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  March 17, 2014

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Announcements


TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar | April 3-4 | Royal Sonesta, Houston

Something BIG is missing…YOU! Each year, we are dedicated to planning seminars that are bigger, better and bolder than the year before, but it takes YOU to make a TTLA seminar a true success. When YOU register for TTLA’s 2nd Annual Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Seminar, YOU get to experience our unprecedented lineup of in-demand topics, storied speakers and unparalleled insight, and we get to experience YOU. YOU make all the difference. Think BIG. Think TTLA PMD. Click on the headline to learn more. Follow us on Twitter @ttla_ #ttla2014pharma  

 

Have you updated your TTLA Membership Directory Fields of Practice listing?

The 2014 TTLA Membership Directory & Desk Reference will be printed soon and time is running out to be included Fields of Practice section of the Membership Directory. The deadline is March 25th! Each category listing is only $25 and will be included in the print edition, as well as TTLA's online directory. Make the most of your membership! Click on the headline to get started.  

 

Products


 

Honda Will Recall 890K Odyssey Minivans

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Honda will recall about 890,000 Odyssey minivans because of a fuel pump part that could pose a fire risk. In a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Honda said cracks in a fuel-pump strainer cover could cause a leak, increasing the possibility of a fire. The recall notice involves 886,815 Odysseys between model years 2005 and 2010. Because the number is so large, Honda won’t have repair parts until the summer.
Terry Box, The Dallas Morning News 03/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Three New GM Recalls, Unrelated to Switches

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General Motors announced three new recalls, not related to last month's ignition recall, and said it will take a $300 million charge against first-quarter earrings to pay for the four recalls. The big automaker said the trio of new recalls is "a result of (CEO) Mary Barra's request for a comprehensive internal safety review following the ignition switch recall."
James R. Healey, USA Today 03/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Issues


Oil Boom Generates Fear of Disposal Sites

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A few years ago, Veronica and Maury King saw another driver two or three times a month, maybe, on unpaved County Road 4743 northwest of Dilley. Now, trucks roar past round the clock on the way to a nearby hydraulic fracturing operation. Now, a company called Petro Waste Environmental hopes to carve out a portion of a neighboring ranch for a waste facility that would accept nonhazardous leftovers of the Eagle Ford Shale drilling boom. The Kings say the curving country roads can't handle more heavy truck traffic and that the area is environmentally unsuitable for the site.
Jennifer Hiller, Houston Chronicle 03/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Sally Beauty Believes Customer Card Data Was Stolen

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Denton-based Sally Beauty Holdings said Monday its data breach investigation has discovered evidence that customer records were illegally accessed and removed from its system. The number of files containing card information taken is under 25,000, the company said.
Maria Halkias, The Dallas Morning News 03/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Lawsuit Will Test GM Immunity for Pre-2009 Deaths

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The families of Natasha Weigel, 18, and Amy Rademaker, 15, are part of a personal injury lawsuit that could be filed as early as Monday alleging that GM fraudulently kept information about defective ignition switches from bankruptcy court. Their lawsuit could be the first test of GM's legal immunity from liability for deaths or injuries in accidents that happened before the current company was created out of the government-supported bankruptcy in July 2009. It was left free of old claims and lawsuits and those remained with "old GM," which holds assets and liabilities that did not go with the "new GM."
Alisa Priddle and Greg Gardner, Detroit Free Press, USA Today 03/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Insurance


Short-Changed by Insurance, Sandy Victims Fight Back

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New Jersey policyholders trying to rebuild from Sandy have received an average of less than $50,000 from their flood insurance policies, far less than policyholders in New York received after the same storm and policyholders in the Gulf Coast received after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, according to data from the FEMA. It has touched off hundreds of lawsuits in federal court from homeowners who say they have been short-changed.
Michael L. Diamond and Jean Mikle, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, USA Today 03/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Editorials/Columns/Letters


Editorial: Deaths in Oil Drilling, and No Oversight

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As the Houston Chronicle's Lise Olsen recently reported, 65 oil and gas workers in Texas died in 2012, a peak year for tragedy in the industry. Also in 2012, 79 workers lost limbs, 82 were crushed, 92 suffered burns and 675 broke bones in work-related accidents. After reading that sad tally, we were left wondering how many of these accidents could have been avoided if the industry took worker safety seriously and if the federal government instilled worker-safety rules for onsite drilling.
Editors , San Antonio Express News 03/17/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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