Nebraska Injuries

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

$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...

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.

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 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.

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....

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,...

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.

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 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.

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....