Nebraska Injuries

These are the federal safety rules issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that govern how commercial trucks, buses, drivers, and motor carriers operate on...

When a bad part or a botched install turns one Nebraska crash into a bigger injury case, the seller, manufacturer, and installer may all try to dump the blame on each other while your bills keep coming.

A trench cave-in without shoring is bad enough; the threat to call immigration is usually a pressure move, not a legal defense to a Nebraska work injury claim.

People often mix this up with an oversize violation, but they are not the same. An oversize violation means a vehicle or load is too tall, too wide, or too long for the legal...

Federal safety rules that limit how long commercial drivers can drive, work, and stay on duty before they must take breaks or rest are known as hours of service. These rules...

An off-duty firefighter in Lincoln was sent home after surgery, the infection spread, and now the insurer is downplaying how bad it really is.

In Nebraska truck crash cases, the electronic logging data usually matters fast, and companies do not get a free pass to "lose" it just because the bills are piling up at your house.

A post-accident drug test is a screening done after a crash to check whether a driver had alcohol or controlled substances in their system at or near the time of the collision....

You just got a letter that says the company that arranged a truck shipment had "broker authority," and that can feel like one more layer of confusion after a serious crash. In...

After a serious truck crash, one of the fastest ways to miss critical evidence is not knowing that the carrier should already have a record showing whether the driver was...

A social worker in North Platte can still have a case after a fume exposure gets worse weeks later, because Nebraska's timing rules usually turn on when the lung injury was discovered or should have been discovered, not just the day of exposure.

Not every use of confidential business information counts as wrongful conduct. A trade secret is not just any private idea, customer list, formula, process, or internal method....

After a serious crash with a semi, one of the fastest ways to miss what matters is not knowing whether the driver needed a higher level of licensing than an ordinary motorist....

An Uber passenger in Bellevue is getting told by the insurance company's doctor that her breathing problems are "nothing" even though the imaging says otherwise.

A stage 4 bedsore claim in North Platte can get ugly fast when the facility stalls, demands pointless paperwork, then tries to kill the case on a technicality while your business income dries up.

A Grand Island dental hygienist who fell from an unguarded loading dock may have a much bigger claim than the driver's tiny policy, even with pre-existing mental health records.

Properly fastening, bracing, and containing freight so it does not shift, spill, fall, or change a vehicle's handling during transport is what cargo securement means. People...

The part that confuses people most is that a leased driver may work under one company's authority without being that company's regular employee. In trucking, a leased driver is...

A mechanic's lien is a legal claim against real property filed by someone who provided labor, materials, or services to improve that property and was not paid. It can be used...

A wet-floor fall seemed minor at first, but months later the MRI showed a torn ACL and meniscus, and now the fight is whether the clock started back then or now.