James Krueger

Ocean, Boats and Pools

Insurance

Medical Neglect

Product Liability

Premises Liability

Transportation

Ocean, Boats and Pools

The firm has litigated respecting death, spinal and other serious injuries resulting from failing to warn about or negligence concerning:

  • Dangerous ocean surf conditions,
  • Hotel/condominium failure to warn visitors of dangerous ocean conditions,
  • Improper supervision of tourists engaged in recreational water activities,
  • Defective swimming pool design,
  • Improper maintenance and supervision of public swimming pools,
  • Lifeguard ocean or pool neglect,
  • Negligent surfboard rental/instruction,
  • Negligent kayaking rental/instruction,
  • Negligent paragliding rental/instruction,
  • Defective design of scuba computers,
  • Collisions between boats and swimmers,
  • Vessel unseaworthiness,
  • Negligent boat design concerning masts, booms, windows and guardrails,
  • Negligent location of passengers on excursion boats,
  • Negligent charter boat lookout,
  • Outboard engine propeller/swimmer contact.

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Insurance

The firm has litigated disputes involving:

  • Bad faith claims involving insurers-failures to investigate, defend and/or settle claims within policy limits,
  • Failure to procure insurance,
  • Excess coverage,
  • Uninsured and underinsured claims,
  • Stacking,
  • Assignment of claims,
  • No-fault protection,
  • E and O directors' coverage.

Mr. Krueger has been an expert witness, lecturer and writer in certain of the above matters. He obtained the first multi-million dollar Hawaii bad faith jury verdict.

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Medical Neglect

  • Gynecological/obstetrical neglect,
  • Pediatric neglect,
  • Failure to monitor fetal heart tones,
  • Failure to identify tubal pregnancy,
  • Failure to conduct stress ekg and/or obtain cardiac consult,
  • Failures to obtain frozen section biopsies,
  • Failures to diagnose bacterial endocarditis,
  • Failures to diagnose malignancies,
  • Performance of unnecessary gastrectomy,
  • Spermatic cord severance,
  • Bowel surgery neglect,
  • Brachial artery incision,
  • Nerve severance during thyroidectomy,
  • Improper podiatrist foot surgery resulting in CRPS (RSD),
  • Dental surgeries and subsequent failure to provide antibiotic therapy,
  • Chiropractic manipulation causing disc herniations,
  • Nursing neglect,
  • Prescribed psychiatric drug suicide,

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Product Liability

The firm has litigated respecting injuries caused by manufacturing, design, or warning defects of:

  • Meat grinders,
  • Scuba computers,
  • Heart monitors,
  • Motor vehicle rear seat restraint systems,
  • Vehicle crash worthiness,
  • Absence of or improper seat belts.
  • 747 stairwells,
  • Garbage truck design,
  • Aircraft engine housing switches,
  • Rifle firing mechanisms,
  • Hotel towel racks,
  • Pesticides, fungicides,
  • Toxic cosmetics,
  • Market plastic bag dispensers,
  • Bicycle handbrakes,
  • Multi-piece truck wheels,
  • Tar kettles,
  • Spa pool drain grates,
  • Outboard engine propellers,
  • Handgun holsters,
  • Paragliding harnesses,
  • Toxic building material chemicals,

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Premises Liability

The firm has litigated respecting injuries caused by hazards found and failure to warn of such hazards involving:

  • Hotel swimming pool steps and ladders,
  • Shopping mall escalators,
  • Flooding of subdivisions and property,
  • Beach access trails,
  • Hotel/public beach lifeguards,
  • Spa pool cover grates,
  • Retail store stacking of goods,
  • Common elements of condominiums,
  • Ocean conditions,
  • Hotel/condominium steps,
  • Hotel/condominium lanai railings,
  • Crop burning causing roadway smoke,
  • Foliage obscuring intersection signs or vehicles,
  • Foreign substances on stores/hotels stairs and floors,
  • Market/store displays of goods,
  • Bulk store high shelf goods.

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Transportation

The firm has litigated concerning deaths and injuries suffered by motorists or pedestrians resulting from State or County negligent design/maintenance involving:

  • Install/maintain stop lights,
  • Roadway drainage,
  • Roadway or intersection design,
  • Inadequate or absence of center median widths,
  • Absence of median barriers,
  • Freeway lane width design,
  • Inadequate bridge railing heights,
  • Improperly placed and/or maintained traffic control signs,
  • Inadequate roadway turn lanes,
  • Malfunctioning traffic lights,
  • Insufficient sight distances,
  • Failure to provide guardrails adjacent to roadways and curves.

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