- Steve Lombardi | February 28, 2009 3:30 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt’s hard to believe the end of February is already upon us. March will be here by tomorrow morning. I feel confident of that. I can’t allow driver safety month to pass without a tribute...
- Steve Lombardi | February 28, 2009 2:11 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsMegan and I have written several times about digital distractions that interfere with a person’s situational awareness and yet have not suggested or written about solutions. Oh my, that was a...
- Steve Lombardi | February 28, 2009 8:50 AM |
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MiscellaneousToday’s post is about negligence, what it is and how to view evidence to appreciate what is negligent behavior. Here is a headline and the opening line of a news story out of Indiana.
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- Steve Lombardi | February 27, 2009 1:33 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe choice of doctor bill in the Iowa Senate is getting a lot of press lately. There are stories here, here and here. After 28 years of practicing workers compensation I’ll throw in my...
- Steve Lombardi | February 27, 2009 11:09 AM |
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Miscellaneous
Yesterday we reported on a chemical or gas leak at the Cedar Rapids ADM plant. Today we’ll provide more information about the effects of exposure to hydrochloric acid and sulfur dioxide....
- Megan Roth | February 26, 2009 8:25 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsI don’t mean to be repetitive (if you’ve read my other articles, you’ve heard this before), but thank goodness I don’t have to drive!
I watch every morning, afternoon and...
- Steve Lombardi | February 26, 2009 1:58 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAnother OWI, driving drunk charge while heading the wrong-way without headlights on and slamming into an oncoming car. Can it get any worse?
This 19-year old was treated for head and chest...
- Steve Lombardi | February 26, 2009 9:53 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesFour contract workers were taken to area hospitals from the Archer Daniels Midland plant after inhaling some type of gas this morning, Feb. 18, 2009, in Cedar Rapids. Life threatening problems were...
- Steve Lombardi | February 25, 2009 1:12 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
A couple of pedestrian accident reports caught my eye because they were killed due to being distracted by cell phones, mp3 players or iPods. A search in the Internet turned up much more...
- Megan Roth | February 25, 2009 12:16 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAn uncle, an uncle’s brother and dad, two family friends, a childhood neighbor and my sister’s soon-to-be-father-in-law. These are people I know and can think of off-hand who drive a...
- Steve Lombardi | February 24, 2009 12:36 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeYesterday 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....
- Megan Roth | February 24, 2009 12:30 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAutomotive defects are among the most dangerous product defects in any market (because driving is so risky to start with). One of the most common automotive defects is airbag failure.
The airbag...
- Steve Lombardi | February 24, 2009 9:11 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)House and building fires in Iowa have killed 19 people since January 1, 2009. Four more people died just this past week. During all of 2008 there were just nine. In 2007 there were 30 and 2006 33...
- Steve Lombardi | February 23, 2009 3:03 PM |
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Head & Brain InjuriesA long time ago I heard a criminal defense lawyer say the more outlandish a defense the more likely it is to be believed. Thus we had the Twinkie and my parents were less than perfect so I decided...
- Steve Lombardi | February 23, 2009 10:49 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeThere is a joke or two or three that everything in Texas is big. In 2003 the State of Texas decided that everything in Texas should be big except jury awards. In that year with oil prices soaring...
- Megan Roth | February 22, 2009 9:51 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFourteen – the number of cabs stopped at my corner when I went to work this morning ((nine at the red light, five pulled over for travelers). Eight – the number on 51st Street (between...
- Steve Lombardi | February 22, 2009 7:50 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThis report is pretty sketchy for there being a fatality. The out of control vehicle appears to be an Isuzu Trooper. The driver was Celine Ramirez, 42. The relatives should consider my earlier...
- Steve Lombardi | February 21, 2009 8:28 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Little Blue Pill Economic Stimulus Plan
Today I’d like to discuss a serious subject; the 787 billion dollar U.S. Economic Stimulus Plan. Frankly it's limp. I see it more of an economic...
- Steve Lombardi | February 20, 2009 1:48 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeMariam Hospital, Rhode Island
One doctor and two nurses sanctioned were sanctioned by their professional licensing boards for conducting a wrong-site surgery on the wrong knee. The patient...
- Steve Lombardi | February 20, 2009 10:31 AM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsThe short answer is normally not.
Tuesday’s edition of one news source has this headline: Ice and snow blamed for fatal accident. I read this and immediately know the writer hasn’t a...
- Megan Roth | February 20, 2009 7:35 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsMichelin, Firestone, Bridgestone, Dunlop, Goodyear – if you drive a vehicle, you’re bound to be familiar with at least one of these brands.
Driving a vehicle also means you’re...
- Steve Lombardi | February 19, 2009 2:09 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsA new Salmonella detection test developed at Iowa State University can shorten the time to detect salmonella. Using a tape like paper to pull bacteria from the food source, then a soapy, salty water...
- Steve Lombardi | February 19, 2009 11:18 AM |
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MiscellaneousJustice for Sale: Part III, Judicial campaign ads, war chests along with soft and hard money.
Judicial campaign ads in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, Washington State and...
- Steve Lombardi | February 18, 2009 2:05 PM |
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MiscellaneousJustice for Sale: Part III, Judicial campaign ads, war chests along with soft and hard money.
Judge ads in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, Washington State and Alabama
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- Steve Lombardi | February 18, 2009 11:04 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsMonona motorcyclist dies in crash
The Gazette
MONONA — Michael Johnson, Sr., 46, of Monona was killed this afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a truck that was turning into a...
- Steve Lombardi | February 17, 2009 11:30 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsMy best guess is that Tyson Petersen, 22 is feeling like today or anytime soon may be the day for him to play the Iowa Lottery. Seems Mr. Petersen knows something about concentrating and owning his...
- Megan Roth | February 16, 2009 11:21 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsI consider myself a go-getter all the way and am completely, 100 percent committed to my job. However, I’m also completely, 100 percent committed to relaxing when I’m on vacation –...
- Steve Lombardi | February 16, 2009 1:30 PM |
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MiscellaneousBy taking money from lawyers, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Chief Justice creates the appearance of being improperly influence. This post isn’t about actual corruption but the appearance of...
- Steve Lombardi | February 16, 2009 10:59 AM |
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MiscellaneousBy taking money from lawyers, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Chief Justice creates the appearance of being improperly influence. This post isn’t about actual corruption but the appearance of...
- Megan Roth | February 14, 2009 12:32 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsRight now I’m vacationing in California’s sunny palm desert – and it is gorgeous. I mean it - it’s almost surreal. I got up yesterday, threw on a tank top and shorts and went...
- Steve Lombardi | February 14, 2009 9:10 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA Buick Station Wagon being driven by Theodore Springman and a Dodge Dynasty driven by Rodney Fisher were involved in a head-on crash on I-380 in the northbound lanes of traffic. Springman was...
- Steve Lombardi | February 13, 2009 7:24 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe law firm of Irell & Manella was sued in April 2007 for “critical errors” in the legal work involved with a 1999 cable TV acquisition by Charter Communications. The suite was...
- Megan Roth | February 13, 2009 12:25 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsI told you yesterday – drinking and driving often results in accidents, and those are never a fun situation.
We gave you a brief breakdown of Wisconsin’s drunk driving statistics and...
- Steve Lombardi | February 13, 2009 10:56 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)The Linn County Sheriff’s Department owns a dog trained to smell out explosives. The police dog is a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois. After playing fetch in the yard of Deputy Ireland took the dog...
- Steve Lombardi | February 12, 2009 1:06 PM |
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Wrongful DeathIn what can only be described as practicing medicine without a license two Tampa, Florida area women were injected with what is believed industrial silicone by a “fake doctor”. One...
- Steve Lombardi | February 12, 2009 10:15 AM |
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Workplace Injuries
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...
- Steve Lombardi | February 11, 2009 10:25 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsThe biggest road hazard you may face this and next year are uninsured motorists. If you didn’t have enough to worry about with double bottomed semi-truck trailers, pieces of retread tires and...
- Megan Roth | February 11, 2009 12:46 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsFour thousand four hundred and thirty five dollars. No, that’s not my monthly rent (although it is close). Instead, it’s the typical total of charges incurred for one’s first OWI...
- Steve Lombardi | February 10, 2009 2:08 PM |
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Wrongful DeathInitially reported as an accidental hanging the report now concludes suicide. It’s just difficult to appreciate how a 10-year old boy in fifth grade could choose to take his own life? My...
- Steve Lombardi | February 10, 2009 10:50 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsShe says it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBQp46nzkcE
Crash test dummies just might agree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5mD6sojDs
- Steve Lombardi | February 09, 2009 2:09 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIt's time out in surgery, as hospitals watch doctors by Minneapolis Star Tribune writer Maura Lerner – This article discusses the use of a “Time-out Towel”.
We aren’t...
- Steve Lombardi | February 09, 2009 11:17 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAs lawyers we see the worse case scenarios. I’ve watched the wreckage for more years than I’d like to admit to. Not counting the clinic work in law school this is my 28th year of...
- Megan Roth | February 07, 2009 10:20 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAfter reading Thursday's post, you now know two things: 1) you know about my first car accident and 2) you know the dangers of PEDOs. We told your what happens when pavement edges slant more than...
- Steve Lombardi | February 06, 2009 1:25 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsAs an American, if you don't believe in some form of regulating imported products then you're a communist. If as an American you don't think the people of China need freedom of speech then you are a...
- Steve Lombardi | February 06, 2009 10:56 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeHuh? Are you kidding me? No, this is for real.
I just wrote a blawg post about a Las Vegas jury that found no negligence when a man complaining of chest pain isn’t even examined for...
- Steve Lombardi | February 05, 2009 11:00 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeA jury in Las Vegas gave the nod to a hospital whose standard of emergent care is to wait 41 minutes to examine a patient complaining of chest pains, and who then dies in the emergency room floor....
- Megan Roth | February 04, 2009 1:35 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAs mentioned in yesterday’s article, I had my first car accident (yes, first – reckless driving, ignorance and a sense of immortality led me to have several) when I was just 16-years...
- Steve Lombardi | February 04, 2009 10:09 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe chemists at ETH Zurich (Renato Zenobi, Huanwen Chen, and colleagues) have developed a new mass spectrometric analysis method with which polluted milk can be detected reliably within 30...
- Steve Lombardi | February 03, 2009 1:37 PM |
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Automobile Accidentshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la2bO7Xseyg
Let's start off this month with a simple message - think. Yes, simply think before acting.
Lawyer deal in the facts about car, truck, ATV, boat, truck,...
- Megan Roth | February 03, 2009 1:36 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAs mentioned yesterday, I consider myself very fortunate that I no longer have to drive (as driving isn’t really my ‘thing’); however, I also know that I don’t intend to stay...
- Steve Lombardi | February 03, 2009 1:35 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)This morning I reported on this story: Fort Dodge, Iowa at the Travel Inn pool five children were playing in the pool when they experienced carbon monoxide poisoning. The Assistant Fort Dodge Fire...
- Steve Lombardi | February 03, 2009 10:27 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)Fort Dodge, Iowa at the Travel Inn pool five children were playing in the pool when they experienced carbon monoxide poisoning. The Assistant Fort Dodge Fire Captain reported the levels of carbon...
- Megan Roth | February 02, 2009 10:55 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWelcome to the month of February, which is driving safety month on InjuryBoard! Ooh – this is good for me – I could use a lesson or two (my track record isn’t the...
- Steve Lombardi | February 02, 2009 10:29 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsWho speaks for the mothers and fathers with infants in renal failure?
Who shouts for justice for those same parents of the children who died from the melamine contamination of babies’...
- Steve Lombardi | February 01, 2009 1:57 PM |
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MiscellaneousEugene Robinson in his latest opinion piece for the Washington Post writes in Blind Unanimity that Republicans in voting unanimously in opposition to the latest economic “stimulus...
- Megan Roth | February 01, 2009 1:38 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsIt’s here – GAME DAY! Put on your jerseys and your drinking shoes, the Super Bowl is upon us. But wait, do both with a bit of caution…
Yesterday we went over some of the...