Nebraska Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements
9 independently-sourced personal injury results from Nebraska firms, largest first. Filter by practice area or result type. Each links to the full story, the firm, the attorneys, and the record behind the number.
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An Omaha jury found Navistar defrauded Nationwide Transportation by concealing known defects in 24 ProStar trucks equipped with MaxxForce 13-liter engines, awarding more than $500,000 in compensatory damages.
Berry Law won a $250,000 verdict against the State of Nebraska for Thomas F. Davis, who spent 13 months in the state penitentiary after a Hall County jury convicted him in 1969 of killing his wife, a verdict the Nebraska Supreme Court reversed the following year after finding the trial was marred by withheld forensic evidence and prosecutorial misconduct.
The Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed a $34,000 jury verdict for Terry W. Pitt, an Omaha chef who sustained a 20-to-25-percent permanent impairment to his body as a whole after a Checker Cab struck his vehicle while he was making a left turn near 22nd Street and Chandler Road in Bellevue.
The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a post-verdict judgment for the defense and reinstated a $25,000 jury award for a patron beaten at an after-hours Ranch Bowl dance, holding that a venue with three fights per night cannot call a restroom attack unforeseeable.
The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a directed verdict for the defense in Mary Cohan's delayed breast-cancer diagnosis case, ordering a new trial against the radiology and OB/GYN providers responsible for misreading her 2009 mammogram.
The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a permanent total disability award for a truck driver whose 2009 rollover on an Interstate 680 on-ramp in Omaha combined with pre-existing mental and cognitive impairments left him unable to compete in any regular branch of the labor market.
The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a trial court ruling and held that when an employer denies a workers' compensation claim, the employee is not bound by the normal chain-of-referral rules for choosing physicians, and the employer must pay for all medical treatment later found to be compensable.
The Nebraska Court of Appeals affirmed a three-judge panel's ruling that Gloria Montoya, a Tyson Foods worker, was permanently and totally disabled as a result of injuries sustained on the job, rejecting the company's appeal in full.
Rensch and Rensch won reversal of summary judgment in a legal malpractice case, establishing that owners of a closely held corporation may personally sue the company's attorneys when their financial interests are inseparable from the entity's.