TTLA Legislative Update Webinar, Friday, Feb 3 at 9:00AM | These in-depth briefings provide insights into major legislation affecting your practice, as well as the psychology and strategy of the session. This webinar is open to TTLA Board, Fellowship, and Sustaining members, as well as Legislative War Chest contributors. Click on the headline to register.
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Have you registered for TTLA PMD Seminar, Feb. 10 in Austin? | The 2017 faculty features some of the most seasoned and talented mass tort attorneys in the country, providing information you cannot get anywhere else and a program structured to maximize the flow of up-to-the-minute information in an interactive setting. Click on the headline to learn more and register.
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Contribute to the Legislative War Chest! | The Legislative War Chest helps underwrite the extra costs associated with protecting your practice at the Capitol. War Chest contributors get access to in-depth conference call updates throughout session and special recognition on the TTLA website and at TTLA events. Click on the headline to make your contribution.
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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NFL Cheerleaders File Suit Over Wages | | The NFL is facing a lawsuit by a group of professional cheerleaders who say that they have been mistreated and underpaid. The lawsuit is seeking class action status on behalf of all cheerleaders who work in the NFL. According to the complaint, the defendants have manipulated the market in order to pay the cheerleaders wages below market value. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco and currently has four plaintiffs. However, more plaintiffs are expected to join as litigation continues. Filipa A. Ioannou, San Francisco Chronicle 02/01/2017 | Read Article: San Francisco Chronicle |
Lawsuit Against Arkansas Hospital to Continue | | A lawsuit against Village Surgical Associates of Fayetteville, Arkansas and one of its physicians can continue, says the North Carolina Supreme Court. The lawsuit was filed by a man, along with his wife, who was injured when the doctor performed surgery to repair a hernia. However, the doctor damaged part of the plaintiff's abdomen, causing him to suffer scaring, lost wages, limited use of his leg and foot. The defendants had argued that the case should go to arbitration due to paperwork signed by the plaintiff before his surgery. Paul Woolverton, Fayetteville Observer 02/01/2017 | Read Article: Fayetteville Observer |
Verdict: Golf Course Owned by President Trump Owes Former Members $5.7M | | A Florida golf course owned by President Donald Trump must immediately repay $5.7 million to 65 former members who had been denied membership refunds after he bought the club in 2012, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter violated contracts the members had signed with the previous owner, Ritz-Carlton. The average payment will be about $87,000 if the ruling is upheld. Wire Services, The Dallas Morning News 02/02/2017 | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
Drivers Hit Back At GM's Bid To Toss Devaluation Claims | | Drivers in multidistrict litigation over GMâ??s alleged ignition switch defect hit back Tuesday at the automakerâ??s bid to dismiss claims that their cars lost value because of recalls, saying GM incorrectly argued that state law bars the bulk of their allegations. GM is seeking to dismiss 64 named plaintiffs from eight states and has argued that six of those states â?? Alabama, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin â?? donâ??t recognize economic loss claims from an alleged defect that never manifested. Emily Field, Law360 ($) 02/02/2017 | Read Article: Law360 ($) |
Medical Records Donâ??t Always Match What Patients Say | | To test out how well the records match reality, researchers compared symptoms that 162 patients checked off on paper-based questionnaires with the information entered in patientsâ?? electronic charts at eye clinics. Roughly one-third of the time, data on blurry vision from the paper questionnaires didnâ??t match the electronic records, researchers report in JAMA Ophthalmology. Symptom information also didnâ??t match for glare 48 percent of the time and was discordant in 27 percent of cases for pain and 25 percent for redness. Lisa Rapaport, Reuters 02/02/2017 | Read Article: Reuters |
South Carolina Widow Files Suit Over 2015 Flooding Death | | The federal government is facing a lawsuit by a woman whose husband died in severe flooding in South Carolina in 2015. The plaintiff's husband drowned after a dam near an army base in Columbia failed. The lawsuit filed in federal court in December alleges that the government â??utterly failed to remedy or even address the damâ??s serious risk of failure.â?? The dam had been inspected two years prior to the flooding, but no efforts were made to fix the existing issues, says the lawsuit. The plaintiff's husband drowned after his car was swept away in floodwaters rushing from Semmes Lake. Meg Kinnard, The Republic - Columbus, Indiana 02/01/2017 | Read Article: The Republic - Columbus, Indiana |
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