| San Antonio Car Wrecks CLE Seminar, November 5, 2015 | Earn up to 7.25 hours MCLE credit including 1.0 hr ethics credit. TTLA's Car Wrecks CLE Seminar features practical, in-depth tips and strategies to help you WIN YOUR CASES. Come away with the tools you need to compete in the courtroom! Click on the headline to learn more and register.
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| TTLA Annual Meeting & Advanced PI CLE Seminar December 2-4 | Mark your calendar and register today! TTLA Annual Meeting & Advanced PI CLE Seminar, December 2-4, Four Seasons Hotel, Houston. CLE speakers are confirmed and the program agenda is set. Registration is now open. Hotel room rate of $195 per night expires November 10. Reserve your room today using promo code CI1215LA or call 800-734-4114 and mention the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Click on the headline to learn more.
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Disease Victims Often Shut Out of Workers' Comp System |  | Americans hurt at work have a difficult enough time with the state-by-state system when their injury is so obvious and immediate. When it comes to chemically induced illnesses and other job-triggered diseases that creep up over time, according to researchers and the federal agency overseeing occupational safety, workers' comp rarely works at all.
Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Center for Public Integrity 11/04/2015    | | Read Article: The Center for Public Integrity |
| Lawsuit Filed Over Fatal Truck Collision | | A lawsuit has been filed over the death of four people in a auto collision that took place when a truck driver crashed into a family stranded on the side of the road. The family's car had broken down, leaving the mother and her three children on the side of the road. The lawsuit was filed by the woman's husband, who was on the phone with her at the time of the collision. The lawsuit alleges that the truck driver was speeding and distracted when he crashed into the family. The mother and three children, ages 6, 17 and 18 were killed in the incident. The lawsuit names as defendants the truck driver and several companies, including General Motors and the service shop that checked the family's car.
Dan Scanian, Florida Times Union 11/03/2015 | | Read Article: Florida Times Union |
| $4M Awarded Against Oil Services Company in Gregg County | | William and Heather Crist won a finding of gross negligence in a $4 million jury verdict against an oil field service company and its driver (Horizon Cable Service)in a November 2011 wreck on Interstate 20 in Gregg County. The gross negligence finding accounted for $600,000 of the total award.
Staff, Longview News-Journal 11/04/2015
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| Employee Who Blew Whistle on Research Program Settles With VA | | A VA employee who alerted officials to financial waste, research failures and falsification of records at the agency's Waco Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans reached a settlement on a whistleblower retaliation claim against the VA, according to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. The settlement agreement's details are confidential, but the Office of Special Counsel said the VA agreed to provide compensatory damages, adjust Tharp's pay level and take other actions to make him whole.
Jeremy Schwartz , Austin American Statesman 11/04/2015 | | Read Article: Austin American Statesman |
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