Automobile Accidents

• This Post Is Not about Toyotas, It’s About the Last Clear Chance Doctrine

  Steve Lombardi | February 09, 2010 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The motoring traffic ought to forget about sticking Toyota accelerators for awhile and think about that cell phone that is stuck to the driver's ear. That cell phone is more dangerous to most of...

• Ohio’s UDM Coverage: Consumer Caveman Coverage

  Steve Lombardi | February 08, 2010 12:01 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Ohio, a place where backwards laws are considered forward thinking. Yesterday we discussed how those people with greed on their minds, have engineered legislation to overturn the Ohio Supreme...

• Crappy Consumer Insurance: USAA’s Fade-Away UM Coverage –Disserving the US Military

  Steve Lombardi | February 07, 2010 12:01 PM | 5 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  If it benefited our servicemen and servicewomen would you mind if today I was really angry with an insurance company? Here goes, USAA is un-American and sets such a low standard that they should...

• Ohio’s UDM Coverage: Consumers Being Sucker Punched! The Never-Pay UDM Auto Policy

  Steve Lombardi | February 05, 2010 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Ohio must be using the new math? For two days now (Here count them using your fingers, one and two.) we’ve discussed how the Ohio legislature got together with their insurance buddies and...

• Ohio Underinsured Coverage – They took it away and still charge you a premium.

  Steve Lombardi | February 04, 2010 8:01 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Yesterday we covered underinsured coverage in Ohio and specifically the minimum limits type of insurance. Those minimum limits are $12,500. We found out the broad view was rejected and the narrow...

• It Really Sucks Being in an Auto Accident in Ohio

  Steve Lombardi | February 03, 2010 12:01 PM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I thought of titling this piece Underinsured Motorist Coverage, The Narrow View fits Narrow Minds, but really I couldn't because in reality it just sucks to be a Buckeye. Don’t mind me the...

• Boyfriend of At-Fault Driver Discloses He Was Just On the Phone With the Driver…Oh really?

  Steve Lombardi | February 03, 2010 12:01 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Witness Discloses He Was Just On the Phone with the Driver…Oh really? This accident demonstrates the importance of a good investigation and the difficulty of proving the at-fault driver was...

• Made In America Meets The Participation Trophy

  Steve Lombardi | February 02, 2010 12:01 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  TODAY'S CASE STUDY - CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS Right about now the City of Grand Rapids doesn’t just want, but the City fathers think they need some of that tort reform legal stuff that all them...

• Texting While Driving Can Teach You A Lot About Medicine

  Steve Lombardi | February 01, 2010 12:02 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Text messaging can teach you a lot about life; especially when it’s combined with driving a truck, a car or even a train. Take a walk with me if you will. But first put down the cell phone...

• Multiple Sections of Iowa I-35 Closed Due to Weather

  Steve Lombardi | January 26, 2010 10:07 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Talk about being miserable. At this point in the winter every Iowan has to be sick and tired of battling the snow, ice, wind and sleet. Well let’s not forget last weeks brief rain. The...