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email article On Tuesday, Iowa's highest court will hear oral arguments in a negligent credentialing case brought against a hospital in Cedar Rapids. The suit has garnered the attention of the American Medical Association (AMA) due to its potential impact on other providers. The negligence suit was originally filed in 2016 by Roxanne Rieder and her husband, Tony. The Rieders detail in court documents that Roxanne experienced permanent impairment and severe pain following spine surgery performed at Mercy Medical Center by a credentialed physician there in 2015. Though the Rieders resolve...

Radio Iowa You are here: Home Jury trials to resume across the state Monday The state judicial system is preparing to restart jury trials Monday. Trials were first paused at the height of the pandemic in March, then restarted in September, and paused the second time in November as COVID-19 cases were on the increase. Iowa Supreme Court Justice Matthew McDermott was co-chair of the committee that set the guidelines for restarting the first time. “To our knowledge during that period there were not any incidences of COVID spread that came from jury trials,” McDermott says. “We’re optimis...

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