Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Side Airbag Study

  John Inserra | October 06, 2006 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The New York times reports:A driver's risk of being killed in a side-impact crash decreases by more than a third if the vehicle has head-protecting side-curtain air bags, a study of accident data by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows. Automakers have agreed to make side-curtain air bags standard equipment in all vehicles by 2010. For the 2006 model year, some type of side air bag...

• You Take Them as You Find Them

  John Inserra | August 18, 2006 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The case of Castillo v Young handed down today by the Nebraska Supreme Court answers the question regarding the propriety of instructing a jury regarding a prexisting condition. The court decided that it is proper for a trial court to instruct a jury that you take the plaintiff as you find them. The requested instruction was:The instruction requested by Castillo stated: There is evidence...

• Jeep Liberty Recall

  John Inserra | August 11, 2006 2:45 PM | 1 CommentOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler is recalling about 832,500 Jeep Liberty sport utility vehicles to fix a steering part. The front suspension lower ball joints on 2002 to 2006 Liberty SUVs will be replaced, the automaker said in a statement. The part can experience excessive wear and in extreme cases may separate, causing a loss of steering control, Auburn Hills, Mich.-based Chrysler said.

• Rear End Collisions

  John Inserra | August 10, 2006 2:39 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently evaluated four cars and two small SUVs, finding that front and side protection is improving but protection for rearend crashes lags. Now it's the norm for vehicles to earn good ratings in the frontal test, and performance in the side test is rapidly improving," Lund says. "But protection against neck injury in rear-end crashes still needs a lot...

• Possible New Knee Cartilage

  John Inserra | July 19, 2006 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I read a very encouraging article concerning the implantation of bioengineered cartilage in damaged knee joints. The authors of the study conclude:"We have shown for the first time that tissue-engineered cartilage implanted into knees can mature into an articular cartilage structure as early as 11 months after implantation of Hyalograft C," the authors conclude. "Development of osteoarthrosis,...

• Old Tires

  John Inserra | July 10, 2006 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  An interesting read in LawyersUSA concerning tires wearing out due to age. The article deals with a number of lawsuits that are being filed for what appears to be a failure of tire manufacturers and auto companies to warn people that the age of a tire alone, and not necessarily its wear and tear, may cause tread separation. It makes sense that if rubber does deteriorate with age, that we...

• Guest Statute in Nebraska is Constitutional

  John Inserra | July 07, 2006 12:28 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled the guest statute constitutional in the case of Le v Lautrub. Section 25-21,237, as amended in 1981, controls this case. Section 25-21,237 provides: The owner or operator of a motor vehicle shall not be liable for any damages to any passenger or person related to such owner or operator as spouse or within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity who is...

• Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia and Daubert Ruling in Nebraska

  John Inserra | June 02, 2006 3:49 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled today that a trial court did abuse its discretion in striking the testimony of a physician regarding the causal relationship between a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and it traumatic onset. The case is Epp v. Lauby, 271 Neb. 640. This case reiterates Nebraska's interpretation of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S. Ct. 2786, 125 L. Ed....

• Pain and Its Causes

  John Inserra | May 22, 2006 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Thanks to my paraglegal, Christy Koch, for finding a list of articles from the International Study of Pain. The list of articles runs a gamet from pain in children, spinal pain, fibromyalgia pain, pain and depression, and on and on. The articles are scientific in nature, written by medical providers, whose object is to study pain.

• Jury Service and Tort Reform

  John Inserra | May 19, 2006 9:22 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  States are passing "Tort Reform" legislation that should make sense to everyone. It is not about capping one group or another's liability or damages, but rather, it is about fairness to jurors. Jury service is a civil duty, but it can be very instrusive and a financial hardship on people. My experience with jurors is that they take their job very seriously, but they are always put out by the...