Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Head & Brain Injuries

So why should the railroad be liable? Having played Monopoly you probably have a warm fuzzy place in your mind for Reading Railroad. You have to get over that sentimentality with the jury.A train with many cars is stopped in a city or town. The train has many cars and those cars once stopped block several of the streets in the city or town. The rail cars are black and this particular night it's...

Several people who commented argued there is no difference in the cost of medical car associated with motorcycle accidents with or without a helmet. Unfortunately that is not true. The studies show completely the opposite to be true. In November 2002, NHTSA reported that 25 studies of the costs of injuries from motorcycle crashes "consistently found that helmet use reduced the fatality rate,...

I've received several comments critical of my posts about motorcycle helmets and increased insurance coverage. Different in many respects they all have one argument in common. They argue there are many more collisions in cars that lead to brain injury and therefore the argument is made that if those riding motorcycles should be required to don a helmet then so should automobile drivers and...

As a young boy if I asked too many questions my mother would say, "Go fly a kite!" Meaning, go find something else to do besides pester me. Can't you see I need to do my housework? Like the advice to eat eggs every morning I'm now finding out that advice if literally followed could kill me.The CPSC has issued a warning concerning certain kites. The manufacturer, Sportsstuff, Inc., of Omaha,...

The Problem - You move into an older home, maybe in rural Iowa, it's and old farm house, and you aren't sure if your young children can get lead poisoning from the old paint. Be forewarned that if you live in a home built before 1950 your home probably has lead-based paint. Most of Iowa's pre-1950 homes contain lead-based paint. Young children who live in pre-1950 homes become lead-poisoned...

Sometimes they call it a head injury and other times a brain injury but to the person suffering from the effects it's no joke. Learning to live with a brain injury is perhaps the hardest thing anyone can ever hope to achieve. With 26 years of practicing personal injury law I've seen more than my share of cases where we have a brain injury. The older you get the harder it is to adjust to....

The death of Elizabeth Mohl in July 2007 prompted Wisconsin officials to revisit amusement park ride safety regulations. There is a multi-part story about ride safety done by the Wisconsin State Journal. In Iowa users and parents of children who ride these amusement rides, should themselves consider the safety issues. Of course it's never easy to do so, but looking around at the ride and the...

Des Moines, Iowa. Ian Harris, six years old, was attacked by a dog this Monday and was severely injured. It's been reported that this was a good dog. It's unclear exactly what occurred before the attack. Iowa law imposes strict liability for damages done by a dog. It's important to identify the dog's owner. Also whether the owner has liability insurance for paying the child's bills, both past,...

An owner of a Chinese toy factory at the center of a major recall of lead-tainted toys by Mattel Inc. reportedly committed suicide just days after the U.S. toy maker identified his company as the manufacturer.While it is unclear whether Cheung Shu-hung's suicide is linked to the recall, the incident is likely to be seen as a tragic symbol of the mounting pressure Chinese manufacturers face to...

In March 2007, the state cigarette tax in Iowa increased by a dollar per pack. Officials are proposing to increase that tax again by 61 cents, but there is high opposition from various groups. Convenience store owners believe that the increase in the tax does not deter people from buying cigarettes, but instead encourages them to steal cigarette packs.Dawn Carlson of Petroleum Marketers and...

Botox injections are becoming more and more popular as the plastic surgery industry markets the benefits of the product. In 2006 alone, 11 million Americans had some type of cosmetic surgery. A recent incident in which a couple was paralyzed by botox injections has caused the procedure to come under scrutiny.Bonnie and Eric Kaplan decided to get botox injections in 2004 by a friend who claimed...

The safety of Chinese exports has recently been under suspicion due to several incidents involving unsafe products. The Chinese government has now acknowledged the issue by closing down 180 food plants that have used chemicals and additives in its products. China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine have found 23,000 food safety infractions that occurred...

http://www.kidsgrowth.com/resources/articledetail.cfm?id=1867Childhood vaccines contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal. Many believe this causes autism in children and over 4,800 families have filed claims for compensation to pay for medical bills for their autistic children. They allege that their children were harmed by the thimerosal in vaccines.A U.S. Court of Federal...

Children enrolled in Iowa Schools will be required to have a blood test checking for lead poisoning beginning in Fall 2008. Rita Gergeley of the Iowa Department of Public Health is in charge of implementing the new law, and says that it may take awhile to plan out the new rules regarding the new requirement. She also states the importance of having children tested in Iowa since there is a...

A high school student is lucky to be alive and facing a long recovery, after suffering a head injury when he slid off the hood of a friend's car, while car surfing, on Friday.As of Sunday, the seventeen-year-old boy remains in serious condition at Mercy Medical Center.A statement was released by the boy's mother concerning her son's condition:"On Friday afternoon, Stefen made a poor choice by...