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Dallas Car Wrecks CLE Seminar, October 8, 2015
Earn up to 7.25 hours MCLE credit including 1.0 hr ethics credit. TTLA's Car Wrecks CLE Seminar features practical, in-depth tips and strategies to help you WIN YOUR CASES. Come away with the tools you need to compete in the courtroom! Join the TTLA Advocates Board of Directors at Happy Hour after the Seminar from 5:00-8:00pm (included in registration). Click on the headline to learn more and register.  

Texas Tribune Daily Brief

 
The Brief for August 27
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Polo Rocha, Texas Tribune 08/27/2015   Facebook iconTwitter  iconLinkedIn  Icon
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Editorials/Columns/Letters

 
Sixel: Staffing Companies Facing More Liability for Safety
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Over the years, whenever federal regulators charged a company with health and safety violations, the responsibility would fall on the host company even if temporary workers were on site. But that responsibility has shifted over the past couple of years as the OSHA launched an enforcement initiative aimed squarely at the staffing industry. In recent months, OSHA has levied fines and citations against personnel agencies for shirking what the agency believes is their joint-employer responsibility to keep all employees safe at work.
L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle 08/27/2015   Facebook iconTwitter  iconLinkedIn  Icon
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Issues

 
What Blew Up in Conroe? Public Can't Know for Sure
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Two weeks after an explosion at a drilling fluid supplier (DrillChem Drilling Solutions) in Conroe, both he company and the city say exemptions in the state's public information laws allow them to withhold the chemical names as a trade secret. The incident triggered shelter-in-place calls to 971 phone numbers in the area and kept firefighters at bay for about 40 minutes until they could figure out what chemicals were involved.
Mihir Zaveri, Mark Collette, and Matt Dempsey, Houston Chronicle 08/27/2015   Facebook iconTwitter  iconLinkedIn  Icon
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Laws/Cases

 
Ex-Dallas Neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch Sued Over Botched Procedure
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Jeffrey Glidewell and his wife are suing Christopher Duntsch over a June 10, 2013, surgery, in which medical staff, horrified by DuntschE28099s errors, forced him to stop operating, according to a police affidavit. Glidewell is at least the sixth patient to file a civil suit against Duntsch. He is one of the five patients whose case resulted in criminal charges. Duntsch, 44, has been in Dallas County Jail in lieu of $600,000 bail since he was arrested July 21.
Naomi Martin, The Dallas Morning News 08/27/2015   Facebook iconTwitter  iconLinkedIn  Icon
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Products

 
NTSB Urges Fire-Resistant Tanks for Helicopters
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The National Transportation Safety Board, in a July 23 letter, urged the Federal Aviation Administration to require rugged, crash-resistant fuel systems in all newly built civilian helicopters. Similar systems have been used in Army helicopters since the 1970s. Fires have long been a helicopter hazard because they erupt after low-impact crashes and hard landings that pilots and passengers would survive if they weren't engulfed in flames or smoke. A USA TODAY investigation in 2014 found that 79 people had been killed and 28 injured by helicopter fires that occurred after low-impact crashes.
Thomas Frank, USA Today 08/27/2015   Facebook iconTwitter  iconLinkedIn  Icon
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