| TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar | October 22-23 | Royal Sonesta, Houston | REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Each year, we are dedicated to planning seminars that are bigger, better and bolder than the year before. But it takes YOU to make a TTLA seminar a true success. Register for TTLAâ??s 3rd Annual Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Seminar and experience our unprecedented lineup of in-demand topics, storied speakers and unparalleled insight. You wonâ??t want to miss this sell-out seminar. This year, experience something REAL. Real Torts. Real Talk. Real Time.
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| Dallas Car Wrecks CLE Seminar, October 8, 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! Join the TTLA Advocates Board of Directors at Happy Hour after the Seminar from 5:00-8:00pm (included in registration). 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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| Workplace Deaths Up in Texas, Which Still Tops List |  | Texas saw 524 fatal workplace injuries last year, compared with 508 a year earlier, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. That 3 percent increase was slightly higher than the growth of workplace fatalities nationwide (2 percent). The 2014 figures are preliminary, and the agency will revise them.
Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune 09/18/2015    | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| GM Still Facing Ignition Liability in Suits | | GM agreed Thursday to pay $575 million to end a shareholder suit tied to the defect and more than 1,380 civil cases by victims. A separate $900 million accord with the U.S. government resolved a criminal probe into the matter. That still leaves GM facing hundreds of personal-injury and wrongful-death claims over the deadly flaw, as well as suits by car owners seeking as much as $10 billion for the lost value of their vehicles.
Bob Van Voris Patricia Hurtado Erik Larson, Bloomberg 09/18/2015 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| Texas Family Suing Over Fatal Houston Bus Crash | | The family of a Texas student killed in a bus crash says they plan to file a lawsuit against both drivers involved in the accident. The Houston Independent School District bus crashed on Tuesday when it fell off an overpass. The plaintiffs' teenage son was one of two individuals killed in the incident. One other student, a 14-year-old girl, was also killed in the crash. Two other students and the bus driver sustained injuries from the incident.
Jessica Willey, KTRK-TV 09/15/2015 | | Read Article: KTRK-TV |
| N.Y. Widow Files Suit Over Deadly Train Accident | | A woman from Beford Hills, New York is filing a lawsuit over the death of her husband in a train accident which took place in February when a Metro-North train crashed into an SUV stuck on the tracks. The plaintiff is alleging "a dangerous grade crossing, faulty emergency exits and poor decision-making" in the lawsuit, filed against the railroad. The plaintiff's husband was one of several train passengers who died after being trapped on the train following the crash. The driver of the SUV was also killed in the incident.
Khurram Saeed, LoHud.com 09/17/2015 | | Read Article: LoHud.com |
| FDA Expands Warnings About Contaminated Medical Scopes | | The FDA warned doctors that bronchoscopes may transmit infections among patients when inadequately cleaned, the latest alert by the regulator about the risk of reusable medical scopes. Similar problems prompted the FDA to warn about devices known as duodenoscopes earlier this year, citing the intricate design of duodonescopes, which are used to reach tiny ducts in the small intestine, as a particular risk. Now it seems that less complex instruments are also drawing more scrutiny.
John Tozzi, Bloomberg 09/18/2015 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
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