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Eleanor Dearman & John Reynolds, Texas Tribune 12/10/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Dallas to Require Breaks for Construction Workers
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Aiming to prevent heat-related deaths and illnesses, the Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved a measure requiring construction companies to give their employees a 10-minute rest break every four hours. Dallas will join only Austin in often-sweltering Texas to mandate breaks at construction sites.
Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune 12/10/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Small Violations Of Medical Privacy Can Hurt Patients And Erode Trust
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Under HIPAA,it's illegal for health care providers to share patients' treatment information without their permission. The Office for Civil Rights, the arm of the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for enforcing the law, receives more than 30,000 reports about privacy violations each year. The bulk of the government's enforcement ' and the public's attention ' has focused on a small number of splashy cases in which hackers or thieves have accessed the health data of large groups of people. But the damage done in these mass breaches has been mostly hypothetical, with much information exposed but little exploited. Driven by personal animus, jealousy or a desire for retribution, small breaches involving sensitive health details are spurring disputes and legal battles across the country.
CHARLES ORNSTEIN, National Public Radio 12/10/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Laws/Cases

Autistic Man Found Dead on Bus, Parents File Suit
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A California couple has filed a lawsuit after their 19-year-old autistic son was found dead on a school bus. The lawsuit alleges that the teen was left alone on the school bus in sweltering heat after he failed to get off the bus when it passed near his home. The lawsuit was filed against the bus transportation company and alleges that Pupil Transportation Cooperative had policies in place designed to prevent students from being left on buses, but they were not followed. The complaint was recently filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Hillary Jackson, MyNewsLA.com 12/07/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Boston Chipotle Sickens Over 140 People
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More than 140 people, including many students from Boston College, have become ill since eating at the same Chipotle restaurant. Since a nationwide outbreak of E. Coli at Chipotle restaurants, the company has closed locations in the Pacific Northwest and extensively cleaned stores in California, Minnesota, New York and Ohio. Chipotle recently stated that it had temporarily closed its store at Cleveland Circle in Boston while the investigation into the cause of the outbreak continued. This outbreak is being blamed on the norovirus and there is no current evidence to suggest these illnesses are related to the previous E. Coli breakout.
Kristi Palma, Nik DeCosta-Klipa and Allison Pohle , Boston Globe 12/08/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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GM's Fund for Ignition Switches Awards Nearly $600M
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A fund set up by General Motors to compensate victims of faulty ignition switches has awarded $594.5 million and approved 399 death and injury claims, as of a statement on Thursday. In September, the automaker settled a lawsuit with the US Department of Justice for $900 million. So far, the company has incurred $2 billion in costs related to the faulty ignition switches. According to Ken Feinberg, who runs the fund, 91 percent of the victims have accepted the awards. This includes 124 death claims, and 16 of 18 serious injury claims.
David Shepardson, Reuters 12/10/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Healthcare

A DMN Investigation: Deadly Dentistry
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Deadly Dentistry, a Dallas Morning News series into botched dentistry that endangers unsuspecting patients from coast to coast, uncovered common threads in virtually every state: Regulatory agencies routinely look the other way or deep-six inquiries into mistakes. Patients don't know the danger they are in until it is too late.
Brooks Egerton, The Dallas Morning News 12/10/2015 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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