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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Chemical Breakdown, Part 2 |  | Most Americans don't know about chemical stockpiles near homes and schools, and often, the government doesn't, either. The U.S. regulatory system is poorly funded and has outdated, complex rules that go unenforced, leaving facilities that handle hazardous chemicals mostly to police themselves, a Houston Chronicle investigation found. The result: A government that reacts only to the worst accidents and does little to prevent them, even though the same mistakes keep happening.
Mark Collette and Matt Dempsey, Houston Chronicle 05/23/2016    | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| It's No Accident: Advocates Want to Speak of Car 'Crashes' Instead | | Roadway fatalities are soaring at a rate not seen in 50 years, resulting from crashes, collisions and other incidents caused by drivers. Just don't call them accidents anymore. That is the position of a growing number of safety advocates, including grass-roots groups, federal officials and state and local leaders across the country. They are campaigning to change a 100-year-old mentality that they say trivializes the single most common cause of traffic incidents: human error.
MATT RICHTEL, The New York Times 05/23/2016 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| High Court Rules for Hospital in Missing Heart Case | | A Houston-area widow cannot recover damages from a Texas hospital where her husband died under unusual circumstances because his autopsy — the widow's only realistic hope of determining why he died — falls under a sweeping law that protects health care providers from malpractice lawsuits, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled. The unanimous ruling comes more than a decade after Jerry Carswell's unexplained death at the Christus St. Catherine Hospital in Katy sparked a prolonged legal battle involving allegations of malpractice, deception and theft of a human heart. The state's high court on Friday ruled on the narrow question of whether the Texas Medical Liability Act applied to Carswell's autopsy. The medical malpractice tort reform law, approved by Texas voters in a 2003 election, made it more difficult to sue health care providers for malpractice. It limited damages, required that suits be filed within a strict two-year statute of limitations and required testimony from medical experts at trial to establish malpractice.
Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune 05/23/2016 | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Bone Cement Company Accused of Experimenting on Humans | | Two families have filed lawsuits against Dr. Jens Chapman, Norian and parent company Synthes, the University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center and Washington state. The lawsuits say Chapman knew the cement caused lethal clotting, and that the university and hospital knew or should have known the product had been prohibited for such use. The first trial is scheduled for June in Seattle.
MARTHA BELLISLE, AP , Star Telegram 05/23/2016 | | Read Article: Star Telegram |
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