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Padgett v. State of Florida and Worker's Compensation - What You Need to Know
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Workers' Compensation: A Primer
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Legislative Update
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Unnecessary Surgery Litigation
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Ethical Considerations- Social Media and Your Clients
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Focus Groups: Made Easy and Inexpensive
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Neuro Radiology and Imaging for Brain Injury Lawyers
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Taking the Long View: Being a Professional in an Instant Gratification Age
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Medicare Set Asides in General Liability and Medical Malpractice Cases
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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).  

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.  

Texas Tribune Daily Brief

 
The Brief for March 23
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John Reynolds, Texas Tribune 03/23/2015   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Issues

 
Series: Blood Lessons
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The Texas Tribune and the Houston Chronicle spent two months examining whether the nation's oil refineries learned the lessons of the deadly explosion at BP's Texas City refinery in 2005E2=80=94 one of the most studied industrial accidents in U.S. history.
Jim Malewitz, Lise Olsen and Mark Collette, Texas Tribune 03/23/2015   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Laws/Cases

 
Ga. Priest, Two Bishops Face Sexual Assault Lawsuit
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A lawsuit has been filed against a Roman Catholic priest and two bishops from Savannah, Georgia by a parishioner who alleges he was sexually assaulted as a teenager. The lawsuit was filed in the Court of Common Pleas in Jasper County, South Carolina and contends that the priest had multiple sexual encounters with the plaintiff between August 1987 and May 1988. According to the lawsuit, the alleged abuse took place while the plaintiff was a 13-year-old student at St. James Catholic School. This is the third lawsuit filed against the priest, who is a convicted sex offender, for similar incidents of assault.
Jan Skutch, Savannah Morning News 03/20/2015   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Family Will Appeal Judge's Decision to Dismiss Police Custody Death Lawsuit
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The family of a Texas man who died while in police custody says they will appeal the decision by a judge to dismiss the lawsuit over the man's death. The lawsuit was filed against the city of Marshall, Texas after the man died in January 2013 while in police custody after having been hit with stun guns. The lawsuit also named as defendants three officers of the Marshall Police Department and the former police chief. U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne dismissed the lawsuit last week.
Robin Y. Richardson, Longview News-Journal 03/23/2015   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Class Action

 
Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Undisclosed "Resort Fee"
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A man from Studio City, California has filed a lawsuit challenging the common "resort fee" charged to hotel patrons. The class action lawsuit was filed against a Vegas casino and alleges that the resort "is guilty of false and misleading advertising for failing to clearly disclose a mandatory resort fee at the time that he booked the room." In 2012, the Federal Trade Commission sent out letters to 22 hotels that "may violate the law by providing a deceptively low estimate of what consumers can expect to pay for their hotel rooms." The lawsuit contends that the plaintiff was charged a $28 per night resort fee when he stayed at the Las Vegas resort.
Hugo Martin, LA Times 03/22/2015   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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