- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 11:39 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsRun over by her own truck alcohol is thought to have had contributed in some way. The incident occurred in Omaha, Nebraska at the HyVee supermarket parking lot at 51st and Center Street around 1:30...
- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 4:33 PM |
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MiscellaneousToday I'm pondering what life would be like while in prison. The who, what, where, when and how of a prisoner's life behind bars.
LIFE INSIDE PRISON - PART 2 - As intelligent, industrous and...
- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 3:32 PM |
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MiscellaneousToday I'm pondering what life would be like while in prison. The who, what, where, when and how of a prisoner's life behind bars.
LIFE INSIDE PRISON - PART 1 - Growing old in prison has it's own...
- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 2:32 PM |
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MiscellaneousToday I'm pondering what life would be like while in prison. The who, what, where, when and how of a prisoner's life behind bars.
AMERICA’S HARDEST PRISONS - Although not likely to ever be...
- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 1:34 PM |
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MiscellaneousToday I'm pondering what life would be like while in prison. The who, what, where, when and how of a prisoner's life behind bars.
Bernie will need to learn a new language and it won't be that of...
- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 12:32 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Today I'm pondering what life would be like while in prison. The who, what, where, when and how of a prisoner's life behind bars.
A DAY BEHIND BARS - It's about boredom and edginess, you know...
- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 11:34 AM |
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Miscellaneous
Today I'm pondering what life would be like while in prison. The who, what, where, when and how of a prisoner's life behind bars.
PRISON SKINHEADS - I doubt Madoff will run into this guy or...
- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 11:23 AM |
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MiscellaneousPRISON EMAIL
What Trulincs shows is that when people commit crimes and are thrown into prison the unofficial policy of the U.S. government is upon to release for the extended family to pick up...
- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 10:31 AM |
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MiscellaneousMSNBC LOCKUP - What Jail is like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXb_5vjF-zw
MSNBC show Lockup showing what the Utah State Jail goes through from day to day.
- Steve Lombardi | April 30, 2009 9:15 AM |
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MiscellaneousBob, who cares who deep-throat was? Was, was , was! How about is, is, is?
Mr. Woodward, stop with promoting the book deals!
How about you spend some time promoting journalism?
Young journalists,...
- Steve Lombardi | April 29, 2009 11:54 PM |
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Wrongful DeathSome stories need a further explanation and without additional facts a story can lack perspective. This is one of those stories.
Attempted murder charges filed against son who attempted to cut a...
- Steve Lombardi | April 29, 2009 10:52 PM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
A wrestler who died in a van crash while in Iowa has suit filed by his mother. The student was a wrestler for York College and was in a van with ten wrestlers from a Nebraska college. He was from...
- Steve Lombardi | April 29, 2009 4:10 PM |
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MiscellaneousToday we continue to analyze and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media.
The questions I have...
- Steve Lombardi | April 29, 2009 3:25 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Today we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media.
The questions I...
- Steve Lombardi | April 29, 2009 2:23 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Today we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media.
The questions I have...
- Steve Lombardi | April 29, 2009 1:29 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Today we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media.
The questions I...
- Steve Lombardi | April 29, 2009 12:24 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Today we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media.
The questions I have...
- Steve Lombardi | April 28, 2009 3:45 PM |
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MiscellaneousToday we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media.
January 14, 2009 -...
- Steve Lombardi | April 28, 2009 2:50 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Today we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media.
These are some...
- Steve Lombardi | April 28, 2009 1:48 PM |
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MiscellaneousToday we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media.
Early 2007 - Inside...
- Steve Lombardi | April 28, 2009 12:38 PM |
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MiscellaneousToday we continue to analyse and ask why the media missed this softball and how over a ten year period there were no questions being asked in the print and electronic media.
SEC staff at Fenway...
- Steve Lombardi | April 28, 2009 11:59 AM |
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Media Malpractice
Where was the media during the near decade that Madoff was scamming $50 Billion?
Why weren't any questions being raised in the print and electronic media for the ten years...
- Steve Lombardi | April 28, 2009 10:59 AM |
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MiscellaneousFrom time-to-time many people may wonder where Bernie Madoff is. Well Bernard Lawrence Madoff, otherwise known as number 61727-054 a 70 year-old white male is currently residing at the Metropolitan...
- Steve Lombardi | April 27, 2009 10:42 PM |
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Wrongful Death
There is a very interesting update in the Omaha World-Herald by staff writer Katie Fretland, about the Des Moines Register article I blogged about a few days ago concerning the ATV accident that...
- Steve Lombardi | April 27, 2009 11:21 AM |
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Miscellaneous
Today’s lesson is how to profit from your past criminal activity. Coming from an Italian this should come as no great surprise. Like Capone, and others we Italians strive to create...
- Steve Lombardi | April 27, 2009 12:41 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesClear Lake company issued a fine for the death of a worker who fell into an open hopper
IOSH, or OSHA as it's most commonly called fined a Clear Lake company $357,000 for an accident that killed an...
- Steve Lombardi | April 25, 2009 6:29 PM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
An Iowa woman killed by a train has been identified as Kristi Brown of Tama, Iowa. She was struck and killed by a Union Pacific train late Wednesday near a crossing. The train was heading to...
- Megan Roth | April 25, 2009 5:51 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsIn 2007, there were 37, 248 fatal automobile accidents in the U.S; of those, large trucks were responsible for eight percent of the reported fatalities (74 percent of the 4584 large trucks involved...
- Steve Lombardi | April 24, 2009 11:01 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIowa and ATVs have been in the news. Recently ATV’s were recalled. The Iowa Attorney General got involved with the manufacturers of ATV’s obtaining from them restrictions on how they...
- Steve Lombardi | April 24, 2009 11:41 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Iowa Ombudsman released an investigative report of the Iowa Lottery. The reports should shock every Iowan. The shock won’t be because of questionable behavior and practices by the...
- Steve Lombardi | April 23, 2009 11:16 AM |
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MiscellaneousIt's a problem for the MLB, the MiLB and they have exported it to high schools.
A Mason City, Iowa father was arrested for supplying his son steroids. The father and mother are divorced and child...
- Steve Lombardi | April 22, 2009 11:11 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsJoe Mccloud was southbound on 180th St. in Appanoose County when he lost control of his vehicle striking a tree in the West ditch. All though Mr. Mccloud was wearing his seatbelt he died from the...
- Steve Lombardi | April 22, 2009 10:25 AM |
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MiscellaneousHere is a quote from one of my blogs written in August 2008.
“Let’s all give Johnnie a round of applause for just showing up today. Even though he didn’t practice as he should...
- Steve Lombardi | April 21, 2009 11:50 PM |
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Workplace Injuries
In a freak accident WEAU 13 News reports on a terrible accident involving a trench worker. In this incident being investigated by OSHA, 33-year-old Eugene Hakes, Jr., of Cadott was...
- Steve Lombardi | April 21, 2009 10:35 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Participation Trophy Syndrome
Wall Street executives who take frivolous bonuses have to have learned some where in life that their showing up is somehow all they have to do. Bernard Madoff had...
- Steve Lombardi | April 20, 2009 11:25 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWARNING: What’s staring you in the face may not be the negligent act.
In this Iowa accident a toddler-passenger in a car the mother was driving was killed as the car was t-boned by another...
- Steve Lombardi | April 20, 2009 10:05 AM |
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MiscellaneousHow smart are you? Smart enough to make politicians and Wall Street along with the AMA and other professional organizations prove a crisis exists? Well let’s see how smart you really are....
- Megan Roth | April 17, 2009 1:45 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesMiddle of the night and I’m wide-awake – go figure. I was just surfing the internet when, at random, an article popped up that grabbed my interest.
“Construction Up, Injuries...
- Steve Lombardi | April 17, 2009 10:09 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesHere is a blog post about being able to sue politicians for malpractice in the same manner as are other professions. I’ve got an idea of how it could be done, but I’d better develop it...
- Steve Lombardi | April 16, 2009 11:00 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe headline reads: Ice and snow blamed for fatal accident.
Published February 15, 2009 11:34 pm
This is one of those little things that will drive a lawyer to distraction. The precision of the...
- Megan Roth | April 16, 2009 3:28 PM |
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Workplace Injuries
It’s somewhat ironic how the economy is crumbling around us and buildings continue to go up (each one higher than the next, it seems).
It’s true – the construction industry...
- Steve Lombardi | April 16, 2009 10:28 AM |
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MiscellaneousTo accomplish securitization it requires several key professionals. As we learned yesterday initially there is a lender and a borrower. Today we identify the professional players in the investment...
- Steve Lombardi | April 15, 2009 11:33 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesNormally 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...
- Steve Lombardi | April 15, 2009 3:03 PM |
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MiscellaneousIn very simple terms securitization is the conversion of loans to “stocks” that can be sold on the stock market as an investment.
To explain securitization let’s start with the...
- Steve Lombardi | April 14, 2009 11:16 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer Accidents
On March 30, 2009 at 1:30 38 year old Jeffery Hamman of Sioux City hit a semi (drove his pickup truck right into the rear) that was pulled over on the shoulder for a mechanical problem. The...
- Steve Lombardi | April 14, 2009 3:02 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesYesterday we covered CDO’s and learned these investments used three levels of investors that each received a different level of risk and reward. The levels or tranche's allowed us to spread the risk from defaults. Spreading the risk...
- Steve Lombardi | April 14, 2009 3:59 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsGarrett Chitty, 17, tried entering I-35 southbound where little room existed, stuck another truck being driven by Lewis Thomas of Cleveland, Ohio. Thomas’ truck moved over to the left striking...
- Steve Lombardi | April 13, 2009 11:48 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsI wonder if your conscience is bothering you. Do you have trouble sleeping at night? Do you continue to have a memory of the sound when your car or truck struck the man walking on the roadside in...
- Megan Roth | April 13, 2009 9:53 PM |
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Medical Malpractice
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...
- Steve Lombardi | April 13, 2009 3:01 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesCDO’s are a way of turning mortgage debt into investments that can be bought and sold on the open market. Investing in CDO’s involves calculating, using mathematical formulas, the risk involved in the debt going sour or the investment paying off a return on the money invested...
- Steve Lombardi | April 12, 2009 10:31 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsOn March 14th 2009 Lisa Marie Adams (17), Joseph Daniel Widmer (18), and Brendt Michael Fetzer were headed Westbound on 340th and lost control entering the South ditch and rolled. Lisa Marie Adams...
- Steve Lombardi | April 12, 2009 10:34 AM |
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Wrongful DeathYesterday we discussed a Q&A from a justifiably angry parent whose son appears to have been arrested without the need to do so. Today we continue on with the dangers of death in police work. In...
- Megan Roth | April 11, 2009 11:45 PM |
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Medical Malpractice
As mentioned yesterday, medical malpractice is a serious issue. It happens, folks – more frequently than we like to admit.
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/publish/video/840896
It happens...
- Steve Lombardi | April 11, 2009 10:20 AM |
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Wrongful DeathFrom time to time I get asked for legal advice that has a broader audience and this is one of those Q&A’s. This is about police brutality, or excessive force, assault and battery, finding...
- Steve Lombardi | April 10, 2009 11:51 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA head on collision Monday April 6th led to the death of Patricia Ann Davis and Howard Jay Davis. Patricia was heading Westbound on 270th when she collided head on with a vehicle driven by Jonathan...
- Steve Lombardi | April 10, 2009 5:36 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesA Ponzi scheme is a form of a pyramid scheme. In a Ponzi scheme the instigator interacts with the investors. The ruse is carried out by creating the false impression that...
- Steve Lombardi | April 09, 2009 11:20 PM |
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Wrongful DeathOn March 14th 2009 Lisa Marie Adams (17), Joseph Daniel Widmer (18), and Brendt Michael Fetzer were headed Westbound on 340th and lost control entering the South ditch and rolled. Lisa Marie Adams...
- Megan Roth | April 09, 2009 9:25 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeYesterday’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)...
- Steve Lombardi | April 09, 2009 2:11 PM |
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Wrongful DeathCan we agree that all life has a value? Some more than other lives, but all life has some value. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve met certain people whose value I would say is negative or...
- Steve Lombardi | April 08, 2009 11:44 PM |
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Wrongful DeathHow do you recognize the symptoms of alcohol LD?
Symptoms of alcohol poisoning start with nausea and progress to vomiting. The person will then pass out, be difficult or impossible to awaken,...
- Steve Lombardi | April 08, 2009 4:23 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsThe Illinois Senate has rejected a mandatory helmet plan for those riding on a motorcycle. This is one of the more frivolous legislative efforts by the State of Illinois Legislature. The research on...
- Steve Lombardi | April 08, 2009 12:07 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesYesterday we posted part one of credit default swaps. Today we talk about why they were described by Warren Buffet as financial weapons of mass...
- Steve Lombardi | April 07, 2009 11:45 PM |
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Wrongful DeathYesterday we discussed a drunken driving case where someone was killed and it led to the offending driver probably being deported. Today we see how the drunk driver may be affected. Driving while...
- Steve Lombardi | April 07, 2009 11:45 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesPolk County, Des Moines, Iowa
A 35-year old man died as a result of either an electrical fire or from electrocution at the Hallett Materials site northwest of Des Moines today. The worker leaves...
- Steve Lombardi | April 07, 2009 11:23 PM |
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Workplace Injuries
Matthew Buckner was driving his van northbound on 315th St. when he lost control of the van he was driving approximately 100 yards north of the Highway 34 intersection. He entered the east ditch...
- Megan Roth | April 07, 2009 2:44 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeOne – I’ve only ever had one surgery (knock on wood) and it was a minor surgery, at that. I’ve been pretty darn lucky thus far; however, the fact that I’ve only had one...
- Steve Lombardi | April 07, 2009 11:59 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesCredit default swaps are a way of insuring credit instruments (loans) that make it easier for the lenders to sell the loans to investors. As the name implies the insurance is to protect the investor who buys the loans in the event of a default...
- Steve Lombardi | April 06, 2009 11:45 PM |
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Wrongful DeathDrinking and driving can be a risky thing to try. In this case an Iowa City man, Edgar Escarcega drove while having a blood alcohol of 0.191, or more than the legal limit. (0.08) Mr. Escarcega plead...
- Steve Lombardi | April 06, 2009 2:12 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeYesterday we sent out invitation number 6 to the next Texas Medical Dream Team member.
Because Hawaii wants to consider tort reform that passes the cost of medical mistakes on to the patients....
- Megan Roth | April 06, 2009 12:59 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsYesterday I touched on the high numbers of motorcycle injuries and fatalities, which have been on a steady increase in recent years. I commented how the increased occurrence of such...
- Steve Lombardi | April 06, 2009 11:07 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesJonathan Jarvis has created a diagram explanation of how the credit crisis developed. In simple terms. To understand about the credit crisis you have to understand the components known as sub-prime...
- Steve Lombardi | April 05, 2009 11:27 PM |
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Wrongful DeathOn March 30, 2009 at 1:30 38 year old Jeffery Hamman of Sioux City hit a semi that was pulled over on the shoulder for a mechanical problem. The semi was driven by 62 year-old Carlos Yon of Miramar...
- Megan Roth | April 05, 2009 12:38 PM |
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Wrongful DeathBetween 1975 and 1999, more than 38,000 motorcyclists died in single vehicle motorcycle accidents (with account for approximately 45 percent of all motorcycle accidents).
Motorcycle fatalities...
- Steve Lombardi | April 04, 2009 9:50 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesI answer questions on another website and this question was recently posed and the economy being what it is, I thought a broader audience might appreciate the advice.
Question: If a person has...
- Steve Lombardi | April 03, 2009 1:14 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesWhat is a liar's loan? A liar's loan has to do with mortgages. The "liar's loan" is a phrase and in many instances is a misnomer. It was a misnomer because the borrower wanted to tell the truth about their income but the loan broker or even the lending...
- Steve Lombardi | April 03, 2009 11:06 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Iowa Supreme Court in a stunning decision voted unamimously upholding gay's right to marry.
Des Moines Register, Unanimous ruling: Iowa marriage no longer limited to one man, one woman
•...
- Steve Lombardi | April 03, 2009 4:56 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesConsumer groups found a whitening agent in the Burger King wrap used for wrapping food products.
In an allusion to last year's poisoned milk scandal, the report also highlighted the fact that...
- Steve Lombardi | April 03, 2009 1:02 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsKETV reports that an Iowa woman was killed after driving into a construction area and running into a Caterpilla asphalt grinder along Interstate 29 near Glenwood, Iowa. The woman’s age was 66...
- Steve Lombardi | April 02, 2009 11:48 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeTEXAS MEDICAL DREAM TEAM: Invitation #6, Guess which of the Seven Dwarfs will get the invite.
Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy
We have to apologize to Texas for not...
- Steve Lombardi | April 02, 2009 12:11 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesI saw this on the Internet and was impressed with it's simplicity. Let's first review derivaties.
What are derivatives?
What risks do derivatives pose for investors?
Derivative...
- Steve Lombardi | April 01, 2009 11:21 AM |
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Toxic Substances
At the end of every month we always gather up the litigation news from around the world to keep you abreast of the world of litigation. Here is the news from March 2009.
Yesterday Apple...
- Steve Lombardi | April 01, 2009 11:15 AM |
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Toxic Substances
April on the InjuryBoard will be focusing on financial torts; torts like those that have blanketed the news lately. There have been an incredible number of Ponzi schemes by stock brokers and...
- Megan Roth | April 01, 2009 9:01 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)Six – the number of flights I’ve taken in the last month. Four – the number that have been equipped with screaming children (three times I sat directly next to the parent holding...
- Steve Lombardi | April 01, 2009 8:15 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesToday’s April Fool is from AIG, more than likely a bailout bonus recipient.
On March 31, 2009 an advertisement was taken out in the Wall Street Journal, A Public Apology and Plea to all...