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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