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• Nevada Medical Malpractice Statute of Limitations

  Steve Klearman | January 18, 2008 9:18 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  I will get back to my three-part series on the Nevada jurisdictional question we were analyzing on Monday or Tuesday. First, though, since I've recently mentioned the insurance industry's fraud on the Nevada voters otherwise known as KODIN, I reprint below Nevada's highly restrictive statute of limitations. If you've been injured as a result of Nevada medical malpractice, the statute below...

• Allstate Gets the Boot in Florida

  Steve Klearman | January 18, 2008 9:05 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Here's a plug for Trial Guides at www.trialguides.com. The following interesting news comes from their enewsletter of today's date.This week, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced that he is suspending Allstate Insurance companies from writing new insurance in Florida. McCarty's choice follows Allstate's refusal to comply with subpoenas served October 16 by the Office of...

• Does Nevada Have Jurisdiction? Part II

  Steve Klearman | January 18, 2008 7:58 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  This is the second part of what will be a three-part blog. See yesterday's blog for the issue that the following argument addresses:A. The Fiduciary Shield Doctrine Is Not Law In Nevada And Even If It Were It Would Not Preclude An Exercise Of JurisdictionThe fiduciary shield doctrine, a flawed legal theory that has generated confusion and countless inconsistent exceptions, provides that acts...

• Does Nevada Have Jurisdiction Over an Out of State Doctor Who Treats Nevada Patients Over the Internet?: Nevada Issue of First Impression

  Steve Klearman | January 17, 2008 3:07 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  ISSUE: Whether a doctor practicing medicine in Nevada remotely over the Internet, for a California medical group that contracts with a Nevada medical group to render medical services remotely over the Internet and contractually agrees to be bound by the laws of Nevada, is subject to the jurisdiction of the Nevada courts?This is the issue of first impression that presents itself in the context...

• Thorny Issues a Daily Staple in Nevada Medical Malpractice Cases

  Steve Klearman | January 16, 2008 1:42 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Any attorney who works in medical malpractice law in Nevada (and there are fewer and fewer of us) knows that difficult issues arise every week.Many of these issues are presented by people who are searching for attorneys.A common issue, after the unfortunate passage of the so-called KODIN legislation, is whether the statute of limitations has run in a particular medical malpractice case.We often...

• Response Time in Cardiac Cases Slow

  Steve Klearman | January 09, 2008 7:18 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  According to a New York Times article dated January 3, 2008, in one out of three cases of cardiac arrests in hospitals, the staff takes too long to respond and increases the risk of brain damage and death in the patient. This study was based on 6,789 patients in 369 different hospitals whose hearts stopped but could have been resuscitated with an electric shock. The study concludes that these...

• Be Safe on the Ice and Snow

  Steve Klearman | January 08, 2008 7:11 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  On January 4th, one of the worst storms in recent history hit the Sierra Nevadas, knocking out power, causing flooding and forcing people to evacuate their homes. The storm initially dropped roughly six to ten inches of rain, which turned to snow later on that evening. After 44 inches of snow followed the rain, the levees in Fernley, Nevada were stressed to their breaking point, causing them to...

• Woman Dies in Dentist Chair

  Steve Klearman | January 02, 2008 7:11 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Last week Georgette Watson, principal of Brentano Math and Science Academy in Chicago, died while undergoing a root canal in her dentist's chair. It wasn't the physical surgery that killed her, however. The blame is being placed upon her anesthesia, which put her in a state between unconsciousness and being awake, a state known as "twilight sedation." In this condition patients are typically...