- Steve Lombardi | June 30, 2007 9:39 AM |
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MiscellaneousInjury by farming equipment has long been a source of making farming the most dangerous occupation. When considering the age of farm children who spend unmeasured hours toiling to do farm chores, it's not surprising when another is injured. Augers causing injury is something I'm quite familiar with having sued Beatrice the manufacturer of this type of equipment. In Dodgeville, Wisconsin in Iowa...
- Steve Lombardi | June 30, 2007 8:57 AM |
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MiscellaneousThis is about Orly Degani and animal rights.Let me start by saying, to a degree I'm not against animal rights or the activists that try to advance those rights. The City of West Hollywood passed an ordinance that prohibits declawing of cats. Meow...., (West Hollywood Mun. Code, sec. 9.49.01.010(g) adopted Ordinance No. 03-656, adding chapter 9.49, entitled "Ban on Onychectomy (Declawing)"....
- Steve Lombardi | June 27, 2007 2:58 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsA car and bicycle collided on the east side of Des Moines on Saturday, May 12. The cyclist suffered broken bones, severe head injuries and went into surgery at a Des Moines hospital after the accident. The victim remains in a coma.The police are trying to identify the man who is Hispanic and in his 30s. His blood-alcohol level was four times the legal limit at the time of the accident. The...
- Steve Lombardi | June 27, 2007 10:22 AM |
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Wrongful DeathWith the recent increase in motorcycle sales, more insurance companies are providing motorcycle insurance. Some state laws only require motorcyclists to carry liability insurance, but some motorcyclists are becoming more cautious and want more coverage including fire and theft as well as collision insurance. This is partly due to the fact that there has recently been a large increase in...
- Steve Lombardi | June 27, 2007 8:53 AM |
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MiscellaneousMore than 330,000 residential fires occur each year, causing about 2,700 deaths per year. Residential fires are the second leading cause of death in the home. Victims of residential fires most often die of smoke and toxic gas inhalation not burns. Installing smoke detectors properly can significantly reduce the risk of fire-related injury.There are two types of smoke detectors available for...
- Steve Lombardi | June 26, 2007 9:12 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe company Foreign Tire Sales of Union, New Jersey has been ordered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall radial tires made for pickup trucks, SUVs, and vans. They recently admitted that the Chinese manufacturer of the tires, Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber, had stopped placing a safety 0.6 millimeter layer of rubber (called a "gum strip") in the tires to prevent separation....
- Steve Lombardi | June 25, 2007 3:27 PM |
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Wrongful DeathA house fire on Tuesday, May 15 led to the death of a brother and sister in Keokuk, Iowa. The children were Elizabeth White and Dylan White. A medical examiner has determined that the cause of death was smoke inhalation. The parents, Matthew White and Joyce Boley, suffered serious burns and were taken to University of Iowa Hospitals. One other child also survived the fire. The cause of the...
- Steve Lombardi | June 25, 2007 3:11 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsOn Thursday, May 31, a seven-year old girl was thrown through the windshield of a pick-up truck on Interstate-35 near Norwalk. The vehicle was reported as swerving and hitting the side guard-rail before spinning out of control and hitting the opposite side guard-rail. The girl was then thrown from the truck, landing near a cement rail.The girl was taken by helicopter to a Des Moines hospital...
- LLFClerk LLFClerk | June 20, 2007 9:27 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsTyler Edward Dawdy, an 18-year old from Akron, Iowa, was killed Saturday, May 19 in a collision with a tractor. Dawdy was headed westbound on county road C-38 when his car collided with a tractor driven by 83-year old Gerald Deiterman.Deiterman was headed eastbound, trying to make a left-hand turn when the tractor loader arms struck the left side of Dawdy's car. Dawdy was immediately taken to...
- LLFClerk LLFClerk | June 20, 2007 9:03 AM |
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MiscellaneousHand sanitizers are thought to be a safe way to kill germs quickly without water. However, small children may think sanitizers look like water and some have fruity smells, so they think it is okay to drink. Many sanitizers are alcohol-based and a small amount consumed by a child could result in serious problems.Tammy Noble, a nurse and spokeswoman for the Iowa Poison Control Center, says there...
- LLFClerk LLFClerk | June 19, 2007 9:59 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA fatal car crash occurred on Sunday, May 27. The car that the two victims were in drove off Highway 6 and landed in a pond in Iowa County. Although this accident resulted in the death of two people, Scott Falb, from the Iowa Department of Transportation, said that there have been fewer fatal car crashes this year than last year.Falb claims that the decrease in fatal car crashes is due to the...
- LLFClerk LLFClerk | June 19, 2007 9:34 AM |
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MiscellaneousPatients need to be informed, ask questions and protect themselves. Avandia (rosiglitazone) is a drug used by patients with type 2 diabetes. The FDA has recently discovered that patients taking Avandia show an increased risk of heart attack and other heart-related deaths. The FDA has not yet issued a recall, however, since they are continuing to conduct tests on the safety of this drug.The FDA...
- LLFClerk LLFClerk | June 18, 2007 9:55 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesAn increase in the construction industry in King County, Seattle has resulted in more people working in high-risk construction jobs. In 2006 alone, 14 workers died in King County as a result of construction-site accidents. Tyler Scott, a victim of a work related accident, says that construction workers are pressured to produce more and at a faster pace, and safety is compromised as a...
- LLFClerk LLFClerk | June 18, 2007 9:25 AM |
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MiscellaneousBoston Scientific is currently involved in 1,600 product-liability lawsuits related to claims involving the Model 1861 defibrillator. The issue concerns a flaw that could cause the Model 1861 defibrillator not to produce a life-saving jolt. Guidant Corp. (purchased by Boston Scientific in 2006) discovered this flaw in 2002, but did not warn patients until the recall in 2005. This flaw proved...
- LLFClerk LLFClerk | June 18, 2007 9:10 AM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsJennifer Reynolds, a 17 year old student who planned on attending community college this Fall, was killed Wednesday June 6 as a passenger in a motorcycle accident. The crash occurred in West Des Moines at the intersection of Woodland Avenue and 58th Street at 1:25 am.Matthew Garlick was driving the motorcycle. A police officer described his injuries as "non-life threatening." Charges have not...
- Steve Lombardi | June 16, 2007 6:00 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsDrive safely, wear your seat belt, watch where you want to go, where you are and pay attention to what is going on around you. Don't be in a hurry, or distracted. Cell phones, iPods, etc. are certainly nice gadgets but are becoming a major source of accidents. When teenagers, excited over graduation and the attendant celebrations, gather in a moving vehicle it is easy to become distracted. The...
- Steve Lombardi | June 15, 2007 1:46 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAfter a sixty-two year old man was struck and killed by a car another man was arrested and charged with drunk driving. Varell Wiley of West Des Moines was charged with driving the car that allegedly struck and killed Kerry Tucker. It was reported by a news source: A West Des Moines man is facing drunk driving charges in connection with a deadly hit-and-run accident, and police say more charges...
- Steve Lombardi | June 12, 2007 2:42 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA West Des Moines man and a Des Moines man were hospitalized this morning after being injured in a Dallas County truck and bike accident. The collision took place on Highway 44 and Route 30. The Iowa State Patrol says two bicyclists were struck by a pickup truck, sending one into the east ditch and the other into the west ditch.Police say 41-year-old John Schofield, Jr. or West Des Moines and...