Although adults can be bitten by dogs, children tend to be bitten more often than adults are. To make things worse, the injuries children receive from dog bites are often more severe than the injuries adults sustain. Many times, children are bitten by dogs that are...
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Year: 2019
Malpractice claims and the challenge of proving causation
Iowa residents are probably aware that filing a medical malpractice claim is not easy. There are requirements to be met, and there is almost always strong opposition from the other side. Before a case even gets to that stage, plaintiffs may find trouble proving...
Maternity telemedicine in Iowa raises malpractice questions
As of New Year's Day, Iowa joined many other U.S. states in enacting a parity law for telemedicine. Your private health insurer must now cover telehealth (services delivered via the internet) to the same extent as in-person care. The change has been widely welcomed as...
How Iowa residents may be able to prove driver negligence
Iowa residents who have been injured as a result of another driver's negligence should consider the legal definition of negligence before deciding whether they want to pursue the incident in court. Negligence has one meaning in casual conversation and an entirely...
How improving time outs may prevent wrong-site surgery
Every week, there are anywhere between 40 and 60 wrong-site surgeries that are performed in Iowa and the rest of the U.S. The most frequent wrong-site surgeries are orthopedic, dental and spinal surgeries. Overall, the most common type of WSS is a laterality surgery,...
Would you drive a few more miles if it meant saving a life?
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of realizing you’ve forgotten something at your last stop—just as you pass the highway exit that could take you swiftly back. Now you’re looking at another 10 to 20 miles round trip, maybe, to catch the next exit, and you might...
How to detect jaundice in a newborn
Sixty percent of babies are born with jaundice. An excess of the chemical bilirubin in the liver causes jaundice and can take less than a week for a baby to excrete it. This condition is recognizable by the yellowing of the baby’s skin, gums and whites of the eyes. An...
Study finds crash risk increases with only light rain
Even when only a light rain is falling, Iowa drivers might be at greater risk on the road than they would be in clear weather. The Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society has published a study that reports that the risk of a fatal motor vehicle accident increased...
New car monitoring system could keep impaired drivers off roads
Drunk driving can quickly have a big impact on anyone in Iowa who happens to be sharing the roadway with an impaired driver. This is one of the reasons why an auto manufacturer based in Sweden has announced plans to install in-car cameras and sensors on its vehicles...
Crash with storm chasers leads to lawsuit against Weather Channel
The Weather Channel has a show called "Storm Wranglers," whose two stars were killed in a crash on March 28, 2017, and Iowa residents may want to know that the incident has led to a wrongful death lawsuit. The two were chasing a tornado near the city of Spur, Texas,...