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Suit: Service Dog Trainer Unable to Bring Dogs to Class

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According to the Iowa Court of Appeals, a lawsuit alleging Drake University Law School officials would not let a student training a service dog to attend classes can continue. A Des Moines service dog trainer and graduate of the school filed the lawsuit in 2011 because she says she was prevented from bringing her dogs in training to classes between 2006 and 2009. The case was formerly dropped by a judge in Polk County District Court, but has been reinstated by the Iowa Court of Appeals. The plaintiff says she "filed the lawsuit to help bring attention to the issue of service dogs' access to public places."
Staff Report, DesMoines Register 11/06/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Gas Explosions Connected to Employee

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Local 2 Investigates is uncovering new information about a pair of house explosions that disfigured a little boy and led to the death of a 64-year-old woman. Records filed as part of a lawsuit show a rock rubbing against an underground gas line outside the home produced a crack that led to the leak. Court records read that even though the family did not have gas service at the time, leaking gas from the line crept into the home and ignited.
Robert Arnold, Click2Houston 11/07/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Penn State Scores Partial Victory in Sandusky Victim's Lawsuit

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Penn State has won a partial victory in one of the remaining civil suits it faces from Jerry Sandusky’s sex abuse victims. A U.S. District Judge in Philadelphia dismissed a count of “vicarious liability†against the university, ruling that Penn State cannot be held liable for Sandusky’s acts simply because he was an employee at the time.
Charles Thompson, PennLive.com 11/07/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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L.A. County to Pay $7.5M in Childbirth Malpractice Case

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Los Angeles County will pay $7.5 million to the formerly homeless mother of a child born at L.A. County-USC Medical Center who said that negligence by medical staff resulted in brain damage to her baby. The case was filed on behalf of 1½-year-old Micah Welch by his mother, Dyrene Loftis, 25, who alleged that because of poor medical care, she suffered a ruptured uterus that caused a lack of oxygen to the child during his delivery.
Abby Sewell, LA Times 11/07/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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AP Source: OSHA Plan to Make Safety Reports Public

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The Labor Department wants companies to begin filing all workplace injury and illness reports electronically so they are available for anyone in the public to see. The department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will announce the plan on Thursday as part of a proposed rule that would dramatically change the way companies file safety records, according to a person familiar with the proposal.
SAM HANANEL, AP, Yahoo News 11/07/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Healthcare


 

 

Patient Dies After Hospital's Monitoring Alarms Shut Off

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An Iowa man died at a Des Moines hospital in March after a nurse deliberately shut off the alarms used to monitor patients' conditions, newly disclosed state records show. Bernard Nesbit, a registered nurse in the hospital's telemetry unit where patients are kept for continuous monitoring, was subsequently fired for having turned off an array of alarms that were hooked up to all of the patients in that unit.
Clark Kauffman, The Des Moines Register , USA Today 11/07/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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