Woman Attacked by Chimp Appeals Suit Dismissal | | A Connecticut woman says she will appeal a court decision denying her $150 million lawsuit against the state after a chimpanzee ripped her face off. The chimpanzee was owned by a friend of the woman, and she claims the state should have known that the creature was dangerous and seized it before it could injure anyone. The woman claims that state officials were even warned months before the incident by a biologist that the creature could be dangerous, but nothing was done. Last week the state claims commissioner approved the state's motion to dismiss the case. Wire Report, The Washington Post 06/18/2013 | Read Article: The Washington Post | Man Mistakenly Shot at by Police Files Lawsuit | | A Redondo Beach, Calif., man has filed suit against Torrance police officers who slammed their patrol cars into his truck and fired bullets into his cab after mistaking him for someone else. Police mistook the man for former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, who was wanted by law enforcement officials. The man was not injured in the shooting, but has accused officers of negligence and excessive force in the lawsuit. Richard Winton , LA Times 06/18/2013 | Read Article: LA Times | Jury: For-Profit College to Pay $13 Million in Lawsuit | | A Missouri woman has been awarded $13 million in a lawsuit against Vatterott College, a for-profit college. The woman said in her suit that she went to the college to be a part of their medical assistant’s program and get on the path to become a nurse. After more than a year, and $27,000 in loans later, she discovered school officials had put her in a medical office management program, rendering many of her credits useless. The jury in the case deemed that Vatterott had violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. Eric Adler, Kansas City Star 06/18/2013 | Read Article: Kansas City Star | Suit Proceeding Against Colorado 911 Operator | | A federal judge in Colorado has allowed a lawsuit to go forward against a 911 operator over the death of a Sudanese man in April 2012. The victim called 911 after being attacked by a carload of Hispanic men. The operator told the man to drive back into the city of Denver to the police station with his hazard lights on. Before he could reach police, the man was spotted by his attackers and shot and killed. A trial date has not been set for the lawsuit. Tom McGhee, Denver Post 06/18/2013 | Read Article: Denver Post | Rail Safety and the Value of a Life | | Today the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on railroad safety, including the progress on installing anticrash gear. Overall, the mandate applies to at least 25 U.S. passenger systems carrying nearly 564 million passengers annually. Central to the debate is the delicate matter of putting a dollar value on saving a life. It is an age-old regulatory predicament—namely, whether or not spending to make one thing safe steers money away from addressing a more serious threat elsewhere. The effort to calculate the value of lifesaving is a growing area of research among regulators and economists alike, says Michael Livermore of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University's School of Law. The research enables "finer distinctions" about the cost that society is willing to bear to lower risks, he says. TED MANN, Wall Street Journal - $$ Subscription Required 06/19/2013 | Read Article: Wall Street Journal - $$ Subscription Required($) | | |