| Share on Your Social Media! | Texas Standard: HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR AN INSURANCE DISCOUNT? 'This is unprecedented ' it's against current policy standards from the Texas Department of Insurance,' Leiber says. 'They don't allow this kind of discount in exchange for giving up your constitutional right.' #the7th #TTLA7th #arbitration Click on the headline to listen.
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| TTLA Pioneers Series: Those On Whose Shoulders We Stand | The second in the TTLA Pioneers Series, written by TTLA member Ralph Red Dog Jones, is his recollection of Dallas attorney R. Guy Carter, TTLA's first President and, later, Red Dog's law partner. Click on the headline to access.
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| Woman Who Sued Insurance Company Over Injuries Awarded $1.2M |  | A New Jersey jury has awarded $1.2 million to a woman who filed suit against her insurance company over injuries she sustained in a 2013 car crash. The woman filed suit against her insurer after she sustained a permanent spinal injury in a car crash with an uninsured driver and was denied coverage. The 50-year-old plaintiff did not receive any financial assistance, despite having coverage with Allstate for up to $250,000 in the event she was struck and injured by an uninsured driver. Six jurors recently determined that the woman should receive $1.2 million.
John Seasly, NorthJersey.Com 06/15/2016    | | Read Article: NorthJersey.Com |
| Did Tylenol Kill Her Sister? | | A lawsuit claiming Tylenol caused the 2010 death of a northwest Alabama woman from acute liver failure will go to trial Sept. 19 in a Pennsylvania federal court. The federal judge presiding over the case has designated the lawsuit as a test case that could determine the future direction of a few hundred other lawsuits consolidated under him that make similar claims about Tylenol and liver failure.
Kent Faulk , AL.com 06/17/2016 | | Read Article: AL.com |
| PACER Fee Fight Headed to Federal Claims Court | | The U.S. Department of Justice this week successfully knocked out one of three lawsuits challenging fees charged by the Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, system. Washington state resident Bryndon Fisher filed two lawsuits this year claiming that a computer glitch caused PACER to overcharge users. A federal district judge in Washington state dismissed one of those cases on Wednesday. The Justice Department filed papers the same day asking the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to dismiss Fisher's other case.
Zoe Tillman, The National Law Journal - $$ Subscription Required 06/17/2016 | | Read Article: The National Law Journal - $$ Subscription Required($) |
| U.S. Top Court Puts Some Limits on Contractor Fraud Lawsuits | | The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed some limits on the kind of fraud claims that can be brought against federal contractors in a case involving a suit against one of America's largest hospital operators over a woman's death at one of its facilities. But the 8-0 ruling was not the broad victory for business sought by the company, Universal Health Services, and other healthcare providers fearful of suits under the U.S. False Claims Act, which lets individuals make claims that the federal government has been defrauded. The justices threw out a 2015 appeals court ruling that had allowed the parents of Yarushka Rivera to sue Universal Health Services under the False Claims Act, but sent the case back to a lower court, meaning the suit could potentially still proceed.
LAWRENCE HURLEY, Reuters 06/17/2016 | | Read Article: Reuters |
| High Court Stays Out Of Spat Over Wage Action Arbatrability | | The U.S. Supreme Court declined Thursday to get involved with a Fifth Circuit ruling from March that held a broadly worded arbitration agreement allowed the arbitrator to decide whether a group of employees alleging unpaid overtime can bring class and collective actions under their agreement.
Michelle Casady, Law360.com 06/17/2016 | | Read Article: Law360.com |
| Despite Back-Up Cameras, Motorists Keep Running into People | | Despite the growing prevalence of back-up cameras, federal data show that this technology hasn't significantly cut down on cars backing into people and causing them harm. That research on so-called 'back-over incidents' comes as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration moves to make back-up cameras standard and presses automakers to add new technologies ' from automatic braking to lane collision warnings ' to even entry-level cars to reduce accidents on the road.
JACOB BOGAGE, The Washington Post 06/17/2016 | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
| Lawsuit Alleging Tylenol Caused Woman's Death Goes to Trial | | A trial date has been set for a lawsuit alleging that Tylenol caused the death of a woman in 2010. The 51-year-old woman died at University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, after suffering catastrophic liver damage allegedly caused by Tylenol and Tylenol Extra Strength. The lawsuit was filed in 2012 by the sister of the woman who died of acute liver failure. A September 19 trial date has been set for the case in Pennsylvania federal court which could determine the future direction of a few hundred other similar lawsuits filed under it.
Kent Faulk, AL.com 06/16/2016 | | Read Article: AL.com |
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