Posts tagged Rants and Raves

• Backing up your hard drive - Red Tape Chronicles

  Steve Lombardi | May 12, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Raelyn Campbell's lawsuit against Best Buy demonstrates another problem with Apple's iTunes back-up system. Just like Best Buy's extended warranty, the iTunes back-up system is designed to fail and...

• House and Senate Bills Creating New CPSC Powers is Long Overdue

  Steve Lombardi | March 31, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Editorials like one appearing in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 are examples of irresponsible journalism. Just as the public tired of "liberal media" so are they sick and tired of the other extreme form of journalism that adds nothing to solving problems. The editorial board should go back to the basic foundation of good solid journalism and save their opinions for personal...

• Crawford County - Stop being mad, you make us all look bad. It's time to step into this Century. Start thinking and getting better legal advice.

  Steve Lombardi | March 30, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Crawford County - Stop being mad, you make us all look bad. It's time to step into this Century. Start thinking and getting better legal advice.To set this up let's review the facts. A bike rider in RAGBRAI is allowed to ride and he hasn't signed the required waiver. He enters Crawford County, rides on their roads, hits a hole, flips and ends up dying. His widow sues Crawford County and gets a...

• RAGBRAI and the Crawford County double standard - The ultimate mixed message.

  Steve Lombardi | March 29, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Crawford County double standard. We've all said it to our children, "Take responsibility for your actions." And then there is the often quoted word to the wise normally stated after trouble has occurred, "There are consequences to your actions." We've all said it to our children, "Take responsibility for your actions." And then there is the often quoted word to the wise normally stated after...

• Trial Lawyers - Evidence Based Medicine

  Steve Lombardi | March 20, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  We've heard all about the necessity of expert witnesses using evidence based medicine to formulate opinions in law suits. Of course many of us have not bought into "evidence based medicine" as the cure for what some characterize as "fairer judicial decisions". We've been around too long and heard it previously suggested that the jury system needs to be fixed by those with a financial interest in...

• It's no wonder so much money is being spent to vilify the trial lawyer.

  Steve Lombardi | March 18, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Doesn't it seem like the fox is watching the hen house? Now you have to ask yourself: Question: Who is watching out for your family? Answer: Certainly not the drug companies and absolutely not the FDA. Question: Why is the FDA allowing all of this advertising directly to the consumer? Why is this relationship between the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies so cozy?Answer: ?????According to The...

• Profit Rises 47% For World's Largest Oil Services Company

  Steve Lombardi | March 16, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  With the continuing increase in energy prices, the demand for products from companies such as Schlumberger Ltd. has also increased. Schlumberger is the world's largest oil services company and has recently reported that its second-quarter profit rose 47%. Net profit for the Houston-based company rose to $1.26 billion, or $1.02 cents per diluted share, from $857 million, or 69 cents, a year...

• On behalf of the Red Sox Nation, I'd like to thank his Holiness.

  Steve Lombardi | March 09, 2008 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Red Sox versus the Yankees - the ultimate courtroom drama. Once again there is proof in the pudding that even God is a Red Sox fan. There is near overwhelming evidence that Pope Benedict XVI is a Red Sox fan. While the Yankees lament yet another kink in their armor, there is little disagreement that Pee-Bee is a member of the Red Sox Nation. With the Pope scheduled to say holy mass at Yankee...

• Mortgage Scams Come in All Sorts of Presentations

  Steve Lombardi | March 07, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Learn how to recognize some of the more popular lending schemes that amount to nothing more than fraud. If you've got mortgage problems don't compound them by taking the bait on another flavor of financial chicanary that can lead to a worse situation. There are several short video clips on YouTube explaining various forms of fraud being perpetrated on unsuspecting home owners with mortgage...

• The Hidden Dangers of the LISTSERV - Ears that listen.

  Steve Lombardi | March 04, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  What's right is not always what is fair. I'm really not feeling the LOVE. Big brother is listening! Or, so warned Orwell of the society of 1984. Like the Mayor in Any Given Sunday, let me show you the love. I love the power of the LISTSERV. I would be blood brothers with a Plaintiffs' LISTSERV if it could bleed. But it can't, won't and doesn't. In Iowa our trial lawyers association is one of...