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Painful Reality: Children are Cheaper to Injure
A new Iowa law purports to allow 16 and 17-year-old kids to work in construction, roofing, manufacturing and other hazardous jobs. The new law is controversial for any number of…
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Adding Insult to Injury: Work Injuries and Mental Health
(This piece was originally published in The Prairie Progressive) Workplace injuries reveal the harsh realities many workers face when trying to secure the benefits they are legally entitled to. These…
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Victory at the Iowa Supreme Court: A Huge Win For Our Client
Rush & Nicholson is thrilled share the news of a significant victory achieved by our team at the Iowa Supreme Court. This decision marks a pivotal moment for our client,…
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Curbing Statistics: Avoiding A Motorcycle Crash
As the calendar turned to April 1, 2024, the Iowa Department of Transportation’s daily traffic fatality count revealed a concerning statistic: nine residents of Iowa have lost their lives in…
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Almost 400 Iowa Traffic Fatalities in 2023
Last year in Iowa, the State saw an unsettling result on the roadways: an increase in the number of traffic fatalities. The latest statistics released by the Iowa Department of…
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After winning wage theft case, 11K UIHC employees get their money
This article originally appeared on Iowa Starting Line Posted September 19th, 2023 at 12:23pm by Amie Rivers Around 11,000 employees of University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC), the state’s largest hospital system,…
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Univ. of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to pay $15 million in lawsuit from workers
Published Sep. 6, 2023 on KCRG.com by KCRG Staff IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – On Wednesday, a judge granted approval to a settlement that would see the University of Iowa Hospitals…
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Health care for the benefit of businesses, not patients
Imagine you are never allowed to choose your doctor. Imagine you are never allowed to choose your health insurance company. Instead, the insurance company you did not select picks the…
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Federal Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to $15 Million Settlement with UIHC
After three years of litigation, on August 15, 2022, class representatives of 11,000 current and former UIHC workers, represented by Rush & Nicholson, reached a tentative settlement on claims for…
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Working with Common Purpose
In 2017, Iowa Republicans rewrote our public sector collective bargaining law Chapter 20. This dramatically took away the rights of Iowa public sector workers to bargain a contract. However, there…
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