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Serious Jeopardy: If you fell out of the boat in the Florida's Everglades, could you be eaten by a Burmese Python?

Posted on June 07, 2009
The short answer is yes you could. Florida has an indigenous problem with pet owners. Floridians have been dumping Burmese python snakes into the Everglades after they grow too big to be house pets. So much so, that their population is estimated to be moiré than 150,000 pythons now calling the Florida Everglades home...

Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... Cell phones and alcohol as a distraction

Posted on June 07, 2009
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. You can tell its spring. Today we'll look at three news items that each provides a theme or reason (cause) as to why pedestrians get struck so much...

Iowa Auto Collision, front-seat-passenger taken off of life-support

Posted on June 07, 2009
On May 26, 2009 I reported on the InjuryBoard a multi-car collision involving Langstaff and Andrew Brock in which two people died. Today we received word from an interested party, another passenger died. It's been reported the front seat passenger in the Brock truck was at 5:30 a...

Carradine Death: Grasshopper: Nothing is softer than water; yet water can wear down the hardest rock.

Posted on June 06, 2009
In the 1970's I watched Kung Fu and with each show was reintroduced to a quality of a good life that my mother had instilled in me. Today I am a lawyer and being a civil trial lawyer tests my faith in people to understand the tenets of a strong civil justice system...

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Iowa's smallest rural pedestrians are at risk of being run over

Posted on June 05, 2009
The day before yesterday I reported on an infant pedestrian accident. Since then more details were disclosed in the Iowa State Trooper report of this accident. Apparently the mother was at the mailbox on the opposite side of the street from where the child came and from their home...

My Waterloo, using water to commit suicide

Posted on June 04, 2009
Waterloo has always been the place of nervousness, controversy, anxiousness and the balance of life ... or death. A reportedly distraught woman went into the water near the Park Avenue Bridge in Waterloo, Iowa; then went over a dam and was pulled downstream...

Last Titanic Survivor Dies, Lessons to Learn from the Marquis Cooper Tragedy

Posted on June 04, 2009
The seminal event for water safety has to be the sinking of the Titanic. On April 14, 1912 the HMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank taking with it 1,516 passengers and crew members. One of the 706 survivors was the 9-week-old infant Millvina Dean. Ms...

Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ...

Posted on June 04, 2009
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. You can tell its spring. Today we'll look at three news items that each provide a theme or reason (cause) as to why pedestrians get struck so much...

Iowa's smallest pedestrians require extra special attention and care by truck drivers

Posted on June 03, 2009
<p>For the last week I've been posting on the <a href="http://www.lombardilaw.com/">Lombardi Law Firm web blog </a>about pedestrian safety. A Google Alert came across my computer screen last Wednesday that is incredibly sad and for that reason I'm going to not mention any names of those involved...

Pedestrian accidents are caused by driver's being distracted

Posted on June 03, 2009
I'm going to continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items that have been sitting around in my in box for months on end. There are so many of them just since the first of the year. Today we'll look at three news items that each provide a theme or reason (cause) as to why pedestrians get struck so much...

Baby boomers cap damages with made in China cheer

Posted on June 02, 2009
I want to start out this blog with a song by Quynh Anh. She has a great voice but the message she sings is most appropriate for today's baby boomers. You should listen to it as you read today's blog, which is like a protest. I'll say this about the generation born after the mid 1970's, at least they have an excuse for not knowing what we stood for in the 1960's and 70's...

Dean of Law at Liberty University: Are you planning on condemning the murder of Dr. Tiller?

Posted on June 02, 2009
The murder of Dr. Tiller in Kansas is raising serious questions about those who sit quietly on the sidelines not condemning the act. The anti-abortion groups must condemn this murder if they are to have any legitimacy. To do otherwise shows the lawlessness of their motives...

H1N1.....The Best is Yet to Come

Posted on June 01, 2009
Summer is officially here, at least in our minds since Memorial Day is behind us. Who is worried or even thinking about the flu season that will inevitably be here this fall? Ex-Iowa flu guru, Johan Hultin is and says that one thing is certain, 'this new strain of flu is scaring the willies out of scientists'...

Iowa man falls into Mississippi, swept under barge and is killed.

Posted on June 01, 2009
A man fell from a barge into the Mississippi River and died. The man was at the Blackhawk Fleet Terminal when he fell from a barge into the river. Apparently he was working on the barge, fell off into the water and was swept under another barge. The accident happened near Buffalo on the Mississippi River...

Pedestrians can't seem to find enough ways to get struck by passing motorists

Posted on June 01, 2009
What are the many ways pedestrian's can be injured or killed? That question comes up more times than you can quickly think of. In this post, which is being turned into a page for our Iowa pedestrian viewers, we examine the infinite number of ways pedestrians can be seriously injured or killed...

With Tort Damages Reformed Who Wins And Who Loses?

Posted on May 30, 2009
Today is the end of May 2009 and I thought it appropriate to end Tort Reform month by focusing on the winners and losers when society artificially limits tort damages with caps. It's been fun this month writing about a topic that strikes so many as emotional...

PART 10 of 10: The economics of non-economic damages. What can Bernie Madoff teach us about the tort reform campaign?

Posted on May 29, 2009
This clip that follows is almost 34 minutes long and certainly too long for most people's attention. If you have an idea of what to listen for and look at it helps with watching and listening to the entire clip. May I suggest you watch Bernie Madoff and listen to the main speaker? They are very convincing, to people who like you who want to keep more money by saving money on those things you don't have time to understand...

Student Democrats at Liberty U. are okay; so long As they think like a Republican.

Posted on May 29, 2009
At Liberty University it's not about Floccinaucinihilipilification, but Antidisestablishmentarianism THINK LIKE US OR DON'T THINK AT ALL You're going to ask it so I'll tell you now. Yes this is for real; the thought police are running an American institution and a law school at that! Liberty University is trying to do an about face after taking away the University endorsement of the student's Democrat Club...

Iowa's North Liberty police department sued for multiple Tasering of arrestee

Posted on May 28, 2009
This case may answer the question in Iowa: Once under control would repeated Tasering of a suspect be considered an abuse of police power? The Courts define what force is legitimate police power and when the use of force becomes punishment. It is the court's that mete out punishment sanctioned by state law; whereas police enforce the laws...

PART 9 of 10: Texas is now mandating voters buy cars without brakes.

Posted on May 28, 2009
The lesson today has to do with facts or the lack thereof. First let's look at shaping the emotions of tort reform minded voters and then at why tort reform is creating a greater needs for personal injury trial lawyers. THE EMOTIONS OF HATRED Where are the facts underlying that the medical profession can not afford to pay Mr...

The Thought-Police at Liberty University School of Law shut down democracy

Posted on May 28, 2009
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE NEW CONSTITUTION; THE ONE THEY IMPORTED FROM COMMUNIST CHINA AND RUSSIA The 18 year old male is alleged to have phone texted his thoughts of having sex to a 12-year-old female. The article implies he was charged with solicitation of a sex act and charged with lascivious acts with a child...

Door falls striking woman in the head, causing her death

Posted on May 28, 2009
Yesterday we reported on a man dying from being thrown from his truck as it rounded a curve. The way the story was written it left me with the impression he was the driver. Today we have a report of a 61-year-old woman dying from being struck by a wind-swept door...

PART 8 of 10: The economics of non-economic damages. Never trust a trial lawyer. It's okay to hate liberal trial lawyers.

Posted on May 27, 2009
Now listen to the conclusions made in this film clip about communism, without any proof of the underlying premises. This is similar to the tactics tort reformists employ. It's all about emotions. The dusty attics and basements can be interchanged with courtrooms and lawsuits...

Iowa now has 73 confirmed cases of swine flu

Posted on May 27, 2009
The Iowa State Department of Health confirms there are 73 confirmed cases of swine flu in Iowa. Key Messages About Swine Influenza • The CDC has confirmed cases of a unique strain of swine influenza in the U.S. and in other parts of the world...

If a truck has doors how can a driver be thrown from the vehicle while rounding a curve?

Posted on May 27, 2009
This is a curious accident. It's a single vehicle accident from Crawford County, Iowa. A man was thrown from his own pickup truck as he rounded a corner. After being thrown he was pinned and died. The accident happened north of Kiron on U.S. Highway 59...

PART 7 of 10: The economics of non-economic damages. Are the emotions of fear and hate really necessary to sell economic reality?

Posted on May 26, 2009
In this film we see how people in power can misuse their power and who must pander to your emotions in order to get you to buy into their version of what the truth is. To pander to emotions it's necessary to employ illogical thinking and at the same time to make you believe that thinking is a bad thing...

Iowa Diocese of Davenport adds three names to likely child sex abusers

Posted on May 26, 2009
Three more priests have been named to the Diocese of Davenport's list of credible cases of child sexual abuse by a priest. Two of those are dead; the third was a brother in the Franciscan Brothers of Christ the King. According to the report the two that died are William Kerrigan and James Lawrence...

Multi-car-truck collision in rural Iowa kills two - One vehicle 3 collisions and then catches fire.

Posted on May 26, 2009
Two people died while another five suffered injuries in Washington County, Iowa. This multiple car collision happened on May 23, 2009 at Highway 92 and Lexington Avenue around 2:37 P.M. The crash seems to have occurred when a 1997 Chevrolet pickup truck failed to stop at a stop sign causing a crash with a 2006 Mercury Mountaineer being driven by Samuel Langstaff of Indianola...

PART 6 of 10: The economics ... Hairspray news is full of half-truths.

Posted on May 25, 2009
A young lawyer fresh out of laws school arrives for his first interview. The expectations are sky high. He believes it went well and towards the end of the interview he gently asks, 'How much is the pay?' The trial lawyer knowing this newbie lawyer has no clients, never having argued a motion or tried a lawsuit looks straight into the young man's eyes and replies, 'How about if I pay you what you're worth?' Yesterday we listened to Texas Tort Reform propaganda and it should make you wonder where before you've heard similar proclamations by people in power or from those taking the most from society...

Iowa Motorcycle News - Two dead and three in the hospital after separate motorcycle accidents

Posted on May 25, 2009
A 50 and 51-year old couple died Saturday after the motorcycle they were riding on was hit head-on by a car being driven by Michelle Currier of Preston, Minnesota. Miss Preston is reported to be 38-years of age. The location of this collision was Iowa Highway 139 south of Kendallville, Iowa...

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