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.

What does the insurance company not want you to know? That even while they ask for records, "review" the claim, or seem willing to talk settlement, the clock for filing a...

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.

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 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.

You may see it in a denial letter, a settlement offer, or a lawyer's explanation that a family can recover only for "pecuniary loss," not for every kind of grief or hardship...

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...

Miss this phrase in a serious injury case, and the shock usually comes too late: a jury has returned an unusually large damages award that can cripple a business, blow past...

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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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....

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 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.

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 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....

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.