Nebraska Injuries

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.

A Lincoln nurse gets hurt at a demolition site, the employer pushes fake light duty, and the real fight becomes restrictions, workers' comp checks, and who pays what.

A sore back after a small work crash can turn into a herniated disc, and the workers' comp insurer may still stall or deny surgery by acting like the wreck was too minor to cause it.

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.

No. In Nebraska, a construction employer generally cannot push a work injury onto your own health insurance instead of workers' compensation. If you were hurt doing the job,...

What to photograph, request, and lock down immediately after a Norfolk rear-end crash when your SI joint pain is getting worse and you're afraid your immigration status will be used against you.

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.

A Grand Island carpenter with rib fractures, a punctured lung, and an old back problem may still have options even when the at-fault driver barely carried insurance.

$4,000 to $15,000 is a realistic range for one knocked-out tooth once you count emergency care, a bone graft, an implant, and later replacement work. Most people assume a work...

A North Platte pedestrian on the way to work can still have several ways to get medical bills covered even when the driver who hit him has zero insurance.

No. If you were hurt in the course of your job, your employer usually cannot just push the bill onto your personal health insurance and call it done. In Nebraska, that is...

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.

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.

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.

What surprises most people is that a serious exposure can hurt you long after the exposure itself is over. This phrase grew out of occupational medicine and toxic exposure...

$10,000 is the number that often changes how a Nebraska child-injury claim gets handled. The three biggest factors are who has legal authority for the child, who caused the...

Since Nebraska courts still treat a minor's injury claim separately from a parent's claim, settling early can create a serious problem: if you sign a full release before birth,...

The ER doctor may tell you, "This happened at work, so workers' comp should cover it." The insurance company will use that same fact to argue your employer is the only party...

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.

What your insurance carrier is hoping you never find out is that the answer is not "just medical bills." That is the common wrong answer in Nebraska. If your employee was...