How should a court calculate your overtime? We’ll investigate the situation.

An issue that occasionally comes up in federal overtime cases concerns employees who either work from their home or actually live on their employer's premises. Examples of such employees are emergency workers, dispatchers, canine officers, and workers at group homes and the like.

Certain types of insurance policies, normally called "accidental death" policies or something similar, provide benefits if the person insured under the policy dies in an accident. Those policies often include exclusions or limitations on coverage that apply under certain circumstances. One common exclusion or limitation eliminates coverage if the deceased insured had drugs or alcohol in their system at the time of death.

Your real estate’s valuation on the amount of your property taxes may be very significant. In case you’re wanting to challenge your property’s valuation, here are our top tips.

Several changes were made to Iowa's mechanic's lien law beginning January 1, 2013 in an effort to protect residential owners from encountering such situations. The changes included new notification requirements imposed on builders and general contractors working with residential owners. The failure to comply with either notice requirement is a forfeiture of the right to assert a mechanic's lien against residential property.

The Americans With Disabilities Act has a little known, and seldom used, section that prohibits employers from participating in contracts or any type of relationship that results in disability discrimination against an employee.

Employers seem to have a never-ending stream of excuses when they're caught failing to pay overtime. They continue to trot out these excuses even though courts more often than not reject them.

One of the trickier types of personal injury and car accident cases we encounter involve lane merges where a traffic lane slowly disappears and joins with a parallel lane.

Employers cannot make assumptions about disabled employees, regardless of whether such employees come under the "actually disabled" category or are instead "perceived" or "regarded as" disabled. Any employment decisions made because of an employee's disability can only occur after a full review of the employee's individual circumstances, which often includes a medical analysis.

I've previously written about claims under Iowa's Uniform Trade Secrets Act. Now I want to talk about the potential damages that can be recovered in a trade secret case. They include damages that aren't available in many other types of cases.