Wrongful Death

• Death of a Firefighter - Part 4 in an editorial series

  Steve Lombardi | March 19, 2009 10:16 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In the anguished hours after Shannon Halvorson died, rumors and haunting questions spread like flames among her fellow volunteer firefighters. How did she become incapacitated so quickly at that rowdy motel-room party? What were the intentions of the men who coaxed her to drink? Was she slipped a drug as well?

• Vacation Safety: Even in a bus, adventure travel poses risks.

  Steve Lombardi | March 18, 2009 10:19 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  An Iowa couple was on the bus crash in Monterry, Mexico. The husband, 73-year-old Ronald Christy, died and his wife, Margaret, is hospitalized and in critical condition. The driver of the bus was...

• Death of a Firefighter -- Part 3 in an editorial series

  Steve Lombardi | March 18, 2009 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Dick Zimmerlee fervently believes that volunteer firefighters, aided by a soft and sympathetic investigation by law enforcement, tried to whitewash details of the 2003 death of his daughter, Shannon Halvorson.

• Death of a Firefighter -- Part 2 in an editorial series

  Steve Lombardi | March 17, 2009 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Every good paramedic knows the symptoms of alcohol poisoning, and Shannon Halvorson exhibited most of them on that deadly night in 2003. Police reports show she was incoherent and listless.

• Death of a Firefighter -- Part 1 in an editorial series

  Steve Lombardi | March 16, 2009 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  If you drink as an underage teenager read this story and watch the YouTube video. I've previously written about how much a young adult can drink before dying, this story should demonstrate to you how situations can escalate that result in a person dying.

• Cosmetic injections with industrial silicone leads 2 women to suffer total kidney failure

  Steve Lombardi | February 12, 2009 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In what can only be described as practicing medicine without a license two Tampa, Florida area women were injected with what is believed industrial silicone by a “fake doctor”. One...

• Boy in fifth grade determined by Illinois coroner to have committed suicide.

  Steve Lombardi | February 10, 2009 2:08 PM | 6 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Initially reported as an accidental hanging the report now concludes suicide. It’s just difficult to appreciate how a 10-year old boy in fifth grade could choose to take his own life? My...

• Tort Reform - Radiologist / Wrongful Death Claim Post Draws Criticism

  Steve Lombardi | June 16, 2008 7:28 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In today's post Steve Lombardi discusses why greed and forgiveness have nothing to do with the right to seek civil redress in a Court of law. He hopes that his tort deforming critic won't ever have to sit in the lawyer's office and hear the lesson about the Golden Rule. But then again maybe he should.

• Fire Prevention 101

  Megan Roth | June 12, 2008 12:36 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The small, easy-to-install device is one of the best safety measures you can take in protecting your home and your family. But just as it’s important to distinguish between types of fire, it’s also important to distinguish between styles of the devices intended to prevent those fires.

• What length of prison sentence does a driver operating drunk get for causing a death?

  Steve Lombardi | May 22, 2008 12:24 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In this instance a Tama man was sentenced to 15 years The accident or crash caused injury to three other people along with the death of one person The driver was 21 years old All of the injured...