| Give Us 15 Minutes of Your Time: Survey Deadline Extended to Sat, Nov 5th! | An email from TTLA President Jeffrey Simon was sent containing an online survey for you to provide feedback on your experience with TTLA programs and to rate TTLAâ??s performance. As a thank you for your participation, you will be entered into a drawing for one of two free registrations to the 2016 Annual Meeting and CLE Seminar on December 8-9 in Dallas (valued at $475 each). Your responses will remain anonymous. This is an important component of our effort to ensure that TTLA is exceeding our membersâ?? expectations. So, please take a few minutes to participate
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| Check out the speaker lineup for the 2016 Annual Meeting & CLE | Join TTLA December 8-9, 2016 at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas for the 2016 Annual Meeting and CLE Seminar. See this year's Keynote Speaker, Matthew Dowd, and other great speakers while earning up to 7.50 hours MCLE credit. Click on the headline to learn more.
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Wright Medical Technology Agrees To $240M Hip Implant Deal |  | Wright Medical Technology on Tuesday agreed to a $240 million settlement to end about 1,300 claims in consolidated litigation in Georgia federal court and California state court over its metal-on-metal hip implants, putting an end to the majority of the suits over the implants. Under the terms of the deal, 1,292 patients who had to go through revision surgery within eight years of their original Conserve, Lineage or Dynasty hip implant are eligible for the settlement. T
Emily Field, Law360.com 11/03/2016    | | Read Article: Law360.com |
| Sandra Bland Lawsuit Formally Dismissed by Federal Judge After Settlement | | The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Sandra Bland, an Illinois woman who died last year in a Texas jail, has formally been dismissed by a federal judge. On Thursday U.S. District Judge David Hittner signed an order dismissing the lawsuit after the family accepted a $1.9 million settlement. The lawsuit was filed over Bland's death following a contentious arrest by Texas state troopers. The lawsuit named as defendants the Texas Department of Public Safety and two state troopers.
Staff Report, Chicago Tribune 11/02/2016 | | Read Article: Chicago Tribune |
| Other Samsung Phones Have Explosion Risk, Says New Lawsuit | | A lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed against Samsung over another model of its cell phones. The lawsuit alleges that some of the company's other phones may present a risk of fire and explosion. The plaintiff in the lawsuit alleges that his Samsung S6 phone exploded in the middle of the night while placed on a nightstand and plugged into an electric socket. Samsung has been facing legal action in recent weeks over its Galaxy Note 7 phones, which also have the potential to catch fire and explode.
Richard Chang, The Sacramento Bee 11/02/2016 | | Read Article: The Sacramento Bee |
| Automakers are responsible for Takata air bag recalls: NHTSA | | Mark Rosekind, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told reporters in Detroit he is concerned that not enough is being done to find and fix more than 300,000 older vehicles, mostly made by Honda, that have Takata airbags with a 50 percent chance of exploding in a crash.
Joseph White, Reuters 11/03/2016 | | Read Article: Reuters |
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