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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| The Brief for April 27 |  | In today's Brief: Meatpacking workers in the Texas Panhandle have little power to avoid being infected by the coronavirus and the four things health experts say need to happen before reopening the economy.
Elvia Limón, Texas Tribune 04/27/2020    | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Boy Scouts Suit Filed as Hawaii Shuts Abuse Claims Window | | Eight men were sexually abused when they were Boy Scouts in Hawaii in the 1960s and 1970s, they alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday as the state's window closed on allowing child sex abuse claims that would have been barred under a statute of limitations.
JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, Associated Press, Yahoo News 04/27/2020 | | Read Article: Yahoo News |
| Atlanta Braves Settle Lawsuit Over Fan Who Fatally Fell at Game | | A settlement has been reached between the Atlanta Braves and the family of a fan who fell to his death at a 2015 game. The 60-year-old man lost his balance and toppled over a 30-inch-high guardrail to the lower level and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. His widow and son filed suit alleging the Braves and Major League Baseball knew that fans seated near railings were at risk because several fans had fallen at other ballparks with similar railings. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.
Bill Rankin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution 04/24/2020 | | Read Article: Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
| Meatpacking workers in Texas Panhandle Have Little Power to Avoid the Coronavirus | | Meat and poultry plants nationwide have emerged as incubators for coronavirus spread. More than a dozen have been forced to shut down temporarily as the number of cases and deaths tied to those facilities rose; others have scrambled to ramp up health and safety precautions in facilities where meat packers often must work shoulder to shoulder.
ALEXA URA, Texas Tribune 04/27/2020 | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Rural Counties Near Meat-Processing Plants Are TX Hotspots | | Texas' COVID-19 'hotspots,' at least as much as the disease's spread has been detected, are in rural counties. Ranked by prevalence of confirmed cases of the coronavirus, two of the top three Texas counties are home to huge meat processing plants: Moore County, near the top of the Panhandle; and Shelby County, along the Louisiana border. Other rural counties showing high infection rates ' much higher than in Harris and Dallas counties ' aren't scattered across the state. They're grouped around Moore, which is north of Amarillo and has JBS Beef's big packing plant in Cactus; and Shelby, where a vast Tyson Foods chicken-processing facility is in Center.
Robert T. Garrett, The Dallas Morning News 04/27/2020 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Lawsuit: General Counsel Says She Was Fired for Asking to Work From Home | | The former general counsel of a commercial real estate development firm near Dallas has filed a lawsuit that claims she was fired for declining to violate a local stay-at-home order. Amy Reggio alleges in a wrongful termination suit filed Thursday in Dallas County that Mark Tekin, sole manager and president of Tekin & Associates, 'repeatedly refused' to let her work from home and was 'belligerent and annoyed' that she'd even asked.
Phillip Bantz , Law.com 04/27/2020 | | Read Article: Law.com |
| Nursing Homes Violated Basic Health Standards, Allowing the Coronavirus to Explode | | Nursing home residents have been among the hardest hit by COVID-19. To date, more than 10,000 nursing home residents have died, according to The Wall Street Journal and the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care philanthropy. In some states, nursing home residents account for more than half of COVID-19 deaths. The inspection records are a glimpse into the kind of mistakes that could be at the root of the widespread outbreaks occurring in these facilities.
Charles Ornstein and Topher Sanders, ProPublica 04/27/2020 | | Read Article: ProPublica |
| As Residents Died of COVID-19, College Station Care Home Kept Families in the Dark | | It took almost three weeks for the Waterford in College Station to disclose the toll the virus took there: 32 of 47 residents were infected with COVID-19. By then, 11 had died and 14 had been hospitalized. Another 13 staff members also tested positive for the disease. The local health department also refused to provide details, and state health officials do not share information about coronavirus infections by facility.
Taylor Goldenstein, Houston Chronicle 04/27/2020 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Dallas Nursing Home at Center of Coronavirus Crisis | | At least 76 residents at the southeast Dallas nursing home complex (Brentwood Nursing Center) have gotten sick with COVID-19 and seven have died, officials said, making it the highest infection and death rate of any nursing home in the county. The state Health and Human Services Commission is investigating the outbreak at Brentwood, along with all other facilities that have reported cases, The DMN confirmed Friday.
Holly K. Hacker and Lauren McGaughy, The Dallas Morning News 04/27/2020 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| SXSW Faces Lawsuit Over No-Refund Policy After Cancellation Due to Coronavirus | | The lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Travis County against SXSW LLC on behalf of two people who said they each spent more than $1,000 on entry fees to attend but were denied refunds. It seeks class-action status on behalf of potentially 'hundreds of thousands' of others similarly rebuffed. The plaintiffs, 'on behalf of themselves and all other persons who purchased wristbands, tickets, passes, and badges to the 2020 South by Southwest festival, bring this action for breach of contract and unjust enrichment in order to recover (money) paid for a festival that never occurred,' the suit says.
Bob Sechler, Austin American-Statesman 04/27/2020
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| Injured Workers Test How Oklahoma's Workers' Comp Handles COVID-19 | | The first worker's compensation claims related to COVID-19 filed in Oklahoma include a college campus food service worker who died and a paramedic still undergoing treatment.The cases are expected to test Oklahoma's system for compensating injured workers, and whether attorneys can prove that employers should be responsible if an employee contracts the novel coronavirus while on the job.
DALE DENWALT, Oklahoma City Oklahoman 04/27/2020 | | Read Article: Oklahoma City Oklahoman |
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