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Black Hawk County Deputy Dies after Workout – Workers Compensation?
Iowa Car Accident Legal Analysis and Commentary contact Steve Lombardi at 515-222-1110 or sdlombardi@aol.com.Category: Workers' Compensation
Do Wind Turbine Widows and Orphans Receive Lifetime Work Comp Benefits?
What every wind turbine worker's wife or husband should know is whether they will receive workers' compensation benefits if the spouse falls to their death.Category: Workers' Compensation
Construction Worker Boots and Construction Site Safety Training and Control by the GC
Injured Iowans with legal claims can learn more about their rights at the Lombardi Law Firm website or call 515-222-1110 or email: sdlombardi@aol.com.Category: Workers' Compensation
Plant Blast At Iowa ADM - Worker Safety Issues
Injured Iowans with legal claims can learn more about their rights at the Lombardi Law Firm website or call 515-222-1110 or email: sdlombardi@aol.com.Category: Workers' Compensation
Another Iowa worker injured from fall while on the job
Workers falling from heights and working without fall protection are asking for trouble and for OSHA to hand them a nice big fine. Steve Lombardi 515-222-1110Category: Workers' Compensation
Chemicals and Personal Injury Law
Iowa Legal Analysis and Commentary contact Steve Lombardi at 515-222-1110 or sdlombardi@aol.com. A lawyer with 30 years experience. Chemical injuries.Category: Workers' Compensation
Fire in La Porte City, Iowa is very strange
Iowa Workers Compensation - Benefits - Fire - Convenience Store - Exit - EscapeCategory: Workers' Compensation
Does the Volunteer Protection Program under OSHA work?
Why do we have OSHA? Why do we have regulation of industry where workers die from a lack of safety? In Iowa we have a pretty good program, so leave it alone.Category: Workers' Compensation
Corn bin worker lucky to be alive
Involved in an Iowa work accident and need answers? Try the Lombardi Law Firm website. www.lombardilaw.com or 515-222-1110.Category: Workers' Compensation
Injured Workers and their Families Need a Work Comp Lawyer
If you’re involved in work comp accident and need a lawyer call the Lombardi Law Firm website. www.lombardilaw.com or sdlombardi@aol.com. 515-222-1110.Category: Workers' Compensation
Iowa Workers' Compensation Accident at Cooperative Elevator Association - Ocheyedan
If you’re involved in work comp accident and need a lawyer call the Lombardi Law Firm website. www.lombardilaw.com or sdlombardi@aol.com. 515-222-1110.Category: Workers' Compensation
Your Worker's Comp Case takes Patience and Skepticism
Questions about your Iowa workers' compensation case? Call Steve Lombard, attorney at 515-222-1110 or 515-360-7583.Category: Workers' Compensation
Returning to work without restrictions – Get it in writing.
Being drunk at work can preclude recovery but being negligent won’t stop you from being eligible for benefits. Call 515-222-1110 or sdlombardi@aol.comCategory: Workers' Compensation
Ask a lawyer: Iowa Workers’ Compensation Claims
Do you know what you’re doing handling your own workers’ comp claim or are you guessing. If you want some help call Steve Lombardi @ 515-222-1110 or sdlombardi@aol.com.Category: Workers' Compensation
Quasi Criminal Acts Excluded from the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act
We have several worker injury cases to discuss today but right now I want to focus on only one. This one involves an Illinois State Trooper involved in a car accident on November 23, 2007 that resulted in a double fatality; he was talking on his phone at some point; although from the decision it isn’t entirely clear when in the sequence of events. I for one would have never guessed he would be denied benefits. I contacted my friend and colleague Nick Avgerinos who practices in the area of Illinois Workers Compensation to ask what he thought of the result. After I hear back from Nick I’ll update you on his thoughts.Category: Workers' Compensation
When does or should workers’ comp start paying?
When does workers' comp start paying? or When should workers' comp start paying? These are two rather interesting questions that should, but don't have a simple answer. Let's try and answer the second one first. Injured workers should start getting paid after they are out of work for 3 or more days following a work related injury. If you're out of work for 10 days or more then they are supposed to catch you up and pay those 3 initial days off of work.Category: Workers' Compensation
2-25-2011: What are Common about a PTO Shaft and a Woman Scorned?
The question asked this week is: what is a PTO, a power take off shaft and what does it do? A PTO is a power takeoff shaft commonly found on tractors and used to transfer power to that piece of motor-less equipment. (See also universal joints.) Farm implements that standalone, like augers and other types of grain lifts need power to turn the gears and conveyor mechanism; that power is provided by a tractor’s power take off hookup. The shaft is a separate piece of equipment that hooks into the rear of the tractor and then into the implement, in this case the auger. It turns and like a driver shaft as it turns the power turns gears or wheels that power the implement and make it useful for work.Category: Workers' Compensation
How do I select (pick) a workers’ compensation attorney in Iowa?
I’m not sure exactly how to answer this question without indicating arrogance on my part versus trying to help, but it’s been asked before and it’s time once again to try and answer it. Start off with who the lawyer has been in the past. Do you know the lawyers reputation for the work they do? Do you have a friend or co-worker you can speak to about their experiences? How about a friendly lawyer that is willing to talk and can vouch for the lawyer’s reputation. Like real estate law is local; meaning laws are govern by state, county and city and since lawyers are licensed for matter such as these by state bar associations you need to know the local reputation of the lawyer.Category: Workers' Compensation
What’s a MoJo?
This first story is about a MoJo. A MoJo is a mobile journalist who covers the Cedar Rapids area of Iowa. The Internet has redefined most everything so why not journalism too? A MoJo can take photos, write stories and then sell content via a web links etc. This journalist is Jeff Raasch from SourceMedia Group News. That’s a great idea Jeff – I like that a MoJo. I’d suggest Jeff carry workers’ compensation insurance and higher limits of auto coverages including uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage. Taking this one step further this could be a money maker for students in college or at one of our state Universities. Give it some thought.Category: Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation and the Convenience Store Clerk Robbery
Robbery at your work place can result in post traumatic stress disorder and other psychiatric conditions requiring treatment. During the period when you can't work workers' compensation benefits should be being paid to you. If not then see a lawyer to protect your rights. If you have questions give us a call and we'll see if we can help you. sdlombardi@aol.com and 515-222-1110. Steve Lombardi, Attorney-at-LawCategory: Workers' Compensation
Odd Accidents and Collisions
I don’t ever see car accidents with logging trucks; of course that’s because here in Iowa logging isn’t a business. This lawyer from Halifax County in Maryland and in Virginia has a blog about it. His related posts look pretty interesting.Category: Workers' Compensation
Weekly Death Toll in the Workplace
This is an interesting site that tries to catalogue the death cases from the workplace. If you have a third party case involving death at work this may be the place to start searching for similar types of cases and the lawyers handling them. The title is Weekly Toll. And I believe the author is … well I can’t tell.Category: Workers' Compensation
Question: Why do I need a doctor’s opinion, I know how I was hurt.
Answer: In Iowa every workers’ compensation case requires a medical opinion for causation, medical treatment, permanent impairment and restrictions. You know how you got hurt but you’re not qualified to express a medical opinion linking it up to the work environment or accident-mechanism of injury. Of course a single event causing injury, like falling down and breaking your leg is much easier to establish as a work injury than a repetitive injury type of case. In some cases the causing event is so obvious it goes unstated, but that doesn’t mean it’s not required. It’s injuries like carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel, lung injuries, brain damage, head injuries, spinal injuries involving ruptured discs all require a clearly and carefully worded medical opinion as to causation.Category: Workers' Compensation
Welding - On-The-Job Welding Injuries
Once again I’m asked a question I find an interesting one about worker’s compensation. In this instance it has to do with a worker from California that welded for a living, now is older and having medical problems. It’s a difficult question to ask because at this point in the man’s life I’m not sure any legal solution will be enough. Perhaps that is why this question needs to be considered; so that younger workers realize the dangers of breathing the fumes from your work as a welder. Question: Can working with welding rods cause strokes, brain damage or other work related medical conditions?Category: Workers' Compensation
Mill Workers Fall From Crane in Pella
Two men working from a crane on the feed mill last Friday fell from heights. The details are sketchy and only one news item was found. See Two men injured after fall at feed mill in Pella. In other news a South Dakota worker died on a job site in northwest Iowa. The Sioux County Sheriff’s office was noted to have reported the death of Andrew Lambert, 46 of McCook Lake, South Dakota after he became trapped in the auger of some drilling equipment. He died at the job site and worked for Certified Testing Services, Inc. of Sioux City. There is a Siouxland Certified Testing Services, Inc., a testing lab at 419 W 6th Street, Sioux City, Iowa 51103-4332 and phone 712-252-5132.Category: Workers' Compensation
After a worker is injured is when they need the support of their employer the most. But injured workers aren't given a level playing field. The company doctor often times is not helping them and the case manager isn't either. The worker is left alone to fend for themselves and to make mistakes that result in lower benefits or fewer weeks of benefits. Some are sent back to work too soon. There is only one person on your side and that understands this system. If your lawyer doesn't understand the nature of this claim you've got the wrong lawyer. Steve Lombardi has practiced in the area of workers compensation for over 30 years. He's tried hundreds of cases for more than one thousand clients. If you'd like help finding a competent lawyer we do assist people in locating a lawyer in Iowa or in Illinois. Call us.
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