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| Report: High Arsenic Levels in Many Texans' Water |  | Analyzing state data posted online, the Washington D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project found that 34 rural drinking water systems serving about 51,000 Texans have exceeded the federal drinking water limit for arsenic for at least a decade ' many by a long shot. The report, titled 'Don't Drink The Water,' also found that Texas requires public water utilities to use less urgent language than some other states in the notices they send to customers when their drinking water exceeds the arsenic standard.
Kiah Collier, Texas Tribune 03/15/2016    | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Eagle Ford Shale Ranchers Sue Chesapeake Energy Over Royalty Payments | | A wave of royalty lawsuits against Chesapeake Energy Corp. is starting in South Texas' Eagle Ford Shale oil field, with mineral owners accusing the company of underpaying them and charging expenses that breached their contracts. The Eagle Ford lawsuits are believed to be the first of their kind in the 400-mile field. There are at least four filed so far in McMullen, Dimmit and La Salle counties by longtime ranching families.
Jennifer Hiller, San Antonio Express News 03/14/2016 | | Read Article: San Antonio Express News |
| After Their Child's Body Ended up in Trash, Jury Awards $28M | | Catheryne Lucero and Raul Manzano thought the body of their infant son, who died soon after his birth on Sept. 1, 2014, was being cremated. Instead, his remains ended up in a dumpster behind a gas station in North Miami, Fla., four days later. Now the couple have been awarded $28 million after a jury determined that the Carey Royal Ram'n Mortuary was negligent in its transport of the child's body, CBS Miami reports.
Luke Roney, Newser, USA Today 03/15/2016 | | Read Article: USA Today |
| Family Files Lawsuit in Son's Galveston Jail Death | | Jesse Jacobs' parents and lawyers announced Monday they had filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against Galveston County, the county's sheriff, Henry Trochesset, and many of the jailers on duty during their son's fatal jail stay. In a 40-page lawsuit, Jacobs' family lawyers contend that Jesse Jacobs died because the medical staff refused to give Jacobs his prescribed medications, treat him for four or more seizures, ignored his medical complaints, intentionally failed to provide medical treatment to him by abruptly discontinuing his long-term high-dose (Xanax), and failed to check on him as frequently as they should have.
St. John Barned-Smith, Houston Chronicle 03/15/2016 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Whistleblower's Suit Accuses Volkswagen of Deleting Data | | A former Volkwagen employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit in Michigan, asserting that co-workers illegally deleted electronic data shortly after the U.S. government accused the automaker of cheating on emissions tests. The former employee, Daniel Donovan, who according to the lawsuit worked as an information manager in an Auburn Hills, Mich., office overseen by Volkswagen's in-house lawyer, says he was fired in December because his superiors believed that he was about to report the company to U.S. authorities for obstruction of justice. In addition to wrongful dismissal, the lawsuit filed last week in Oakland County Circuit Court in Michigan accuses Volks-wagen of violating the state's whistleblower protection law.
Jack Ewing, New York Times, Houston Chronicle 03/15/2016 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Pittsburgh Woman Hit by Foul Ball Files Suit Against MLB | | A woman from Pittsburgh has filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball over an incident in which she was injured by a foul ball at a Pirates baseball game. The woman was struck in the head by a foul ball at the Pirates baseball game last spring. According to the lawsuit, the defendants failed to provide protection for spectators when they allowed them to site behind a "flexible, lightweight screen" behind home plate. The plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury, concussion, and continues to have migraines, vertigo, sleep disorder and neck pain, along with several other injuries. The lawsuit names as defendants Major League Baseball, the team and the Sports & Exhibition Authority.
Staff Report, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 03/15/2016 | | Read Article: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| Uber Faces Crash Lawsuit by Woman with Brain Injury | | A lawsuit has been filed against Uber over a crash caused by one of its drivers in Florida which led to a passenger's brain injury. The lawsuit was filed by the woman, who sustained a brain injury, and her husband, whose leg was broken. The couple, both medical professionals, were in Miami for a medical conference when they hailed an Uber ride. Shortly after the ride began, the Uber driver pulled into oncoming traffic and was hit by another car, causing the wife to suffer a severe brain injury and the husband to break his leg. The lawsuit states the woman has undergone several brain surgeries since the incident.
David Ovalle, Miami Herald 03/15/2016 | | Read Article: Miami Herald |
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