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| Car Wrecks CLE Seminar in Houston, March 2, 2017 | TTLA's Car Wrecks Seminar is the must-attend program for practitioners of all experience levels. Come away with the tools you need to compete in the courtroom! Click on the headline to learn more and register.
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| U.S. Traffic Deaths Rise for a Second Straight Year |  | Traffic fatality estimates released by the National Safety Council found 40,200 people died in accidents involving motor vehicles in 2016, a 6 percent rise from the year before. If the estimates are confirmed, it will be the first time since 2007 that more than 40,000 people have died in motor vehicle accidents in a single year. The 2016 total comes after a 7 percent rise in 2015 and means the two-year increase â?? 14 percent â?? is the largest in more than a half a century.
NEAL E. BOUDETTE, The New York Times 02/16/2017    | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| Texas Woman Files Suit Over Head Injury | | A Texas woman has filed suit over injuries she suffered at the Magnolia Market in Waco. According to the lawsuit, filed Monday in Wacoâ??s 414th State District Court, the plaintiff was injured when her head hit the low hanging and concealed steel rods at Magnolia Market. The lawsuit, which seeks from $100,000 to $200,000 in damages, says â??the dangerous condition, negligently allowed the area to become dangerous, negligently permitted such dangerous condition to exist and failed to adequately warn Brown of the dangerous condition.â??
Tommy Witherspoon, Waco Tribune Herald 02/14/2017 | | Read Article: Waco Tribune Herald |
| Houston Debt Collector to Pay $700K to Settle Federal Case | | A large Houston-based debt collector accused of using unlawful tactics to collect federal student loans and other debts will pay $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission. GC Services agreed to the settlement, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The commission announced the deal on Tuesday, the same day GC Services was sued for violating the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by the U.S. Attorney in the Houston area.
L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle 02/16/2017 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Cockiness Ended in Catastrophe Under Surgeon's Knife | | A day after a Dallas jury found a neurosurgeon (Christopher Duntsch) guilty of intentionally crippling an elderly woman he operated on, a string of his former patients and co-workers testified in his sentencing trial. A consistent thread ran through Wednesday's testimony: Christopher Duntsch always came off as knowledgeable and confident â?? even cocky â?? but as soon as his skills were put to the test, he made catastrophic and often irreversible errors.
Claire Ballor, The Dallas Morning News 02/16/2017
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| Surgeons Rude to Patients May Pose Problem In OR, Study Says | | Surgeons who are rude to patients and others may pose a problem in the operating room, according to a study linking unprofessional doctor behavior with infections and other surgery complications. Complications were most common in patients whose surgeons had received lots of earlier complaints about their behavior, researchers found. The results were published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery.
Associated Press, The New York Times 02/16/2017 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
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