Nebraska Injuries

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.

Insurance companies or defense lawyers may bring up eminent domain to make a property dispute sound like a routine government issue instead of a harm that deserves full...

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 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.

You usually see this in a mortgage packet, a title report, a foreclosure notice, or a lawyer's letter saying one claim is "first priority," "junior," or "subject to prior...

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.

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 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...

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 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.

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.

Not the same thing as physically blocking or damaging property, an encumbrance is a legal claim, restriction, or interest that affects property ownership or use without...

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.

People constantly mix this up with a title search, but they are not the same thing. A title search is just detective work: someone checks the public records to see who appears...

Yes - if you blow this off, you can end up eating thousands in ambulance, ER, imaging, and follow-up bills while the insurance companies argue over whose turn it is to pay....

In Nebraska, an unmarried girlfriend usually cannot bring the wrongful death case herself, and whether she gets anything depends on legal status, estate structure, and proof of dependence in some situations.

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.

$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...

A spinal cord injury case in Nebraska can blow up fast if a city, county, or state vehicle or roadway is involved, because the deadline may be a lot shorter than the usual four years.

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.