| | 2013 Legends CLE: "Tales From the Crypt" October 30 - 31 in Austin | | Back by popular demand, our Second Annual Legends Seminar brings you "Tales From the Crypt," October 30 - 31, 2013 in Austin at the Four Seasons Hotel. This year's underwriters - Fibich, Hampton, Leebron, Briggs & Josephson; The Gallagher Law Firm; Payne Mitchell Law Group and Watts Guerra - dug deep to bring you the power of over 800 years of legal experience to add to your cauldron of trial strategies. Click on the headline to learn more and register. | | Suit Filed over Alleged Sexual Assault by Naval Academy Athletes | |  | | A midshipman has filed a lawsuit in Maryland against three members of the U.S. Naval Academy football team who allegedly sexually assaulted her at a party. The plaintiff says she had been drinking heavily and does not remember having sexual contact with anyone, but after hearing gossip, she became concerned that she had sex with several people. The lawsuit asks that the school's superintendent remove himself from deciding whether or not the men will be court-martialed, as he has done "nothing to prevent lengthy and abusive testimony during a military court hearing on the accusations."
Brian Witte, San Jose Mercury News 09/05/2013    | | Read Article: San Jose Mercury News | | Lawsuit Says Med Group Did Not Protect Patient Info | | | | An Illinois medical group is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging they did not do enough to protect patients' private information after computers containing sensitive patient data were stolen from them in July. The incident is the second-largest loss of private health information reported to the Department of Health and Human Services since it began requiring notification of such issues in 2009.
Mitch Smith, Chicago Tribune 09/05/2013 | | Read Article: Chicago Tribune | | Surgery Prank Photos End In Lawsuit | | | | A lawsuit has been filed over an anesthesiologist who decorated a patient's face and took a photo during surgery in Torrance, California in 2011. The plaintiff, who had worked at the hospital for 13 years prior to the surgery, says she felt violated after seeing the photo. The lawsuit is headed to trial in January and is seeking damages for violation of privacy and emotional distress.
Chad Terhune, LA Times 09/04/2013 | | Read Article: LA Times | | Chobani Recalls Some Greek Yogurt Cups | | | | Chobani says it's recalling some of its Greek yogurt cups that were affected by mold, a move prompted by reports of illnesses by some customers. The recall comes about a week after the company first started asking retailers to pull the products from shelves, saying some cups were "swelling and bloating." Chobani had previously said it wasn't issuing a formal recall.
CANDICE CHOI, AP, Yahoo News 09/06/2013 | | Read Article: Yahoo News | | As Many as 13 May Have Been Exposed to Rare Brain Disease | | | | Public health officials believe one person in New Hampshire has died of a rare, degenerative brain disease, and say there's a remote chance up to 13 others in multiple states were exposed to the fatal illness through surgical equipment. Dr. Joseph Pepe, president of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, said officials are 95 percent certain that a patient who had brain surgery in May and died in August had sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Associated Press, Yahoo News 09/06/2013 | | Read Article: Yahoo News | | New Texas Law Aims at ‘Junk’ Auto Insurance Policies | | | | A measure that the Legislature enacted and Gov. Rick Perry signed into law this year requires that insurers who sell “named driver†auto policies disclose the limits of the coverage to drivers. They must also list the names of covered drivers on insurance ID cards they issue to customers. Under such policies, often called “junk†policies, coverage is restricted to one person listed as the driver. They do not cover family members in the household. That means when family members other than the named driver use a family vehicle, they have no insurance protection.
TERRENCE STUTZ , The Dallas Morning News 09/06/2013 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News | | Settlement Reached in Flesh-Eating Bacteria Lawsuit | | | | A woman who contracted a flesh-eating bacteria while giving birth which caused the loss of all her limbs has reached a settlement in her suit against doctors and nurses at the hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. The suit alleges the doctors and nurses did not properly monitor her or provide quick treatment when she contracted necrotizing fasciitis while giving birth in August 2007. The settlement grants the woman $9.5 million.
Wire Report, Boston Herald 09/06/2013 | | Read Article: Boston Herald | | |
