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Caveat Emptor - Poor Lawyers Are Lawyers Heading to Extinction

Posted on December 16, 2009
The Publics' Attitude about Lawyers in General, Will Eventually Hurt You This week has been a series about tough love in the legal arena. The general public wants lawyers, who act nicey-nice, don't charge too much and who shouldn't care about tort reform...

The Lawyer Can't Get You Into Heaven; Fact is we aren't even trying.

Posted on December 15, 2009
Yesterday we discussed lawyers providing estate and trust services to a man later charged with the killing of another man; the effect was to make the grieving widows efforts to enforce a civil judgment somewhat difficult. My point was that what the lawyers did was ethical and that it wasn't the lawyers' job to delve into the motives or reasons for the accused farmer asking for that legal advice...

Lawyers aren?t Priests, So Stop Hoping for Divine Intervention

Posted on December 14, 2009
All of this starts with two farmers, a gun and one ends up dead. The dead farmer's wife and estate sue the other farmer and are awarded a large judgment; one that includes millions of dollars in punitive damages. But the widow and estate have a hard time collecting the judgment because of estate planning and how the assets are held...

Reasonable Doubt Will Let Tony Villegas Go Free

Posted on December 11, 2009
Michael Mayo of the Florida Sun Sentinel writes today, My gut on Melissa Lewis murder: Confused. And in the last word of the title he answers the final question of the criminal jury whose duty it will be to set free the accused. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, this case is all about greed and nothing else...

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This is the perfect teen driver's-ed class exercise.

Posted on December 11, 2009
During the summer months I was having my son, a college senior; write news items for me. I asked my stepdaughter and she's been doing some of the same. I suspected when they accepted the invitation (they do get paid) that there might be a benefit derived from writing about accidents in Iowa...

What caused a young man to fall down an elevator shaft?

Posted on December 10, 2009
Ames Elevators Involved in Death Is Back in the News The Register reported the apartment building where an Illinois man died earlier this year had 13 calls to the Ames Fire Department in the past 5 years. The article points out the calls were to free people trapped inside one of the building's two elevators...

Field Tile Trench Collapse Kills Farmer

Posted on December 09, 2009
A Joice, Iowa man was trapped under the dirt that caved in from the drainage tile trench he'd dug in a bean field. As of this writing there are few details about the incident. Not even the man's name had been released. There is no indication of whether he was working alone or with a helper...

In Ohio A "Financially Responsible" Person Can Kill Someone For Just $12,500

Posted on December 08, 2009
In Champaign County, Ohio, a woman was standing by her mailbox on Wolcott Road, near St. Paris, when a runaway trailer struck the 46 year old woman sending her to Miami Valley Hospital in critical condition, according to the Dayton Daily online news source...

Coming Soon, Sperm Auction Commercials on ?The View?

Posted on December 07, 2009
Most everyone fears Osama Bin Laden, but in my view what is more destructive to America are Americans that line up asking for a participation trophy. They are the ones asking for something just for showing up. Previously I wrote about a social security case involving an application for death benefits for a child who was conceived by artificial insemination after the father had passed...

Lucky to be alive, train vs semi-truck

Posted on December 05, 2009
A truck driver turned too tightly causing the wheels to get stuck in a culvert. Unfortunately, the truck ended up on the railroad tracks right in front of an oncoming train. The Nebraska State Patrol investigated and reported that the 63-year-old didn't die but suffered injury including a broken leg...

Osceola Passenger's Claims Come By Way of Driver Distractions

Posted on December 05, 2009
A one-vehicle rollover accident was reported to have been caused when the driver 'missed a curve, crossed the center line and rolled in the ditch along G76 Highway west of 60yh Avenue.' I'm not sure I'd agree with the description, but I get the gist of what they are trying to say...

Two die in 2-Vehicle Accident on Iowa County Road- A Failed Stop

Posted on December 04, 2009
Friday June 19th, around 5 in the morning, a two car collision was caused by the driver that ran the stop sign. As a result two men were killed; according to the Des Moines Register. Harlan Derr, age 58, was driving to Winnebago Industries in Forest City where he had worked for 25 years...

Parents Who Discipline Teens, Would Probably Make Good Lawyers

Posted on December 04, 2009
How do lawyers know when you're following too close? Parents with teenagers often times have to ask a lot of questions to get to the bottom of "what went on"? Most parents learn the ropes by experience and common sense. The same goes for trial lawyers, judges and juries...

Tony Villegas Needs A Florida Divorce Lawyer

Posted on December 04, 2009
If you are a lawyer who lives in Florida and can handle a divorce case, then Tony Villegas needs you. I'm licensed as an attorney in Florida, but I don't live there so I'm not a solution; if I were I'd step up to the plate for Tony Villegas. Can he pay? I have no idea although I suspect the answer is yes...

Crashing Head-on Into a Deputy Sheriff, Not the Best Day You've Had

Posted on December 03, 2009
What caused 21 year old Travis Scott to veer straight into oncoming traffic? That is the question Council Bluffs police are asking after the accident in the late hours of October 9th 2009 between Mr. Scott and Pottawattamie County Deputy Jahn Kirlin that left Mr...

An Iowa train vs car wreck is such A Painful Case

Posted on December 01, 2009
Join me this afternoon for a walk with James Joyce. This is to honor all of those people who die from collisions with trains at train-road-crossings in Iowa and around the nation. In some ways they are preventable but in other ways not so easily prevented...

RRA Litigation: Tony Villegas Deposition List, A Place to Start (Updated)

Posted on December 01, 2009
Today looks like the day Scott Rothstein will be charged and then arrested by the FBI. He claims to not be talking but those who have followed this story closely see it differently. Rothstein has lost his law license and many of his assets seized; his law firm is in bankruptcy court...

Free Speech is the Only Cure for China's Next Melamine Problem

Posted on November 30, 2009
Melamine poisoning is in the news again, this time with the official Chinese execution of two men associated with being involved in the chemical poisoning of baby formula in 2008. In that consumer product contamination case 300,000 babies suffered some form of kidney failure and disease...

Coal Train Coming, 19-year-old driver sits on tracks

Posted on November 28, 2009
Was the death of Brianna Culp, the 19 year old who was hit by a coal train, a suicide? That is the question police are asking as they look into the accident that happened Sunday, October 11th 2009. Miss Culp was a sophomore at Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant and the BNSF spokesman Steve Forsberg said that they crew on the 135-car train reported the woman was sitting on the tracks and didn't try to get out of the way...

Negligence, failing to yield, other driver and passenger deaths. Who's at fault?

Posted on November 27, 2009
On October 8th 2009 a Ford Tempo was heading westbound on 63rd St. when the driver failed to yield at the stop sign at the intersection of 19th Avenue and collided with a Chevrolet Suburban driven by Jennifer Engler. The name of the driver of the Ford Tempo is not being released at this time however the two passengers in the vehicle, Paul Steven Lauritson and Stephanie Ann Dripps, died as a result of injuries suffered in the crash...

Police Chase on I-35 in Iowa

Posted on November 26, 2009
This accidental death raises the question, are high speed chases really necessary? On Wednesday October 14th 2009 at about 2:30 in the morning an officer noticed a car driving erratically; when the officer attempted to pull the vehicle over the driver refused and a chase ensued...

Taser News that Shocks the Conscience

Posted on September 30, 2009
Why are there so many lawsuits? Why are there so many injuries? A legless unarmed man suspected of domestic abuse and charged with resisting arrest was Tasered by the City of Merced. After effectuating this arrest the report states the police left the man nude from the waist down for several minutes in front of a small crowd...

How Does Big Business Rationalize State Sanctioned Lies

Posted on September 30, 2009
I've been covering the apology shield in the context of medical negligence and how it's nothing more than state supported lying. Here is a list of some sources you can use to learn more about how Big Business rationalizes how it benefits America. For more to read, consider the following articles posted on the Injuryboard and elsewhere...

Another Baby Boomer Motorcyclist Dies in Iowa

Posted on September 30, 2009
Charles Wagner, 57 years old, was driving his Victory motorcycle in Mills County on Sunday afternoon when he lost control, swerved off the road, causing the vehicle to overturn, and killing him shortly after the crash, according to Iowa State Patrol records...

Tsunami levels village on American Samoa after 8.3 quake strikes; Tsunami could hit Hawaii

Posted on September 29, 2009
Tsunami levels village on American Somoa after 8.3 quake strikes Tsunami could hit Hawaii by 7:00 pm Eastern Time An offshore earthquake registering 8.3 has struck 120 miles off the southwest coast of American Samoa in the South Pacific Ocean. The quake struck at a depth of 20...

Newton, Iowa Construction Site Wall Collapse Injures Three Workers

Posted on September 29, 2009
Three construction workers were injured on a job site in Newton, Iowa as a wall collapsed and causing the scaffolding to do the same. KCCI news reporters watched a videotape taken by a security camera from across the street at Dave's Wholesale. The security camera footage shows the collapse, to what degree isn't known or disclosed...

Apology Shield, The Emporer?s New Clothes

Posted on September 29, 2009
FAKE APOLOGY – THE POWER OF THE INTERNET We've been covering the fake apology laws and why it's bad for America. Today let's talk about how common people can fight back to put truth back into medicine. What really is at stake is America's heart and soul...

What are interrogatories and how do I answer them?

Posted on September 29, 2009
It's a new week and the InjuryBoard group is again writing about commonly asked client questions. We have seven topics to cover, each lawyer is choosing one per week, and by the end of seven weeks we will each have covered all seven topics. I will also post them on the Lombardi Law Firm web blog, The Verdict...

Tsunami Update: West Coast of USA now included in Warning

Posted on September 29, 2009
Tsunami Update: West Coast of USA now included in Warning The effects of the earthquake beneath the South Pacific Ocean may be felt from the west coast of the USA to the eastern coast of Japan. The coast of the USA from California north to Washington may be at risk...

The Dangers of Adventure Travel and being a Boomer

Posted on September 28, 2009
On Wednesday September 23rd 2009, Philip Dorff and some friends were fishing on the Big Thompson River. Mr. Dorff was fishing separately from his three friends who had last seen him about 4:30 p.m., when he failed to return to the Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch by 9 p...

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