Articles Posted in Iowa

This is your crazy story of the day: lawyer in Iowa was suspended from practicing law for 18 months for having sex with a client. Here are the salacious facts:

• The client was being represented in a custody battle.
• The sex began a few days after her release from a mental facility.

The Iowa Supreme Court reversed Scott County District Court Judge David H. Sivright, Jr.’s summary judgment ruling in a failure to diagnose breast cancer case, rejecting malpractice defense lawyer claims that Plaintiff should have known of her injury, for purposes of the statute of limitations, just because a doctor made her aware that her breast was not normal.

• Breast cancer malpractice stories and case outcomes
• The Iowa Court of Appeals’ decision that the Supreme Court overturned