Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Five Players Added to TCU Football Player’s Abuse Lawsuit |
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Five former football players from Texas Christian University have been added to a lawsuit by Kolby Listenbee alleging a pattern of abuse in the football program. The lawsuit has accused coach Gary Patterson of a pattern of verbal abuse and pressuring athletes to play despite serious injuries. In a filing on Wednesday, players Lonta Hobbs, Ed Wesley, David Johnson, Stansly Maponga and Cameron White were added to the lawsuit. According to the complaint, TCU football coaches prefer to "keep the diagnosing and treating of their players 'in house' with the TCU team physicians," which leads to players being prematurely cleared to return to the field. Named as defendants in the lawsuit are Patterson, TCU and former athletic director Chris Del Conte.
Stefan Stevenson, Ft. Worth Star Telegram02/21/2018    |
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| Lawsuit: Houston Woman Died from Bedbug Extermination that Warmed Apartment to 139 Degrees |
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In a wrongful death suit filed in Harris County on Tuesday, the family of Elizabeth Ashbaugh accuses the owners of the Laure Point Senior Apartments and Certified Termite and Pest Control of negligence that resulted in her death. Ashbaugh, 82, died from hyperthermia - a condition that results when the body absorbs more heat than it can dissipate - on July 28, 2017 after returning to the apartment she’d lived in with her husband for 13 years, the suits says. “Within a short time of re-entering the apartment both Elizabeth and William Ashbaugh began losing consciousness due to the unsafe elevated temperature,” the suit alleges. “An ambulance had to be called and both Elizabeth and William were rushed to the hospital. That evening... Elizabeth Ashbaugh passed away.”
Robert Downen, Houston Chronicle02/22/2018 |
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| Lawsuit Alleges MetLife Mistake Helped a Woman Keep Settlement Money From Her Daughter |
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When Nicole Herivaux was born at Coney Island Hospital in New York in 1980, doctors made a mistake that left one of her arms useless. Ms. Herivaux’s family sued and reached a settlement on the infant’s behalf. It provided $2,200-a-month in lifetime income paid out by an insurance firm, and lump sums of as much as $200,000 were sprinkled in to help, say, with college costs. This money was supposed to be paid into specified banks until Ms. Herivaux was 18, with court approval needed for its spending. But according to a lawsuit in a New York state court, MetLife Inc. mistakenly began sending checks directly to her mother when Nicole was 15, and her mother passed on to Nicole just a portion of the proceeds from thereon. The suit alleges the mother hid from her daughter the full size of the settlement. Now 37, Nicole lives in a cheap apartment in Detroit, has $30,000 in student debt and sometimes relies on free-food pantries.
LESLIE SCISM, Wall Street Journal02/22/2018 |
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| Missouri Landfill Responsible For Leaking Radioactive Waste, Say Lawsuits |
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Individuals from the St. Louis area have filed lawsuits over radioactive waste near the West Lake Landfill. The lawsuits were filed by a business owner and a homeowner in St. Ann who say that they suffered damages by the negligent handling of radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill and at storage sites along Coldwater Creek in north St. Louis County. The two lawsuits were filed Tuesday in St. Louis County Circuit Court and seek class action status. “Defendants treated these hazardous, toxic, carcinogenic, radioactive wastes with about the same level of care that a reasonable person might give to common household garbage, dumping it without authority from the State of Missouri and in violation of law,” say the lawsuits.
Staff Report, St. Louis Post Dispatch02/21/2018 |
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