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• Do Texas malpractice caps work or is this just more hocus pockus?

  Steve Lombardi | May 06, 2009 10:00 AM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  After six years of limiting the quality of life damages in Texas for the most severely injured patients Texas is finding out that promises of lower health care costs is just another broken...

• Helmets don't always help to avoid brain damage or death of the rider

  Steve Lombardi | May 04, 2009 11:35 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On April 14th 2009 William Lee Kilmer of Des Moines was traveling west on Aurora Avenue when he lost control of his motorcycle hit a curb and crashed head first into a tree. Mr. Kilmer was not...

• What you need to know about Swine Flu or H1N1:…..or why you don’t need to be afraid of “this little piggy”

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | May 02, 2009 10:03 AM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  What you need to know about Swine Flu or H1N1: …..or why you don’t need to be afraid of “this little piggy” Swine Flu symptoms are the same as any typical...

• Iowa Workers Compensation: Single car accidents where the working driver is killed

  Steve Lombardi | April 15, 2009 11:33 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Normally we think in terms of car accidents being about liability against another driver. But when a driver falls asleep at the wheel or for whatever reason loses control of a company owned vehicle...

• Medical Malpractice: What's the Price?

  Megan Roth | April 13, 2009 9:53 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In 2007, a medical malpractice lawsuit was resolved. The plaintiff? A woman who suffered a crippling brain seizure that left her incapable of returned to work. The defendant? The medical school...

• Medical Malpractice: Call it what you will...

  Megan Roth | April 09, 2009 9:25 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Yesterday’s article proved slightly controversial (to say the least); I introduced the controversial topic of medical malpractice and presented several statistics (linked to their source)...

• TEXAS MEDICAL DREAM TEAM: Invitation Number 4, the doctor who … I’m not sure what to say to this one except he’ll love Texas medical mistake protectionist legislation.

  Steve Lombardi | March 23, 2009 2:05 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  This doctor has a few problems that could potentially result in financial responsibility to patients but Texas will invite him with open arms and fatten his wallet at the same time; because after...

• Sentence Bernie Madoff to work at Wal-Mart

  Steve Lombardi | March 20, 2009 8:35 AM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Wal-Mart is adding approximately $2 billion U.S. dollars to the benefit and incentive packages for hourly employees in the United States. That’s a good sign. In a memo to Wal-Mart...

• Iowa Workers' Compensation: The Right to Chose the Treating Doctor, It's about dignity and respect for others

  Steve Lombardi | March 06, 2009 1:54 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Iowa Workers Compensation – Sixteen tons, what do you get… Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go … I owe my soul to the company store… The bill before the...

• Texas Tort Reform Message – Go west young man; go east or north, but go.

  Steve Lombardi | February 24, 2009 12:36 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Yesterday we discussed David Fitzgerald, a real person, not some fictional character in someone’s imagination but breathing, thinking and probably a pretty angry man. David needed medial care....