Do I have any legal recourse after an auto accident if I was not seriously injured?
Question: Do I have any legal recourse in an auto accident if I was not injured? I am a truck driver involved in an accident in a company truck. The other driver admitted to being at fault along with two witnesses that stated it was his fault. He had minor injuries and was taken to the hospital. I had a stiff neck for a few days, but did not seek medical attention. I was laid off a week later. I had a clean driving record until this happened. Now I'm having a hard time getting driving jobs because of this accident. Do I have any legal recourse against the other driver from this accident?
Hancock County, Iowa - I’ve been reading about these accidents and one guy has a blog dedicated to accidents where trailers become unhitched and crash into other cars, trucks or motorcycles. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen one in Iowa, right up until this week, that is. It happened on December 5, 2011 at around 5:58 a.m. on Highway 18 about 2 miles west of Garner. A 2000 Peterbuilt semitruck pulling a trailer (driver shown on police report as being from Garner, Iowa – 38 years old) was westbound on Highway 18 when as the officer describes it, “VEHICLE 1 (THE SEMI ) WAS WESTBOUND ON HWY 18 WHEN ITS TRAILER BECAME DETACHED FROM THE TRACTOR THE TRAILER THEN SLID ACROSS THE CENTER LINE AND STRUCK THE EASTBOUND VEHICLE 2 HEAD ON.”
To answer that question let’s look at some of the recent accidental deaths while on the job.
Question: How do we get a personal injury settlement from the employer? My sister was hit by a truck while taking out the trash for a fast food restaurant. It was in their parking lot when the truck struck my sister, breaking her hip. Now it is a year later and we are trying to figure out what to expect and the kind of process.
A recent school bus accident that killed an 11-year-old boy and another accident striking an 84-year-old pedestrian have school officials evaluating their fleet drivers. No driver can have a squeaky clean driving record, but there shouldn’t be anything that makes one conclude their driving, based on past issues, would endanger the children or other pedestrians. While I think the effort is a good one, I don’t think the article sheds light on what convictions should keep a person from driving a school bus once they pass the standard qualifications.
For today’s article we have several real life rollover accidents. The 
Question: What are my options if my daughter slipped and fell on hotel property? My daughter fell breaking her two front teeth. She has undergone extensive dental work. The hotel stairs were slick and old non-skid strips that were completely painted over. Hotel did an incident report and I took pictures of the stairs. What are my options?
Here is a trial tip: The lawyer with an intersection collision case should get a copy of the video from the intersection traffic camera. Which means we have to learn where these cameras are located. As for clients who are in an intersection collision it’s better to get a lawyer onboard sooner rather than later. This is also a reason for the lawyers to get out to visit the accident scene. You just never know where a camera may be recording the events. The camera may be on a nearby building used as a security camera.
The estate of a teen who died after walking in front of freeway traffic will be paid 
The dangers of Anhydrous work - In Pilot Mound, Iowa a Boone County farmer died a 74-year-old man, Richard Shaw died after exposure to 
What’s going on in Iowa courts? That depends on what you read and who you talk with. There are many different cases of interest from the Heartland. There is one I just couldn’t help but report about.
Something is very wrong out there when there are so many wrong-way interstate driving events along with digitally distracted drivers. Is it distracted driving, or drunken drivers, or a combination of the two? I’m writing today because of what one younger client told me this week.
Justice Streit is slightly wrong, but not far off when he predicts $100,000 judiciary war chests to combat the far right. Let me set this up with a brief description of the fight going on in Iowa.
Cedar Rapids Iowa has found a different way to cash in on law breakers; 
“I’m going to get the mail Mom!”
A nine and a half foot python escaped and was returned home after being found on a neighbor’s porch. The news report indicates the snake’s been missing for a month. The snake’s owner is reported to be a child, which I for one don’t understand AT ALL. The snake was found on a porch in Farmington, Arkansas. Are they serious? Watch the video and ask yourself who or what safety the snake owners are concerned with. I swear that common sense isn’t as common as we would like to believe.
Today is one of those very busy days in the practice of law and nothing is really catching my attention to write about. It looks like a good day for a compilation of personal injury news. Let us see the various ways people are becoming injured or killed from accidents and other mishaps around the State of Iowa. Every so often on The Iowa Edict we will provide a mini compendium of current Iowa personal injury and property damage news of recent events. The idea is to provide a shorter version of available stories to personal injury lawyers, adjusters, those engaged in a law suit involving personal injury or workers’ compensation or those folks just plain interested in PI News. Or in some instances stuff we find curiously interesting. This is one of those days. 
Illinois Road Construction Worker Backed Over and Killed on U.S. 24 in Schuyler County. I've seen this enough times in the past 5 years that anymore it's not even a surprise. I half expect it.
Today in the email bag was a question and although it’s a bit before 7:00 a.m. as I’m trying to understand what the person is asking me I have to wonder if I’m 30-years younger and going through the experience of once again being a 1-L. A 1-L is how we refer to first year law students. 
Texting while driving is like driving while drunk and sooner or later we will have to pass a law requiring people to just think. 
As I suspected the questions involving the ISU architecture student that died earlier this past month after visiting a night club centered on whether she was given drinks from the bar or by other bar patrons. One question has been answered. There is one issue yet resolved. An Ames man, age unknown, has been charged with a misdemeanor involving providing alcohol to a minor.