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Commonsense analysis of Iowa personal injury law. Focused on the rights of the common working man and woman.
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Last Entry: March 31, 2010 at 07:01:00

Who did kill Melissa Britt Lewis, aka ?Missy??

Posted on January 10, 2010
I'm back on the trail of the Britt-Lewis murder investigation with another question that for me raises serious concerns about the 'who done it'. Look at this video footage from Just News out of Miami and see if you think there is more than just a Cadillac missing...

In One Day, I-380 and Cedar Rapids Report More than Three Dozen Accidents

Posted on January 09, 2010
Let's talk snow conditions and slick roads. Linn County, Iowa is normally a peaceful place; but adding snow, ice and slick roads to the mix and you've got a recipe for an auto collision disaster. In just one day police and the Iowa State Patrol responded to more than three dozen collisions in the area...

I-80 Avoca News Item

Posted on January 09, 2010
A gentleman from Walnut, Iowa was killed in a three-vehicle accident on Interstate 80 at the 38th mile marker heading eastbound. He was Lloyd Houston, 52 years old driving a 1985 International dump truck. The other vehicles were semi's. We wish his family and loved ones well...

Highway Safety ? How can a stranded motorist stay alive?

Posted on January 08, 2010
The temperature in the Des Moines area has dipped to minus 25 with the wind chill factored in and anyone who parks their car outside knows the sound of a cold cranking engine. By the second week of December I was already tired of moving snow. (Thanks to the hospitality of Lawrence, Linda and Pierce Egerton from North Carolina I'll make it through till at least February before wanting to head back to the beaches of Oak Island...

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Should American Football Eliminate the Helmet?

Posted on January 07, 2010
Before you read this story know that I'm a big fan of football, especially English football. Today's story is about right and wrong. But right has been complicated by the King. To fully answer the question you have to ask yourself, if the King in Georgia really can do no wrong? Not the country Georgia in the old Soviet Bloc, but the one in the southeastern United States...

MRSA: New promise in fighting MRSA superbug found in Pomegranates

Posted on January 06, 2010
MRSA, or Staphylococcus Aureus, is a type of staph or bacterial infection that is resistant to many antibiotics. MRSA bacteria is more likely to develop when antibiotics are used too often or not used correctly thereby allowing MRSA to become a superbug which is resistant to most courses of antibiotics...

Driving the wrong-way on Interstates I-80, I-35 and I-235

Posted on January 06, 2010
The story is that the driver was allegedly drunk and driving on I-80 in the wrong direction. Hard to believe isn't it? Well it's happening more and more. Last week I received a call from a reporter in California who was digging up facts about two, yes two, wrong-way accidents in their county...

Ski and Snowboarding Helmet Usage is Picking Up

Posted on January 05, 2010
Scott Condon of the Post Independent out of Aspen, Colorado wrote a nice article about what they are seeing in Aspen Colorado with the increased use of ski helmets and which demographic seems to be resisting the movement towards protecting your bean. Usage is up around 50% according to those keeping tabs...

Pedestrian Safety and Falling Asleep at the Wheel

Posted on January 05, 2010
From the report it's difficult to comprehend how two pedestrians were killed walking along Texas Highway 21 near Gordon's Auto Salvage in Bryan today. The two pedestrians were from Clarksville and Tomball, the one was 19 and the other 29 years of age...

The Deposition:How smart are you? Do you know what time it is?

Posted on January 05, 2010
Preparing for your deposition - Being prepared to do well. How to take/give a deposition. Relax because you are going to do fine. Get a good night sleep the night before. Drink water, stay away from the booze and get to bed early. Experience with deposition process – Have you ever been deposed? Stated another way have you ever given a deposition? If you have, then know that it can be generally the same but also can be quite different...

Would you listen to a polititian that was receiving money from the Chinese Communist Party?

Posted on January 04, 2010
The report from WGEM concerns a runaway makeshift trailer that crashed into a car killing one of the passengers. The passenger was a 6-years-old girl and from the video obviously loved a great deal by those who knew her. Whether the parents and loved ones know it or not the issue surrounding young Emina Smajlovic are much larger than they can imagine...

A Wintry I-35 Has Many Challenges for Motorists from Minnesota to Texas

Posted on January 03, 2010
Jeremy Thurman writes 'Tis the Season to Drink and Drive' reminding us of the serious consequences of drinking and driving to holiday parties. The New Year is behind us but the real New Year is upon us requiring more than just lip service to the need to watch how much you drink before getting behind the wheel...

Poison Leak Plugged with OSHA Fine in Iowa

Posted on December 31, 2009
The report is that BPI of Waterloo has settled with the Iowa Division of Labor Service for $648,000 after safety violations in August 2007 caused an ammonia leak that killed one worker and left another severely injured. Elizabeth 'Liza' Myers died after her escape route took her directly past the hazardous leak, while another employee Elizabeth Ott fled a different path, but still suffered inhalation injuries and post-traumatic stress...

Ski Train's Caboose Is Given the Kibosh, Derailed by Squabbling Execs

Posted on December 30, 2009
We've got a couple of things to talk about in several different posts today. So let's continue this discussion with a story about train safety and the winter ski train that runs from Osceola, Iowa to Winter Park, Colorado. To get you in the mood how about a little harmonica music to play as you read...

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Dulls Taser?s Talons

Posted on December 30, 2009
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision December 28, 2009 in Carl Bryan vs. B. McPherson, Coronado Police Department and City of Coronado, Docket No. 08-55622, San Diego District Court allowing a lawsuit to proceed towards trial on an excessive force claim in violation of 42 U...

Are Americans Really What the U.S. Chamber Cares About?

Posted on December 30, 2009
Does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the ATRA receive financial support from Chinese business interests or the Chinese Communist Party or the Government in China? When it comes to the American job market consider what I've written before. The American manufacturing industry is in tatters, having been moved by American businessmen and women to China...

Ambulance Runs Smack Dab into Highway Truck, Why?

Posted on December 29, 2009
An interesting scenario unfolded on the highway breakdown lane just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. An ambulance using the breakdown lane crashed into a state highway work truck killing two people. As reported, the run wasn't for an emergency. The trip was to return a woman to a nursing home after undergoing dialysis...

Is Your Workplace Killing You?

Posted on December 28, 2009
The report states that a man was discovered crushed to death in a trash compactor at the Southland factory in Los Angeles, California. According to the report, federal investigators with the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) surmised initially that the worker was inside the machine when it was switched on...

Hunting Accidents Don't Take a Holiday Break

Posted on December 26, 2009
DOES SAFETY EVER GET A HOLIDAY BREAK? This is an interesting story for me. But first let me respond to a reader who commented asking if the subject of the injured shouldn't take a day off once a year. I don't think so was my response, because the catastrophically injured don't get a day off, now do they? Back to today's story about an Iowa man who was shot in the leg while deer hunting and how he's recovering in an Iowa hospital in Des Moines...

The dangers of doing laundry with Led Zeppelin

Posted on December 25, 2009
A load of laundry from a commercial dryer became so hot it started a fire in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There was no identification made in the report as to the type of commercial dryer or the make, model and age. The description was ambiguous at best. The restaurant is Zeppelins Bar and Grill...

Is Santa a member of the US Chamber of Commerce?

Posted on December 25, 2009
I wonder what the leaders of the U.S. Chamber do on Christmas. I wonder what the US Chamber kids do for Christmas gifts. Do the leaders buy toys painted in China for their children? This is the kind of thing I wonder about. After all it seems everything that was unwrapped this morning hadn't a 'Made in USA' sticker on it...

New Paper: Catastrophic injuries among young athletes

Posted on December 25, 2009
ED Zemper is the author of this paper published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. I've written and asked for a copy of the article to write a review. This article covers the available research for the types of injuries cheerleaders suffer, catastrophic injuries...

Adventure Travel in the Far Off Places Poses Some Risks

Posted on December 24, 2009
Mark Bello has reported on North Face suing South Butt, Jane about hotels and I posted about the Seattle mountaineers trapped on the mountain under heavy snows. Since we've talked about adventure travel this week I thought it appropriate to discuss again what happens when the S-H-T-F...

Pedestrian Safety: When shopping watch out for traffic and pedstrians!

Posted on December 23, 2009
While out shopping and walking back to the car watch out! Hurrying to the car with all your bags of gifts in the cold and wet weather can be just the right situation for a pedestrian accident. Lately I've seen more and more alerts for pedestrian accidents that could be prevented by either the car or truck drivers or the pedestrian themselves...

Adventure Travel Mountaineers and GPS Beacons ? Are they insane?

Posted on December 22, 2009
The question is being asked whether mountain climbers should be asked or made to carry GPS beacons so when they get lost, stranded or buried the public cost to locate the mountaineers can be minimized. It's a good question and one the public deserves to have answered...

By the Book - How many should we kill to increase the government's profit margin?

Posted on December 22, 2009
Should there be limits on how far police should go when pursuing every day citizens suspected to be criminals? Most of us think, what the heck, so the alleged criminal died, so what? What was the cost of incarceration? Heck this was a bargain. Kill more of them...

Palin?s Cash for Quitters Program is just another version of the Participation Trophy Syndrome

Posted on December 21, 2009
David Mastio a senior editor for online opinion at the Washington Post wrote 'Cash for Quitters' wastes Iowa Republicans' capital and he couldn't be more correct in his assessment of Sarah Palin as a quitter and a waste of political capital towards any attempt by the Republican Party to having a serious Presidential candidate...

When it comes to protecting its citizens how responsible is your state legislature?

Posted on December 21, 2009
As a supplement to my recent coverage of the types of auto insurance coverage, I thought I would provide a list of the minimum auto insurance coverage requirements by state. Each state has its own laws governing the minimum car insurance coverage you need—use this list to find your state and determine your minimum coverage...

Judge?s Cannot Fund Free Legal Services with Pauper Lawyers

Posted on December 18, 2009
Let's start off with the public's perception firmly in our mind about lawyers. PREMISE #1: The public's perception is there are too many lawyers. PREMSIE #2: Lawyers are all making too much money. Got it; is it firmly embedded in your conscience? Good...

These Lawyer Ads Do Not Represent Our Profession

Posted on December 17, 2009
This series on the public's perception about lawyers is into its 4th day and I'll probably take the day off tomorrow. Not to play golf, because I don't play golf. [Oops, after Tiger's public image destruction can we still talk about golf?] I work too hard solving my client's problems to learn to play golf...

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