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Attorney, Sara Lamme

After having represented workers’ compensation insurance companies for close to 16 years, Sara’s practice now consists of representing injured workers only. She understands the tactics the insurance companies use to deny claims and uses her significant experience to obtain the maximum benefits that her clients are entitled.

She also understands the frustration that comes along with needing medical care and compensation benefits and having the insurance carrier delay or deny those benefits. She recognizes the stress that occurs when her clients are injured and can’t work. This is why she fights aggressively for her clients so that they can obtain the medical care they need and the benefits they deserve. She pursues such benefits for her clients as expeditiously as possible given the individual facts of each case.

When she is not working on behalf of her clients, Sara loves to watch her children play sports. She is also a huge dog lover and can often be found working with her golden retriever, training him to be a therapy dog.

Sara grew up in small town South Dakota and graduated magna cum laude from Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota in 2000 with a Bachelors degree in history, criminal justice and minor in art. She attended Creighton University School of law and graduated in 2003, during which she competed in moot court and was nominated in 2002 for Creighton’s best brief in a moot court competition.

Sara is licensed to practice law in both the States of Nebraska and the State of Iowa. Sara has prosecuted countless trials in both states and argued in the appellate and supreme courts.

Sara was involved in successful outcomes in the following cases before the Nebraska Supreme Court and Court of Appeals as well as the Iowa Supreme Court and Court of Appeals having developed and submitted written arguments on behalf of her clients.

  • Copple Construction, LLC. v. Columbia Nat. Ins. Co., 776 N.W.2d 503 (Neb.2009)
  • Sand Livestock Systems, Inc. v. Svoboda, 756 N.W.2d 299 (Neb.App.,2008)
  • Plumrose USA v. Hathaway, 2014 WL 250239 (Iowa App. 2014)
  • Searle Petroleum v. Mlady, 842 N.W.2d 679 (Iowa App. 2013)
  • Unger v. Olsen’s Agr. Laboratory, Inc., 809 N.W.2d 813 (Neb.App.,2012)
  • Bassinger v. Nebraska Heart Hospital, 806 N.W.2d 395 (Neb.,2011)

Sara received countless outstanding trial results for her clients throughout Nebraska and Iowa, including:

  • Sara was involved in preparing a case for a full jury trial in Ripsky v. Ameristar Casinos Council Bluffs, 2008 WL 5233070, a Pottawattamie County jury returned a verdict in favor of the Sara’s client on Oct. 30, 2008.
  • In the case of Fentress v. Aventure Staffing , 2019 WL 1929747, at *4 (Apr. 19, 2019) (June 26, 2019) Sara was able to obtain medical benefits for her client who had been wrongfully denied care.
  • In Badillo v. Rock River Jerseys, 2020 WL 1183469, (Feb. 17, 2020), the deputy awarded the Claimant the amount that Sara asked for based on the facts of the case.
  • In Spicka v. Aspen Dental, (Neb. Work. Comp. Ct. Sept. 27, 2017), the Court found the attorney fee of $13,650.00 to be reasonable in light of the plaintiff’s recovery of back due TTD benefits that totaled $24,335.00. Sara also recovered a penalty benefit of $12,167.50. Sara’s efforts required to the defendant to also pay $40,319.12 in medical bills. In light of that recovery, the attorney fees of $13,650.00 appeared reasonable to the Court and were awarded.
  • In Chevalier v. Oakland Veterinarian Clinic, 2008 WL 2676370 (June 30, 2008), Sara obtained the decision that her client wanted.

Sara also gave many presentations at seminars regarding workers’ compensation and employment law:

  • Norfolk Area Human Resource Association 2017 Symposium – What is Keeping You Up At Night?
  • Small business owners seminar on January 25, 2016 at “Reducing Risk: How to Decrease Legal Costs Associated with Your Business”
  • 2018 Nebraska Employment Law Seminar “Workers’ Compensation 101”
  • 2019 Nebraska Employment Law Seminar “Workers’ Compensation Boot Camp”

Sara has also traveled to Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan giving presentations to business representatives regarding their obligations to injured workers under the laws of Iowa and Nebraska.

Sara maintains a blog that discusses current issues related to Iowa workers’ compensation law: https://iowaworkerscomp.wordpress.com/

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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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