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TTLA Annual Meeting & Advanced PI CLE December 1-2 Hotel ZaZa, Houston |
| Formerly the TTLA Annual Conference, our December event is now the Annual Meeting & Advanced PI CLE! We've streamlined this event and we're now offering a one-day Advanced PI CLE, along with the Annual Membership & Board Meeting, President's Luncheon, and a spectacular Holiday Party at the home of Steve and Amber Mostyn. |
Medicare Secondary Payer--Liability Insurance |
| Medicare Secondary Payer--Liability Insurance (Including Self-Insurance) Settlements, Judgments, Awards, or Other Payments and Future Medicals -- INFORMATION. The purpose of this memorandum is to provide information regarding proposed Liability Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (LMSA) amounts related to liability insurance (including self-insurance) settlements, judgments, awards, or other payments (“settlements”). DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES -Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Click on headline to access memo. |
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Atlanta Settles Lawsuit over Police Raid |
| The Atlanta City Council has agreed to settle a $120,000 lawsuit filed by eight people over a police raid at a local bar in 2009. The lawsuit alleges the police forced bar patrons to "lie on the floor while officers checked for criminal histories and others peppered them with anti-gay slurs." The city has already paid $1 million in settlement money in similar suits filed after the raid. Jeremiah McWilliams , Atlanta Journal-Constitution 10/03/2011 | Read Article: Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
$48M Awarded to Man in Motrin Case |
| A Southern California jury has awarded $48 million to a man who got a severe skin disorder and mouth blood blisters after taking the pain reliever Motrin. Christopher Trejo filed the negligence suit against McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Trejo says he was 16 when he took Motrin to get rid of aches and alleviate a fever. He says the over-the-counter drug caused his skin to become covered with lesions and his mouth to fill with blood blisters. Associated Press, Arizona Republic 10/05/2011 | Read Article: Arizona Republic |
Lawsuit Claims Banks, Mortgage Companies Cheated Vets |
| A whistleblower lawsuit launched in 2006 and unsealed Tuesday in federal court in Atlanta claims several large banks and mortgage companies defrauded military veterans and taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in a "brazen scheme" to hide illegal fees. The lawsuit, brought under the Federal Claims Act by two mortgage brokers, claims the 13 banks and mortgage firms over-charged veterans who were applying for special home loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Associated Press, Lubbock Avalanche Journal 10/05/2011 | Read Article: Lubbock Avalanche Journal |
Ex-Texas Official Gets Probation for Retaliation |
| A former West Texas county attorney will spend four months in jail for retaliating against two nurses who made an anonymous complaint about a doctor to state medical regulators. Judge Robert Moore sentenced former Winkler County attorney Scott Tidwell on Tuesday to 10 years of probation and ordered him to pay a $6,000 fine. Tidwell must serve 120 days in the Crane County jail as a condition of his probation. Tidwell was convicted Monday of retaliating against nurses Anne Mitchell and Vickilyn Galle, who told state regulators in 2009 that Dr. Rolando Arafiles Jr. used herbal remedies and had attempted to use hospital supplies to perform at-home procedures, among other things. BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press, Houston Chronicle 10/05/2011 | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
Protestors Arrested in New York File Lawsuit |
| Protesters who were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge last week have filed a lawsuit against the city of New York, claiming police lured them into a trap and arrested them. The suit claims officers directed the protesters onto the bridge's roadway and then announced that anyone on the roadway would be arrested. That announcement, the suit claims, was barely audible to any of the protesters. The class-action suit demands the arrests be expunged and the tactic deemed illegal. Elizabeth A. Harris, The New York Times 10/05/2011 | Read Article: The New York Times |
Suit: Hotel Employees Fired Because They are White |
| Three white former employees of the Hampton Inn in Craig, Colo., have filed a lawsuit against their former employee, claiming they were fired because they are white. The suit claims the plaintiffs were fired because hotel supervisors believed them to be lazy because they were white. The employees were replaced by Latino workers, because it was assumed they worked harder. John Ingold, Denver Post 10/04/2011 | Read Article: Denver Post |
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