The 2008 session’s HB 2059 was sponsored by Rep. McKinley Bailey, D-Webster City, who says he was motivated by a fatal crash caused by a teenage driver who was using a cell phone. Bailey has said he might support an expansion to adult drivers. Rep. Swati Dandekar chaired a subcommitt...
Take a deep breath and board that plane with confidence: Yourchances of being killed in an airplane crash, based on population size and average rate of flying, are only 1 in 11 million. There were40 airplane accidents in 2020, five of which were fatal, killing 299 people. In 2019, 86 ...
Defendant contends the trial court erred in finding: (1) defendant Hoelscher was driving his automobile at time of the fatal accident; (2) plaintiffs Marean and Sheeder were nongratuitous passengers; (3) they did not assume the risk of a known racing trip to Guthrie Center; (4) plaintiff...
By 1931, the country was gripped in the throes of the Great Depression, but in New York City, engineers and builders had scraped the sky. The Saturday, May 28 edition of The New York Times reported on the opening of the Empire State Building, then the tallest—and still one of the gra...
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Plaintiffs contended that upon this insecure foundation the jury might well "infer" he would select a route farther east than Highway 110 and came to the fatal scene from the east on No. 20. To this argument defendants respond that "an inference or presumption cannot be based upon a ...
between Davenport and Iowa City, the famous literary workshop felt as far away as Oslo. None of the famous writers in residence traveled the 50 miles to reach us, or if they did, they came disguised as river driftwood. When Beenk won, however, Writers’ Studio would visit Iowa City!
“So it's not like you fall into mental illness or sickness overnight. I think what I see was that it was the chronicity, the long term of the constant struggle and hassle” (BHE 4). Another described the compounding nature of many threats farmers have faced recently, such as market ...