Legal
Government
- Iowa Government
- Iowa Labor Services Division
- Iowa Insurance Division
- Iowa Civil Rights Commission
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- U.S. Department of Labor
- FirstGov
- Library of Congress
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate
- White House
Medical Resources
General
News
Search Engines
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
LAWS WHICH INTERSECT WITH WORKERS’ COMPENSATION CLAIMS
- Iowa Unemployment Insurance Services home page, Iowa Workforce Development
- Home Page for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Iowa Civil Rights Commission
- Iowa State law information concerning minimum wage, timely payment of wages, and Iowa’s Wage Payment Collections Act, including step by step instructions and forms to use in making a claim
- US Department Of Labor, Disability Resources, including an abundance of information concerning the ADA
- US Department Of Labor, information concerning the various areas of anti-discrimination / Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws
- US Department Of Labor, Overview of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
COURTS
- Iowa Judicial Branch – view recent appellate court decisions, watch oral arguments, find press releases, including the Treasury Constant Maturity Index which determines present value discount rate and interest in civil cases
- National Center for State Courts (NCSC) – provides links to state, federal and international courts
- LLRX Court Rules, Forms & Dockets – Links to a wide variety of State & Federal court rules, forms & dockets
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- Department of Labor Home page
- GovSpot is a free, non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online, including government Web sites and documents, facts and figures, news, political information and more
- GovSpot Federal Government Toll Free Numbers, listed by Agency
WORKPLACE SAFETY & HEALTH
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a subdivision of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention – contains links with very useful and credible information based on research projects and data gathered by the government concerning workplace hazards associated with numerous occupations; hazards, diseases and injuries associated with various workplace exposures; workplace safety and prevention; and statistics
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention – publications regarding workplace safety and health
- OSHA’s home page
- Iowa runs its own state occupational safety and health plan, IOSH, approved by the US Department of Labor, which applies to private sector employees, and state and local government workers within the state. Information concerning IOSH, including contact information, regulations and enforcement, can be found at: http://www.osha.gov/dcsp/osp/stateprogs/iowa.html and http://www.iowaworkforce.org/labor/iosh/index.html
IOWA GOVERNMENT
- Home page for the Iowa Legislature, allows you to do quick searches of bills by number or keyword, stream live house or senate audio while the legislature is in session, or look up any legislator, their contact information and committee appointments
- Find a complete list of Iowa’s state government agencies in alphabetical order, with links to their home pages
- Iowa Attorney General’s office
- Directory of elected county officials
- Iowa Department of Transportation home page
- All except 20 County Assessors in the State of Iowa are linked to this site. The home page enables you to identify the location of the county by name and click a link to each participating county assessor’s website
POLKCOUNTY
- Polk County Iowa, searchable list of inmates
- Polk County Iowa Assessor’s office enables you to search by property location or owner name, and provides street-level property photos and / or aerial view photos, sales and assessed value information, links to documents filed specific to the property being viewed such as deeds and mortgages, and includes links to forms such as “Protest”, “Property Assessment Appeals Board” and “Department of Revenue”
OCCUPATIONAL / INDUSTRIAL LOSS INFORMATION
- The Occupational Information Center, sponsored by Iowa Workforce Development, enables you to look up and print out the following for any given occupation: a general job description, current job openings within Iowa, pay scale / wage ranges, industries of employment, similar occupations, schools and trailing providers, employment outlook, license information, employment projections, and skills and educational requirements
- Iowa Workforce Development’s web sites for the 15 different regions provides job listings, regional data on the economy, jobs, and careers
- The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is being developed under the sponsorship of the US Department of Labor / Employment and Training Administration and is an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The website contains information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors, and is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation
“DOC FINDER” / DOCTOR INFORMATION
- Iowa Board of Chiropractic - Check if a given chiropractor is licensed
- Iowa Board of Medicine – find out the status of any physician’s license, current address, when they were licensed, where they were trained, and if they have been in trouble with the Board in a big enough way to be publicly reprimanded or suspended for it, and is the place to direct your clients to when they should file complaints about treatment
- Web site with links to the medical licensing boards in all 50 states, searchable by physician name, and capable of searching multiple states at once
- American Board of Medical Specialties
PEOPLE / PLACE FINDERS
- Iowa Courts on line – search public information concerning criminal and civil cases / charges
- Iowa’s state government phone book which allows you to look up the business address and phone number of any state government employee
- Google Maps can find most places, and bring up a 360º view of the location from the street
- Anywho.com. This site is an AT&T look-up site for addresses and telephone number. It contains individual as well as Yellow Pages / Business name search; reverse look-up; toll free number search; general area code information; maps; and links to similar sites in other countries under the “International” link
- This site contains multiple links including to Maps; Driving Directions; Yellow Pages; Local information; and Gas Prices. Great for doing 85.27 mileage calculations!
SOLE WEBSITE WITH A FEE – PUBLIC RECORDS SEARCH
DICTIONARIES
NEWS
FINDING BUSINESS ENTITIES
- Iowa’s Secretary of States Web site allows you to search for corporate status to make sure you are suing the right entity – gives fictional (d/b/a) names, and corporate status
- US Securities and Exchange Commission – has a plethora of information regarding businesses, including access to Edgar, which allows you to search public company filings by company name
- Anywho.com. This site is an AT&T look-up site for addresses and telephone number. It contains individual as well as Yellow Pages / Business name search; reverse look-up; toll free number search; general area code information; maps; and links to similar sites in other countries under the “International” link.
ATTORNEY FINDER
ATTORNEY ORGANIZATIONS
- Iowa Association for Justice home page – members can log in and search prior list serve postings, get free online research access through Fastcase / Trialsmith to all State and Federal court cases, the US code of federal regulations, all state codes, and more
- Iowa State Bar association web site
MEDICAL PROCUDURE COSTS IN IOWA
START YOUR OWN ON-LINE MEDICAL LIBRARY
Anatomy
Anesthesiology
Cardiology
- American College of Cardiology
- American Heart Association information on heart-related diseases and conditions
Chiropractic
Emergency Services
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine
- American Board of Emergency Medicine
- American College of Emergency Physicians
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology / Liver
- American College of Gastroenterology
- American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
- Society for Gastroenterology Nurses & Associates
- American Liver Foundation
General Medicine
- Find information on every medication, and search medical encyclopedias for information on numerous health topics / medical conditions at Medline Plus, a web site sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
- Free searchable online version of the 2008 ICD-9-CM.
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- Directory of links to free, peer reviewed medical journals available in full text on line from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
- EMedicine by Web MD, provides links to free articles, organized by specialty
- The National Guideline Clearinghouse is public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. You can browse diagnostic and treatment criteria by disease / condition
- American Medical Association – includes medical ethics which apply to all physicians and journal access
- Association of American Medical Colleges
Hematology
Iatrogenic Injuries
Immunology
- American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
- American Society for Histocompatability an Immunogenetics
- Allergy & Clinical Immunology International, Journal of the World Allergy Organization
Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine
- American College of Physicians – Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- Society of General Internal Medicine
Rheumatology
Surgery
Urology
Medical Terminology
- WebMD
- This website is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, which contains links to many other health-related web sites; allows you to search articles by health topic, author, or by Journal; and provides directories to health professionals and services, a medical encyclopedia, Health Topic News, drug information, and medical definitions
- This is the Medical Matrix site and includes many links, some of which are informational articles / presentations including text and illustrations / photos
- For medical terminology click on the MedTerms Dictionary link on the right at the top of the home-page
Neurology
- American Academy of Neurology
- Iowa Department of Public Health Advisory counsel on Brain injuries, with links to good information on injuries and programs to assist those with brain injuries
Oncology
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- National Cancer Institutes / U.S. National Institutes of Health
- Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
- American Cancer Society
Opthamology
- American Academy of Opthamology
- American Academy of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
- Glaucoma Foundation
Optometry
Orthopedics
- E-orthopod offerings include numerous PDF booklets that are under 10 pages and professionally illustrated, covering nearly every aspect of orthopaedic anatomy and every orthopaedic condition and procedure one can think of. These booklets each state “eOrthopod educational materials are peer-reviewed and constantly updated. Professional medical illustrations and animations make even the most complicated condition or procedure clear.”
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons / American Assoc. of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
Physiology
Plastic Surgery
Podiatry
- American Podiatric Medical Association
- Formerly known as The Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Network, this web page contains links to numerous podiatry-related websites
