COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

• Attorney David Rebein represented an area bank in a security interest priority dispute over the ownership of cattle in a feed yard offered as collateral to three different banks and the feed yard itself.
   

• Rebein  represented a prominent accountant accused of malpractice.
   

• Rebein represented a dairy in a case involving issues stemming from a failed partnership, required capital contributions from partners, distribution of financial losses incurred by the dairy to the partners, changes in dairy operations after the partnership failed and other complex issues.
   

• Rebein defended a feed yard accused of fraud in the feeding of several thousand head of Holstein heifers.
   

• Rebein is representing a group of ranchers trying to recover money lost in a cattle fraud scheme.
   

• Rebein is defending a trailer park owner in a claim for breach of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act.

COMPLEX COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

• Rebein represented a cattle feeder against a consortium of banks that seized his herd when the banks foreclosed on the feed yard holding his cattle.
   
• Rebein represented a group of ranchers against the Sierra Club and others wanting to build a recreation trail through their ranch properties on the site of an abandoned railroad.
  
   

CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION

• Rebein represented a construction company in a dispute with an owner over whether work it did for the owner was correcting work it had previously done or whether the work was extra work required by the fault of someone other than the construction company.
  
   

OIL AND GAS CLASS ACTION

• Rebein is one of a group of lawyers representing most of the nation's natural gas pipeline owners in a gas mis-measurement class action case.
   
• Rebein is one of a group of lawyers representing natural gas producers in a class action brought by the royalty owners.
   
• Rebein defended vitamin manufactures in an Anti-trust case brought by livestock feeders.

   

PERSONAL INJURY

• Attorneys Rebein and Bangerter  represented a teenage client and his family in a personal injury and wrongful death suit. The teen was driving to school for an early morning practice when his car was hit by a pickup driver who was cited for running a stop sign. The teen's passenger-father later died.
   
• Rebein represented a lineman injured after falling off of a 50-foot pole during a storm. The employee underwent a multi-level spine fusion and returned to work, where the company ordered him to end his career behind a desk.
   
• Rebein  represented a high school senior and gifted athlete whose vehicle was struck by a cattle hauler with a fill load. The hauler was cited for running a red light and no valid commercial driver’s license.  He had previous, multiple state convictions.
   

• Rebein represented a man whose neck was broken and whose rib cage was crushed when the vehicle he was riding in was struck head – on by a recreational vehicle (RV) illegally passing on a hill.
   

• Rebein represented the family of a woman seriously injured by a pharmacy that made a prescription error.
   

• Rebein represented a husband and wife who were nearly killed by a drunk driver.
   

• Rebein is representing a young woman who was injured when the vehicle she was riding in was hit by a drunk driver traveling at excessive speeds.
   

• Rebein represented a young woman who was hit by a truck while walking to her vehicle at night.
   

• Rebein is representing a man who was seriously injured when a vehicle ran a stop light and made an illegal left turn in front of his motorcycle.
   

• Rebein is representing a man who was seriously injured when the vehicle he was riding in was involved in a one car accident. 
   

• Rebein represented a woman who was injured when a grain truck failed to stop at a stop sign. 
   

• Rebein is defending the State of Kansas in a personal injury case involving failure to warn of the presence of a drainage ditch.

   

RANGE FIRE

• Rebein represented a rancher accused of accidentally starting a fire that burned 30,000 acres on the High Plains. Koger v. Ferrin

WORKER COMPENSATION

• Rebein appealed a fraudulent workers compensation award before the Kansas Supreme Court.
  Excel Corp. v. Goertz
   
• Rebein argued a retaliatory discharge case for an area cooperative before the Kansas Court of Appeals that helped establish state legal precedent. Griffin v. Dodge City
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals whether Claimant was entitled to a work disability, the proper calculation of an award and the proper reimbursement of unauthorized medical benefits.
  DeGuillen v. Schwan's Food Mfg., Inc.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals whether Claimant made a good-faith effort to find post injury employment.
  Ramirez v. Horizon Milling, L.L.C.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals whether Claimant made a good-faith effort to keep her employment.
  Hernandez v. Excel Corp.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals whether Claimant put forth a medically appropriate level of effort in the performance of his job.
  Rangel v. Excel Corp.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals whether Claimant's injury arose out of and in the course of his employment.
  Smith v. Winfield Livestock Auction, Inc.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals whether there was substantial competent evidence to support the findings of the Workers Compensation Board of Review.
  Fontes v. Excel Corp.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals whether a nerve injury sustained during a hernia operation should be calculated as a scheduled injury or to the body as a whole.
  Lazano v. Excel Corp.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals regarding the proper calculation of an award if surgery is refused by Claimant.
  Martinez v. Excel Corp.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals whether or not a work disability should be granted when the employee was terminated for falsification of his employment application.
  Ramirez v. Excel Corp.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals regarding the appropriate date of accident in a repetitive trauma injury.
  Alberty v. Excel Corp.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Court of Appeals whether Claimant's pre-injury and post-injury wages should have been calculated using a 40-hour work week, rather than a 48-hour work week, where the union contract indicated that basic work week was 40 hours and claimant testified that he normally worked 5-day weeks and sometimes worked 6-day weeks. Hernandez v. Monfort
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Supreme Court whether an award should be set aside when the Claimant litigated their claim using a false identification.
  Acosta v. National Beef Packing Co.
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Supreme Court on whether a dairy should be excluded from the workers compensation act as an agricultural pursuit. Rivera v. Cimarron Dairy
   
• Bangerter argued to the Kansas Supreme Court whether damage to a prosthetic device constituted a new injury under the workers compensation act.
  Solis v. Brookover Ranch Feed Yard, Inc

WRONGFUL DEATH

• Rebein represented the family of a young mother, who was fatally injured when a trailer came unhooked from a semi-truck and struck her vehicle.
   
• David Rebein represented  a woman and her family whose husband was killed when a silage truck ran a stop sign.
   
• Rebein  represented a young woman whose husband was killed when a tire blew on an oncoming car, causing a fatal head-on collision.
   
• Rebein  represented an elderly woman's family in a wrongful death lawsuit after she died from injuries suffered as a passenger in a two-car collision.
   
• Rebein represented the family of a young man killed when an oncoming SUV crossed the center line and hit his truck head-on.
   
• Rebein represented the family of a young child who was killed by a driver backing out of a driveway.
   

• Rebein represented the family of a woman who was killed when a semi-trailer crossed the center line causing a head-on collision.
   

• Rebein represented the family of a man who was killed in an accident when a grain truck ran a stop sign and collided with the vehicle in which he was riding as a passenger.
   

• Rebein is representing the family of a young man who was killed in an open intersection automobile accident.
   

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