Monthly Archives: May 2022

IOWA SUPREME COURT FINDS MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE SUIT PROPERLY DISMISSED FOR FAILURE TO FILE CERTIFICATE OF MERIT

May 17, 2022

The plaintiff was hospitalized to treat her prolonged dizziness. While medicated, she stood up and fell in her hospital room, suffering injuries. She sued the hospital, several physicians, and other healthcare providers involved in her treatment, alleging their “professional negligence” caused her injuries. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the […]


IOWA SUPREME COURT HOLDS “DIRECT PHYSICAL LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY” LANGUAGE IN A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY INSURANCE POLICY REQUIRES A PHYSICAL ASPECT TO THE LOSS

In March 2020, Governor Reynolds issued a proclamation closing all bars and restaurants from dine-in or in-person services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In compliance with the proclamation, both Jesse’s Embers (Des Moines bar and restaurant) and Wakonda Club (Des Moines country club) closed down. Both businesses had commercial property insurance with similar language […]


IOWA SUPREME COURT FINDS A ROTATOR CUFF INJURY IS A WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SCHEDULED MEMBER INJURY

On February 5, 2018, the claimant, Rosa Chavez, sustained a work injury in the course of her employment as a lab technician at MS Technology, LLC. An MRI revealed Chavez had sustained a “full thickness rotator cuff tear that has retracted to the level of the glenoid, severe AC arthrosis, tendonitis and tearing of the […]


ZACHARY HUFFERD JOINS THE FIRM AS A STUDENT LAW CLERK

We are pleased to announce that Zachary Hufferd has joined Grefe & Sidney, P.L.C. as a student law clerk in the firm’s business division. Zack is currently attending Drake University Law School where he will graduate with the Class of 2023. Prior to Drake, Zack attended Anderson University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he earned his […]