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| Businesses Win Lawsuit Curbs With New Rules |  | Companies notched a quiet win in December when the federal courts adopted rules intended to curb the scope of pretrial evidence requests, a change that could tip the scales in their decadeslong battle against consumer lawsuits. Behind the changes affecting all types of federal litigation was a concerted push by corporate lawyers, long engaged in a multifront battle against plaintiffs' lawyers and class-action lawsuits.
JOE PALAZZOLO and JESS BRAVIN, Wall Street Journal - $$ Subscription Required 03/23/2016    | | Read Article: Wall Street Journal - $$ Subscription Required($) |
| Interactive Report: The Voices of Patient Harm | | ProPublica has gathered more than 1,000 stories of patient harm, from all 50 states, as reported by patients or their loved ones. Their experiences ' summarized here ' add an important dimension to the patient safety debate, particularly when it comes to the neglect and abandonment many feel from a system that is supposed to be caring. Patients and their loved ones say they aren't getting straight answers about what happened. They claim medical providers are not apologizing or accepting responsibility. Most of all, they assert that no one is being held accountable for the harm.
Marshall Allen, Olga Pierce & Amanda Zamora, ProPublica 03/23/2016 | | Read Article: ProPublica |
| Greyhound to Pay $6M to Settle Bus Rollover Lawsuit | | Greyhound is to pay $6 million in a lawsuit over a crash that took place in Ohio in 2013 and injured at least 35 people. The bus rollover took place when the driver lost consciousness while driving and steered the bus into a cornfield. The bus was about 25 miles from Cincinnati on the way to Detroit when it crashed. The lawsuit alleged that the driver suffered from an undiagnosed sleep condition which caused him to lose consciousness and crash the vehicle. After a sleep study confirmed that the driver suffered from sleep apnea, Greyhound was ordered to pay $6 million in the back and neck injury lawsuit.
Gordon Gibb, Lawyers and Settlements 03/15/2016 | | Read Article: Lawyers and Settlements |
| Calif. Police Face Lawsuit by Kidnapped Woman | | A woman whose kidnapping was labeled a hoax by law enforcement has filed a lawsuit against the police department of Vallejo, California. The federal lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday by the woman and her boyfriend alleges that the police department ruined their reputations "through an outrageous and wholly unfounded campaign of disparagement." According to the complaint, instead of continuing an investigation into the woman's kidnapping after she was returned to her family, police labeled the event a hoax and discontinued their investigation. Four months later, the FBI apprehended the woman's kidnapper and determined that the woman's kidnapping was similar to a home invasion robbery in Dublin, California.
Veronica Rocca, LA Times 03/22/2016 | | Read Article: LA Times |
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