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• Verdict Against the City of Omaha

  John Inserra | June 29, 2007 10:06 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  A Douglas County District Judge awarded $837,000 to Dorcas Davis, 46. Davis experiences seizures, memory loss and eye movement problems because of the accident seven years ago. The award was made against the City of Omaha for failing to install a stop sign at the intersection of 17th & Burt Street at the proper height.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Cars and...

• FELA Verdict

  John Inserra | June 26, 2007 4:30 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  A Douglas County Nebraska jury this week ordered Union Pacific Railroad Company to pay $942,000 to a conductor for the knee injuries he suffered after falling on ice in a parking lot of a hotel where Union Pacific had paid for him to stay. For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Workplace Injuries and Discrimination.

• FDA & Vitamins, Herbal Supplements, & others

  John Inserra | June 25, 2007 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  The Washington Post reports that For the first time, manufacturers of vitamins, herbal pills and other dietary supplements will have to test all of their products' ingredients, the Food and Drug Administration ordered yesterday.It appears that the new regulation which will not take effect for at least another year only covers the proper listing of the ingredients of the product and has no actual...

• New Jersey case allows minor impact photographs

  John Inserra | June 15, 2007 8:53 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  The New Jersey Supreme Court has allowed photographs of a minor rear end collision to be admitted into evidence on the issue of causation without the need for expert testimony. The battle will continue as to whether photographs showing minor or no damage to vehicle will be admissible to either prove or disprove a cause and effect injury from the accident. The reasoning is interesting because...

• Healthcare Quality versus Cost

  John Inserra | June 14, 2007 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  As reported by the New York Times:In a Pennsylvania government survey of the state's 60 hospitals that perform heart bypass surgery, the best-paid hospital received nearly $100,000, on average, for the operation while the least-paid got less than $20,000. At both, patients had comparable lengths of stay and death rates

• Healthcare - A Start

  John Inserra | May 29, 2007 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  Finally a start to the curbing of health care costs. First, the consumer must know the cost of the service, so he or she can make a judgment about that service. Will this curtail costs? Who knows! I believe it is a least a step in the right direction.California's largest private physician practice has become one of the first doctor groups in the nation, and almost certainly the largest, to...

• Avandia

  John Inserra | May 22, 2007 10:04 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, a study shows that rosiglitazone, sold as Avandia by GlaxoSmithKline was associated with a significant increase in the risk of myocardial infarction and with an increase in the risk of death from cardiovascular causes that had borderline significance. The study concludes: patients and providers should consider the potential for serious...

• Nursing Home Abuse Settlement Reported

  John Inserra | May 15, 2007 3:33 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  Life Care Center of Elkhorn has settled a lawsuit that accused it of neglecting its patients and allowing an elderly woman to lie in her own feces for hours at a time after back surgery.A patient developed an infection in her wound during her stay at the Life Care Center of Elkhorn that required surgery to reopen her incision and drain the infection and fecal matter in the wound.Terms of the...

• Car Seat Recall

  John Inserra | May 11, 2007 8:33 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  The Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling 450,000 Evenflo Embrace infant car seat carriers.The car seats were sold nationwide from December 2004 through last September and are being recalled because the handle malfunctions, releasing unexpectedly.The affected car seats and carriers have model numbers beginning with 317, 320, 397, 398, 540, 548, 549, 550, 556, 597, 598 or 599.

• Continuing Tort and the Statute of Limitations

  John Inserra | April 20, 2007 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  The Nebraska Supreme Court defines the issue of a continuing tort action and its relation to the statute of limitations. We reaffirm our statement in Wischmann and conclude that a claim for damages caused by a continuing tort can be maintained for injuries caused by conduct occurring within the statutory limitations period. Seen in this light, the "continuing tort doctrine" is not a separate...