Posts tagged Boating Accidents

• Let's Avoid Any More Boat Accidents On Lake Austin

  Brooks Schuelke | August 03, 2009 10:54 AM | 2 CommentsAustin, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  My wife and kids went out on Lake Austin last Thursday with some family members. When I asked my wife how it went, she told me it was crowded. With Lake Travis being so low that it is almost...

• The Weather is Only One Worry While Boating in Open Waters

  John Cooper | June 20, 2009 10:08 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Weather can usually be found to only be the secondary cause of most boating accidents. The primary cause is almost always attributable to other factors, such as four people getting into a 10...

• Boaters Rescued Off Coast Of Jacksonville

  Eddie Farah | April 26, 2009 12:06 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  This time the story had a good ending. Six people were rescued in the Atlantic about 90 miles east of Jacksonville after their boat started to sink. Luckily for the group, a good Samaritan saw the...

• Your (overturned) Boat is Your Best Life Jacket

  Gerry McGill | March 27, 2009 2:50 PM | 0 CommentsBiloxi & Gulfport, MS Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The recent, tragic boating accident in the Gulf of Mexico which took the lives of two NFL players and one other young man illustrated the old Coast Guard saying that your boat is your best life...

• Inexperienced Drift Boater Capsizes At SR 44 Bridge Construction

  Todd Slaughter | December 04, 2008 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  REDDING, Calif. - The Record Searchlight reported yesterday that three fishermen were pitched into the frigid waters of the Sacramento River when their 17-foot driftboat struck a pillar at the SR...

• Boating Safety

  Brooks Schuelke | June 03, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The kids get out of school tomorrow, and summer officially starts. This promises to be a busy boating season for Austinites on Lake Travis. As you may recall, in 2006, Lake Travis was low due to the...

• ERISA Reimbursement Case of Interest

  John Inserra | August 01, 2007 6:35 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An ERISA case, Mills v. London Grove Township, decided by a Federal Judge in Pennsylvania did not allow the plan administrator to recover against a special needs trust set up for a dependant of the plan's primary beneficiary. For anyone who deals with ERISA subrogation claims, the judge put his reasoning into reality when he states: In the final analysis, the real dispute generated by ACS's...

• Healthcare Quality versus Cost

  John Inserra | June 14, 2007 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As reported by the New York Times:In a Pennsylvania government survey of the state's 60 hospitals that perform heart bypass surgery, the best-paid hospital received nearly $100,000, on average, for the operation while the least-paid got less than $20,000. At both, patients had comparable lengths of stay and death rates

• Healthcare - A Start

  John Inserra | May 29, 2007 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Finally a start to the curbing of health care costs. First, the consumer must know the cost of the service, so he or she can make a judgment about that service. Will this curtail costs? Who knows! I believe it is a least a step in the right direction.California's largest private physician practice has become one of the first doctor groups in the nation, and almost certainly the largest, to...

• Continuing Tort and the Statute of Limitations

  John Inserra | April 20, 2007 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Nebraska Supreme Court defines the issue of a continuing tort action and its relation to the statute of limitations. We reaffirm our statement in Wischmann and conclude that a claim for damages caused by a continuing tort can be maintained for injuries caused by conduct occurring within the statutory limitations period. Seen in this light, the "continuing tort doctrine" is not a separate...