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• More Wierdness in Mack Trial

  Steve Klearman | November 30, 2007 8:07 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Yes, more wierdness in a case that's had it's share. First, Mack stabs his wife to death and shoots a judge (always the best way to endear oneself to the legal community about to determine your fate).Darren Mack flees, he's talked into coming back by the D.A. (of all people).Darren Mack pleads guilty (before putting on a defense); now he's changed his mind, fired attorney Scott Freeman (Mack...

• Enslaved Foreign Doctors in the Nevada Outback

  Steve Klearman | November 15, 2007 7:53 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  A Reno pediatrician has told state lawmakers that a federal program designed to bring physicians to underserved areas of Nevada has resulted in "indentured servitude" for some of the foreign doctors.Frank Mullen, reporting for the Reno Gazette Journal on Tuesday, writes that:From 2001 until August 2006, Dr. Shaji Mathew was part of the J-1 program, in which Nevada doctors sponsor physicians from...

• What is Insurance Bad Faith in Nevada?

  Steve Klearman | March 31, 2006 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Nevada laws recognize that insurers owe special duties to their insureds and protections are set forth, both in Nevada statutes and in Nevada regulations, to protect insureds from their insurance companies. Nevada law allows for punitive damages to be awarded against an insurer that breaches certain obligations to its insured. While numerous claims against an insurance company are possible in...

• Expert Affidavits Required in Nevada Medical Malpractice Actions

  Steve Klearman | January 18, 2006 4:52 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Although medical malpractice is really a form of negligence, it must be proven through the use of expert witnesses. Doctors are usually needed to evaluate cases and to testify against other doctors. Similarly, nurses are frequently required to testify against other nurses. Defense lawyers hire their own experts in an effort to defeat the plaintiff's case. In medical malpractice trials, the jury...

• City Driving Tips

  Steve Klearman | May 09, 2008 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Surviving Intersections About 50 percent of all city driving collisions occur at intersec­tions, usually because a driver failed to yield the right-of-way. A recent Insurance Institute...

• Hepatitis Exposure in Nevada - Public Health Information

  Steve Klearman | February 29, 2008 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  The following important public health information is reprinted from the Southern Nevada Heatlh District www.southernnevadahealthdistrict.com The Southern Nevada Health District is advising patients who received injected anesthesia medication at the Endoscopy Center of Nevada (700 Shadow Lane) of a risk for possible exposure to hepatitis C and other bloodborne pathogens. The health district is...

• Personal Email May Be Discoverable

  Steve Klearman | September 17, 2007 8:21 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  This entry was sent to me today by Scott Roseland at CyberControls.net:Around the same time that a number of White House staff members were trying to extricate themselves from the probing questions of certain congressional inquiries about personal e-mail accounts being used to allegedly bypass the official government provided e-mail service, a very interesting survey was being released called,...

• Northern Nevada Hospitals Expand

  Steve Klearman | June 24, 2007 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Everywhere you look in Northern Nevada hospitals are expanding (and advertising more).This article by Zack Hall from today's Reno Gazette Journal provides detail:The region's major hospitals want people in Northern Nevada to know that the reasons for leaving Nevada for health care are waning.Renown Health, Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center, Carson-Tahoe Regional Medical Center and Northern...

• Nevada Attorney Recommends Samsung Blackjack

  Steve Klearman | April 12, 2007 6:16 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Yes, occasionally we diverge, strictly speaking, from law.I've had a Samsung Blackjack for a few weeks now. Before that I had an old Nokia. The Nokia was basic. I was fine with basic. Still don't understand why anyone would want to watch television on a 1" screen.But I do use Microsoft Outlook, and the Blackjack sync's in and tracks contacts, calendar and email. And does this, and keeps...

• Reno Cancer Patient Settles With Wyeth

  Steve Klearman | October 12, 2006 1:15 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  The following comes from Law.com quoting the Associated Press on October 6, 2006:The same day a Philadelphia jury ruled that a hormone replacement drug at least partially caused a woman's breast cancer, a Reno woman who is dying of the disease reached an out-of-court settlement with the New Jersey-based drug maker. Just two days before her trial was to begin, Carol McCreary and Wyeth...