- Steve Lombardi | November 30, 2008 1:05 PM |
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MiscellaneousLife is full of irony. It's proof that God has a sense of humor.
Previously we discussed the bride-to-be giving back the engagement ring after the promise of marriage is called off. Today we...
- Steve Lombardi | November 30, 2008 8:54 AM |
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MiscellaneousBetting on tort reform speaks volumes about the mentality that dead workers are just part of a growing economy. It's the same mentality of an Administration that is oblivious to Wall Street...
- Steve Lombardi | November 29, 2008 1:07 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
The Court Argument: Prolonged or repeated Tasering causes acidosis, an excess of acid in the bloodstream. The acidosis, in turn, can cause cardiac arrest.
That argument coupled with a failure...
- Steve Lombardi | November 28, 2008 2:56 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesPolychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are man-made organic compounds that can be found in capacitors, transformers, electric motors, oil-based paint, plastics, insulation material, pumps, and pipes. PCBs...
- Steve Lombardi | November 28, 2008 9:03 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeIowa Supreme Court Decision – Med. Malp. – Breast Cancer Detection Case Allowed to Proceed
Pamela Rock developed a lump on her breast. She went to the doctor who later diagnosed...
- Steve Lombardi | November 27, 2008 9:59 AM |
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MiscellaneousToday we brake from talking personal injury and politics to say have a happy Thanksgiving.
We solute Adam Bender a baseball catcher, soccer player and football quarterback who exemplifies the...
- Megan Roth | November 27, 2008 9:15 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesIn yesterday’s post, I asked just how dangerous formaldehyde is to human health. One would assume the effects are minimal, considering everyone is exposed to small amounts of it in air, food,...
- Steve Lombardi | November 26, 2008 3:01 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsINTERFOOD SHAREHOLDING COMPANY THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Lot 13, Tam Phuoc Industrial Zone Independence – Freedom – Happiness
Long Thanh District, Dong nai...
- Steve Lombardi | November 26, 2008 1:16 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesMegan Roth and I have been kicking around the whole formaldehyde is it a poison issue. She’s young and has a long life to look forward to. She’s still got the whole raising kids thing to...
- Steve Lombardi | November 26, 2008 11:07 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsReuters reports U.S. Health officials found melamine in infant formula sold within the United States.
NEWS SOURCES - Reuters OR Market Watch OR
Agri News from Minnesota. - Minnesota Department of...
- Megan Roth | November 26, 2008 9:08 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesSteve and I have been talking, and we feel it's necessary to introduce our readers to formaldehyde; we figure you're probably sharing your home, clothing, cleaning supplies, etc. with it, it's...
- Steve Lombardi | November 25, 2008 12:08 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesMany of us have pest control services come to our homes on a regular schedule. Are you aware of where those bait traps are being placed and whether your children are being exposed to rat poison?...
- Steve Lombardi | November 25, 2008 9:04 AM |
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Toxic Substances
They called us ambulance chasers. How insulting can you get? I can’t tell you how mad I was hearing that insult hurled our way. Me the guy who simply fights with insurance companies called...
- Steve Lombardi | November 24, 2008 11:52 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesGarage Sale at the US Treasury
I guess you could call the wife and me empty nesters. The kids and our savings have flown the coup and are all gone! At last we are without a car, cane, clue or...
- Steve Lombardi | November 24, 2008 9:02 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe melamine poisoning scandal along with a recent movie has me thinking about DDT. Remember DDT? DDT is formally named dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. If you can say that entire word you get to...
- Steve Lombardi | November 23, 2008 10:09 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsWhichever way you choose to go in the sugar wars sooner or later you have to decide if Aspartame is for you. Knowing which foods are likely to contain aspartame is knowing what you want or...
- Steve Lombardi | November 23, 2008 10:06 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products Where can you look for answers to whether Aspartame is or is not safe?
What this all comes down to is a personal choice. The government for a long time believed saccharin was safe. They told...
- Steve Lombardi | November 22, 2008 2:26 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsI heard it said that the first casualty of any war is the truth. More and more I’ve asked myself this question: Where do legitimate sale’s tactics cross the line into outright lying and...
- Steve Lombardi | November 22, 2008 8:59 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesOn October 22, 2008 a 20-year-old man from Lenox, Mass. was working at a construction site occupying an excavated trench. No trench box was being used and the 8 foot deep, 2 to 3 foot wide trench he...
- Steve Lombardi | November 21, 2008 9:42 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesConstruction accidents resulting in death have been more numerous lately. It may be a result of safety rules being ignored due to tighter deadlines resulting from the economic conditions we find...
- Steve Lombardi | November 20, 2008 8:06 PM |
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Workplace Injuries
Construction worker killed by falling beam - Jose Gustavo Sivrian, was killed by a falling beam at the construction site of Fresh Egg Farms in Lemars, Iowa. Mr. Sivrian is a national of El...
- Steve Lombardi | November 20, 2008 9:35 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThere’s a three car accident at the Arebela Four Corners in Arebela, Missouri. According the Missouri State Highway Patrol they concluded that a nineteen year old driving northbound on Route A...
- Steve Lombardi | November 19, 2008 1:00 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesWe’ve covered this topic several times; a worker on a construction crew being run over and either killed or seriously injured. In this instance Bonnie Stevens of Iowa City, Iowa was critically...
- Steve Lombardi | November 19, 2008 9:15 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesLife is like a sewer – what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Tom Lehrer
Here are the facts. The good people of San Francisco, over 12,000 of them, signed a petition in...
- Megan Roth | November 18, 2008 1:11 PM |
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MiscellaneousIn my previous post, I raised a few alarming (or what I consider to be alarming) facts. At the top of that list? The fact that US drinking water contains approximately 2100 toxins - be it in traces...
- Steve Lombardi | November 18, 2008 11:05 AM |
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MiscellaneousI’ve always liked books. As a young boy growing up in a family without much money that library card was my passport to a world that I thought would always be outside of my reach. For Christmas...
- Steve Lombardi | November 18, 2008 8:08 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeSeven University of Iowa workers were suspended and one was fired after an internal privacy investigation indicated the hospital’s privacy policy had been broken. Even within the hospital...
- Steve Lombardi | November 14, 2008 12:25 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer Accidents“London Bridge Is Falling Down”
The lyrics from the well-known Mother Goose nursery rhyme talking about bridges falling down, pins and needles bend and break, build it up with wood...
- Megan Roth | November 13, 2008 11:50 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsWhat makes the water in foreign countries so dangerous?
What about water contamination in the U.S. (think Erin Brokovich and other situations where toxic waste/materials has reached and...
- Steve Lombardi | November 13, 2008 9:05 AM |
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MiscellaneousInjuryboard works, even from Des Moines, Iowa.
The InjuryBoard is a collection of attorneys from across the country who work daily to educate the public concerning the issues that affect the...
- Megan Roth | November 12, 2008 9:26 AM |
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MiscellaneousSome of you may know this, some of you may not (and most of you probably don't care, but it's relevant) : I currently live in New York City. By the end of my first week living here, I had spent a...
- Steve Lombardi | November 12, 2008 8:24 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesA road construction worker working alone and removing pieces of sewer pipe died from a gash across his throat. He was able to climb out of the trench but took only a few steps before collapsing and...
- Steve Lombardi | November 11, 2008 9:56 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsI've written previously about rear runovers and the use of rear beeping or auditory warning devices. On November 7, 2008 it happened again when a woman in downtown Des Moines was backed over by a...
- Megan Roth | November 11, 2008 9:10 AM |
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MiscellaneousWe've already established that there's no guaranteed way to predict whether someone will contract a food-borne illness; granted, it's relatively likely an illness will result if one eats raw...
- Steve Lombardi | November 10, 2008 9:30 AM |
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MiscellaneousThis case begs the question; when is arbitration nothing more than window dressing?
My French-Canadian mother turned eighty-one on November 5th. Mom is what you call old school. When something...
- Megan Roth | November 09, 2008 10:06 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsI know most InjuryBoard readers probably follow the news on a daily basis. So you're probably already one step ahead of this post because you're aware of the mass food poisoning that's taken 81...
- Steve Lombardi | November 09, 2008 9:16 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsToday we further develop the issue of Ghost Drivers, English as an official language and what it may say about our culture. I ask the question: Is the answer about why some people turn the wrong way...
- Megan Roth | November 08, 2008 10:11 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIt's a species of bacteria that live in the small intestine. Even if I didn't know that it causes food poisoning, I'd be disgusted (ehk - who wouldn't?)! It's E Coli - and to be honest folks, even...
- Steve Lombardi | November 08, 2008 9:10 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsWhenever a potential client calls with a wrong-way turn collision I ask myself a question. Was it booze or drugs, old age, sign pollution, improper sign wording, a language issue, a lighting issue,...
- Megan Roth | November 07, 2008 11:05 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
It's difficult to know when food poisoning and why some people are more adversely affected than others; tomorrow, I will talk on populations with a higher risk of contracting the illnesses and...
- Megan Roth | November 06, 2008 12:48 AM |
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MiscellaneousIf it isn't common sense, my previous two postings have shown that food poisoning can strike anyone on a global scale, and it can occur for a variety of reasons. In yesterday's article (concerning...
- Steve Lombardi | November 05, 2008 10:38 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesCollapsing scaffolding at a Mississippi power plant injured six workers and killed another. The site of this accident is the Mississippi Power’s Plant Daniel in Jackson County.
Inside a...
- Megan Roth | November 04, 2008 11:50 AM |
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MiscellaneousCommonly known as Montezuma's revenge, traveler's diarrhea strikes tourists around the world for a number of reasons, the majority of which are related (in some way, shape or form) to the...
- Steve Lombardi | November 04, 2008 10:15 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Des Moines Register reports this morning the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, Iowa using a five-member review panel found four priests engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct. That report is...
- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2008 4:02 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsGUILTY! CORRUPTION! CIRCLE OF LIES - REPUBLICAN SENATOR TED STEVENS GUILTY and then his name adorns the airport. What kind of sense does that make?
- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2008 3:00 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsAnd what does all of this cost us?
- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2008 2:31 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsFederal Preemption - Back to the Stevens' Cabin - Seize the cabin as ill-gotten gains. Use the racketeering statute.
- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2008 2:01 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsFederal Preemption: What booty does it bring to Congress?
- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2008 1:01 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsOil Money And Corruption Sen. Ted Stevens CNN - Veco Oil "Corrupt Bastards Club" video surveillance.
FBI Sting Surveillance Video tape taken in a motel room.
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- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2008 12:01 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsHere is an example of how our Congress uses federal preemption to obtain campaign contributions that in this instance ended with the lobbyist pleading guilt of bribery. The way federal preemption is...
- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2008 11:00 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsHere is an example of how our Congress uses federal preemption to obtain campaign contributions that in this instance ended with the lobbyist pleading guilt of bribery. The way federal preemption is...
- Megan Roth | November 03, 2008 10:34 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsI, myself, have never experienced it (knock on wood), but the stories I've heard are downright discomforting. It occurs in various forms and can be caused by any number of sources. It's food...
- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2008 10:15 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsUsing the federal preemption doctrine the federal government has stopped New York City from taking action towards improving air quality in the City. Whether you know it or not we are all chocking on...
- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2008 8:22 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsHere is how it’s supposed to work. Pharmaceutical companies conduct research and develop drugs that treat our ailments and diseases. During the R&D phase the pharmaceutical company...
- Steve Lombardi | November 02, 2008 3:35 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsHave you ever wondered what connects the doctrine of federal preemption with the Senator Ted Steven’s corruption conviction?
Ted Stevens is a United States Senator from Alaska. He was...
- Steve Lombardi | November 01, 2008 9:27 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA car collision in Villisca, Iowa demonstrates a point about your car insurance coverage and whether or not you have adequate coverage. Here is the story as reported in the news.
A two car...