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Texas Tribune Daily Brief

The Brief for April 20
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John Reynolds, Texas Tribune 04/20/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Laws/Cases

As it Moved to Seize Home, Bank Never Told Widow Her Loan was Insured
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For more than a decade after her husband died, Laura Coleman Biggs paid her mortgage to a Bank of America subsidiary. She was never told, even as she was weeks from losing her home, that her husband had actually protected her against foreclosure. George 'Kenny' Mitchell had taken out a special lender-pushed insurance policy to pay off most of his loan if he died. Now Bank of America, Select Portfolio Servicing ' a company that collects mortgage payments ' and a Florida insurer all face a federal lawsuit in California seeking compensatory and punitive damages, alleging negligence and fraud for their treatment of Biggs. Her lawyers hope it will pull others out of the shadows nationwide who've faced similar problems with the nation's big banks, already forced to pay regulators billions over the housing bust.
KEVIN G. HALL, MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU, Star Telegram 04/20/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Second Lawsuit Filed Over Fatal FedEx Collision
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A second lawsuit has been filed over a fatal collision in Wyoming involving a FedEx tractor-trailer. The lawsuit was filed by the sister of the driver of the car which was hit when a tire on the FedEx trailer failed. The man driving the car, his significant other, and her son all died of injuries from the collision. The first lawsuit was filed by the daughter of the driver's significant other. The newest lawsuit, filed by the driver's sister, contends that FedEx was to blame, as it should have monitored the truck's tires. The lawsuit names as defendants FedEx Ground Package Systems, Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations and its various subsidiaries, and a company called CLR Transportation.
Staff Report, Wyoming Tribune Eagle 04/20/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Wells Fargo Faces Lawsuit Over Background Checks
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A lawsuit has been filed against banking and mortgage giant Wells Fargo by a group of former employees who were fired after background checks were run on them. The lawsuit contends that the background checks violate the Civil Rights Act, which makes it illegal for an employer to enforce policies that have a disproportionate impact on minority employees. The seven plaintiffs were fired by Wells Fargo in 2012 for years-old convictions of crimes such as marijuana possession, illegally receiving welfare benefits and misdemeanor theft. Wells Fargo has denied wrongdoing and claims it must conduct background checks to comply with rules administered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Grant Rodgers, DesMoines Register 04/19/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Uber Must Face Lawsuit Claiming it Snubs Blind People
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Uber Technologies Inc must defend against a lawsuit accusing the popular ride-sharing service of discriminating against blind people by refusing to transport guide dogs, a federal judge ruled. In a decision late Friday night, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins in San Jose, California, said the plaintiffs could pursue a claim that Uber was a "travel service" subject to potential liability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The judge also rejected Uber's arguments that the plaintiffs, including the National Federation of the Blind of California, lacked standing to sue under the ADA and state laws protecting the disabled.
JONATHAN STEMPEL, Reuters 04/20/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Indiana University Health Faces Lawsuit Alleging Fraud
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Indiana University Health is facing a lawsuit alleging that it committed fraud by sending high-risk, low-income women to nursing assistants, rather than to doctors, as their paperwork stated. The whistleblower lawsuit was filed by a doctor who served as director of women's services at HealthNet as well as medical director of ob-gyn services at IU Health Methodist Hospital. The lawsuit alleges that the hospital sent the high-risk, low-income female patients to nursing assistants, when they needed to be seen by doctors. It further alleges that the hospital fraudulently claimed that the women had been treated by doctors.
Shari Rudavsky, USA Today 04/17/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Healthcare

Service Members Are Left in Dark on Health Errors
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The nation's 1.3 million active-duty service members are in a special bind, virtually powerless to hold accountable the health care system that treats them. They are captives of the military medical system, unable, without specific approval, to get care elsewhere if they fear theirs is substandard or dangerous. Yet if they are harmed or die, they or their survivors have no legal right to challenge their care, and seek answers, by filing malpractice suits.
SHARON LaFRANIERE, The New York Times 04/20/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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