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• Toyota Recall

  Just yesterday, Toyota released a safety advisory on their floor mats. There is potential for an accelerator pedal to get stuck in the full open position because of an incompatible or unsecured driver’s floor mat.…

• Iowa State Supreme Court Changes Age-Old Law Affecting Injury Suits

  The Des Moines Register is reporting on a change in the law initiated by the Iowa Supreme Court. Before last week, a centuries-old provision distinguished between different classes or categories of people who were injured…

• Voice Your Support for House File 128, The Bicycle Bill. It's Not too Late!

  Not long ago, we shared information a bicycle ride that was heading toward the state capital to show support for Senate File 117, a bill that would increase safety measures for bicyclists. Some are terming…

• Chew On This: New Study Says Chewable Aspirin is Best For Heart Health

  Often times, heart patients are released from the hospital with instructions to eat better, exercise more, and make lifestyle changes. One of those changes is a daily habit – taking aspirin once a day. Now,…

• Iowa Pork Producers Assure Consumers: Swine Flu Has Nothing to do with Pork

  The unfortunately named “swine flu” virus has dominated headlines across the country. But it was only recently that U.S. governments and agencies renamed the virus H1N1-influenza virus amid concerns that the use of the name…

• Five Iowa Residents File Suit Against Urology Center Following Media Attention About Possible Infection, Illness

  Following the Veteran Administration’s press release and warnings that veterans may have contracted hepatitis or HIV from improperly sterilized endoscopes, the Siouxland Urology Testing Center has issued its own warnings. Like the VA hospital, the…

• Bicycle Ride to Protest Accidents and to Support Bicycle Safety Bill Takes Place Tomorrow

  Tomorrow, more than a hundred and as many as five hundred cyclists will take to the streets of Des Moines to protest a severe problem in Iowa – bicycle safety. Just last weekend, two bicycle…

• No Further Cases of HIV, Hepatitis Infection Found Since VA Investigation Started Last Week – But Many Veterans Still Awaiting Test Results

  Over a week after the Veterans Affairs Department released an email that it was investigating “the possibility of [a] relationship” between a patient’s positive HIV test and unsterilized equipment, many veterans remain ill at ease.…

• New Bill May Allow Wrongful Death Claimants to Recover for Future Loss of Enjoyment of Life

  The Iowa General Assembly is currently considering legislation that would change the kind of claims that a plaintiff can bring in a wrongful death suit. Wrongful death suits are civil claims brought against a person…

• Car hits Woman In Parking Lot

  Police are questioning a person they took into custody just a few blocks from a hit-and-run accident that sent a woman to the hospital. Witnesses said the driver of a white Ford Taurus struck the…