Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| The Brief for April 23 |  | In today’s Brief: A Texas House member wants to penalize schools that let students walk out of class to protest gun violence, a fifth official is out at the state’s health commission, and thousands gathered over the weekend to commemorate former First Lady Barbara Bush.
Cassi Pollock , Texas Tribune 04/23/2018    | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| SWA Tragedy Brings Stepped-Up Inspections | | The maker of the jet engine that blew apart on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, marring the U.S. commercial airline industry's nine-year run without a fatality, is calling for stepped-up inspections of fan blades on older engines of that type. The Federal Aviation Administration quickly followed suit Friday and ordered emergency ultrasonic inspections of one of the world's most popular jet engine types, the CFM56-7B made by CFM International Inc.
Lison Joseph, The Dallas Morning News 04/23/2018 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Consumers Are Winning Suits in Telemarket Fight | | Federal telecommunication law allows consumers to sue telemarketers that violate the law, which prohibits sales or collection calls to cellphones without consumers’ written permission. Over a recent 17-month period, Texas consumers have filed 107 such lawsuits, the seventh-most in the nation, seeking penalties of as much as $1,500 for each annoying call that they’ve received. More than 3,100 similar cases have been brought across the country during that time period, an increase of nearly 50 percent from the previous 17 months, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Consumers are winning, too. Pivotal Payments, a Texas payment processor, last year agreed to pay $9 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of failing to ensure the company it hired to make marketing calls to 1.9 million consumers complied with federal law.
L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle 04/23/2018 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Thousands of Cleanup Workers that Claim BP Oil Spill Made Them Sick Haven't had Day in Court | | In the sea of fines, fees and compensation BP has paid to individuals, businesses, governments and lawyers for its 2010 oil spill, one group of claimants stands out for missing out on the billions. On the eighth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, thousands of workers BP hired to clean up its mess say exposure to oil and chemicals made them sick. About 22,700 of them have been paid under a 2012 class-action settlement, but the average claim paid about $2,940. And thousands of other medical claimants are still awaiting their day in court.
David Hammer, WWL-TV, New Orleans , USA Today 04/23/2018 | | Read Article: USA Today |
| Texas Hospital Can't Ditch Suit Over Nurse Training | | Texas hospital chain Baylor Scott & White can't assert governmental immunity to avoid a lawsuit brought by a woman who says she was over-sedated during knee surgery because it didn't manage the hospital where it had trained nursing staff, a Texas appeals court held Thursday. Operating as Baylor Health Care System, the hospital had asked the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth to reverse a trial court and allow it to assert governmental immunity against claims it negligently failed to properly train the nursing staff.
Jess Krochtengel , Law360 ($) 04/23/2018 | | Read Article: Law360 ($) |
| Bait Shop Owner’s Hurricane Harvey Insurance Payout Thwarted by a Typo | | Mary Ann Heiman purchased windstorm insurance for her property along the causeway between Aransas Pass and Port Aransas, believing her business was covered when Hurricane Harvey destroyed the property. However, later, when she placed a claim with the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA), she was denied citing an inverted address number.
Eric Dexheimer , Austin American-Statesman 04/23/2018 | | Read Article: Austin American-Statesman |
| Wisconsin Court Allows Lawsuit Against Gun Website Over Mass Shooting Death | | A Wisconsin court has ruled that a mass shooting victim's daughter can file suit against the operator of a firearms classified ad website from which the killer illegally bought his gun. On Thursday, the three-judge panel of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled that the lawsuit over the plaintiff's mother's death in 2012 against the website could proceed. According to the court, a federal law protecting website operators from liability for user content did not apply to Armslist LLC, the operator of Armslist.com.
Tina Bellon, Reuters 04/19/2018 | | Read Article: Reuters |
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