Posts tagged motorcycle accidents

• Nebraska Rejects Anti Helmet Law

  John Inserra | January 16, 2008 4:59 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  The Nebraska unicameral legislature rejected by a vote of 25-23 a bill which would have allowed people age 21 and older to ride motorcycles and go without helmets as long as they wore eye protection and had taken a safety course.For more information on this subject, please refer to the section on Car and Motorcycle Accidents.

• ERISA Reimbursement Case of Interest

  John Inserra | August 01, 2007 6:35 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An ERISA case, Mills v. London Grove Township, decided by a Federal Judge in Pennsylvania did not allow the plan administrator to recover against a special needs trust set up for a dependant of the plan's primary beneficiary. For anyone who deals with ERISA subrogation claims, the judge put his reasoning into reality when he states: In the final analysis, the real dispute generated by ACS's...

• Healthcare Quality versus Cost

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

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...

• Continuing Tort and the Statute of Limitations

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

  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...

• Healthcare

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

  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...

• Intervertebral Disk Replacement

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

  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...

• LawyersUSA Top Ten Verdicts fall for 2006

  John Inserra | January 18, 2007 2:37 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It is always interesting to read about the top ten plaintiff's verdicts in any given year. An article in LawyersUSA indicates a significant drop in the dollar amount of these verdicts.

• Microdiscectomy Study

  John Inserra | January 09, 2007 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A study reported at Medscape: Not a large study but it seems to fall in line with recent trends for treatment of herniated discs.Study Design: Prospective randomized controlled trial.Objective: To assess effectiveness of microdiscectomy in lumbar disc herniation patients with 6 to 12 weeks of symptoms but no absolute indication for surgery.Summary of Background Data: There is limited evidence...

• 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...