Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Evenflo Car Seats Endanger Nevada Consumers

  Steve Klearman | May 11, 2007 6:39 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  This comes from the site "All American Patriots." The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in cooperation with Evenflo Company Inc., today announced a recall of the following consumer product. (To access color photos of the following recalled products, see CPSC's Web site at www.cpsc.gov.)Name of Product: Evenflo Embrace Infant...

• Get Records from Nevada Doctors

  Steve Klearman | May 09, 2007 8:57 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As I've pointed out many times now, there is a one-year statute of limitations in many Nevada medical malpractice cases.This means that if you request your medical records from your doctor, you should not let your doctor's office delay provision of records for more than a week or two.Undue delay in obtaining records could compromise your ability to bring your case. If you have problems getting...

• Dry Cleaning Lawsuit a Dangerous Aberration

  Steve Klearman | May 06, 2007 5:23 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A judge in Washington, DC has sued a dry cleaning business for $67 million dollars because it lost his pants.Stupid lawsuits like this do much to tarnish the good work of America's trial bar. Needless to say, media outlets, many of which are more concerned with American Idol, Anna Nicole Smith and other "non-news," love this sort of story because it's a story that they incorrectly use to...

• Bush Nominates Anti-Consumer Advocate to Consumer Protection Post

  Steve Klearman | April 30, 2007 7:02 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Here's part of an email I received today from People Over Profits. President Bush has nominated Michael Baroody (one of Corporate America's leading anti-consumer henchmen) to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) - our top government agency protecting millions of consumers from injury and death as a result of unsafe products. A hearing in the U.S. Senate on the nomination will take...

• Nevada Supreme Court Examines Legal Assistance

  Steve Klearman | April 20, 2007 7:08 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  This from the Nevada Supreme Court's site at http://www.nvsupremecourt.us/info/news/index.php?contentID=120:Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice William Maupin has announced the creation of a commission to study the way legal assistance is provided for criminal defendants who cannot afford to hire their own attorneys. Chief Justice Maupin said the Commission on Indigent Defense, which is the...

• Intoxicated Driver Kills Pedestrian

  Shannon Weidemann | April 17, 2007 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A woman driving her car under the influence of alcohol hit a pedestrian in Reno on Friday. The 48-year-old pedestrian died from her injuries at the hospital. She was crossing a street when she was hit.The driver of the car, 27-year-old Jennifer Castillo was initially booked on charges of driving under the influence causing substantial bodily harm and failure to yield right of way to a...

• Nevada Lawmakers Vote For Doctor-Backed 'I'm Sorry' Law

  Steve Klearman | April 13, 2007 3:33 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  This from the American Association of Justice:Nevada Lawmakers Vote For Doctor-Backed 'I'm Sorry' Law "A Nevada Senate committee voted Wednesday for a bill that would prevent doctors' apologies to their patients or patients' families from being admitted as court evidence if they're sued for negligence later on. The 'I'm Sorry' measure, SB174, provides that any doctor's expression of 'apology,...

• Blog on the Rise

  Steve Klearman | April 12, 2007 6:42 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  This from the blog mill (http://www.theblogmill.com/) quoting someone else:The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about...

• Nevada Attorney Recommends Samsung Blackjack

  Steve Klearman | April 12, 2007 6:16 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Farmers Insurance in Nevada Gives Up Colossus

  Steve Klearman | April 12, 2007 12:46 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Word on the street is that Farmers (at least here in Nevada) has abandoned reliance on the notorious Colossus computer system in making claims determinations. Rumors are that adjusters have reduced authority while Farmers puts some form of new system in place.If this is true, one can only hope that Farmers has gone back to reliance on the discretion of humans rather than the inevitable formulas...