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Are they "threading the needle" in Washington County, Iowa?

Posted on July 21, 2009
What is 'threading the needle'? I became interested in the idea of threading the needle after reporting on an intersection collision in rural Iowa that killed three people. The accident occurred in Washington, Iowa on May 23, 2009. Essentially a car being driven by a young adult entered an intersection without stopping for the stop sign, struck a vehicle broadside sending it across the center line and head-on into an oncoming semi-truck...

Three workers electrocuted when using a boom truck

Posted on July 20, 2009
Today, it's about three workers who get electrocuted from an overhead power line while doing work on a college campus with a boom truck. It reminded me of my family and the work I grew up listening to them discuss. My grandfather, father, brother and brother-in-law all worked, at one time or another, for the Narragansett Electric Company in Providence, Rhode Island...

Game on for the Great Pithy Python Florida Everglades Hunt; Python Pet Owners Pray for their Prey Who Will Rue this Day in the Not-So-Sunny Florida Everglades

Posted on July 19, 2009
The State of Florida got the nod from the Feds to turn trappers and bounty hunters loose in the Florida Everglades looking for the unnatural Burmese Python that can breed like a rabbit; 100 eggs at a time! The Burmese Python has no natural predator in the Florida Everglades, with the exception of the bounty hunters...

This Case Combines Road Rage with Domestic or Spousal Abuse

Posted on July 17, 2009
I've covered several other collisions involving a different strain of road rage, I'm going to call it passenger compartment rage. In this case a Des Moines man is reported to be arrested after getting in an argument with the driver, resulting in his kicking the windshield, knocking the rear view mirror off following his grabbing the steering wheel...

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Could a float plan have saved Marquis Cooper and his passengers?

Posted on July 16, 2009
When you need to be rescued every minute counts. So if the boat sinks it is too late to be asking the question: What is a float plan? A float plan is like a flight plan that pilot's use to advise potential rescue crews about the intended flight, the vessel, the safety equipment on-board and the means of communication available to the crew...

What is a float plan?

Posted on July 15, 2009
A float plan is like a flight plan that pilot's use to advise potential rescue crews about the intended flight, the vessel, the safety equipment on-board and the means of communication available to the crew. In the case of a boat we are talking about the vessel itself, it's identification, the means of propulsion, telecommunications, navigation available to the boat crew, what visual distress signals rescuers should look for, what audible distress signals were available, what PFD's were on board, the ground tackle available and other gear for life saving measures...

Boating Safety News You Can Use from around the Midwest

Posted on July 14, 2009
Iowa – As of May 2009 Iowa made wearing a safety vest for those boaters under age 13 mandatory. There is an exemption for commercial boats with a capacity of 25 people or more or while in an enclosed cabin and below deck. Omaha, Nebraska – Two women were being pulled on an inner tube behind a boat and one died when the inner tube was whipped around on a turn and struck a dock...

Pork Reforms not mentioned by the American ?More Pork? Reform Association, why do hospital's advertise?

Posted on July 14, 2009
Consider the policy of medical service providers wanting tort reform measures to save money. The policy is to make severely injured patients pay for the cost of medical mistakes that they had no fault in committing. The health care workers make the mistakes and the patient gets to pay...

Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... Estimating speed of oncoming traffic

Posted on July 14, 2009
Once again today we continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items. As I previously stated, there are so many of them just since the first of the year. Today we'll look at one additional news item that adds to our investigation into what themes or reasons (causes) as to why pedestrians get struck so much...

Playing Dirty Harry at the 7-11

Posted on July 13, 2009
Robberies of Convenience Store Clerks A Des Moines robber got the surprise of his life when the store clerk pulled his own gun, aimed it and they had an old fashion standoff. The robber fled on foot to a nearby apartment complex. The store clerk worked at the Family Pantry Food and Liquor store, 4538 Lower Beaver Road, Des Moines, Iowa...

Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... Child darting case

Posted on July 11, 2009
Today we continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items. There are so many of them just since the first of the year. You can tell its spring. Today we'll look at three additional news items that each provides a theme or reason (cause) as to why pedestrians get struck so much...

Nine children injured in two-van collision near Grimes

Posted on July 10, 2009
One van tried to turn left of center onto S. 11th Street south of Grimes off of Iowa Highway 141. An oncoming van collided with the first van sending two adults and nine children to the hospital. The van was from Oakmoor and it rolled in the ditch. Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Woman pushed out of moving vehicle

Posted on July 09, 2009
Elgin, Iowa - June 2009 - This is the second news report I've seen lately about men getting mad at their girlfriends and pushing them out of the car into a place of danger. In the latest instance a 59-year-old man was charged with domestic assault after police were notified of a woman lying in the roadway about 3 miles south of Elgin...

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

Posted on July 08, 2009
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 was told that I have to work the morning before my work comp surgery...

Boating Safety News You Can Use

Posted on July 08, 2009
I'm continuing to post news and information about boating safety both here in the Injuryboard and on The Verdict, my own web blog with the Lombardi Law Firm. Today we have a website with interesting information about traveling with children, infants and small children...

Man?s Best Friend isn?t Always a Car Driver?s Best Friend

Posted on July 07, 2009
Gary Boldt, 62 was driving a motor home nearing Verona, Wisconsin when a dog jumped into his lap. Startled, he lost control, drove across the median of U.S. Highway 151 and crashed head-on with an SUV being driven by John Seier, 55. John Seier and Travis Brune, 13 of LaMotte both died...

Will charges likely to brought against owner of python that strangled two-year-old be successful?

Posted on July 07, 2009
The 9-1-1 call is chilling to say the least. This Florida man describes how an 8-foot Burmese pet python snake during the night got out of its cage and strangled 'the baby'. The baby is a two-year-old female. http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=6516682&referralPlaylistId=b895e6943a20a5ba0d5beadb011b18b7ea0a1398 Keeping exotic animals as pets may seem to add an edge to a boring life but it's really like playing catch with a knife...

Living on the edge of reason; Promoting Hatred as a Cultural Norm

Posted on July 06, 2009
Ann Coulter: "Dr. Tiller Was Terminated In His 203rd Trimester" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woHB8qCDVv4&feature=related I'm neither a liberal nor a conservative. I just want people to stop wasting my tax dollars. I don't care if gays marry, adopt or get divorced...

Driver argues, loses control, causes accident, kills motorcyclist

Posted on July 06, 2009
Fort Lauderdale, Florida – January 2009 – From Chalik & Chalik along with the Sun Sentinel we bring you this January 22, 2009 report of pedestrian mayhem in the sunny state of Minnie and Mickey. In this blog report, be discerning about what you read because some appears not to be accurate; the report mentions a different way a pedestrian was injured...

Raising Children in a Country where Hatred and Intolerance is Sometimes Institutionalized

Posted on July 05, 2009
No I'm not talking about Communist China, I'm talking about hatred and intolerance being taught in America. I have to wonder how we expect to raise children to be part of a global economy with the idea it's okay to be an American that hates people whose ideas are different...

Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... Learning to share the roadway

Posted on July 05, 2009
Again today we continue with several more pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items. As I previously stated, there are so many of them just since the first of the year. After reading too many pedestrian-accident reports I suggest that both drivers and pedestrians pay more attention to what's ahead or what's coming...

What would our Founding Father's do with Accreditting Liberty University School of Law

Posted on July 04, 2009
On this day, the 4th of July, it is appropriate that I discuss those from whose teachings sprout the green shoots of home-grown terrorism in America. Terrorism is defined as: S: (n) terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)...

Sarah Palin promised it would not be politics as usual, and delivered on ... "the politics of unusual"

Posted on July 04, 2009
The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." Once again the Republican Party builds a bridge to nowhere. Can you imagine a worse time to announce a resignation; Independence Day weekend...

Happy 4th of July

Posted on July 03, 2009
Happy 4th of July! Steve and I grew up in Bristol, Rhode Island, a New England town where the 4th of July parade has run longer than any place else in America. Bristol is often times called the most patriotic of all places in America. The stripe in the middle of the main road where the 2 ½ -3 hour parade takes place is even, red, white, and blue...

Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... Some good advice from The Pocono Record

Posted on July 03, 2009
We are back again today continuing with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items. As I previously stated, there are so many of them just since the first of the year. How about if for this month, both drivers and pedestrians pay more attention to what's ahead or what's coming...

A Sioux City Councilman was injured in a boating accident on

Posted on July 03, 2009
I'm behind on boating accidents and water safety issues. Let me attempt to catch up. I've collected boating items in the news and will over the next few posts examine how many people get injured while boating or on or near the water's edge. In the first instance you have a driving maneuver that surprises the passengers, one in which they were not prepared for resulting in them being thrown overboard and struck by the boat...

Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... After the highway breakdown

Posted on July 02, 2009
Now you're on the roadside after breaking down, you pull out your cell phone, call triple A and the tow truck arrives. The operator exits his truck and wham! He's suddenly struck by an oncoming car. Unbelievable, you say. Not so. Santa Clara, California – December 2008 - My friend John Bisnar from California blogs about an instance of a ground crew mechanic working on the ground near a helicopter...

Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... The Highway Breakdown

Posted on July 01, 2009
Columbus, Ohio – December 2008 – Freeway breakdowns make you a pedestrian. In this story from the Columbus Dispatch, two separate pedestrian-vehicle collisions occurred on Columbus freeways. In both instances a driver was stopped along the highway, out of their car when they were killed...

Civics 101; Do you know the three branches of government?

Posted on July 01, 2009
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness Civics 101: Do you know the 3 branches of government? Richard Dreyfus has taken up the cause of educating Americans about basic fundamentals of our government. 'Don't call it civics', he states, 'because civics is easily the most boring word in America, call it what it is: Political Power...

How can 2 adults and 8-yr-old drown in a South Carolina swimming pool?

Posted on June 30, 2009
Very strange news from South Carolina, as an aunt, uncle and 8-year-old nephew were found drowned in a back-yard swimming pool. The uncle was employed at the property and had permission to use it. A resident of the home returned to discovery the bodies...

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