DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Iowa's highest court has struck a nearly $100 million verdict in favor of a family who blamed doctors for a baby's brain injuries, and its chief justice delivered a smackdown of the plaintiffs' lawyer for ridiculing the defendants' arguments to the jury.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - An Iowa law banning abortions after a fetus' heartbeat is detected is constitutional, the state's supreme court has ruled.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Iowa legislators meant what they said when they passed a law requiring medical malpractice plaintiffs to submit an expert’s affidavit, signed under penalty of perjury and certifying their case has merit, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - An Iowa city can’t be sued for hiring an unqualified inspector who failed to flag stairs that didn’t meet building code requirements, the state Supreme Court ruled, shutting down an apartment building owner’s attempt to drag the city into a slip-and-fall lawsuit.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - The State of Iowa doesn’t have to pay a $790,000 jury award to a state employee who claimed a hostile work environment based mostly on secondhand reports she received as an administrator overseeing social workers in the Iowa Department of Human Services.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Parents who sued over the death of their infant child failed to file the proper administrative claims first, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled, but the estate of the child can continue with a $15 million lawsuit claiming a misplaced feeding tube caused the baby’s death.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Iowa jurors no longer can be counted upon to understand the basics of livestock management, the state’s highest court ruled, affirming the dismissal of a lawsuit by a truck driver who was injured after his vehicle plowed into a loose cow.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - A building owner isn’t responsible for an elderly woman’s lung injuries she blamed on a smelly drain cleaner called Draynamite, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled, citing a lack of scientific evidence.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Iowa workers’ compensation law preempts lawsuits over sexual harassment at work, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled, throwing out a $400,000 jury verdict a telemarketing employee won over unwanted advances by her supervisors.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - The City of Muscatine, Iowa isn’t liable for the actions of a police officer who gave the intoxicated passenger of a vehicle a ride to the hotel where she was staying and raped her, all while still on duty.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - A company that touted its stem cell cures for aging wasn’t entitled to a jury trial over claims by the Iowa Attorney General it violated state consumer protection laws, the state’s highest court ruled.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - The Iowa Supreme Court overruled a precedent allowing money damages for constitutional violations after just six years, deciding its earlier decision intruded on the powers of the legislature and proved unworkable in practice.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - A meatpacking plant worker who texted a profane insult to his boss but later claimed he meant it for a friend can’t sue for age discrimination and wrongful dismissal, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled, affirming the burden-shifting framework for proving workplace discrimination.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – Asbestos lawyers in Iowa scored a big win June 17 when the state Supreme Court rejected a lower court’s reading of 2017 tort reform legislation.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – An Iowa emergency dispatcher traumatized by a mother’s screams is entitled to Workers’ Compensation, the state’s highest court has ruled.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Iowa taxpayers may be on the hook for a fatal crash that occurred after a drunk driver sped the wrong way down a highway at more than 100 mph and collided with a police car going the other way, the state’s highest court has ruled.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – A man who was left to bash into a tree at full speed on a zip line can sue the ski resort where it occurred for willful, wanton or reckless conduct but not ordinary negligence, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - An Iowa strip club that ejected a drunken patron isn’t liable for his death at the hands of a drunk driver half a mile away, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled, rejecting arguments the club had a duty to make sure the customer caught a cab or was arrested by the police.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – An Iowa state court judge won’t let an asbestos lawyer into his courtroom after defendants put a spotlight on her record of honesty.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – An Iowa landlord should have turned away a potential tenant with an emotional support dog, a split Iowa Supreme Court has ruled.
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