- Craig Kelley | March 14, 2012 6:00 PM | Council Bluffs, IA
The unending tort reform battle continues, this time at the Federal level on Capitol Hill as Congress gets ready to debate H.R. 5, a bill that would establish federal limits on damages in...
- Craig Kelley | October 14, 2011 8:31 AM | Council Bluffs, IA
Fixing our country’s economic situation is no small task and it certainly involves tough decisions about programs and issues that affect all of us. Apparently, one of the many options being...
- Craig Kelley | September 02, 2011 7:39 AM | Council Bluffs, IA
Debates about reforming our civil justice system—particularly in the area of medical malpractice claims—are a hot topic for attorneys, physicians, insurance companies and politicians....
- Shannon Weidemann | March 10, 2008 10:19 PM | Davenport, IA
A jury in Connecticut awarded a family $38 Million after deciding a doctor was liable for their child's cerebral palsy. It is believed to be one of the largest medical malpractive verdicts. Cerebral palsy can be a birth injury when a baby goes too long without oxygen. Attorney's for the plantiff argued that the doctor waited far too long to perform a c-section. "The first baby was born at...
- Shannon Weidemann | February 28, 2008 8:40 AM | Davenport, IA
A child was born in 2001 via c-section and is now suffering from cerebral palsy. Her family believes it was a lack of oxygen during birth and that doctors were too slow in her delivery. A jury in Indiana agreed and awarded them $3.7 Million in the medical malpractice case. Indiana limits medical malpractice awards, so the judgment on the three claims will be reduced to just under $2 million,...