- Steve Lombardi | June 30, 2009 2:38 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsToday we continue with several more pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items. There are too many pedestrian collisions just since the first of the year. After reading too many...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 30, 2009 1:02 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsSergio Kindle-Texas Longhorn Linebacker
Texting while driving?
On June 24, 2009, Sergio Kindle, a Texas Longhorn Linebacker, drove into an Austin, Texas apartment building at 2:50 a.m. His...
- Steve Lombardi | June 30, 2009 10:01 AM |
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Miscellaneous
Watching Jon and Kate + 8 on the Discovery Channel clearly demonstrates what the legal system means when we discuss spousal consortium. Jon and Kate are a prime example of why consortium is...
- Steve Lombardi | June 30, 2009 7:44 AM |
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MiscellaneousVery strange news from South Carolina, as an aunt, uncle and 8-year-old nephew were found drowned in a back-yard swimming pool. The uncle was employed at the property and had permission to use it. A...
- Steve Lombardi | June 29, 2009 11:43 AM |
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Medical Malpractice
If you’ve had a colonoscopy done at the Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, South Florida, then you need to be aware there are concerns the equipment may have been contaminated...
- Steve Lombardi | June 28, 2009 9:07 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe question Judge Chin answers on Monday is one of whether crime pays. The sentence he imposes will indicate the message we send to this next generation and how serious they take investing the...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 27, 2009 8:03 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFatal choice; Texting While Driving
A Eureka, Illinois teen was killed in a motor vehicle accident on Thursday, June 25, 2009. Alyssa Burns, 17 years old, was cresting a hill on County Road 800...
- Steve Lombardi | June 27, 2009 2:33 PM |
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Head & Brain Injuries
A Michigan class action lawsuit has settled for $1 million dollars to reimburse 100 families for the expense of testing their infant children for autism. BCBS has a way of using the experimental...
- Steve Lombardi | June 26, 2009 9:21 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFort Lauderdale, Florida – January 2009 – From Chalik & Chalik along with the Sun Sentinel we bring you this January 22, 2009 report of pedestrian mayhem in the sunny state of Minnie...
- Steve Lombardi | June 26, 2009 6:18 PM |
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MiscellaneousWe are back again with the Courts playing love manager for adults. This time we have Ryan Janssen, age 32 a teacher at Norwalk High School making a mistake of having romantic relationship with a 16...
- Steve Lombardi | June 26, 2009 12:17 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Life in modern America is full compelling contradictions. As a trial lawyer I’ve seen more than my share, but today’s case has piqued my interest more than others. It’s the...
- Steve Lombardi | June 25, 2009 3:29 PM |
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MiscellaneousManchester, Iowa Tornado – The EF5 tornado destroyed 200 homes and caused more than $100 million in damage on May 25, 2008. Six people from the town died in Iowa's deadliest tornado since...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 25, 2009 2:23 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsKey2SafeDriving
New Device Jams Cell Phone Use While Driving
Researchers at the University of Utah have developed an ignition key that prevents teenagers (or anyone else) from talking or...
- Steve Lombardi | June 25, 2009 12:15 PM |
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Wrongful Death
Coach Ed Thomas, 34 seasons at A-P High, 16 playoff appearances, six state title games appearances and 2 championships, in the playoffs 19 times, 4 players in the NFL, (Paul Rhoads, Brad ) He...
- Steve Lombardi | June 25, 2009 11:12 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)Ever wonder how Judges get in the news? Watch this video tape that the news reports is a Texas State Court Judge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Xxasf2alE
He was allegedly indicted last...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 24, 2009 3:54 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsDes Moines/West Des Moines Parents…..Teenagers Driving while Intexticated
Where are they learning this? Example maybe?
Are you thinking, “Not my...
- Steve Lombardi | June 24, 2009 12:24 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Today I want to accomplish one of two things:
1. Either make all the tort reformers filthy rich; rich beyond their wildest dreams; or
2. Demonstrate a false impression the tort reformers are...
- Steve Lombardi | June 24, 2009 9:36 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn Morning Call, a Pennsylvania’s newspaper reports medical malpractice lawsuit trials are on the decrease as more cases are settled. In a followup article John A. Kibelstis, M.D. openly...
- Steve Lombardi | June 23, 2009 9:11 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsToday we continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items that have been sitting around in my box for months. There are so many of them just since the first of the year. You can...
- Steve Lombardi | June 23, 2009 2:08 PM |
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MiscellaneousQuestion: In your experience what are some of the causes of driver’s losing control of cars and trucks on gravel roads in Iowa?
Answer: I’ve been asked this question before and after...
- Steve Lombardi | June 23, 2009 9:17 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer Accidents
Wrong way drivers have become increasingly a problem on the Interstate highway system. I’ve blogged about it before and have been collecting wrong-way highway collision news for...
- Steve Lombardi | June 22, 2009 9:08 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsA ten-year-old boy riding a bike was impaled by the hand brake lever when he jumped a curb and fell.
If you want to see something scary watch this young boy riding a motorized bike he...
- Steve Lombardi | June 22, 2009 2:01 PM |
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MiscellaneousI’m puzzled though about the ATRA would you mind answering a few questions for me?
How much did the ATRA and the Chamber spend on ad campaigns last year?
How much is in the budget this...
- Steve Lombardi | June 22, 2009 10:17 AM |
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Miscellaneous
They keep telling us in the news that health care is in trouble and we all need to tighten our belts. Employers are paying more for less coverage and individuals go without health insurance due...
- Steve Lombardi | June 21, 2009 10:12 AM |
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Wrongful DeathJust recently in Germany a dog found and retrieved to its owner a U.S. grenade left from World War II. The owner lived near Erkrath, Germany. Police were summoned to disarm it after it was properly...
- Steve Lombardi | June 20, 2009 8:38 PM |
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Motorcycle Accidents
They say no to mandatory helmets and we get to pay for the results. A motorcycle being driven by a David Murphy was eastbound on River Road in Hancock County. At the location with Taft Avenue a...
- Steve Lombardi | June 20, 2009 10:20 AM |
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MiscellaneousI’m back again today to answer to Mr. McKinney and the A.T.R.A. Today let’s talk about corporate wrongdoing and the legal thugs the Wall Street CEO's send in to create the smoke screen...
- Steve Lombardi | June 19, 2009 9:00 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFedEx truck driver, Darwin Happel, was rear-ended and goes to Mercy Hospital in Oelwein, Iowa for treatment. The one who came from the rear, Gregory Asche of Parkersburg wasn’t hurt.
- Steve Lombardi | June 19, 2009 11:02 AM |
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MiscellaneousDear Darren McKinney: Many people aren't familiar with the American Tort Reform Association or why it was started. They don't know the pivotal events of what gave the ATRA the reasons to exist and...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 19, 2009 9:32 AM |
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Wrongful DeathANSWER: ZERO SECONDS
Summer Safety: Children and babies left in cars leads to death
“I’m just running in for a couple of minutes……I just need to pick something...
- Steve Lombardi | June 18, 2009 9:48 PM |
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Wrongful Death
A 28-year-old woman died from a horse losing it’s footing, falling and her ending up under the falling horse. The time was some time before 8:50 P.M. to the entrance of Fountain Springs...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 18, 2009 8:01 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsGet off the cell phone while driving!! You almost hit a boy on a bike!
As I was exiting Interstate 235 in West Des Moines at approximately 2:45 p.m. today (June 18, 2009), I was waiting to turn...
- Steve Lombardi | June 18, 2009 2:03 PM |
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Miscellaneous
I’m back today with Part II to Mr. McKinney and his comments concerning Tort Reform. If anyone thought I should reconsider speaking directly with the American Tort Reform Association you...
- Steve Lombardi | June 18, 2009 1:58 PM |
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MiscellaneousKCCI reported on a drowning involving kayakers from Iowa. Brothers originally from Creston, Iowa were on a kayak trip on the Pennsylvania River in the Philadelphia area. The river attacks kayakers...
- Steve Lombardi | June 18, 2009 1:10 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)A playground injury at the Apple Tree Daycare center in Dickinson County, Iowa was caused by a 5-year-old girl near strangulation caused by a jump rope around her neck hooking on the upper portion...
- Steve Lombardi | June 18, 2009 10:43 AM |
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Workplace Injuries
How common is a scaffolding collapse on a construction site?
Brooks Schuelke and Wayne Parsons posted about the June 10, 2009 21 Rio Condo scaffolding collapse in Austin, Texas and it...
- Steve Lombardi | June 17, 2009 3:48 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThis is one of those accidents I hate writing about but without this posting the relatives and friends back in Ireland may wonder about how to obtain information concerning the O'Connell family. I...
- Steve Lombardi | June 17, 2009 1:32 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWe've been talking about pedestrian safety. I've not finished yet with all the mail box news alerts and already they are coming in with new alerts. In this one we have a 5 to 6 year-old and a 23...
- Steve Lombardi | June 17, 2009 10:14 AM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsThis is the headline the American Tort Reform Association would write:
Iowa motorcyclist, out for a Sunday driver in Cedar Rapids clocked on radar at over 164 mph!
Greedy trial lawyers to...
- Steve Lombardi | June 17, 2009 9:56 AM |
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Miscellaneous
I wrote a post about the face of tort reform that the Chamber doesn’t want you to see. It was a post about pit bulls and other vicious animals mauling small children and how tort reform...
- Steve Lombardi | June 17, 2009 7:46 AM |
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Automobile Accidents
The news always refers to them as “road fatalities” but really they are car crashes of various natures, some have to do with the road and others don’t. They do start off on the...
- Steve Lombardi | June 16, 2009 9:47 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsA bus and a motorcyclist have the odds in favor of the bus. And that’s what happened on the morning of June 8, 2009 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at around 7:30 A.M. on Mount Vernon Road and 19th...
- Steve Lombardi | June 16, 2009 2:03 PM |
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Spinal Cord Injuries
The MMA slogan is “Ready, Connect, Fight” and so they did. Zack Kirk landed a fight for May 23, 2009. He connected, fought for a bit and then fought his way into a broken neck.
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- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 16, 2009 12:04 PM |
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MiscellaneousAnother disturbing news item of children being left home alone. It’s being reported that Shannon Lynette Mather, age 27, was arrested Tuesday, June 2, on drunken driving charges, driving on a...
- Steve Lombardi | June 16, 2009 9:23 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
I reported about an elevator incident in Ames, Iowa and today we post a follow-up about this elevator shaft fall and “accidental death” at Campustown in Ames, Iowa. First let's look...
- Steve Lombardi | June 15, 2009 10:43 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIn this crash we have two cars entering the same intersection at once. The northbound vehicle has to stop and yield, but doesn’t. It enters the intersection striking the westbound car and is...
- Steve Lombardi | June 15, 2009 8:37 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)Why aren't the investigative reports from the Ames, Iowa elevator death case not being released?
We reported earlier on this matter. See our post at Ames, Iowa: 19-year-old falls seven stories...
- Steve Lombardi | June 14, 2009 9:45 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
Favian Guerra was driving a 1997 Toyota Avalon in Scott County on I-80 at the 278 mile marker in the eastbound lanes of traffic. A deer ran out in front of his car. Guerra is reported to have...
- Steve Lombardi | June 14, 2009 7:44 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)A family from Greenville, in town to attend a pony show, visited the zoo and got the surprise of their lives. What they saw was a gorilla, Mike, on the loose. This woman describes a another mother...
- Steve Lombardi | June 13, 2009 10:42 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
In this case a single vehicle collision caused by what the Iowa State Patrol says was a loss of control killed the two adults but sparing the 1 year old child. Later reports indicate the child...
- Steve Lombardi | June 13, 2009 4:13 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)The State of Iowa Safe Boating Course is taught by members of Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 4.The last class was held at the Lake Red Rock Visitors Center near Pella, Iowa. They will also inspect...
- Steve Lombardi | June 12, 2009 10:40 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
In this crash a 23-year-old young man was killed in a one-car crash. He was driving a 1996 Pontiac Bonneville northbound on L48 in O’Brien County. The speed limit is 55 mph in this area,...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 12, 2009 12:33 PM |
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Miscellaneous
H1N1…..Full Blown Pandemic, Alert raised to Level 6
World Health Organization officials met with flu experts today (June 11, 2009) in Geneva to evaluate the spread of H1N1 and to raise...
- Steve Lombardi | June 11, 2009 9:04 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
Two-year-old infant injured by lawnmower
How does a 2-year-old boy get hurt by a lawnmower? There aren’t many details but that’s exactly what is reported by KCRG in a Scott...
- Steve Lombardi | June 10, 2009 8:37 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA rear end collision propelled the offending car across the center line and into the path of an oncoming car. Those two collided for a second collision sending both off in different directions. The...
- Steve Lombardi | June 10, 2009 10:18 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)The Des Moines Register reports that Daniel McAfee, 29, is the caretaker of a pit bull that is owned by Cody Pendleton, age 27. The dog is reported to have had “a history of aggression toward...
- Steve Lombardi | June 09, 2009 8:26 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsAt the 104 mile marker east bound on I-80 a Honda Civic being driven by an unidentified driver was driving westbound and struck a 2005 semi-truck driven by Mann Ravinder of Bay Point, California....
- Steve Lombardi | June 08, 2009 8:09 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)The police are calling it an accident and that’s fine from a criminal standpoint, but not from a civil standpoint. I agree with no criminal charges being filed against the friend who playfully...
- Steve Lombardi | June 08, 2009 7:36 PM |
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Workplace Injuries
Today we continue with several more pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items. There are too many pedestrian collisions just since the first of the year. After reading too many...
- Steve Lombardi | June 08, 2009 2:30 PM |
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MiscellaneousI took up the suggestion of Bob Mooney, a person who commented on yesterday’s post concerning the Burmese Snakes invading the Florida Everglades and looked up Dr. Mazzotti.
Releasing exotic...
- Steve Lombardi | June 08, 2009 10:17 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)Of the 228 people aboard the Air France flight that crashed, it is reported 15 more bodies of passengers have been recovered. Four bodies were men and four women.
Brazil reports 17 bodies have...
- Steve Lombardi | June 07, 2009 10:00 PM |
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MiscellaneousToday we continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items that have been sitting around in my box for months on end. There are so many of them just since the first of the year....
- Steve Lombardi | June 07, 2009 9:36 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
On May 26, 2009 I reported on the InjuryBoard a multi-car collision involving Langstaff and Andrew Brock in which two people died. Today we received word from an interested party, another...
- Steve Lombardi | June 07, 2009 12:15 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
The short answer is yes you could. Florida has an indigenous problem with pet owners. Floridians have been dumping Burmese python snakes into the Everglades after they grow too big to be house...
- Steve Lombardi | June 06, 2009 11:33 PM |
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MiscellaneousIn the 1970’s I watched Kung Fu and with each show was reintroduced to a quality of a good life that my mother had instilled in me. Today I am a lawyer and being a civil trial lawyer tests my...
- Steve Lombardi | June 05, 2009 10:05 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe day before yesterday I reported on an infant pedestrian accident. Since then more details were disclosed in the Iowa State Trooper report of this accident. Apparently the mother was at the...
- Steve Lombardi | June 04, 2009 10:00 PM |
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Wrongful DeathToday we continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items that have been sitting around in my box for months on end. There are so many of them just since the first of the year....
- Steve Lombardi | June 04, 2009 3:17 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Waterloo has always been the place of nervousness, controversy, anxiousness and the balance of life ... or death.
A reportedly distraught woman went into the water near the Park Avenue Bridge...
- Steve Lombardi | June 04, 2009 11:36 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe seminal event for water safety has to be the sinking of the Titanic. On April 14, 1912 the HMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank taking with it 1,516 passengers and crew members. One of the 706...
- Steve Lombardi | June 03, 2009 9:46 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsI'm going to continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items that have been sitting around in my in box for months on end. There are so many of them just since the first of the...
- Steve Lombardi | June 03, 2009 10:12 AM |
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Tractor-Trailer AccidentsFor the last week I've been posting on the Lombardi Law Firm web blog about pedestrian safety. A Google Alert came across my computer screen last Wednesday that is incredibly sad and for that reason...
- Steve Lombardi | June 02, 2009 2:09 PM |
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MiscellaneousI want to start out this blog with a song by Quynh Anh. She has a great voice but the message she sings is most appropriate for today’s baby boomers. You should listen to it as you read...
- Steve Lombardi | June 02, 2009 10:34 AM |
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Miscellaneous
The murder of Dr. Tiller in Kansas is raising serious questions about those who sit quietly on the sidelines not condemning the act. The anti-abortion groups must condemn this murder if they...
- Steve Lombardi | June 02, 2009 12:16 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsWhat are the many ways pedestrian’s can be injured or killed? That question comes up more times than you can quickly think of. In this post, which is being turned into a page for our Iowa...
- Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 01, 2009 1:58 PM |
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MiscellaneousSummer is officially here, at least in our minds since Memorial Day is behind us. Who is worried or even thinking about the flu season that will inevitably be here this fall? Ex-Iowa flu guru, Johan...
- Steve Lombardi | June 01, 2009 12:01 PM |
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MiscellaneousA man fell from a barge into the Mississippi River and died. The man was at the Blackhawk Fleet Terminal when he fell from a barge into the river. Apparently he was working on the barge, fell off...