Ron Krause has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America. The induction ceremony at which Ron became a Fellow took place online during the recent Induction Ceremony at the 2021 Spring Meeting of the College. The meeting had a total attendance of 633. Founded in 1950, the College is composed of the best of the trial bar from the United States, Canada and...

Have you had an employee hurt her or his shoulder at work? Did you hurt your own shoulder at work? Unfortunately, you have walked into one of the most contentious areas of Iowa’s workers’ compensation, and full knowledge of the exact anatomical body part will determine the injured worker’s extent of recovery. In 2017, the Iowa Legislature made a significant change to Iowa’s workers’ compensation law by adding the “shoulder” to the list of scheduled...

Recently we were completing an application for insurance in which the insurer posed the following question: "Does the Company make use of independent contractors or non-employee labor? If ‘Yes,’ provide number of such workers used in last 12 months." Our firm, as a business, uses several companies to provide services. We, for example, engage a vendor to maintain our technology. We use an outside company to shred documents so that discarded items do not reveal...