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Last Entry: March 31, 2010 at 07:01:00

Driving Safety: OWI'm in trouble...

Posted on February 10, 2009
Four thousand four hundred and thirty five dollars. No, that’s not my monthly rent (although it is close). Instead, it’s the typical total of charges incurred for one’s first OWI (according to the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division)...

Wrong-site surgeries being studied in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Posted on February 09, 2009
It's time out in surgery, as hospitals watch doctors by Minneapolis Star Tribune writer Maura Lerner – This article discusses the use of a “Time-out Towel”. We aren’t changing the oil in a car, its surgery; we are operating on a human body...

Food Safety: What tests prove I have salmonella poisoning?

Posted on February 09, 2009
As lawyers we see the worse case scenarios. From my desk in Iowa I’ve watched the wreckage for more years than I’d like to admit to. Not counting the clinic work at Drake Law School this is my 28th year of practicing personal injury, workers’ compensation, malpractice and other kinds of civil trial work having to do with all types of personal injury...

Driving Safety: "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"

Posted on February 07, 2009
After reading Thursday's post, you now know two things: 1) you know about my first car accident and 2) you know the dangers of PEDOs. We told your what happens when pavement edges slant more than what’s deemed ‘safe’ or what’s recommended by legislation...

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Lately, America's largest imported product seems to be communism

Posted on February 06, 2009
As an American, if you don't believe in some form of regulating imported products then you're a communist. If as an American you don't think the people of China need freedom of speech then you are a communist. The melamine contaminated baby milk from China is into its next phase...

Medical News: Offering to Pay for Patient's Well-Being Gets Nurse Suspended.

Posted on February 06, 2009
Huh? Are you kidding me? No, this is for real. I just wrote a blawg post about a Las Vegas jury that found no negligence when a man complaining of chest pain isn’t even examined for 41” minutes and then died of a heart attack on the E.R...

Las Vegas Jury Failed to Follow the Law, in Finding for Hospital on Issue of Negligence

Posted on February 05, 2009
A jury in Las Vegas gave the nod to a hospital whose standard of emergent care is to wait 41 minutes to examine a patient complaining of chest pains, and who then dies in the emergency room floor. The jury actually deliberated for 79 minutes longer than it took the emergency room staff to put their hands on this man suffering a heart attack in the emergency room...

Driving Safety: The Dangers of Shoulder Drop-offs

Posted on February 04, 2009
As mentioned in yesterday’s article, I had my first car accident (yes, first – reckless driving, ignorance and a sense of immortality led me to have several) when I was just 16-years old. After that accident, my parents ground me from driving for about a month – which was fine with me; there was no way I was getting behind the wheel again anytime soon...

Food Safety: Melamine test looks promising.

Posted on February 04, 2009
The chemists at ETH Zurich (Renato Zenobi, Huanwen Chen, and colleagues) have developed a new mass spectrometric analysis method with which polluted milk can be detected reliably within 30 seconds. Here is what they say about the test’s advantages over what currently is done to test for melamine...

Five Iowa Ft. Dodge Children Hospitalized - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Posted on February 03, 2009
Fort Dodge, Iowa at the Travel Inn pool five children were playing in the pool when they experienced carbon monoxide poisoning. The Assistant Fort Dodge Fire Captain reported the levels of carbon monoxide were 14 times higher than normal. A faulty furnace is to be blame...

Driver Safety: Tennessee's Governor Phil Bredesen has a good message for teen drivers

Posted on February 03, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la2bO7Xseyg Let's start off this month with a simple message - think. Yes, simply think before acting. Lawyer deal in the facts about car, truck, ATV, boat, truck, motorcycle, moped, pedestrian, skateboard and other types of roadway-street-avenue accidents than many people...

Driving Safety: winter weather increases accidents and keeps drivers on their 'tires'

Posted on February 03, 2009
As mentioned yesterday, I consider myself very fortunate that I no longer have to drive (as driving isn’t really my ‘thing’); however, I also know that I don’t intend to stay in New York forever and that my lack of driving is only temporary...

Iowa News: More on Furnaces and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Posted on February 03, 2009
This morning I reported on this story: Fort Dodge, Iowa at the Travel Inn pool five children were playing in the pool when they experienced carbon monoxide poisoning. The Assistant Fort Dodge Fire Captain reported the levels of carbon monoxide were 14 times higher than normal...

Food Safety: Melamine accusations are too little too late

Posted on February 02, 2009
Who speaks for the mothers and fathers with infants in renal failure? Who shouts for justice for those same parents of the children who died from the melamine contamination of babies’ milk? Which government officials in China will be punished? Charged with crimes? Fired? Forced to resign? Who took bribes? There is no justice in China...

Driving Safety: Auto fatalities dropping, but we can do better. "Yes, we can."

Posted on February 02, 2009
Welcome to the month of February, which is driving safety month on InjuryBoard! Ooh – this is good for me – I could use a lesson or two (my track record isn’t the greatest…which is why I moved to a city where driving really isn’t even an option)...

The Washington Post's Robinson Doesn't Appreciate the Golden Rule

Posted on February 01, 2009
Eugene Robinson in his latest opinion piece for the Washington Post writes in Blind Unanimity that Republicans in voting unanimously in opposition to the latest economic “stimulus package” don’t understand the mandate the voters sent to Washington with the Democratic majority...

Super Threats at the Super Bowl

Posted on January 31, 2009
Tomorrow is Sunday, February 1st. Know what that means? It’s gameday, baby! Bars around the country will be jam-packed fans and non-fans alike, all eager to get in on the Super Bowl action. To accommodate the mass crowds, many bars will offer a one price package: “$40 cover gets you unlimited Bud & Bud Light and a complimentary appetizer buffet at half” or something of the sort...

Make Your Super Bowl Party "Too Hot to Handle"

Posted on January 31, 2009
It’s here – GAME DAY! Put on your jerseys and your drinking shoes, the Super Bowl is upon us. But wait, do both with a bit of caution… Yesterday we went over some of the health hazards the buffet-style eating so common at Super Bowl get-togethers can pose...

Diet Safety: Is there really anything 'safe' about it?

Posted on January 30, 2009
Considering the recent updates that have been made in the news, I figure it’s only right we give an update to our Injuryboard readers (granted, the vast majority of you probably stay on top of the news anyways, but, regardless, we think it’s a good idea)...

Health Care News: University of Iowa joins the growing trend towards financial disclosures by physicians and health care workers

Posted on January 30, 2009
The University of Iowa announced new rules prohibiting physicians from accepting free drug samples and handing them out to patients. Also doctors and other health care workers will be prohibited from accepting gifts and must disclose financial remuneration paid by private medical companies that can create a conflict of interest with reporting research results...

Diet Safety: Over-vitaminizing as a trend

Posted on January 29, 2009
As mentioned time and time again, January is diet safety month on InjuryBoard. I think it’s safe to say when most of us think of diet safety, we think of weight loss and physical fitness. Fair enough. To be honest, I do, too. However, there are numerous other subjects that fit under the “diet safety” umbrella...

Construction Safety: Communist China needs America's Union Training Programs

Posted on January 29, 2009
In China a three-story building under construction collapsed in the Shanhe village of Xiaoshan district in Zhejiang’s capital Hangzhou. Nine construction workers were on the site, of which seven immediately escaped. Two were trapped and one of the two later died...

Diet Safety: Why the Fuss?

Posted on January 28, 2009
If you follow the InjuryBoard blogs, you probably know that I’ve spent the better part of the month writing on the issues surrounding diet pills / supplements. For many of the reviewed products, the potential side effects and adverse health effects were similar in scope (not that they were the same, but many such effects are attributed to caffeine and other stimulants, which inevitably cause increased blood pressure and heart rate, restlessness, anxiety, etc)...

Melamine is processed from coal

Posted on January 28, 2009
The problem isn’t just melamine; the problem is greater than just one chemical but includes other chemicals that react from the bodies attempt to excrete it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlkiQ_0G5ww Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

I fell on someone else's property; what to do?

Posted on January 27, 2009
Practicing personal injury law in the Midwest provides the opportunity for many potential clients who have been injured on someone else’s property. The winter ice storms, snow storms along with melting and refreezing creates hazardous conditions for pedestrians...

Food Safety: Peanut butter paste and poisoning

Posted on January 26, 2009
Here are a few reports from YouTube concerning peanut butter and food poisoning. Peanut butter salmonella outbreak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipeMc8sQVQM FDA: Peanut Butter Possible Salmonella Source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkO828nwKIY PSA: Peanut Butter from Georgia is the cause of Salmonella related deaths...

Food Safety: 3rd Minnesotan dies, peanut butter food poison

Posted on January 26, 2009
The Salmonella food poisoning crisis in peanut butter may have caused a third nursing home resident death in the Brainerd area. The products have been linked to some degree from a Peanut Corp. of America plant in Georgia, as the suspected source of contamination...

Diet Safety: Trimming the fat with Dexatrim

Posted on January 26, 2009
Maybe I'm just noticing them more because I've been researching and writing about them, but I feel like diet supplements are everywhere. Legitimately, everywhere. I was walking home from work last night and noticed a “40% of all diet pills” sign in the window of a bodega...

Shocking News: Insurance adjuster struck by bus isn't interested in tort reform!

Posted on January 25, 2009
Shocking News! Insurance adjuster struck by bus isn’t interested in tort reform! Are you kidding!?!!!!!! Have you heard this one before? We need more tort reform! There are too many greedy Plaintiffs using the courts for jackpot justice! Give them nothing! It’s our money! Okay, now that I’ve got that out of my system, here is what happened in this accident...

Diet Safety: Going shot-for-shot in your battle against the bulge

Posted on January 25, 2009
Much to my dismay, I was up early yesterday morning (6 AM on a Saturday? Ugh – what happened to the days of sleeping in?!) It was good, though – before my roommates had even risen for the day I went and worked out, wrote an article and got the word on some of the latest according to Good Morning America...

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