Iowa Personal Injury

Supreme Court FIFRA Ruling Shields Bayer-Monsanto from Roundup Cancer Failure-to-Warn Claims — But Iowa Farmers Diagnosed with Cancer May Still Have Product Liability Paths Through Design Defect, Fraud and Negligent-Testing Theories: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Glyphosate Litigation, We Pursue the Agrochemical Manufacturer and Its Distribution Chain, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Corporate Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Exposure Records, Medical Charts and Internal Corporate Files Before the Spoliation Clock Runs and the Statute of Limitations Expires, IARC Classified Glyphosate as Probably Carcinogenic While the Industry-Backed Safety Study Was Retracted, Iowa Imposes No Statutory Caps on Compensatory Damages in Cancer and Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims & Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Iowa Roundup Cancer Lawsuits After the Supreme Court Blocks Failure-to-Warn Claims If you are reading this in Iowa — on a kitchen table in Muscatine, in a farm office outside Ames, in a hospital waiting room in Iowa City — you just heard that the Supreme Court ruled the maker of Roundup cannot be sued for failing to warn people that the weedkiller could cause cancer. And your first thought was probably: my case is dead. The agricultural organizations that lobbied for this outcome said it protects farmers. The company’s CEO called it “overdue justice.” Both candidates for Iowa governor called it a terrible decision. We are going to tell you what the ruling actually does, what it does not do, and why the path forward, while harder, is not closed. The ruling blocks one legal theory — failure-to-warn based on the product label — under a federal pesticide law called FIFRA. It does not block every theory. Design defect claims, fraud claims, and negligent-testing claims target corporate conduct that has nothing to do with the label, and those doors remain open. The Iowa farmers, applicators, and rural families who have been breathing and handling glyphosate for decades deserve to…

Roundup Cancer & Products Liability Litigation After the Supreme Court’s FIFRA Preemption Ruling: Attorney911 Pursues Bayer AG and Monsanto for Glyphosate-Related Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, We Pivot from the Now-Shielded Failure-to-Warn Theory to Design Defect, Active Concealment and Negligent-Testing Claims That May Survive, Seventy Percent of North America’s Roundup Is Manufactured in Muscatine Where Iowa Farmers Face Some of the Nation’s Highest Cancer Rates from Sustained Pesticide Exposure, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Mega-Manufacturer’s Claims Machine Values and Denies Toxic-Exposure Cases, We Secure the Spray Records, Purchase Receipts, Farm Application Logs and Bayer Internal Corporate Documents Before They Are Destroyed, the Discovery Rule May Toll the Statute of Limitations for Latent Cancer Diagnoses, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Iowa Roundup Cancer Lawsuit: What Legal Rights Remain After the Supreme Court’s Preemption Ruling If you are an Iowa farmer, an agricultural worker, a landscaper, or someone who worked at the plant in Muscatine where seventy percent of the Roundup sold in North America is manufactured — and you have been diagnosed with cancer — you are reading this at a specific and frightening moment. The Supreme Court of the United States has just ruled that Bayer cannot be sued for failing to warn people that the weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer. You may be hearing that ruling described as the end of the road. We need you to hear the whole truth before you decide that, because the ruling closes one door — the failure-to-warn door — and the company’s lawyers and the insurance adjusters are counting on you not knowing that other doors remain. This page is written by the trial team at Attorney911 to tell you, in plain language, exactly what the ruling does and does not do, what legal theories may still be available to you under Iowa law, what evidence you need to preserve right now before it legally disappears, and what your case may…

University of Iowa Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Iowa City, Where Video Shows Students Forced Through Basement Exercises at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon House Under the Command of Others — a Chapter Closed for Hazing in 2012, Removed in 2018, Suspended Again Within Seven Months of Re-Chartering, We Pursue the National Fraternity and the Insurers Behind the Hazing-Exclusion Shield, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Case, We Secure the Anonymous Video and Disappearing Group-Chat Logs Before They Vanish on a 48-Hour Clock, Iowa’s Anti-Hazing Law and the New Federal Stop Campus Hazing Act, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Iowa City Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit — When the National Organization Keeps Re-Chartering a Chapter That Keeps Hazing Your son or daughter came to the University of Iowa to get an education, join a community, build a future. Instead, you are reading about a fraternity basement where students were ordered to perform exercises “at the appearance of command of other students” — and you are trying to figure out whether what happened to your child was a crime, a civil wrong, a university violation, or all three at once. The answer is that it can be all three, and the path to accountability runs through every one of them. We are a trial firm that takes Iowa hazing cases, and we build them the way this conduct deserves — as institutional failures, not isolated incidents, by defendants who have been put on notice so many times that “we didn’t know” is no longer available to them. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Iowa has now been suspended for hazing in November 2024 — just seven months after it was re-established on campus in spring 2024. That return itself followed a 2018 removal for alcohol and safety violations, which…

University of Iowa Alpha Delta Phi Hazing & Institutional Negligence Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Trial Practice to Iowa City, Iowa, Representing the 56 Pledges Subjected to Blindfolded Confinement and Physical Humiliation Captured on Viral Bodycam Footage, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue National Fraternities and House Corporations for Willful and Wanton Disregard of Safety Under Iowa Law, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Cases, We Secure the University Investigation Files and Bodycam Data Before the Overwrite, $50M+ Recovered for Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Understanding the Alpha Delta Phi Hazing Incident in Iowa City, Iowa If you were one of the 56 students held in that dark basement, shirtless and blindfolded while being covered in food, you are likely feeling a mix of confusion, anger, and deep humiliation. What you went through was not a “celebration of life” or a simple “initiation ritual.” It was a calculated breach of your safety and dignity, captured on high-definition police bodycam footage for the world to see. When you join a student organization at the University of Iowa, you expect a brotherhood, not a dark room where your senses are stripped away and you are treated as an object. We look at this event not just as a violation of university rules, but as a series of legal failures by the national fraternity, the local chapter, and the people who owned that property. You may feel like you cannot speak out because you “chose” to pledge. We want you to understand that the law recognizes the coercive nature of these rituals. The power imbalance between established members and new pledges is exactly why Iowa has specific laws to protect you. We work until every piece of evidence…

University of Iowa Alpha Delta Phi Hazing & Institutional Liability Attorneys — Attorney911 Holds National Fraternities Accountable for the Treatment of 56 Pledges in Iowa City, Ralph Manginello is Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit with 27+ Years of Trial Practice, We Secure Police Bodycam and University Disciplinary Records Following the Fraternity’s 2029 Suspension in Johnson County, Iowa, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Greek Life Carriers Deny Claims, Pursuing Damages for Humiliation and Coerced Consent — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Alpha Delta Phi Hazing Incident: What the University of Iowa Pledges Need to Know If you were one of the 56 pledges found in the basement of the Alpha Delta Phi house in Iowa City, you were subjected to a level of degradation that the law does not permit under the guise of “tradition.” Being blindfolded, forced to remove your shirt, and doused in alcohol, ketchup, and mustard is not a rite of passage—it is a violation of your dignity and your legal rights. We understand the culture of silence that surrounds Greek life at the University of Iowa. You joined a fraternity to find community, but you were met with a basement environment that more closely resembled a site of confinement than a social club. While criminal charges against certain individuals for interfering with the police may have been dropped, the underlying acts of hazing remain a powerful basis for a civil lawsuit. The University’s decision to suspend the chapter until July 1, 2029, is a public admission that what happened in that house was unacceptable. The law in Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa is clear: you do not “consent” to be abused or humiliated as a condition…

Hotel Sexual Assault & Negligent Key Control Lawsuit in Des Moines, Iowa — Attorney911 Holds the Hotel Management Company and Its Corporate Owner for Handing a Stranger a Room Key Without ID Check, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve the Electronic Lock Audit Trail Before It Is Purged, Iowa’s Premises Liability Law and the Foreseeability of Prior Security Breaches, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Checked In. You Locked the Door. Someone Else Had the Key. If you were sexually assaulted in a Des Moines hotel room after a stranger was handed your room key without anyone checking an ID, you already know what no brochure will tell you. The lock on the door meant nothing. The safety bolt meant nothing. The trust you placed in a name on the building meant nothing. What you lived through, and what you have carried since, is the harm the hotel was paid to prevent. We built this page for one person: the survivor or the family member reading at 2 a.m. with shaking hands, looking for someone in Iowa who will tell the truth about what happened, what the law actually does, and what comes next. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle premises-liability and sexual-assault civil claims in Iowa. Below we walk you through the entire case, the law, the defendants, the proof, and the clock — in plain English, with the legal seams dissolved. Nothing here is a sales pitch. It is a map of the road in front of you, written by trial lawyers who have walked it. If…

Hotel Sexual Assault & Negligent Security Lawsuit After Unverified Hotel Key Grants Rapist Access to Cheri Marchionda’s Room at Des Moines Embassy Suites — Attorney911 Holds Atrium Hospitality & John Q. Hammons Management Liable for Failing Industry-Standard Identity Checks, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Sexual Assault Cases, We Preserve Front-Desk Keycard Logs & Security Footage Before the Overwrite Loop, PTSD & Long-Term Disability ($5M+ Recovered in Catastrophic Injury Cases), Iowa’s Premises Liability Duty to Protect Guests from Foreseeable Criminal Acts — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Hotel Handed Him the Key You came to Des Moines for work. A city you had traveled to before, on a trip you had made dozens of times. You checked in at the Embassy Suites, used the deadbolt the way you always do, and went to sleep. Then a hand on your leg. Then a voice telling you not to scream. Then hours you survived by going somewhere else inside your mind. If this is where you are, I want you to hear something before anything else: this was not your fault. What happened to you is the predictable consequence of a system that failed. A front desk that handed a room key to a man who had no business being given one. A maintenance worker who disabled the one lock that could have stopped him. A hotel that had been warned, and looked the other way. We are here to make that system answer for what it did. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We represent people who were sexually assaulted in hotels, motels, and other commercial lodging in Iowa and across the country. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including…

Des Moines Hotel Sexual Assault & Premises Liability Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Embassy Suites Operators & Corporate Owners Accountable After Staff Handed Attacker a Room Key Without Verification—Cheri Marchionda’s PTSD & Lost Executive Career, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage & Key-Card Logs Before the Overwrite, Iowa’s Duty of Care for Guest Safety, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims—Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Front Desk Hands a Stranger the Key to Your Room: How Iowa Hotel Negligent Security Law Works The phone rings at 2 a.m. The person on the other end is telling you they were raped inside the very room the hotel rented them. The lock on the door did not hold. The man who climbed into the bed had a key the front desk gave him. The hotel’s own maintenance worker had disabled the safety latch the night before. You are not imagining what went wrong here. You are describing every single failure negligent security law was built to address. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and we represent survivors of sexual assault and violent crime in Iowa and across the country. We built this page for the woman who is reading this at 2 a.m., for the family member who flew in after the call from the hospital, and for every survivor who has been told that what happened was “just bad luck” and that the hotel had no duty. That is not the law. The law in Iowa, and the law of premises liability nationwide, has protected people like you for a…