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| Texas Woman Awarded $695K in Dog Attack Lawsuit |  | A Texas woman who was severely injured by a neighbor's dog while walking in her neighborhood has been awarded $695,000 in a lawsuit filed against the dog's owner. The woman from Parker County was attacked on June 1, 2014 when the dog, 'ran out from an open gate,' and bit the plaintiff on the leg, causing severe vascular damage. The plaintiff alleges that she is now unable to walk long distances due to the damage caused by the dog. The complaint alleged that the dog's owner had trained him to attack people. The dog's owner has been in jail since Feb. 5 in relation to an unrelated terroristic threat conviction.
Ryan Osborne, Ft. Worth Star Telegram 03/11/2016    | | Read Article: Ft. Worth Star Telegram |
| Hospital's Fight Gets Ugly in Insurance Negotiations | | Last summer East Texas Medical Center filed a lawsuit in state district court in Smith County alleging that Aetna Health, Cigna Healthcare and, especially, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas have plunged the hospital into financial jeopardy by repeatedly shutting it out of the most common and popular group health insurance networks. The suit gives a rare glimpse at just how antagonistic the business of health care can become these days.
Jenny Deam, Houston Chronicle 03/14/2016 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Flint Families File Lawsuits | | A group of Flint families with children has filed new lawsuits in the Michigan city's water crisis, accusing private companies of professional negligence and government employees of misconduct that led to the contamination of the water supply. The lawsuits filed on Thursday in Genesee County court, along with nine filed earlier in March, cover 50 children allegedly suffering from lead poisoning from drinking Flint water.
DAVID BAILEY, Reuters 03/14/2016 | | Read Article: Reuters |
| Report Highlights Errors Caused by Copying, Pasting in Medical Record | | Copying and pasting electronic text in health care documents can perpetuate initial errors or introduce new mistakes, according to a report from the group, known as the Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety. "It's a huge problem," said Dr. Dean Sittig, a professor at UT-Health School of Biomedical Informatics in Houston and a member of the group. "People are doing it all the time." Many physicians use a template for entering patient information, copying it into the record and then changing the entries for each patient. But if one of those entries is not updated, it can lead to a missed diagnosis.
Markian Hawryluk, Houston Chronicle 03/14/2016 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Texas PACER-like System Launching This Year | | Texas is going to get its own version of PACER, destined to debut for judges June 1 and for lawyers in December. Registered Access to Court Electronic Records (RACER) system, now in development. David Slayton, administrative director of the Texas Office of Court Administration, noted that when his agency in 2013 signed a contract with the EFileTexas.gov vendor, it included a provision about an online records system.
Angela Morris , Texas Lawyer 03/14/2016 | | Read Article: Texas Lawyer |
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