Personal Injury Attorneys in Nebraska

Billy Moyle, 24, was driving behind a Mack concrete truck on US Highway 75 near Nebraska City on Halloween 2012. The truck moved into the left turn lane and then turned right across his path, running his pickup off the road. He suffered a broken vertebra and a partially severed spinal cord.

On May 5, 2020, Michael L. McCartney was driving a John Deere backhoe across the Indian Creek bridge on U.S. Highway 136 west of Red Cloud, Nebraska, where a construction closure had narrowed the road to one lane and removed a guardrail. A tractor-trailer driven by Lenard D. Zurcher, hauling corn for Scott Kort Trucking, ran into the back of the backhoe, carrying both vehicles into the bridge's concrete barriers and overturning them. McCartney's right leg was amputated below the knee and part of his left foot was also removed. A Webster County jury awarded McCartney $8,464,000 and awarded his wife, Sharon G. McCartney, $3,000,000 for loss of consortium after 49 years of marriage, a combined verdict of $11,464,000. The trial court denied the defendants' motion for a new trial, and the verdict against Zurcher and Scott Kort Trucking was not part of the appeal that followed.

Curt Thege, a BNSF carman at the Havelock Car Shop in Lincoln, was thrown from a scissor lift in June 2019 when an overhead crane hoist moved higher than the operator intended. BNSF admitted it breached its duty of care under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, leaving the jury to decide damages. After a five-day trial the jury returned $9,333,016, and on December 15, 2022 the court entered a $9,295,988.96 judgment after subtracting benefits payments the plaintiff conceded.

Jimmy Rohr Jr., a BNSF carman, was injured in February 2014 at the Havelock Yard in Lincoln when a railcar wheel rolled over his left foot, leading to 13 surgeries and a below-knee amputation. After a trial in January 2019, a Lancaster County jury valued his damages at $7,112,071 under the Federal Employers' Liability Act and assigned him 51 percent of the fault. After that reduction he was left with about $3,485,000, or 49 percent of the verdict.