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Federal Preemption: It's about mugs, drugs, bugs and thugs.

Posted on October 31, 2008
The Thugs who get rich or who get campaign contributions: The White House has no plan on how it would strengthen regulatory control over the FDA approval process; a process that sees junk science produced by pharmaceutical company's whose interests lean towards seeing billion dollar drugs get to market...

Food Safety: Is there an evil twin keeping that melamine ghost in your pantry company?

Posted on October 31, 2008
Halloween is finally over so we can all rest… Wrong! You painted their faces and allowed the little ones to go out trick or treating and home they came with a bag fool of booty. Before you breathe a sigh of relief because the little ones are so happy and sugar coated, you’d better ask yourself if now there are two ghosts in your pantry...

Railroad Crossing Accidents: What duties apply when determining negligence?

Posted on October 31, 2008
A train-tractor collision resulted in the death of a female passenger and injury of the driver and an infant passenger. Although still under investigation it’s interesting from the standpoint of analyzing negligence of both the tractor driver and the railroad train operating engineer...

Federal Preemption: Not the Rite Aid Rx for Michigan's Joe and Dianne

Posted on October 30, 2008
Today I’m printing, with their permission, a Michigan husband and wife’s story about how a drug reaction coupled with federal preemption has affected their lives. Their last names are not given to protect their privacy. Every wife, husband and partner should know that if it’s your turn for Rx personal injury, just how the pharmaceutical industry has taken care to manage your civil rights to know what went wrong and to recover through justice that only the trial process can dispense...

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

Posted on October 30, 2008
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...

Unlicensed Doctor Treated Disabled Patients at State Facility in Iowa

Posted on October 29, 2008
Previously, Glenwood Resource Center was investigated by the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. Today's Des Moines Register report indicates the Woodward supervisory staff once again walk dangerously close to falling into hot soup...

Highway Safety - Why if it is negligent can't I sue the State of Iowa?

Posted on October 29, 2008
Rex non potest peccare! Yesterday we reported on an interstate accident where one driver heading in the wrong direction on one side of the divided highway caused three other trucks to crash. You might wonder, like wrong-site surgery, how this might happen and ask yourself the question: Is this negligence? If you were the one injured by the man and the tortfeasor has little in the way of assets or insurance you might ask if his negligence were caused or contributed to by the state highway signs and if that is enough to sue the State of Iowa? First, is this negligence by the driver? Well the answer to that question all depends on why he drove the wrong way...

Halloween Safety: Tricks in the Treats?

Posted on October 29, 2008
Yesterday I wrote about some of the super-uncool, yet incredibly well-thought out safety precautions my parents enforced each and every Halloween. Today, I’ll let you know about one safety precaution they didn’t enforce (but should have)...

Don't drive drunk, just phone 1-800-Taxi Cab

Posted on October 28, 2008
A Warren County rear-end collision that resulted in two deaths has resulted in two counts of vehicular homicide and OWI, according to the reported stories from the AP and the Chicago Tribune. In Iowa an accident involving alcohol can result in punitive damages being awarded...

Halloween Safety: Track your kids while they trick or treat

Posted on October 28, 2008
It’s that time of year again – stores everywhere are stocked with aisles and aisles of miniature-sized candies, sales at custom stores skyrocket, and pumpkins (real and fake) adorn both stores and homes alike. Yes, folks – Halloween is upon us...

Heading the wrong way on the interstate highway system

Posted on October 28, 2008
The Gazette reports a Texas man driving the wrong way on Interstate 80 sideswiped to semi-trucks and then struck a third head-on. A few years ago one of our clients was killed when she was involved in a similar accident with an elderly driver who did the same...

Food Safety: Is there a melamine ghost hiding in your pantry?

Posted on October 27, 2008
Is your kids Halloween candy safe? With Halloween being right around the corner food safety has to be on every mother’s mind. What candy is made in China? What is the likelihood that melamine could contaminate the candy my child is given? Ever parent needs to consider warning their children to eat no candy while on the go but to wait till they get home and allow the parents the opportunity to inspect their booty...

Congrssman Braley endorsement exemplifies the skills of the trial lawyer

Posted on October 27, 2008
The Des Moines Register today in the Metro Edition endorsed first term Congressman Representative Bruce Braley. The editorial endorsement lists a few of Bruce’s accomplishments. In doing so the Editorial Board describes how Bruce shows up for discussion with copies of the legislation obviously read, dog-eared, post it notes and his scribbling in the margins...

The Archives of Surgery asks the question if wrong-site surgeries are preventable.

Posted on October 27, 2008
They are and the article concludes reducing the shame associated with these events will need to be addressed. "Results The NPDB recorded 5940 WSPEs (2217 wrong-side surgical procedures and 3723 wrong-treatment/wrong-procedure errors) in 13 years...

Legitimate Debate or How to Demonize for Dummies?

Posted on October 26, 2008
I wrote a post analyzing the negative campaigning and the effects this type of debate tactic has on developing solutions to the real problems we have in this country. Some of the comments led me to analyze this subject concerning legitimate political debate and how the negative labeling and demonization derails developing solutions to the real problems Americans face...

Bicycle Safety: When riding in the road are bicyclists required to follow traffic signs?

Posted on October 26, 2008
When cars and bicyles collide there is always the question of whether the bicylist acted according to the rules-of-the-road. In this news report the question was raised about a stop sign. Is a bicycle rider required to stop at the road stop sign? In this case it would seem so...

Home Safety: Explosion in NE Iowa sends two to hospital

Posted on October 25, 2008
An explosion in northeast Iowa sent a man and woman to the hospital. They were attempting to light a pilot light. Like many home explosions the house was blown off of part of it's foundation along with shattering windows. If you don't know how to safely relight your furnace then don't touch it...

America the melting pot is having a meltdown.

Posted on October 25, 2008
When it comes to labeling the opposition for the sake of votes America needs to get a reality check. Brian Smith posted about the lawsuits being filed concerning Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The posts about the lawsuits are fine but the comments look like diatribe right out of the McCarthy Era that gripped this country’s conscience from the late 1940’s to the late 1950s...

Beth Israel Medical Center reaction to wrong-site surgery becomes class discussion at Darmouth

Posted on October 24, 2008
Yesterday I reported on Beth Israel's response to a wrong-site surgery and how we were encouraged by their frankness in addressing the problem in a very public way. That discussion prompted a Dartmouth professor to use the blog post and comments in a master's level class at Dartmouth on patient safety and quality...

President and CEO of Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston takes the high road on wrong-site surgical mistake involving incorrect body part.

Posted on October 23, 2008
It's encouraging to see a well qualified health care professional willing to openly discuss wrong-site, wrong-side, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgical mistakes. We take our hat off to him and his staff. In July of this year (2008) Paul Levy, the President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston commented on a surgical event involving operating on the wrong body part...

Unsafe Products - Transvaginal Placement of Surgical Mesh

Posted on October 22, 2008
Transvaginal Placement of Surgical Mesh Audience: Hospital surgical staff, OB/GYN physicians, other healthcare professionals FDA informed healthcare professionals of serious complications associated with transvaginal placement of surgical mesh in repair of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI)...

Food Safety: Melamine contamination stirs emotions

Posted on October 22, 2008
Nearly 53,000 children sickened and four dead from melamine contaminated baby formula. Does culture matter when it comes to regulatory standards? Obviously American lenders and stock syndications have no room to point a finger. World over consumers from every country in the world are reading and rereading labels and looking to see if the ingredients contain dairy products or byproducts and then for assurances the product wasn’t “Made in China”...

Food Safety: Melamine contamination back in my WonTonSoup. WHATEVER!

Posted on October 22, 2008
This is incredible. I simply can't believe that it's continuing. Over 1,500 dogs in China were reported on Monday to have "died from animal feed tainted with the same chemical that contaminated dairy products and sickened tens of thousands of babies nationwide...

Food Safety: Melamine contamination finds its way onto shelves in Vietnam

Posted on October 21, 2008
The Health Ministry Chief Inspector is cracking down on imported dairy related products after tests revealed melamine contamination in 19 different products from different suppliers. Contaminated milk totaled 180 tons along with 95 tons of powered milk...

Work Place Safety: Garbage collection worker injured by falling bin

Posted on October 20, 2008
Name: Garbage collection worker seriously injured after trash bin falls on him. Date: 10/1/2008 Summary: A Herb's Garbage Hauling worker received serious injury when a trash bin somehow fell on him. Description: It isn't clear just how this happened, but a bin that was being handled by a worker fell onto the worker causing him serious bodily injury...

Computer Safety - Part II - Why should I take the time to read this websites Terms of Service Agreement?

Posted on October 17, 2008
Two days ago I promised you the full text of the federal law involved in the MySpace suicide case. The case is about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act which is accessible through the Wall Street Journal articles that discuss this case. § 1030. Fraud and related activity in connection with computers (a) Whoever— (1) having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access, and by means of such conduct having obtained information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive order or statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national defense or foreign relations, or any restricted data, as defined in paragraph y...

Computer Safety - Why should I take the time to read this websites Terms of Service Agreement?

Posted on October 16, 2008
The MySpace Suicide Case is getting heat from both sides of the aisle; those who think its right and those thinking it’s a waste of the taxpayers’ money. For those of you who aren’t up on the why’s and how’s but want to why accessing MySpace ends up a federal criminal case let me enlighten you...

Trial Practice: Part III - Watching the McCain team can teach you the why and how to give an opening statement.

Posted on October 15, 2008
This is part three in a short series that examines opening statement strategy while comparing voter reasoning to juror decision-making. Today we pick up again with Sara Palin's progress as a candidate. Her sophomoric reasoning ability was demonstrated when she answered the questions related to her ability to make foreign policy decisions and why she is qualified to do so...

Trial Practice: Part II - Watching the McCain team can teach you the why and how to give an opening statement.

Posted on October 14, 2008
This is a three-part series about opening statements. Today we pick up again with John McCain's choice of a running mate. She claims that governing Alaska and it being adjacent to Russia gives her foreign policy experience. Is she right? Do you know what osmosis is? Osmosis is a process by which position alone along with composition allows absorption of what is around you...

Trial Practice: Part I - Watching the McCain team can teach you the why and how to give an opening statement.

Posted on October 13, 2008
We can learn a lot about how to give an opening statement at trial by studying the U.S. Presidential campaign. Recent psychological research indicates that trial lawyer opening statements, if done with a theme and sub-themes can win a case before jurors actually hear the evidence...

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