcontractor negligence, OSHA violations and more.

Workers' Compensation: We help injured workers navigate the workers' compensation system and to preserve their rights to temporary and lifetime benefits for work injuries and disabilities.

Repetitive Stress Injuries: Our lawyers represent injured workers who have suffered a repetitive strain injury, such as carpel tunnel on-the-job.

Catastrophic Injuries: Our practice includes cases of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, paraplegia, quadriplegia, amputations, severe burns, scarring and disfigurement and more.

Wrongful Death: Our attorneys handle wrongful death claims related to all of our practice areas.

A different kind of law firm...dedicated to serving you.

Talk to a personal injury lawyer from our firm before you make any decisions about legal representation. We offer free initial consultations and would be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Experience our difference yourself - call our Springfield and Decatur, Illinois, law offices or contact us directly via e-mail.