- Steve Lombardi | May 30, 2009 10:01 AM |
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Tomorrow is the end of May 2009 and I thought it appropriate to end Tort Reform month by focusing on the winners and losers when society artificially limits tort damages with caps. It’s...
- Steve Lombardi | May 29, 2009 11:15 AM |
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MiscellaneousThis clip that follows is almost 34 minutes long and certainly too long for most people’s attention. If you have an idea of what to listen for and look at it helps with watching and listening...
- Steve Lombardi | May 29, 2009 10:07 AM |
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MiscellaneousAt Liberty University it's not about Floccinaucinihilipilification, but Antidisestablishmentarianism
THINK LIKE US OR DON'T THINK AT ALL
You’re going to ask it so I’ll tell you now....
- Steve Lombardi | May 28, 2009 11:17 PM |
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MiscellaneousIT'S ALL ABOUT THE NEW CONSTITUTION; THE ONE THEY IMPORTED FROM COMMUNIST CHINA AND RUSSIA
The 18 year old male is alleged to have phone texted his thoughts of having sex to a 12-year-old female....
- Steve Lombardi | May 28, 2009 10:23 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsYesterday we reported on a man dying from being thrown from his truck as it rounded a curve. The way the story was written it left me with the impression he was the driver.
Today we have a...
- Steve Lombardi | May 28, 2009 2:15 PM |
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Miscellaneous
This case may answer the question in Iowa: Once under control would repeated Tasering of a suspect be considered an abuse of police power?
The Courts define what force is legitimate...
- Steve Lombardi | May 28, 2009 11:14 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe lesson today has to do with facts or the lack thereof. First let’s look at shaping the emotions of tort reform minded voters and then at why tort reform is creating a greater needs for...
- Steve Lombardi | May 27, 2009 11:35 PM |
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MiscellaneousThis is a curious accident. It’s a single vehicle accident from Crawford County, Iowa. A man was thrown from his own pickup truck as he rounded a corner. After being thrown he was pinned and...
- Steve Lombardi | May 27, 2009 10:14 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe Iowa State Department of Health confirms there are 73 confirmed cases of swine flu in Iowa.
Key Messages About Swine Influenza
• The CDC has confirmed cases of a unique strain...
- Steve Lombardi | May 27, 2009 11:23 AM |
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MiscellaneousNow listen to the conclusions made in this film clip about communism, without any proof of the underlying premises. This is similar to the tactics tort reformists employ. It’s all about...
- Steve Lombardi | May 26, 2009 10:02 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsTwo people died while another five suffered injuries in Washington County, Iowa. This multiple car collision happened on May 23, 2009 at Highway 92 and Lexington Avenue around 2:37 P.M. The crash...
- Steve Lombardi | May 26, 2009 2:03 PM |
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MiscellaneousThree more priests have been named to the Diocese of Davenport’s list of credible cases of child sexual abuse by a priest. Two of those are dead; the third was a brother in the Franciscan...
- Steve Lombardi | May 26, 2009 11:22 AM |
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In this film we see how people in power can misuse their power and who must pander to your emotions in order to get you to buy into their version of what the truth is. To pander to emotions...
- Steve Lombardi | May 25, 2009 10:10 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsA 50 and 51-year old couple died Saturday after the motorcycle they were riding on was hit head-on by a car being driven by Michelle Currier of Preston, Minnesota. Miss Preston is reported to be...
- Steve Lombardi | May 25, 2009 8:27 PM |
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MiscellaneousWhat started out as a prank caused the State of Nebraska to nullify its pick your favorite license plate contest. The site collegehumor.com got wind that the state of Nebraska wanted Internet...
- Steve Lombardi | May 25, 2009 10:40 AM |
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A young lawyer fresh out of laws school arrives for his first interview. The expectations are sky high. He believes it went well and towards the end of the interview he gently asks, “How...
- Steve Lombardi | May 22, 2009 3:30 PM |
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MiscellaneousUnder the CCP people like David Fitzgerald would be considered one of the Women with bound feet. They were the aged, the young and the injured citizens who moved slowly and were thought to be a drag...
- Steve Lombardi | May 22, 2009 2:30 PM |
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MiscellaneousWHAT MAKES THE AMERICA GOVERNMENT DIFFERENT THAN THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY?
What is it about the American dream that makes us different from the rest of the world?
Why should our children still...
- Steve Lombardi | May 22, 2009 1:33 PM |
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MiscellaneousSO WHAT IS GOING ON IN AMERICA? Why is tort reform so popular?
Historically in America there is no precedent for governments reducing or altogether eliminating or prohibiting pain and suffering...
- Steve Lombardi | May 22, 2009 11:19 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe past few days we’ve looked the economics of non-economic damages and how having or not having that portion of a lawsuit award, affects a severely injured person. Today let’s look at...
- Steve Lombardi | May 21, 2009 2:31 PM |
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Medical Malpractice
I keep talking about tort reform on this blog. Some people think I’m making good points and they include people associated with medicine who’ve read what I write and tell me they...
- Steve Lombardi | May 21, 2009 11:17 AM |
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WHAT ISN’T AFFORDABLE WHEN NON-ECONOMIC DAMAGES ARE REDUCED OR ELIMINATED?
What is not paid or covered by this award?
His wife and children who will provide much of his care are not...
- Steve Lombardi | May 20, 2009 11:34 AM |
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MiscellaneousYesterday I asked you to read a previous post about one David Fitzgerald. I’ll assume you did it otherwise you may wish to read it now.
Mr. Fitzgerald was hospitalized where he developed an...
- Steve Lombardi | May 19, 2009 7:42 PM |
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MiscellaneousSorry I just couldn't help myself posting this creation from Walt Handelsman. One of his latest is Which Works Best Against the Swine Flu? Hand wringing or hand washing?
Animation: Recession...
- Steve Lombardi | May 19, 2009 2:15 PM |
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MiscellaneousEveryone is wondering how one person can spend $50 billion. We shouldn’t have to wonder much longer. The AP reports on the trustees findings of the Madoff family spending and how there were...
- Steve Lombardi | May 19, 2009 1:33 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Here is why non-economic damages are economic.
What everyone refers to as pain and suffering damages have never been for compensating losses associated with pain and suffering. When...
- Steve Lombardi | May 19, 2009 10:47 AM |
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MiscellaneousOregon tweaked its medical mistake protection legislation increasing the cap and lowering the amount of damage patients have to endure without being able to hold the wrongdoer accountable. Presently...
- Steve Lombardi | May 18, 2009 10:54 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsJayden Anderson was walking along Highway 92 about 8:45 last Friday evening when he was struck by a red car with black stripes. The car was occupied by three or four people who’ve not been...
- Steve Lombardi | May 18, 2009 11:25 AM |
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Miscellaneous
It’s currently popular for political leaders to side with tort reformists in limiting non-economic damages. The name alone implies that these types of damage awards have nothing to do with...
- Steve Lombardi | May 17, 2009 10:37 PM |
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Workplace Injuries
It takes as long as it takes. It should take long enough to do it right. Okay, so what is it in months? Well, probably about 18 months on average; or a little longer. Why, you ask?
Well...
- Steve Lombardi | May 17, 2009 9:58 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsWe had earlier reported on an I-80 multi-vehicle collision. A semi-truck driver ran into the rear of one vehicle pushing it into others. It’s reported that several people died in the crash....
- Steve Lombardi | May 16, 2009 9:55 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
Another ATV accident and death is being reported to have occurred in northeast Iowa. A man from northeast Iowa died Sunday while driving a Polaris ATV 6x6 vehicle. Report is he was on a hillside...
- Steve Lombardi | May 15, 2009 4:35 PM |
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MiscellaneousLet me start with a question: How can any adult be experienced enough to legally kill a person but too immature to know who they should have a sexual relationship?
After writing mega Sex No-No...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | May 15, 2009 4:18 PM |
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Parenting is hard work. Doing hard time in prison or jail is not the way to raise children.
The Des Moines Register reported a 3-year-old child is safe in the custody of DHS child protective...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | May 15, 2009 2:22 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Recently we've read disturbing news alerts, here are a few reports that alarm us. We report on stories like this hoping others will read and learn the lessons having to do with child safety. Keep...
- Steve Lombardi | May 15, 2009 6:32 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsJosh Miller is somewhat of a lucky man; not wearing his seat belt and failing to yield to an oncoming train. Guess who won that collision. Yeah, it’s an easy one to figure out. Donald Ahlhelm,...
- Steve Lombardi | May 14, 2009 10:19 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer Accidents
An accident between a car and dump truck on Highway 63 in Bremer Count, Iowa sent the drivers of the two vehicles to Iowa hospitals. The dump truck driver is Loyd Kildow of Hillsboro and he was...
- Steve Lombardi | May 13, 2009 11:07 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
A bicyclist was struck and injured while entering Fleur Drive in Des Moines. The vehicle was turning and struck the 47 year-old male rider while in a cross walk. Vehicles have a duty to stop for...
- Steve Lombardi | May 13, 2009 4:21 PM |
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Medical MalpracticePlacing the surgeon and surgical staff on administrative leave pending the results of an investigation Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island is reporting a wrong-site or wrong-side...
- Steve Lombardi | May 13, 2009 11:32 AM |
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MiscellaneousHere is tort reform logic applied to obesity.
FIRST, THE PROBLEM AND ONE ROOT CAUSE -
Guilt-minded parents handing out participation trophies leads to fat lazy kids with bad character and an...
- Steve Lombardi | May 13, 2009 7:35 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer Accidents
Names of those killed are not being disclosed until relatives are notified. What we know is the driver of a semi-truck on I-80 in Scott County, Iowa drove into a construction zone and rear ended...
- Steve Lombardi | May 12, 2009 11:56 AM |
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MiscellaneousI’m sick of cancer! I mean it, cancer is killing America. People with cancer are taking every opportunity to visit with a doctor and then asking for treatment. Treatment is way too expensive...
- Steve Lombardi | May 11, 2009 11:56 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAnother pedestrian was struck by a car and injured in Des Moines. This car-pedestrian collision occurred at the intersection of Second Avenue and Court Avenue at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, May 11, 2009....
- Steve Lombardi | May 11, 2009 2:34 PM |
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Spinal Cord InjuriesThe National Cheer Safety Foundation has released Rehearsed Catastrophic Injury Emergency Plan For Competitive Cheerleading.
Every cheerleader and their parents should watch the video, be familiar...
- Steve Lombardi | May 10, 2009 8:14 AM |
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Should everything that is “wrong” be a crime?
Society decides what is right and what is wrong. Society has now decided that consensual sex between adults is wrong. A...
- Steve Lombardi | May 09, 2009 10:46 AM |
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Wrongful DeathPersonal injury isn't pretty. In fact some of what we see as P.I. lawyers makes us sick. Some makes go home at night when our children are little and sit on their beds just looking at them and...
- Steve Lombardi | May 09, 2009 8:39 AM |
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Spinal Cord InjuriesA ninth-grade teacher from Lincoln High School in Des Moines, Iowa is reported to have a condition called spinal stenosis. It is reported that went into surgery to correct the problem and came out...
- Steve Lombardi | May 09, 2009 8:27 AM |
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ISU research shows, H1N1 Virus Vaccine could have been readily available within 2 months of first case
Traditional methods can make a human vaccine in 5 to six months and for swine, 11 to...
- Steve Lombardi | May 08, 2009 11:15 PM |
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Workplace Injuries
We have previously reported on a maintenance worker falling from a water tower into the tower itself. Today we report on another incident in Waterloo, Iowa where the same thing occurred. This...
- Steve Lombardi | May 08, 2009 10:27 AM |
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Medical Malpractice
The claim is made that lawyers and lawsuits are to blame for the rising health care costs. The promise tort reformers make is to trust the bold and unproven assumption that costs of...
- Steve Lombardi | May 07, 2009 11:57 PM |
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Wrongful DeathThe Register reports the Clear Lake company we posted on previously for the death of a worker, Simon Trinidad, a 35 year-old when he fell into a metal hopper, was fined by IOSH in the amount of...
- Steve Lombardi | May 07, 2009 2:22 PM |
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MiscellaneousDo you believe the famous Shakespeare line often times misquoted as: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers... That is what tort reformers hope you think every time you read about another...
- Steve Lombardi | May 07, 2009 10:35 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeI was thinking maybe I should leave the Great State of Texas alone for awhile and allow them time to learn from their mistakes. But I can't do that. I take the lawyering job too seriously to just...
- Steve Lombardi | May 06, 2009 11:34 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsKeota man dies after suffering severe injuries in a two-car crash in Washington County, Iowa. The two male drivers were Ryan Detwieler and Jared Gent of Wellman. Detweiler died at the University of...
- Steve Lombardi | May 06, 2009 2:03 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe Quad City Times published an editorial on Friday, April 24, 2009 that raises the question about whether Iowa lottery officials should be fired for not anticipating, investigating and then...
- Steve Lombardi | May 06, 2009 10:00 AM |
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Medical Malpractice
After six years of limiting the quality of life damages in Texas for the most severely injured patients Texas is finding out that promises of lower health care costs is just another broken...
- Steve Lombardi | May 05, 2009 11:19 PM |
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Wrongful DeathA Mason City, Iowa child was killed while crossing Highway 122 between S. Georgia and S. Jersey. A group of children ran across the street in front of the car being driven by Kyle Leedom (18) when...
- Steve Lombardi | May 05, 2009 2:37 PM |
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MiscellaneousThere are problems with the Iowa lottery and the retailers are at center stage. Here is how the Iowa lottery is sold.
WHAT CAME FIRST THE CHICKEN OR THE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE?
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- Steve Lombardi | May 05, 2009 10:34 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeAfter a car accident, for the most part many people start off thinking that being fair and honest will carry the day. Most people’s definition of fairness and honesty has to do with talking...
- Steve Lombardi | May 04, 2009 11:35 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsOn April 14th 2009 William Lee Kilmer of Des Moines was traveling west on Aurora Avenue when he lost control of his motorcycle hit a curb and crashed head first into a tree. Mr. Kilmer was not...
- Steve Lombardi | May 04, 2009 2:16 PM |
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MiscellaneousGrowing up a New Englander I attended college in Iowa and then decided to remain because people here still had common sense and were honest. I'm starting to wonder if it's not time to move back...
- Steve Lombardi | May 04, 2009 10:45 AM |
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Head & Brain InjuriesMy news alerts picked up this question and answer in SaddleBag World about the debate on whether helmets for motorcycle riders should be mandatory. This is tort reform we could really use....
- Steve Lombardi | May 03, 2009 11:13 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHit-And-Run accident near Treynor, Iowa puts boy in the hospital
Police seek the identity of the driver of a red sports car with a black strip in and around Pottawatamie County, Iowa. The driver...
- Steve Lombardi | May 02, 2009 10:17 PM |
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MiscellaneousWith her husband driving a crash occurred with her side of the SUV, causing her to lose her arm. She is 36 years old. The collision occurred with the rear of the slow moving semi truck.
The...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | May 02, 2009 10:03 AM |
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Wrongful Death
What you need to know about Swine Flu or H1N1:
…..or why you don’t need to be afraid of “this little piggy”
Swine Flu symptoms are the same as any typical...
- Steve Lombardi | May 02, 2009 9:00 AM |
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MiscellaneousNo one needs to be told the United States is in recession/depression and a budgetary crisis for over spending. No one should need to be reminded of these facts. That is of course unless you’re...
- Steve Lombardi | May 01, 2009 10:21 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeFRIVOLOUS DECISIONS RELY ON FACTS THAT RARELY EXIST.
CRITICAL FACTS SHOULD NEVER BE ASSUMED WITHOUT DEFINITE PROOF
I saw this statement in an advertisement: “It would never happen to...