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| Terminix to Pay $10M for Pesticide that Hurt Del. Family |  | Terminix as agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations that it was illegally spraying a toxic pesticide that sickened and nearly killed a Delaware family vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands last year. The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday that Terminix has admitted to using a pesticide called methyl bromide at 14 locations ' including at the Sirenusa condominium resort in St. John where the family was vacationing in March 2015. The pesticide, which is odorless and can severely damage the central nervous and respiratory systems, has been banned for indoor use by the Environmental Protection Agency since 1984.
Jessica Masulli Reyes, Delaware Online 03/30/2016    | | Read Article: Delaware Online |
| TX Couple Says Adoption Agency Lied About Child's Severe Health Problems | | Robert and Amy Meeker who adopted an 8-year-old girl from China knew she had special needs ' but they claim they were duped by a Morningside Heights adoption agency about how dire her health situation really was. The couple was aware that the girl had spina bifida when they began the process to adopt her in 2013. The suits says the Texas couple came to find that the girl is blind and deaf and suffers from hepatitis C, severe epilepsy, scoliosis, cerebral palsy and other illnesses. The Meekers say in court papers that she should have instead been adopted to an 'end of life family who were ready, willing and capable of providing end of life care and burying a child.'
Lia Eustachewich, New York Post 03/30/2016 | | Read Article: New York Post |
| Jury Finds GM Liable, No Damages Awarded | | A Manhattan federal court jury found GM liable on Wednesday for a defective ignition switch that prompted the recall of millions of vehicles, but declined to award any damages to two people who said they were injured in a car accident caused by the defect.
Reuters, Reuters 03/30/2016 | | Read Article: Reuters |
| One of Many Sexual Assault Lawsuits Against Catholic Church Reaches Settlement | | It has been announced that a settlement was reached in March of last year in a lawsuit over the sexual assault of a man when he was a student at a California Catholic school. The 47-year-old man alleged in the lawsuit that he was repeatedly fondled by a religious brother at the private Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino from 1984 to 1986. According to reports, a five-figure out-of-court settlement was reached in the lawsuit last year. It was also announced that in the last few years settlements were reached in lawsuits against 16 Catholic priests, religious brothers, nuns or employees nationwide alleging sexual abuse.
Brenda Gazzar, Los Angeles Daily News 03/28/2016 | | Read Article: Los Angeles Daily News |
| FBI: Frisco Hospice Owner Directed Nurses to Overdose Patients | | The owner of a North Texas medical company (Novus Health Care Services, Inc.) regularly directed nurses to give hospice patients overdoses of drugs such as morphine to speed up their deaths and maximize profits, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant obtained by NBC 5. Executive Brad Harris, 34 instructed a nurse to administer overdoses to three patients and directed another employee to increase a patient's medication to four-times the maximum allowed, the FBI said. He allegedly sent text messages like, "You need to make this patient go bye-bye."
Scott Gordon, NBC 5 - DFW 03/30/2016 | | Read Article: NBC 5 - DFW |
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