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• Confessions of a Doctor

  Steve Klearman | January 27, 2006 10:17 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  I spend a fair portion of my life in doctor depositions. Most depositions in an attorney's world take place in law firm conference rooms where we can spread out our papers and our notebooks and look a deponent in the eye from across the table.Doctor's depositions are different, though. Unless a doctor is a defendant in a malpractice action, most doctor depositions take place at the doctor's...

• The Role of Treating Doctors in Injury Cases

  Steve Klearman | January 26, 2006 11:59 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  This will be the first in a series of thoughts about the role that doctors play in injury cases. Doctors can be treating doctors, or expert witnesses, or either but not both, or both. This is a subject of some complexity that I will delve into more in the future; for now, though, let's talk about treating doctors.I was recently in a deposition in a case in which my partially disabled client...

• Statute of Limitations in Nevada Medical Malpractice Cases

  Steve Klearman | January 18, 2006 5:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Nevada's 2004 ballot initiative, concieved and created by the U.S. medical malpractice insurance lobby, and naively passed by Nevada's voters (who thought that they were voting to "keep doctors from moving out of Nevada"),contains a new one-year statute of limitations that severely curtails the rights of Nevada's medical malpractice victims.Nevada statute 41A.097 provides: 1. Except as...

• Expert Affidavits Required in Nevada Medical Malpractice Actions

  Steve Klearman | January 18, 2006 4:52 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  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...

• Nevada Crosswalks

  Steve Klearman | January 05, 2006 3:45 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Sometimes an understanding of the law can help to prevent an automobile or motorcycle accident. Ever wonder about the law that pertains to vehicles approaching crosswalks? In Nevada, there are both statutes and ordinances that apply.For instance, Nevada state law provides the following:NRS 484.325 Right-of-way in crosswalk; obedience to signals and other devices for control of traffic. ...

• Stages of Litigation in Nevada - Part II

  Steve Klearman | January 05, 2006 2:42 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  There are numerous types of courts in Nevada, but injury cases are generally handled in the Nevada district court system.Generally speaking, there are two phases to most cases: 1) the settlement phase, and 2) the litigation phase. The litigation phase of a case can be divided into three distinct stages: 1) the complaint and answer stage, 2) the discovery stage, and 3) the trial stage.This is the...