Under federal FMLA eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of leave for serious health conditions, bonding with a new child, exigencies related to a family member’s military service or to care for a family member who was seriously injured while on active military duty. Iowa law also gives employees the...
Month: October 2017
Red Light Runner Car Accidents
Tragically, Thursday afternoon a 74-year-old motorist was killed at the Des Moines intersection of MLK and Clark Street after being struck by a red light runner.
Red light runners cause hundreds of deaths and tens of thousands of injuries every year. According to the Insurance Institute...
Pedestrian Accidents Rising
On average, a pedestrian is killed every two hours and injured every seven minutes in traffic crashes in the U.S. In fact, over ten percent of all traffic fatalities and an estimated 3 percent of those injured in traffic crashes are pedestrians. In 2015, pedestrians were one of the few groups to...