| Making a Difference | The 2013 TTLA Making a Difference Award recipient Dustin Strelsky was honored on the TX House Floor on March 17th. Rep. Four Price introduced a resolution to honor Dustin who testified in 2013 in favor of HB 1869, now Ch. 140A Civ. Prac. and Remedies Code, which legislatively overruled Fortis v. Cantu. Click on the headline to watch.
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| Introducing TTLA by Text | A new opt-in member service to get up-to-the minute legislative news to you via text messaging to your cell phone. Texts will be limited to legislative issues. We'll let you know when important hearings or testimony are beginning, what's happening with bills of interest, and we'll provide links to video clips of relevant hearing testimony. Click on the headline to opt-in. If you have questions regarding the service, contact Mona Fults (mfults@ttla.com).
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| Oil Rig and Construction Accident CLE, April 16-17 in San Antonio | New and exciting this year, TTLA's Oil Rig and Construction Accident Seminar is the first course of its kind specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview into all things oil rig and construction accident related. Construction is back on the rise and Texas leads the nation in oil rig accidents. Click on the headline to learn more and register.
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Medical Identity Theft on the Rise |  | There were 20 incidents in Texas last year of privacy breaches involving 500 or more patients. Often these involved a lost or stolen laptop or data storage device. Last month Anthem, the country's second-largest commercial health insurer, announced that it was penetrated by a hacker, jeopardizing the privacy of 78.8 million people. It was the biggest health care data breach to date. There's a risk that bad information can find its way into your medical records when someone steals your ID to get care of their own.
JIM LANDERS, The Dallas Morning News 03/17/2015    | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Failed by Law and Courts, Troops Come Home to Repossessions | | Over the years, Congress has given service members a number of protections ' some dating to the Civil War ' from repossessions and foreclosures. Efforts to maintain that special status for service members has run into resistance from the financial industry, including many of the same banks that promote the work they do for veterans. While using mandatory arbitration, some companies repeatedly violate the federal protections, leaving troops and their families vulnerable to predatory lending, the military lawyers and government officials say.
JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MICHAEL CORKERY, The New York Times 03/17/2015 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| Mary Kay Files Suit Against RetailMeNot | | Cosmetics retailer Mary Kay has filed a lawsuit in federal court against digital coupon giant RetailMeNot, claiming the company is soliciting coupons for the cosmetic company without its consent. Mary Kay says in the suit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Dallas, that it does not provide digital deals, offers and coupons for publication on RetailMeNot and has not authorized or permitted the site to list deals, sales or codes using its name or likeness. 'RetailMeNot, Inc. believes the allegations in this lawsuit are without merit and intends to vigorously contest this matter.'
Sean Lester , The Dallas Morning News 03/17/2015 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Woman Files Suit After Receiving Wrong Blood at Hospital | | A woman from Mt. Morris, Michigan has filed a lawsuit alleging that she almost died when doctors gave her the wrong type of blood. The lawsuit was filed in September 2013 against McLaren Flint, the hospital at which the woman says she was given the wrong type of blood. According to the lawsuit, the woman was left fighting for her life after receiving the blood from the hospital. The trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Genesee Circuit Court with Judge Geoffrey Neithercut.
Gary Ridley, MLive 03/16/2015 | | Read Article: MLive |
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