Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Too Many Lawsuits or Bad Nursing Home Care? What's Behind Bankruptcy, Injuries, Deaths at Texas-Based Chain |
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Residents were left for hours in dirty diapers, clothes and sheets as they waited for help at seven New Mexico nursing facilities, the state's attorney general alleges. A stream of documented complaints from three separate states flows back to one nursing home operator: Preferred Care of Plano, which filed for bankruptcy in November. While the company portrays itself as a victim of a tort system run amok, The News' review of state and federal inspection reports and dozens of lawsuits found that Preferred Care locations in Texas and other states have a poor track record that includes neglect, injury and death.
Sabriya Rice & Holly K. Hacker, The Dallas Morning News 01/26/2018    |
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| Lawsuit: Black Workers Faced Daily Verbal Abuse at Plano Construction Site |
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Four black construction workers say they were subjected to racial harassment and discrimination while working on the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters in Plano's Legacy West. Dallas-based Beck Co. is among the companies named in the lawsuit filed by Scott Perez LLP on behalf of the four workers: Lerone Boyd, Michael Marshall, Jimmy Allen, and Trojuan Cornett. After the workers complained about the harassment to Beck, the general contractor of the site, they were fired, according to the lawsuit that was filed Tuesday in the 95th Judicial District Court of Dallas County. They said they also complained about the harassment to Aerotek, Inc., a staffing company on the project, and JR Butler, Inc., a crane operator at the site, and nothing was done.
Maria Halkias, The Dallas Morning News 01/26/2018
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| Victim Testimony Raises Settlement Pressure in Nassar Suit |
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Searing victim testimony during former American gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar's sentencing hearing has ratched up pressure on the sport's U.S. governing body and Michigan State University to settle civil lawsuits by girls and women seeking to hold them responsible for his years of sexual abuse, legal experts said. The lawsuits seeking unspecified monetary damages from USA Gymnastics, which used Nassar as team doctor for years, and Michigan State, where he worked as a professor, were filed in January 2017 in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and were later consolidated into a single case.
REUTERS, The New York Times 01/26/2018 |
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