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Sen. Zach Nunn and Rep. Brian Lohse wrote that "A jury is best suited to award the proper amount of damages, not legislators" in this op-ed.

Speaker Pat Grassley, R-New Hartford, said some House Republicans are concerned with the public perception of the bill, which he said is just about correctly labeling pesticides.

“At this point in time, we don’t have the support to move something forward,” Grassley told reporters Thursday. “You know, obviously there’s still more session to go, but right now, where we sit today, I don’t see the support.” Read the full story from Iowa Public Radio here.

Newly-released polling from the American Association for Justice shows Iowans' distrust of chemical companies as legislation serving to protect them is moving along at the statehouse. 

Read the news report from We Are Iowa here.

KWWL recently spotlighted a growing crisis: Iowa’s surge in cancer cases and the link to pesticide exposure. Meanwhile, Bayer/Monsanto — the makers of RoundUp — is proposing legislation that would shield them from accountability, even when their products cause cancer.

See the the full report on pesticides and Iowa’s alarming cancer rates here.

Why do people sue insurance companies? Most of us instinctively know the answer. Sometimes insurance companies don’t do the right thing.

Read Des Moines Register op-ed here.

Who’s Paying the Price for a Historic Windfall? 

In our recent series on insurance companies, we reported that property and casualty insurers were on pace this year to shatter a record-breaking $88 billion in profits recorded in 2023. Well, the numbers are in and even more jaw-dropping than previously imagined. Through just the first three-quarters of 2024, insurance companies posted $130 billion in profits, according to AM Best.

Continue reading The Iowa Standard article here.

Our legislature passing this law will not give more than a miniscule improvement to Bayer’s financial situation. It would just remove the right of Iowa farmers to protect themselves in court while other column here.people around the country continue to maintain that right.

Read Des Moines Register column here.

An Iowa clinic is taking on its own insurance company, accusing it of using the case of a brain-injured child to hoodwink state legislators into passing a law that caps the value of a life in cases of medical negligence. Iowa legislators should have a healthy dose of skepticism when insurance company lobbyists come to them asking for a handout.

Read Iowa Capital Dispatch article here.

Amid increasing scrutiny of a potential link between Iowa farm chemicals and cancer, a new report is generating controversy as it blames rising cancer rates not on the toxins used widely throughout the state, but on something else entirely: binge alcohol consumption.

Read Iowa Capital Dispatch article here.

If medical providers get their way, juries and judges would no longer decide damages on a case-by-case basis — no matter how devastating the injury or horrific the conduct that caused it.

Read Des Moines Register op-ed here.

Iowa bills to cap lawsuits pit Republicans against Republicans.

Read Des Moines Register article here.

“I’m begging you, don’t do that for Iowans,” she said. “For me and the people just like me who have been hurt by those products. It was awful to feel that your life is so worthless to somebody sitting in a board room. Thinking that them making money on this or saving money on their insurance is more important than what happens to Iowans.”

Read The Iowa Standard article here.