- Steve Lombardi | November 20, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)Who’s to blame when a stray cow comes in the path of a moving vehicle? I’m sure that’s just what the family of the driver of a semi trailer is asking today. At about 2:15 a.m. on...
- Steve Lombardi | November 19, 2009 2:48 PM |
Category:
Wrongful DeathI wonder if I could die from defensive medicine not being practiced in Iowa.
Over the weekend Barbara drove me to the local clinic because I was sick as a dog and coughing so hard my lungs and...
- Steve Lombardi | November 19, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
In this case the death of an 18-year-old from Manchester was caused by accidentally being shot by a member of his own hunting party. These men were hunting on Monday October 19th 2009 about one...
- Steve Lombardi | November 18, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
Workplace InjuriesIn Columbia County, Wisconsin a 47 year old man died Sunday October 18th, in an explosion in the American Packaging Corporation plant, according to the Wisconsin State Journal news source. Jeffrey...
- Steve Lombardi | November 17, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
MiscellaneousIf you think you may be a Ponzi victim, then ask yourself this question: Is this abnormal insecurity?
In all of this security is there an overriding sense of insecurity?
In college...
- Steve Lombardi | November 16, 2009 11:01 PM |
Category:
Workplace Injuries
A 45-year-old construction worker was in a construction site ditch while co-workers were removing a tree. As they pulled the tree out the ditch collapsed trapping the man in the ditch and burying...
- Steve Lombardi | November 16, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
MiscellaneousRemember the post I wrote about the Police Women of Broward County?
TLC Goes from Jon & Kate to, “There’s Always A Good Time to Use A Taser”, August 20, 2009
...
- Steve Lombardi | November 14, 2009 8:25 AM |
Category:
MiscellaneousHave you ever wanted to be a lawyer or FBI investigator? With TV shows like Law & Order, LA Law, Castle and CSI’s being so popular there is probably a little criminal investigation in many...
- Steve Lombardi | November 13, 2009 10:25 AM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsOn September 04th 2009 14-year-old William Beaulieau and a class mate 15-year-old Jacob Murray were go-carting when the go-cart they were riding in collided with a Ford truck driven by Chad Stange....
- Steve Lombardi | November 12, 2009 1:40 PM |
Category:
Head & Brain InjuriesAccording to the Washington Examiner, Stephanie Richardson, age 47, was killed by a Washington, D.C Metrobus. She was riding the Metrobus on October 5, 2009, when she got off at her stop, began to...
- Steve Lombardi | November 12, 2009 9:17 AM |
Category:
Wrongful DeathWith recent developments surrounding the Law Firm of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler the answer to the question in the title just got 1,000 times more complex. “I read your post about Melissa...
- Steve Lombardi | November 11, 2009 10:48 AM |
Category:
Wrongful DeathLinn County, Iowa - A crane collapsed at the construction site of the new federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids. There were 50 to 60 workers on the site. The crane was reported to be operated by...
- Steve Lombardi | November 11, 2009 9:00 AM |
Category:
Automobile Accidents
Samantha Martin (39) died when the Iowa State Patrol officer reports a car driven by Lisa Ann Smith (44 years-of-age) crossed the center line and caused a crash. Martin was driving a Dodge Neon,...
- Steve Lombardi | November 10, 2009 10:58 AM |
Category:
Automobile AccidentsIt’s reported that a vehicle being driven by Sarah Austin, 21 or Luana crossed the center line on U.S. Highway 52 at 5:45 a.m. on November 8, 2009 killing a 41-year-old man. The man Lee...
- Steve Lombardi | November 10, 2009 10:01 AM |
Category:
MiscellaneousWith all the talk of tort reform one might begin to believe that attorneys really are the cause of climbing costs in healthcare along with every other economic ill special interests can blame them...
- Steve Lombardi | November 09, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)According to the Cedar Rapids Fire Department the fire started on October 8th 2009 was started by a 3 year old boy playing with matches or a lighter. What’s still unclear is how a 3-year-old...
- Steve Lombardi | November 06, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
Spinal Cord InjuriesIs Cheerleading too dangerous? Does it need to be changed? Or does the coaching system simply need to be tweaked to provide a more safety minded mindset?
A Wall Street Journal article on September...
- Steve Lombardi | November 05, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
Workplace InjuriesOn Thursday October 8th John Versypt of Cordova Ill. was found in a common area hallway with a gun lying next to him. Mr. Versypt owns rental units in the complex and was reportedly in Iowa City,...
- Steve Lombardi | November 04, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
Defective & Dangerous ProductsMike Bryant wrote an interesting piece on the underlying facts behind the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ads and how distorted the conclusions are from the facts that underlie those ads. What I believe...
- Steve Lombardi | November 03, 2009 12:01 PM |
Category:
Spinal Cord InjuriesWhat caused 21 year old Travis Scott to veer straight into oncoming traffic? That is the question Council Bluffs police are asking after the accident in the late hours of October 9th 2009 between...
- Steve Lombardi | November 02, 2009 2:04 PM |
Category:
Workplace InjuriesWhat caused a bulldozer to slip off the jacks and kill 60 year old Patrick O’Shaughnessy? That will be the question his family is asking after an accident at a construction equipment company...
- Steve Lombardi | November 02, 2009 10:36 AM |
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
Florida School Bus Hit and Killed a Pedestrian
In Palm Beach County, Tequesta, Florida, a pedestrian was hit by a school bus on Monday, October 5, 2009 at 7:15am, according to online news...