In accordance with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendations, new school buses in Iowa will now be equipped with three point passenger safety belts. Although school bus travel is by and large one of the safest modes of travel, the board’s investigation of school bus crashes that have occurred indicate that seat belts are… Read More »
Workers’ Compensation Payable for Work Sponsored Trips and Events
When you are injured while working your 9 to 5 job at the office, you will likely be covered under workers’ compensation for medical bills and lost wages resulting from the injury. Workers’ compensation coverage is typically available to employees if an accident or injury occurs when performing work related duties. However when accidents occur… Read More »
Iowa Head On Collision Injury
Head on collisions occur when two cars driving opposite directions crash into each other. Head on collisions often result in severe injuries and fatalities. Head on collisions sometimes occur when a motorist attempts to pass other vehicles and miscalculates the time needed to safely pass. Just yesterday an Iowa motorist was killed when attempting to… Read More »
Car Accidents Involving Teen Drivers
With more free time on their hands, teens drive more often during the summer months which can increase their risk of being involved in a motor vehicle accident. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the number of crash incidents involving teens goes up dramatically and, unfortunately, sometimes teens and other motorists are injured or killed.… Read More »
Texting While Driving an Automatic Moving Violation July 1
July 1, drivers texting, talking or using any hand held device behind the wheel in Illinois will be ticketed with a moving violation. Let three violations stack up, and Illinois drivers will lose their license for a 12 month period. Although Illinois banned texting while driving years ago, lawmakers included a provision which gave first-time… Read More »
Workers’ Compensation for Truck Driver Neck and Back Injuries
Sometimes a doctor may recommend ACDF surgery to treat occupational related conditions such as herniated discs or degenerative disc diseases to provide relief. Anterior cervical discectomy or ACDF is a surgical procedure to remove a herniated or degenerative disc in the spine, which is then replaced by a spacer bone graft to fill the space.… Read More »
Roundup Makers to Pay $80 Million to Cancer Sufferer
Glyphosate, the main ingredient in most week killers used in commercial agriculture and home lawn care certainly cuts down on pesky weeds, but does it come with too high a price? Given the attention that the chemical is getting because of alleged links to cancer, some believe it may not be worth it to mess… Read More »
The Role That Fatigue Plays in Workplace Injuries
Although it does not go so far as recognizing workplace burnout as a medical condition, the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the burnout many employees experience on the job as a bonafide occupational phenomenon in its International Classification of Diseases. Overworked, under compensated, with work related emails and texts to answer 24/7, many American… Read More »
Raising Awareness to Prevent Swimming Pool Drowning & Injury
May is National Water Safety Month and this year, organizers hope to raise pool and spa safety awareness ahead of the summer swimming season. Unfortunately, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over 4,000 people lose their lives every year in drowning accidents in the U.S. Thousands of others suffer swimming pool… Read More »
Firefighter Injury Compensation
An Iowa firefighter who survived an 80 foot fall after an explosion at a silo inferno is speaking out about the perilous experience. Back in January, the 23-year-old man and another firefighter were putting out a fire on top of a silo when the structure caught fire. Soon after an explosion erupted knocking the firefighters… Read More »