| Court Order Lets Out-of-State Lawyers Serve Harvey Victims |
From State Bar Blog: The Texas Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday allowing out-of-state lawyers to practice in Texas temporarily if they are displaced by Hurricane Harvey or volunteering to serve hurricane victims. Click on the headline to learn more.
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| Wells Fargo Boosts Fake-Account Estimate 67% to 3.5 Million |
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Wells Fargo & Co. raised its estimate for how many bogus accounts employees may have created, a sign the bank is still struggling to move past a scandal that sparked record fines and congressional investigations. An outside review into more than 165 million deposit and credit-card accounts found an additional 1.4 million that were potentially unauthorized, bringing the total to about 3.5 million, according to a statement Thursday from the San Francisco-based firm. The revised estimate covers January 2009 to September 2016, almost twice as long as the period examined in the initial review.
Laura J Keller, Bloomberg 08/31/2017   
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| Homeowner's Lawsuit Says Wells Fargo Charged Improper Mortgage Fees |
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A homeowner has filed a proposed class action lawsuit accusing Wells Fargo & Co of improperly charging thousands of customers nationwide to lock in interest rates when their mortgage applications were delayed. Filed on Monday in San Francisco federal court, the lawsuit said Wells Fargo managers pressured employees to blame homeowners for the delays, sometimes by falsely stating that paperwork was missing, so homeowners could be stuck with extra fees.
DENA AUBIN, Reuters 08/31/2017
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| FDA Recalls Pacemakers Due to Hacking Risk |
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A hacking risk has lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to recall a number of pacemakers due to a safety risk to patients. The agency recalled about 500,000 of the devices after discovering that they were susceptible to hacking. Officials believe that the lax cybersecurity could be hacked to run the batteries down or even alter the patientâ??s heartbeat. While the devices will not be removed from patients due to safety risks associated with the surgery, doctors will be able to install a firmware update to the devices which will patch the security holes.
Alex Hern, The Guardian (US) 08/31/2017
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| Owners of Dogs Who Attacked Elderly Cyclist in Missouri to Pay $300K |
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The owners of dogs that officials believe killed an elderly cyclist in Missouri will pay $300,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in Christian County against the owners of the two dogs at the time of the attack. According to the lawsuit filed by the victim's family, the two boxers were identified as the animals which attacked the man. While the victim initially indicated that coyotes were responsible for the attack, investigators were able to use DNA testing to show that the two dogs had attack the elderly man.
Max Londberg, Kansas City Star 08/30/2017
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