| 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 Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar | October 22-23 | Royal Sonesta, Houston | This October, be prepared to experience something REAL at 2015 PMD. Click the headline to see the extraordinary lineup of speakers coming to the 3rd Annual TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar. You wonâ??t want to miss this sell-out seminar with our lineup of in-demand topics, storied speakers and unparalleled insight. This year, experience something REAL. Real Torts. Real Talk. Real Time.
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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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| Some School Bus Accident Data Misleading, Officials Say |  | A 2007 state law requires school districts to submit annual reports about school bus accidents and injuries to the Texas Education Agency. However, in the wake of the Houston ISD bus wreck that killed two students last week, agency officials acknowledged Monday that some of the publicly reported numbers are misleading, and the counts may be incomplete. Nearly 200 districts and charter school operators, or about 16 percent statewide, did not submit the mandatory data for the most recent report, which covers the 2013-14 academic year. In addition, some of the reported totals do not add up properly.
Ericka Mellon, Houston Chronicle 09/22/2015    | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Injured After Work Meeting, Amputee Fights Claim Denial | | After spending most of her professional career handling insurance claims and managing personnel issues for employers, 73-year-old Jane Hays got to learn the ins and outs of the Texas workersâ?? compensation system. Never did she imagine sheâ??d one day make a work injury claim herself. Never in her wildest dreams did she see herself fighting a denial. But when she had a head-on collision on her way home to Temple from a work meeting outside Houston this summer, Haysâ?? world was turned upside down. As she recuperates from a leg amputation and awaits more surgeries for other injuries in a Central Texas hospital, Hays says she is finding out first hand what many critics of the workersâ?? compensation system have been saying for years: Itâ??s stacked against the injured worker.
Alana Rocha and Jay Root, Texas Tribune 09/22/2015 | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Peanut Exec in Salmonella Case Gets 28 Years | | Former peanut company executive Stewart Parnell was convicted on crimes related to a salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine and sickening hundreds. A federal judge in Georgia sentenced the 61-year-old former head of Peanut Corporation of America to 28 years in prison. U.S. District Judge W. Louis Sands also sentenced the former executive's brother, Michael Parnell, 56, to serve a 20-year prison term. The relative and co-defendant was a broker who provided food manufacturing giant Kellogg's with peanut paste from his brother's company.
Kevin McCoy, USA Today 09/22/2015 | | Read Article: USA Today |
| Recaro Recalls Car Seats After 18-Month Fight | | After about a year and a half of resistance, Recaro Child Safety has recalled about 173,000 of its child car seats. After conducting testing in 2013 and 2014, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration discovered that the car seats could break free during a crash. In response, federal regulators ordered that the car seats be recalled. However, Recaro filed a formal petition stating that the seats should not be recalled as they did not present a serious safety violation. A similar car seat recall was recently issued by Graco Childrenâ??s Products, which also fought the safety violations claims.
Christopher Jensen, The New York Times 09/20/2015 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| Halliburton to Pay $18.3 Million in Back Oilfield Wages | | The U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday that Halliburton will pay up after investigators found the Houston-based company erroneously categorized workers in 28 positions as exempt from overtime, meaning that field service representatives, pipe recovery specialists, drilling tech advisers and others were not properly paid when they worked more than 40 hours in a week. The agency said those errors â?? and the companyâ??s failure to keep accurate records of those employeesâ?? hours â?? violated the 77-year-old Fair Labor Standards Act. More than 380 Texans will get more than $6.54 million in back wages, the agency said.
Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune 09/22/2015 | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Volkswagen Admits to Manipulating Emissions Tests | | Automaker Volkswagen could be facing criminal charges after it admitted to manipulating emissions tests. The company stated on Tuesday that as many as 11 million vehicles worldwide could be affected. The company is likely to face an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. About $7.3 billion has been set aside by Volkswagen to alleviate the crisis, making it one of the most expensive automobile scandals in history.
Nathan Bomey, USA Today 09/22/2015 | | Read Article: USA Today |
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