Attorney, Meaghan A. Geraghty

Meaghan Geraghty is a trial attorney with High & Younes law firm in Omaha. She grew up in a rural community in northeast Ohio.

Meaghan received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Political Science, cum laude, from Bowling Green State University. Upon graduation, she was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to Hong Kong. While there she developed student language programs and worked at the U.S. Consulate for Hong Kong & Macau. Following her return, she became a case manager for the mental health community. This experience prompted her to become a registered nurse, graduating from Kent State University, after which she worked at the bedside and as a house supervisor caring for diverse patient populations.

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Meaghan’s passion for advocacy led her to obtain her Juris Doctor from the University of Nebraska College of Law. While at Nebraska Law, she was a two year member of the trial team, the Order of the Barristers, and was awarded the Pat Gies Memorial Award, Clinical Legal Educators Outstanding Clinical Student Award, and CALI awards in Civil Clinic and Public Health law.

Ms. Geraghty is a licensed registered nurse in Nebraska and Ohio and is active in nursing education. She is licensed to practice law in Nebraska state courts, the U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska, and the U.S. District Court, District for Montana. Her legal practice focuses on the injured person – medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, and personal injury. She is also ready to take on cases that require unwavering trial advocacy whether that’s in family law or criminal defense. She enjoys the intersection of nursing and the law and explores unique ways to increase the value of each client’s case.

She is active in pro bono legal work and regularly volunteers with Tenant Assistance Project, helping tenants facing eviction and preventing homelessness.

Outside the office, she enjoys spending time with her friends and family, hiking, cooking, sewing, traveling, and exploring Omaha with her dog Dakota.

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Your Questions About The Law

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The short answer is yes, you should care because it’s going to affect the statute of limitations on your claim. It’s important to define what a political subdivision is that way, you know where your claim lies.

A subdivision is city, county, villages, schools, certain administrative agencies. All those are treated under the act differently. Now, if you do sustain an injury or an accident with one of those individuals that I’ve named, then you have one year from the date of your injury to file a written notice, written claim to that subdivision. If you don’t, then your claim is forever barred. Read More

That depends on you, specifically in regards to the length of time it takes for your injuries to improve, how long it takes to get to a point where we can reasonably determine what your future looks like, what additional medical care you require, the cost of such medical care and what permanent restrictions or impairments you have. Read More

The answer to that is almost universally no. The reason for that is the insurance companies like to get in early and offer you a lowball offer in the hopes that they can get you to sign a release of liability waiver. Once that happens, you’re out of luck.

The reason that they send these lowball offers is because you haven’t had a chance yet to properly evaluate your claim. You might still be treating, you might need future medical. There’s also the possibility that you’ve been permanently damaged and you need a doctor to assess that. Read More

Maximum medical improvement or MMI is the point in your injury where you’re about as good as you’re going to get which means you’re not likely to get much better and you’re not likely to get much worse.

It doesn’t mean that you’re all the way better and so for that reason, maximum medical improvement is the point at which your permanent disability benefits are determined. Read More

In order to answer that question, we have to know the specific facts of your case. A lot of factors go into the value of a workers’ compensation case.

First of all, money benefits that are paid to you are based on your wages before the accident. That amount is used then to determine both your temporary disability benefits and your permanent disability benefits. Read More

Yes, it can. In order to modify a child custody order, you have to show what’s called a material change in circumstances.

Now, simply stated what that means is something has to happen. An unanticipated change that if the judge or the parties knew about it when they made the original order, they would have decided differently. Read More

Well, it depends on two things.

First of all, who are you suing and second of all, what are you suing them for? If it’s just general negligence and you’re suing a private person or corporation, it’s four years from the date of accrual of the claim or the date of the accident. Read More

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Helped me to choose which course would be best!

From day 1 Frank was able to give me several different options and helped me to choose which course would be best for me in my family law case. Everything was done quickly and without problem. I walked away from court and what seemed like a never ending battle completely satisfied with the outcome. I would recommend Frank and his firm to anyone looking for an attorney who really knows their stuff and cares about their clients.

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