Was the other driver a;so the owner of the vehicle that struck you? Does the other driver own attachable assets? I suggest that you contact an Iowa attorney who handles personal injury claims as soon as possible to discuss your options.

Erik Luthens

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In any medical malpractice claim, the primary issues are:

(1) Did a physician, nurse or other health care provider ("HCP") have a duty to provide some type of medical treatment to a patient?

(2) If the HCP did have such a duty, did the HCP breach the standard of care... View More

Since you already have an attorney, I suggest that you schedule a mutually convenient appointment with him / her (rather than randomly calling on the phone) to fully discuss all of the concerns you have with your claim. This will allow both you and your attorney to be prepared to have a meaningful... View More

Unfortunately, the bars would likely sssert a complicity defense in the event that your son sued them on a dramshop theory for his injuries and would likely be successful.

Just as you don’t need to hire a contractor to build your house, you don’t need to hire an attorney to file a lawsuit . However, when your house crumbles or your lawsuit gets dismissed due operator errors, you have no one but yourself to blame. You retain professionals for a reason.

You may have the grounds to go forward with a criminal complaint through the local county attorney’s office as well as a civil action against the man in question. I suggest that you immediately contact an attorney in Iowa who handles civil litigation.

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If the bank failed to take reasonable precautions to make its premises relatively safe, then you might have a claim worth pursuing. A significant issue is whether the robbery in question was reasonably foreseeable by the bank.

In any legal malpractice case the primary issues are: (1) whether your attorney breached the standard of care or in other words, did something (or failed to do something) that an attorney in a similar situation would have done; and (2) whether your attorney’s error is a proximate cause of your... View More

Yes. Contact: Iowa Workforce Development (Division of Worker's Compensation), 1000 E. Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50319. Tel: (515) 725-4120

The primary issues in any medical malpractice action are:

(1) Did a health care provider (doctor, nurse, etc.) make a mistake (breach the standard of care owed to the patient)?

(2) Did that mistake result in an injury to the patient?

(3) What is the extent of the injury... View More

An employer can deny responsibility for an alleged work related injury for many reasons including failure to timely receive notice of the injury; positive drug screen; a medical opinion disputing causal connection between the injury and work related activities.

"Threatening" to sue for defamation is much different than actually recovering damages based on a defamation claim. Truth is a classic defense to a defamation claim.

Iowa Workforce Development (“IWD”) is the state of Iowa agency that oversees unemployment, workers’ compensation and other employee / employer related issues. Within IWD is the Division of Workers’ Compensation (“DWC”) which specifically oversees workers’ compensation claims. The DWC... View More

Generally, a condemnation order is a public document generated by a local governmental agency. Accordingly, identifying the address of a condemned property on social media wouldn’t be libelous.

Not every adverse or bad result with regard to medical treatment necessarily constitutes malpractice. The real question is whether the primary treating physician or the physician's staff failed to do something he / she / they should have done or did something he / she / they should not have... View More