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• 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...

• Medical Malpractice Cases

  John Inserra | April 19, 2007 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  As reported in Reuter's Health Information, Medical Malpractice cases are usually won by the defendant. When there is any doubt after hearing all the evidence and expert opinions, juries usually return a verdict in favor of the physician, study author Philip G. Peters, from the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Law, said in a statement.Peters reached this conclusion after conducting an...

• Healthcare

  John Inserra | April 17, 2007 11:38 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  One doctor's opinion!America's health insurance system is sick. The symptoms: high costs, lack of access, declining choice, increasing medical homelessness.[1] The etiology: our dependence on private health insurance. In no other industrialized nation does the majority of people rely on private health insurance to get healthcare.Private health insurance is like a sponge: It sucks up dollars but...

• More Pet Food Recalled

  John Inserra | April 11, 2007 9:34 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  There have been more pet food recalls. Anyone owning a pet needs to keep following this story as we are seeing more and more recalls. There is at least one class action lawsuit in Chicago which alleges fraud by the pet food provider. The purpose of the fraud allegation is to try and gain punitive damages since most pets, certainly in Nebraska, are treated as personal property, which limits...

• Defective Tires & Seatbelts

  John Inserra | April 07, 2007 12:38 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  Our office received an email from Thomas J. Methvin, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. of Montgomery, AL concerning potential defective tires and seatbelts. See the email below: We have been litigating in two areas lately that may be of interest to you; seat belt failures in heavy trucks and RV tire defects. Between 2002 and 2004, seatbelt manufacturer Indiana Mills and...

• Children's Bracelet Recall

  John Inserra | April 05, 2007 12:18 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  Children's "Groovy Grabber" Bracelets have been recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and A&A Global Industries, of Cockeysville, Md. The hazard is paint on the metallic band beneath the decorative cover contains high levels of lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects. These bracelets are sold in vending machines located in malls,...

• Pet Food Recall

  John Inserra | April 02, 2007 1:44 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  The number of pets affected by the pet food recall is growing. Aminopterin has been banned in the U.S. for a half century, once used in chemotherapy. Its side effects are so severe that it was outlawed. In China, though, it's used as a rat poison. The theory is that wheat gluten exported from china for use in soft pet food was exposed to the poison and wound up in cans of wet dog and cat...

• Intervertebral Disk Replacement

  John Inserra | March 30, 2007 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE

  A small study shows promise for intervertebral disk replacement rather than spinal fusion or artificial disk replacements. Preliminary experience in 5 patients with degenerative spine disease suggests that transplantation of fresh-frozen intervertebral disks preserved motion and stability of the spinal unit, despite some signs of mild degeneration in the disks over follow-up. Neurologic symptoms...