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Spirit Lake, IA - Mariah Nelson Dies in Two-Car Crash on 120th St

Teenager Driver- Alcohol? Drunk driving?

My parents warned me often that nothing good happens after ten and bad things happen after midnight. Today we have a write-up from the Iowa State Patrol about a single-vehicle accident that happened at 2:30 AM in the 2400 195th Trail northeast of Winterset. The collision involved four teenagers in a 2003 GMC Sierra with a sixteen-year-old behind the wheel. According to the Iowa State Patrol report his name is Jacob Ryan Short, 16 and from Indianola. The other [...]

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California Semi Rear-ends Omaha Honda Pilot

Interstate rear end collisions should be investigated. Adair, Iowa – Interstate 80 accident in Iowa that happened on February 21, 2022. A Honda Pilot with Omaha residents was rear-ended by a 2021 Freightliner semi. The 27-year-old semi driver, Jasvir Sood, is the only fatality. All occupants of the Honda Pilot are injured. A twelve-year-old is transported to Mercy Hospital. No report on his condition. Omaha residents include Milinganyo Bwami, Wabiwa Yungu, and the juvenile. WHAT WAS HE THINKING? Was the driver of the [...]

Wrong-side surgeries in Iowa, should never happen

Wrong-side surgeries are a lot more common than you may think. Wrong-side, wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgeries make up this subgroup of medical malpractice legal claims. We have handled lawsuits in almost all of these medical malpractice subcategories. These are known in the medical community as “never events”, simply because they should never have happened. What they are is a basic mistake of fact and also a procedural breakdown in the operating room. There are simple methods and procedures that [...]

Eldridge, IA - Dylan Kaczinski Dies in Workplace Accident at KE Flatwork

Crossing the Center Line of Median, Never Easily Excused

In today’s blog we have several Iowa car accidents from six Iowa Counties that includes Buchanan, Humboldt, Cedar, Delaware, Osceola (in my neck of the woods) and Sioux. Interesting cases with not enough information to really understand the causes of who did or didn’t do what and why. To know if you have a case more investigation is required. When considering the rules of the road, I will say this about several of these cases. Crossing the center line or the [...]

New Virginia, IA - Udate: Steven Kohli Fatally Hit on I-35

Hippodrome & Carbon Monoxide

I started practicing personal injury was in Waterloo, Iowa. The second or third year it occurred to me it wouldn’t be long before I was out of business because people would figure out how to stop injuring themselves and other people. But, I’m still here. Forty years of practicing personal injury law in Iowa and no way did I think I’d see 77 people getting poisoned at a public even in Waterloo. Carbon monoxide levels at over 300 ppm when [...]

Did a cell phone cause your accident?

ACCIDENT NUMBER ONE In this first crash it appears the at-fault-driver driving a Deere UTV was riding on the shoulder and turned directly in front of an GMC Terrain that plowed into it and unfortunately the UTV driver was killed. The UTV’s are an inexpensive way to check on fields and land by the owner. What you can’t do is sort of be lulled into believing you are the only one out there using the road. Iowa Highway 9 is the [...]

Humboldt County Crash Demonstrates a Failure to Yield

Before you enter a roadway from a side road or a stop sign, you first have to yield to oncoming traffic that has the right of way. [ROW] If you do not then you can cause an accident and if you do, you’re going to get a ticket for improper driving. In this instance, according to the news report, the younger driver pulled out onto 230th Street (County Road C-44) and caused Malea Brown to have to drive off the [...]

January 31, 2022: Blog Post #1 – Fatal Accidents in Iowa

Attorney Lombardi Personal Injury During a Pandemic Forty-years of practicing personal injury law have prepared me for a lot, but practicing during a pandemic is like designing a new practice. With the computer and Internet tools we have available today, it was fairly easy to adjust, especially because at one point during the shut-down we had time to think about client needs and how we might make it easier for them to adapt. Zoom meetings make interviews seamless and with my own [...]

Drunk Driving Alleged Cause of Crossing Center Line

A Charles City, Iowa woman is being accused of homicide for a crash that killed two people and is said to have caused injury to her own child. The child was in her car. The two people killed were in the on-coming vehicle. Those people are 76-year-old Anita Anderson and 77-year-old Chris Anderson. Iowa’s public court record indicates on September 4, 2021, the accident resulted in two counts of HOMCIDE BY VEHICLE – OPERATING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, a class B [...]

Newkirk, IA – Natashia Guse Injured in Two-Car Crash at 370th St & Kingbird Ave

Newkirk, IA (November 24, 2021) – A woman and a young child were injured after being hit by a car while traveling through an intersection in Newkirk on Tuesday afternoon, November 23. The car crash occurred at the intersection of 370th Street and Kingbird Avenue. Local reports revealed that 24-year-old Ryan Bolster of Spirit Lake was driving a 2020 Chevrolet FedEx van. Bolster reportedly slowed but did not stop at the stop sign at the intersection. At that time, 31-year-old [...]