Posts tagged compensation

• Man killed in plant explosion, sparks or static electricity?

  Steve Lombardi | November 18, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  In Columbia County, Wisconsin a 47 year old man died Sunday October 18th, in an explosion in the American Packaging Corporation plant, according to the Wisconsin State Journal news source. Jeffrey...

• Electrolux Iowa Plant Closings, Exporting America’s Middle Class

  Steve Lombardi | October 28, 2009 4:15 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Can a community that has no manufacturing base sustain a middle class? Electrolux is closing its Iowa operations and with those closings taking 850 jobs to a place called Juarez, Mexico. On the...

• Des Moines Police Officer is One Tough Cookie

  Steve Lombardi | October 07, 2009 10:28 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  What do you get when you take 250,851,833 registered passenger vehicles, 46,876 miles of highway, and a man with a badge? This is not the opening line of a clever joke with a cute punch line. In...

• Iowa Trucker Killed While Unloading Pipe in Tennessee

  Steve Lombardi | August 02, 2009 10:42 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  On Monday July 20th 2009, Larry LaCroix of Fort Madison died at University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville after he was crushed by a load of pipe he was delivering to the cleanup site of a...

• Iowa Workers' Compensation: Do I have to work the morning of surgery?

  Steve Lombardi | July 08, 2009 9:59 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As lawyers we are asked questions daily concerning our areas of practice. In this instance the person asked about workers' compensation and whether they have to work the day of surgery. Question: I...

• How long does it take to settle an Iowa workers’ compensation case?

  Steve Lombardi | May 17, 2009 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: 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...

• Clear Lake company issued a fine for the death of a worker who fell into an open hopper

  Steve Lombardi | April 27, 2009 12:41 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Clear Lake company issued a fine for the death of a worker who fell into an open hopper IOSH, or OSHA as it's most commonly called fined a Clear Lake company $357,000 for an accident that killed an...

• Iowa Workers Compensation: Single car accidents where the working driver is killed

  Steve Lombardi | April 15, 2009 11:33 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Normally we think in terms of car accidents being about liability against another driver. But when a driver falls asleep at the wheel or for whatever reason loses control of a company owned vehicle...

• Driver Safety: Failing to yield the ROW, kills one driver and injures anothers on I-35 southbound, Ames, Iowa

  Steve Lombardi | April 14, 2009 3:59 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Garrett Chitty, 17, tried entering I-35 southbound where little room existed, stuck another truck being driven by Lewis Thomas of Cleveland, Ohio. Thomas’ truck moved over to the left striking...

• Iowa Workers' Compensation: Death benefits and negligence

  Steve Lombardi | April 07, 2009 11:23 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Matthew Buckner was driving his van northbound on 315th St. when he lost control of the van he was driving approximately 100 yards north of the Highway 34 intersection. He entered the east ditch...