Posts tagged injuries

• Safety at the ballpark

  John Inserra | April 29, 2011 8:10 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Miscellaneous
  

  For many of us, sports are a big part of our lives, whether you are an avid fan or a person who jumps at the opportunity to participate. For both children and adults, organized and community sports...

• Welder Recovers in Ohio for Manganese Exposure

  John Inserra | December 10, 2007 8:35 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  It is reported in the Cincinnati Post that A federal jury awarded $17.5 million to a welder who sued five companies on claims that he got sick from inhaled fumes, marking the second time in 18 such cases that a verdict has come down on the side of workers.The jury in Cleveland found that the five companies showed negligence by not warning the plaintiff of the toxicity of manganese in their...

• FELA Verdict in Nebraska

  John Inserra | August 13, 2007 8:31 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A Nebraska railroad worker won a nearly $2.8 million verdict against the Union Pacific Railroad for a workplace injury that went to trial last week at U.S. District Court in Omaha. Kendall Walsh lost the use of his right arm after it was crushed by a concrete railroad tie that fell off a pile at an Iowa railroad crossing two years ago. A jury sided with Walsh on Friday but found him partially...

• Retaliation in Worker's Compensation

  John Inserra | July 09, 2007 12:48 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The case of Trosper v Bag N Save sets forth the Nebraska Supreme Court's acceptance of a cause of action for the retaliatory demotion for the filing of a Worker's Compensation claim. [7] Focusing on our rationale in Jackson, we conclude thata cause of action for retaliatory demotion exists when an employerdemotes an employee for filing a workers' compensationclaim. When we recognized a...

• FELA Verdict

  John Inserra | June 26, 2007 4:30 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A Douglas County Nebraska jury this week ordered Union Pacific Railroad Company to pay $942,000 to a conductor for the knee injuries he suffered after falling on ice in a parking lot of a hotel where Union Pacific had paid for him to stay. For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Workplace Injuries and Discrimination.

• 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...

• Healthcare

  John Inserra | April 17, 2007 11:38 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  One doctor's opinion!America's health insurance system is sick. The symptoms: high costs, lack of access, declining choice, increasing medical homelessness.[1] The etiology: our dependence on private health insurance. In no other industrialized nation does the majority of people rely on private health insurance to get healthcare.Private health insurance is like a sponge: It sucks up dollars but...

• Intervertebral Disk Replacement

  John Inserra | March 30, 2007 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A small study shows promise for intervertebral disk replacement rather than spinal fusion or artificial disk replacements. Preliminary experience in 5 patients with degenerative spine disease suggests that transplantation of fresh-frozen intervertebral disks preserved motion and stability of the spinal unit, despite some signs of mild degeneration in the disks over follow-up. Neurologic symptoms...

• Kentucky FELA Verdict(2)

  John Inserra | March 15, 2007 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  An Indiana man was awarded $8.4 million in damages after he was run over by three train cars and lost his left leg as a railroad worker in October 2004. The verdict was $9.3 million Tuesday against his former employer, Louisville & Indiana Railroad Co., for which the jury found the railroad 90 percent responsible.

• FELA Cumulative Trauma Verdict

  John Inserra | February 16, 2007 3:47 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A verdict in Beaumont Texas was reported for a cumulative trauma spine injury against the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.