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  January 21, 2014

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Developing Nursing Home Rules to Frame Your Case

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The Ethics of Medicare Secondary Payer: How Present Practices Pose Practical Problems for Plaintiff Practitioners

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Announcements


 

 

TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar | April 3-4 | Royal Sonesta, Houston

In April 2014, something BIG is coming to TTLA! Planning is underway, and the 2nd Annual TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar will be bigger and better than ever. You won’t want to miss this sell-out seminar with its lineup of in-demand topics, storied speakers and unparalleled insight. Watch your e-mail for more information coming soon and save the date: April 3-4 in Houston. Think BIG. Think TTLA PMD.  

 

Laws/Cases


 

 

Texas Supreme Court Limits Liability Insurance Exclusions

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The Texas Supreme Court issued a key ruling Friday that should boost consumer confidence in the liability insurance coverage that builders and general contractors carry. Writing for the court, Justice Phil Johnson denied an insurance company’s attempt to avoid paying a claim based on language found in most commercial general liability insurance policies. If the Texas Supreme Court had ruled in favor of the insurance company, coverage of construction mistakes in Texas would have virtually disappeared.
Chris Tomlinson - Associated Press , Austin American Statesman 01/21/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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US Supreme Court Takes up Limits of Child Porn Victim Restitution

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It’s been more than 15 years since Amy was raped and photographed by her uncle, who later posted the images on the Internet. Even though her uncle has long been convicted, Amy lives knowing that the images are viewed by thousands of people all over the world. One of those people was Doyle Paroline, an East Texas man who downloaded 280 pornographic pictures of children onto his laptop, including two of a young Amy. Paroline pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 24 months in prison. But courts have disagreed on whether he and other viewers owe Amy direct compensation for her suffering. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Paroline and others who viewed the pictures must pay Amy for a lifetime of suffering.
BEN KAMISAR, The Dallas Morning News 01/21/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Passengers of Asiana Plane Crash File Lawsuit

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A group of passengers from the Asiana Airlines flight that crashed on a San Francisco, Calif. runway last year have filed a personal injury lawsuit against Boeing. The lawsuit accuses the company of negligence, claming that they should have known their 777 passenger jet had inadequate auto-throttle control and low airspeed warning systems. It further alleges that the pilots were not properly trained or qualified to operate the plane. Three people were killed in the July 2013 crash and 180 were injured. The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages.
Juan Perez Jr, Chicago Tribune 01/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Issues


 

 

Regulators Check Eagle Ford Oil Flammability

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After warning this month that crude oil from a booming shale field in North Dakota may be particularly flammable, federal regulators are testing oil from the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas. A series of high-profile derailments and explosive fires of train cars carrying oil out of North Dakota's Bakken Shale has drawn scrutiny to transporting crude by rail - a practice that has skyrocketed in recent years with the boom in domestic oil production. Although the focus has been on Bakken crude, wells in both the Bakken and the Eagle Ford produce light, sweet crude along with liquid gases such as propane and butane. The U.S. Transportation Department's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration recently took samples of Eagle Ford crude.
Jennifer Hiller, Houston Chronicle 01/21/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Oil to Start Flowing Through Southern Keystone Pipeline

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Hour after hour, day after day, the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is slowly filling with millions of barrels of oil. Landowners in East Texas continue to challenge the company’s right to take their land in court. Environmentalists are calling on the government to shut down the pipeline. And the company’s attorneys continue to negotiate with officials at the U.S. State Department over what effect the northern pipeline would have on sensitive wilderness areas and water supplies between Oklahoma and Canada.
JAMES OSBORNE, The Dallas Morning News 01/21/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Railroad Commission Reopens Water Contamination Investigation

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As the AP first reported, the Texas Railroad Commission is reopening its investigation into methane contamination of water wells in Parker County. The agency ruled in 2011 that gas wells were not to blame for the contamination. That was counter to the conclusion reached by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which issued an emergency order against driller Range Resources in 2010.
JAMES OSBORNE, The Dallas Morning News 01/21/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Editorials/Columns/Letters


 

 

Steffy: Oil Boom has Raised Safety, Security Risks

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In South Texas, in the rejuvenated Permian Basin of West Texas and in other drilling hot spots around the country, landowners are confronting a litany of safety and security concerns - many of which they didn't anticipate - as they allow hydraulic fracturing on their land. Mmany landowners worry that contractors hired by the drilling companies aren't taking proper care of the land. The number of rig workers - strangers - on their properties overwhelms others.
Loren Steffy, Houston Chronicle 01/21/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Malpractice


 

 

Man Awarded $776K in Late Wife's Malpractice Suit

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A man from Interior, South Dakota has been awarded $776,000 by a jury in a medical malpractice lawsuit initiated by his late wife. The man's wife filed the lawsuit after she was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease in 2011. The lawsuit alleged that the woman's liver disease and eventual death was caused by doctors placing staples in the wrong place, preventing the flow of bile from her liver into her digestive system. The woman also suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease prior to her death.
Andrea J Cook, Rapid City Journal 01/19/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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