Wrongful Death

• Iowa woman dies after horse loses footing and falls

  Steve Lombardi | June 18, 2009 9:48 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  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...

• Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ...

  Steve Lombardi | June 04, 2009 10:00 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Today 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....

• The prettiest thing you can wear to prom is a seat belt.

  Steve Lombardi | May 09, 2009 10:46 AM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Personal injury isn't pretty. In fact some of what we see as P.I. lawyers makes us sick. Some makes go home at night when our children are little and sit on their beds just looking at them and...

• Iowa worker Trinidad, dies after fall and OSHA-IOSH fines employer $375,000

  Steve Lombardi | May 07, 2009 11:57 PM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The Register reports the Clear Lake company we posted on previously for the death of a worker, Simon Trinidad, a 35 year-old when he fell into a metal hopper, was fined by IOSH in the amount of...

• Ten year old Mason City child killed while crossing a highway

  Steve Lombardi | May 05, 2009 11:19 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A Mason City, Iowa child was killed while crossing Highway 122 between S. Georgia and S. Jersey. A group of children ran across the street in front of the car being driven by Kyle Leedom (18) when...

• What you need to know about Swine Flu or H1N1:…..or why you don’t need to be afraid of “this little piggy”

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | May 02, 2009 10:03 AM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  What you need to know about Swine Flu or H1N1: …..or why you don’t need to be afraid of “this little piggy” Swine Flu symptoms are the same as any typical...

• Pacemaker cut from chest with pocketknife

  Steve Lombardi | April 29, 2009 11:54 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Some stories need a further explanation and without additional facts a story can lack perspective. This is one of those stories. Attempted murder charges filed against son who attempted to cut a...

• Update about deadly Iowa ATV accident and the heroics of an 11-year-old girl.

  Steve Lombardi | April 27, 2009 10:42 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  There is a very interesting update in the Omaha World-Herald by staff writer Katie Fretland, about the Des Moines Register article I blogged about a few days ago concerning the ATV accident that...

• Continuing with police brutality, raising good kids and white collar criminals

  Steve Lombardi | April 12, 2009 10:34 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Yesterday we discussed a Q&A from a justifiably angry parent whose son appears to have been arrested without the need to do so. Today we continue on with the dangers of death in police work. In...

• Des Moines Police Officers accused of brutality

  Steve Lombardi | April 11, 2009 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  From time to time I get asked for legal advice that has a broader audience and this is one of those Q&A’s. This is about police brutality, or excessive force, assault and battery, finding...