Have you completed the TTLA Member Survey? | An email was sent containing an online survey for you to provide feedback on your experience with TTLA programs and to rate TTLAâ??s performance. As a thank you for your participation, you will be entered into a drawing for one of two free registrations to the 2016 Annual Meeting and CLE Seminar on December 8-9 in Dallas (valued at $475 each). Your responses will remain anonymous. This is an important component of our effort to ensure that TTLA is exceeding our membersâ?? expectations. So, please take a few minutes to participate | Check out the speaker lineup for the 2016 Annual Meeting & CLE | Join TTLA December 8-9, 2016 at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas for the 2016 Annual Meeting and CLE Seminar. See this year's Keynote Speaker, Matthew Dowd, and other great speakers while earning up to 7.50 hours MCLE credit. Click on the headline to learn more. | Texas Tribune Daily Brief | | Most Consumers Not Getting Refunds When State Cracks Down on Bad Businesses | | Texas consumers file an average of 24,000 complaints a year with the Texas Attorney Generalâ??s Consumer Protection division. The Attorney Generalâ??s Office often boasts of shutting down companies and winning huge financial penalties and restitution for consumers, but a KXAN investigation reveals the AG may never actually help get your money back when youâ??re the victim of a scam. In fact, the agency does more to collect money for itself than it does for consumers. Joe Ellis and Brian Collister, KXAN Austin News 10/28/2016 | Read Article: KXAN Austin News | Former U.S. Olympic Gymnast Alleges Sexual Abuse by Doctor | | A former member of the U.S. Olympic women's gymnastic team has filed a lawsuit alleging that she was sexually abused by the team doctor. According to the lawsuit, filed by an unnamed member of the Olympic team, the doctor touched her inappropriately under the guise of adjusting her bones. The complaint also alleges that the gymnast was emotionally abused during her time spent at the Texas training ranch owned by Bela and Marta Karolyi. The lawsuit alleges that the Karolyis were aware of the sexual abuse, but failed to do anything about it. In addition to the doctor, USA Gymnastics, current president Steve Penny, past president Robert Colarossi, and Galina Marinova and Artur Akopyan, the gymnastâ??s private coaches, are all named as defendants in the lawsuit. Matt Bonesteel, The Washington Post 10/27/2016 | Read Article: The Washington Post | Johnson & Johnson to Pay $70M to Woman in Talcum Powder Lawsuit | | Johnson & Johnson will pay out $70 million to a woman who alleged in a lawsuit that she developed ovarian cancer due to her use of the company's talcum powder. A jury on Thursday ruled against Johnson & Johnson in its third trial over the alleged failure to warn consumers about the dangers of the powder. About 1,700 lawsuits in state and federal court have been filed against the company over the potentially harmful baby powder and Shower-to-Shower talc products. The company was previously ordered to pay $72 million and $55 million in two similar lawsuits filed in St. Louis. Suman Varandani, International Business Times 10/28/2016 | Read Article: International Business Times | Family Sues Amazon After Hoverboard Fire Destroys $1M House | | A Nashville family whose $1 million home was destroyed earlier this year in a fire caused by a hoverboard toy is suing Amazon saying the retail giant knowingly sold a dangerous product. "The Foxes contend that Amazon and its various subsidiaries had information about the danger of this product well in advance of the Jan. 9 fire, and on top of that, they had notice, they should have known the product was being misrepresented on their website" Stacey Barchenger, The Tennessean, USA Today 10/28/2016 | Read Article: USA Today | Chemical Co. Makes Deal After $18M Asbestos Verdict | | A chemicals distributor accused of contributing to a manâ??s cancer from exposure to asbestos-contaminated talc agreed on Wednesday to settle the case, allowing it to avoid the punitive damages phase of a trial that had already yielded an $18 million jury verdict in California state court. Whittaker Clark & Daniels Inc. agreed to a confidential settlement to resolve a suit brought by Philip Depoian and his wife accusing the company of being partly responsible for his May 2015 diagnosis for mesothelioma. Y. Peter Kang, Law360.com 10/28/2016 | Read Article: Law360.com | | |