Posts tagged Nevada Injury Law

• Nike Recalls Chin Straps

  Steve Klearman | November 13, 2007 6:45 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Apparently, it's the year of the product recall.Now it's Nike, with their recall of 235,000 football helmet chin straps after receiving reports of head and facial injuries that resulted after the strap broke.Not surprisingly, the chin strap was made in China. The strap was sold between 2006 and 2007.You can see pictures of the strap here. For more information on this subject, please refer to...

• Nevada Alternative Medicine Doctor Fined

  Steve Klearman | November 13, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to a Las Vegas Review Journal article, a physician and alternative medicine doctor in Carson City, Frank Shallenberger, entered a guilty plea admitting to malpractice for failure to diagnosis colon cancer in one of his patients. This misdiagnosis ultimately lead to the patient's death. The doctor never performed any tests or examinations after the patient complained of symptoms of...

• Merck Agrees to $4.85 Billion Settlement

  Steve Klearman | November 09, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Merck agreed to pay more than $4 billion to settle the majority of the claims that have arisen from their popular drug Vioxx. Victims and their families claim that Vioxx causes heart attacks and strokes.Merck has won most of the Vioxx cases that have gone to trial and many observers actually believed that this was a favorable settlement for Merck.Approximately 38,000 or the 60,000 Vioxx...

• Businesses Fighting Fewer Suits

  Steve Klearman | November 07, 2007 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The following comes from the American Associaiton of Justice quoting Sheri Qualters at the National Law Journal:American businesses are filing and fighting fewer lawsuits, according to Fulbright & Jaworski's fourth annual Litigation Trends Survey. Seventeen percent of respondents have not defended a lawsuit in the past year, compared with 11% in the prior year. The rate of corporations bringing...

• Why Binding Arbitration Can Forfeit Your Rights

  Steve Klearman | November 06, 2007 12:56 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Yesterday I blogged on some of the negative aspects of binding arbitration. Here's more information on why this often misunderstood form of alternative dispute resolution can be problematic.Buried in the fine print of most consumer contracts - such as credit cards, insurance plans and car deals - is a clause, which waives the buyer's constitutional right to trial by jury. These contracts...

• Binding Arbitration Bad for Consumers

  Steve Klearman | November 05, 2007 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  There have been recent efforts by federal legislators to impose binding arbitration in a variety of contexts.You may have never heard of Binding Mandatory Arbitration, but that would not prevent this unfair practice, visited on unsuspecting consumers, from destroying your life. Buried in the fine print of many consumer contracts for credit cards, new homes and cars are clauses that stack the...

• Doctors Protest Health Insurer Deal

  Steve Klearman | November 02, 2007 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- While state regulators have approved UnitedHealth Group's $2.6 billion purchase of Sierra Health Services Inc., Nevada's largest health insurer, the American Medical Association continued its fight against the deal during a congressional hearing Thursday.The AMA's immediate past president, Dr. William Plested, asked the House Committee on Small Business to urge the...

• Rapid Treatment of TIA Reduces Major Stroke Risk

  Steve Klearman | November 01, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  From D. Garth Sullivan at Indox Consulting:Rapid assessment and treatment of a first transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor ischemic stroke dramatically reduces risk for subsequent major stroke.Two separate studies - one in the Lancet and the other in Lancet Neurology - show that such an approach reduces recurrent stroke risk by about 80%.Initially presented in June 2007 at the 16th European...

• U.S. Companies Fighting Fewer Lawsuits

  Steve Klearman | October 30, 2007 12:45 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  More news that suggests that we are less litigious rather than more. This from the American Association of Justice quoting the New York Times:"U.S. companies are getting hit with fewer new lawsuits and initiating less litigation, according to a survey released on Monday. The poll of in-house law departments suggests corporate litigation may have slowed, although big companies still find...

• AB 483 Revises Procedures on Execution of Property

  Steve Klearman | October 29, 2007 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Assembly Bill No. 483 dated March 20, 2007 revises Nevada law regarding the execution of property and wages from a judgment debtor. The bill makes personal property whose total value does not exceed $1,000.00 exempt from execution. It also exempts tax refunds from federal earned income credit or a similar state law from being garnished. The original bill includes the proper forms for a notice of...