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| Steve Cohen: On Tort Reform, It's Time to Declare Victory and Withdraw |  | "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." (Verbal (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects) The second greatest trick may be the insurance industry's success in getting more than half the states to implement "tort reform." That achievement was based on the promise that restricting victims' ability to bring medical malpractice suits would improve healthcare and reduce its cost. Those myths have now been completely dispelled.
Steve Cohen:, Forbes 06/25/2015    | | Read Article: Forbes |
| N.J. Toddler Forced Off Flight Due to Computer Glitch | | A federal judge has ruled that the parents of a New Jersey toddler can continue with their lawsuit against JetBlue airline, which forced their child off a flight because a computer glitch flagged her as a security threat. U.S. District Court Judge Jose Linares ruled that the parents could pursue the lawsuit after Sabre Airline Solutions requested that the lawsuit be dismissed. The 18-month-old girl and her parents were forced off a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Newark after airline staff saw the girl's name on a no-fly list. The lawsuit alleges that the airline discriminated against the family because they are Muslim.
Thomas Zambito, NJ.com 06/24/2015 | | Read Article: NJ.com |
| Anheuser-Busch Settles Lawsuit Over Deceptive Marketing | | Anheuser-Busch has settled a lawsuit alleging that they deceived consumers by claiming that its Beck's beer is brewed in Germany. The lawsuit was filed by three individuals who alleged that the company was deceptive in its marketing of the beer. According to the settlement, the new beer packaging will prominently say "Brewed in the U.S.A." or "Product of U.S.A." Although the company has denied any wrongdoing, it has agreed to refund any consumers who purchased the beer after May 1, 2011.
Lisa Brown, St. Louis Post Dispatch 06/23/2015 | | Read Article: St. Louis Post Dispatch |
| Hurt Workers Ask Texas High Court To Revive Wyatt Appeal | | Two workers injured in an ExxonMobil Corp. refinery steam explosion asked the Texas Supreme Court to revive their bid for mandamus relief against Wyatt Field Service Co., which had successfully argued that a trial judge abused his discretion by granting the men a new trial. David McBride and Glenn Burns petitioned the high court in February, after Texas' 14th Court of Appeals in Houston vacated a district court's order granting the two men a retrial in their case against the mechanical contractor, which was found blameless for their injuries by a Harris County jury. The high court denied their petition earlier this month, but on Monday the employees urged it to reconsider, saying it should offer further clarity on a previously established "merits-based review," which they argued was misinterpreted by the Houston appellate court.
Paul DeBenedetto, Law360.com 06/25/2015 | | Read Article: Law360.com |
| Anesthesiologist Trashes Sedated Patient | | A Vienna, Virginia, man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure. But as soon as he pressed play on his way home, he was shocked out of his anesthesia-induced stupor: He found that he had recorded the entire examination, and that the surgical team had mocked and insulted him as soon as he drifted off to sleep. The man sued the two doctors and their practices for defamation and medical malpractice and, last week, after a three-day trial, a Fairfax County, Virginia, jury ordered the anesthesiologist and her practice to pay him $500,000.
Tom Jackman, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle 06/25/2015 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law Subsidies | | A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday turned back a conservative challenge that threatened to strip health insurance for millions of people in states like Texas that didn't set up their own state-base exchanges under President Barack Obama's signature health care law. The long-anticipated 6-3 decision is the second high-court victory for the Affordable Care Act, which extended federally subsidized health insurance to an estimated one million people in Texas, the state with the largest share of uninsured residents.
Kevin Diaz, Jenny Deam, Houston Chronicle 06/25/2015 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
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