$23 Million
Iowa is set to receive another $23 million in federal money to repair flood damaged roads and bridges. The funds are part of $690 million being divided up among 28 states by the U.S. Department of Transportation for disaster relief.
The bulk of Iowa’s money will go to repairs from this summer’s record flooding, but there is also about $156,000 for repairs from storms in the summer of 2007 and $584,000 for repairs after winter storms in February 2007. The money is being used three ways, including reimbursement for projects already completed, permanent repairs to infrastructure and flood mitigation.
179
A Minnesota state compensation fund has received 179 claims from victims of the Minneapolis bridge collapse. Attorney Susan Holden says that’s the number of claims that came in by the deadline on of Oct. 15. Holden heads a three-lawyer panel that will hold hearings for each victim and determine how to divide up $36.6 million among them. The panel has already started hearings and will schedule the rest by the end of January. The panel has until the end of February to make compensation offers to victims. The Aug. 1, 2007, bridge collapse killed 13 people and injured 145.
200
Steadily rising numbers in Kansas vehicle accidents involving deer have prompted a need for constant defensive driving this fall, according to Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger. More than 200 additional deer-vehicle accidents occurred on Kansas roads during 2007 than in 2006, according to statistics from the Kansas Department of Transportation. The total for all deer accidents during the year was 9,417, compared to 9,197 in 2006. Those 2007 accidents resulted in the deaths of five people and injuries to 298; those are also higher numbers than the year before.
$11.4 million
A Wisconsin jury has awarded the parents of a brain-damaged boy $11.4 million in a medical malpractice case. Chad and Amy Jelinek of Eastman claimed in a 2006 lawsuit that negligent care by a nurse and nurse midwife at Gunderson Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse resulted in brain injuries to their son Laine during his birth in 2005. A Crawford County jury sided with the Jelineks on Oct. 17 after a three-week trial.
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