| TTLA Annual Board Member Orientation, Jan 13 | Board members are encouraged to participate in our annual Board Orientation live webinar, which will include a review of TTLA policies, Board duties, and budgetary information. Please click on the headline to register.
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| Registration is Open 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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| Women's Caucus Lobby Day, Jan 31 | TTLA is hosting the TTLA Women's Caucus Lobby Day on Jan 31st. This is a great opportunity to learn about key bills and meet face-to-face with lawmakers. Deadline to RSVP is Jan 20th, click on the headline to RSVP.
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| General Membership Lobby Day, Feb 7th | Deadline to register for the General Membership Lobby Day is Jan 27th. This is a great opportunity to learn about key bills and meet face-to-face with lawmakers. Click on the headline to register.
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Texas Plumber Settles Lawsuit Over Truck in Jihadist Photo |  | A Texas plumber whose decaled truck ended up being used by Syrian jihadis has settled his lawsuit. The man filed suit against the car dealership which sold the truck without first removing the plumbing company's decal. The $1 million lawsuit was filed after the truck was discovered in jihadist propaganda mounted with a large gun. The lawsuit was filed against AutoNation Ford Gulf Freeway dealership in Houston, which was accused of negligence, fraud, libel per se, invasion of privacy by appropriation of name, and violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The lawsuit has been settled for an undisclosed sum.
Steven Nelson, US News and World Report 01/09/2017    | | Read Article: US News and World Report |
| Eighteen Athletes Join Lawsuit Against USA Gymnastics, MSU | | Eighteen female athletes have joined a lawsuit alleging that a gymnastics doctor sexually assaulted them. The lawsuit was filed against USA Gymnastics, a high-profile gymnastics club in Indiana, and Michigan State University. According to the complaint, the defendants failed to protect the plaintiffs from sexual assault by doctor Larry Nassar. The doctor was charged last year with three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person younger than 13 and in federal court with receipt, attempted receipt, and possession of child pornography.
Mark Alesia, Indianapolis Star 01/10/2017 | | Read Article: Indianapolis Star |
| Lawsuit Claims Freestanding ER Operator Scams Patients | | More trouble ahead for Lewisville-based Adeptus Health, the nation's largest operator of free-standing emergency rooms. A Colorado man has filed a $5 million lawsuit and is seeking class action status, in perhaps the first case to question the facility fees charged to patients. It claims that Adeptus takes advantage of confusion in the marketplace, fraudulently preying on consumers by failing to disclose excessive costs.
Sabriya Rice, The Dallas Morning News 01/11/2017 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Guilty Pleas to Falsifying Reports on Hurricane Sandy Damage | | A Long Island engineering company and one of its former executives pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges that they had deliberately falsified engineering reports of homes battered by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. HiRise Engineering of Uniondale, N.Y., and Matthew Pappalardo, a former director, were accused of falsifying engineering reports that were used to determine the structural damage to homes caused by the storm. Those reports were evaluated by flood insurance adjusters and federal officials, and homeowners were reimbursed based on them. As a consequence, numerous flood claims may have been undervalued or denied under the National Flood Insurance Program, a part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
DAVID W. CHEN, The New York Times 01/11/2017 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| Amputee's Right Leg Plays Key Part in VA Malpractice Suit | | A ex-U.S. Coast Guardsman's unusual donation to a search-dog group unintentionally preserved what may become the key piece of evidence in his medical-malpractice lawsuit against Seattle's Veterans Affairs hospital ' his amputated leg.
Lewis Kamb, Seattle Times 01/11/2017 | | Read Article: Seattle Times |
| US Warns of Unusual Cybersecurity Flaw in Heart Devices | | The Homeland Security Department warned Tuesday about an unusual cybersecurity flaw for one manufacturer's implantable heart devices that it said could allow hackers to remotely take control of a person's defibrillator or pacemaker. Information on the security flaw, identified by researchers at MedSec Holdings in reports months ago, was only formally made public after the manufacturer, St. Jude Medical, made a software repair available Monday. MedSec is a cybersecurity research company that focuses on the health-care industry.
Tami Abdollah and Matthew Perrone?, The Washington Post 01/11/2017 | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
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