Personal Injury Blog
What You Need to Know About Qui Tam Lawsuits
Let’s face it: legal matters can be difficult to understand. Latin phrases, like “qui tam,” only add another layer of complexity and keep people from understanding the legal system created to serve them.
But we’re going to demystify part of it today.
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Safe Driving Tips for Winter Weather
It’s no secret that winter hits Nebraska hard, and those conditions can make for treacherous roads and hazardous driving. With a little caution and preparation, you can reduce your chances of a collision and keep yourself safe on the road.
That said, always remember: sometimes it’s just not worth going outside. If there are serious whiteout conditions or a blizzard, stay home. Make sure you have enough food and other supplies before a big winter storm hits, so you can wait it out if the weather is really bad. But if you have to venture out, please:
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Essential Supplies for Winter Driving
Every year, people get trapped in their vehicles in serious winter storms; sometimes just for a few hours, sometimes for several days.
This has led to some horrifying stories, like the woman buried for three days in Maryland, or the family of four trapped in their car for two days in New Mexico. They were all safely rescued, but not every story has such a happy ending.
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The Very Real Danger of Fake Service Dogs
Service dogs provide an amazing and crucial service for people living with disabilities.
Unfortunately, some people have used these dogs’ recent popularity as an opportunity to break the rules. Fake service dogs, which are really just pets in fancy vests, do not provide critical services or help save lives. These animals present a danger to actual service dogs, as well as to children, since they are not trained the way service dogs are.
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Dangers of Speeding in a Residential Neighborhood
If you speed through a residential neighborhood and hit someone with your vehicle, is it really an “accident”? Sure, you didn’t mean to hurt anyone, but you were, in fact, breaking the law, and driving dangerously. Children can come out of nowhere. When you were a child, did you think about “safety first” when playing in your front yard?
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Hip Implants Can Sometimes Harm, Not Help
Acute hip pain can make life miserable. It makes it difficult to sleep, walk, climb stairs, sit, and go through one’s daily activities. Debilitating hip pain is why many people elect to have a hip replacement. A hip replacement is major surgery that can require four to six months for full recovery. It’s definitely the type of operation that no one wants to go through more than once. Unfortunately, defective artificial hip joints and product recalls have forced some people to undergo additional painful surgeries.
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How Do I Make a Will?
The first step you should take toward making a will?
Contact a Nebraska estate planning lawyer with experience in writing wills.
You need to make some decisions, such as choosing your beneficiaries, deciding on a personal representative (also known as an executor), deciding who should be guardian of your minor children, and choosing who gets what after you die.
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Driving in Bad Weather in Omaha? Check Your Shoes!
While your shoes may not be the first thing you think about before driving into an Omaha snowstorm or rainstorm, they can have a big impact on the safety of your driving.
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What Is Estate Planning and Why Should I Have It?
You may think that your income, assets, and bank accounts don’t warrant the creation of a will. But are you really willing to give up the control you have over the distribution of your assets, no matter how small, or the ability to say who will care for your minor children?
In Nebraska, your assets will be distributed, no matter how much (or how little) you own. That distribution can be via your own will or trust, or through the drawn-out Nebraska intestate (dying without a will) probate process. And the intestate probate process, in addition to being expensive, takes none of your wishes into account.
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Help! I Was in an Accident in Someone Else’s Car!
Getting into a car wreck is already scary enough, but the questions and confusion that arise if you were in someone else’s car make it worse.
In Nebraska, coverage comes down, in large part, to the specifics of each person’s insurance policies. With that in mind, as long as you have insurance, the vehicle itself is insured, and the other driver and vehicle are insured, then everything should be handled pretty smoothly. (If you have any legal questions, feel free to speak to our Omaha car accident lawyer at (402) 505-8234.)
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