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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Federal Study: Dispersant Used in BP Oil Spill Sickened Workers |
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The chemicals that were used to break up oil from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout have long been suspected of sickening workers who responded to the disaster. Now a federal health agency is backing some of their assertions. The National Institutes of Health this month published a study saying workers exposed to oil dispersants suffered a range of symptoms, including cough, shortness of breath and eye and lung irritation. The authors make for the most prominent group of scientists to examine the human health effects of dispersants.
Tristan Baurick, New Orleans Times-Picayune 09/22/2017   
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| Aaron Hernandez Had Severe CTE; Daughter Sues NFL, Pats |
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Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez had a severe case of the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, researchers said on Thursday. His lawyer announced a lawsuit against the NFL and the team, accusing them of hiding the true dangers of the sport. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court claimed that the league and Patriots failed to protect their players' safety, leading to the disease that deprived Hernandez's 4-year-old daughter, Avielle, of her father's companionship.
"Defendants were fully aware of the dangers of exposing NFL players, such as Aaron, to repeated traumatic head impacts," the lawsuit said. "Yet, defendants concealed and misrepresented the risks of repeated traumatic head impacts."
Associated Press, USA Today 09/22/2017
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| Bank of America Put Lincoln Couple Through a â?˜Kafkaesqueâ?? Ordeal |
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A Lincoln coupleâ??s long legal battle with Bank of America could end this week with a proposed settlement that would pay them more than $6 million.
A hearing on the settlement is set for Tuesday before U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Christopher Klein, the same Sacramento judge who told Bank of America in March to pay a $46 million judgment after it wrongfully foreclosed on Erik and Renee Sundquistâ??s Lincoln residence seven years ago.
In that ruling, Klein said the Sundquists were put through a â??Kafkaesqueâ?? ordeal by the bank.
Mark Hames Charlotte Observer, The Sacramento Bee 09/22/2017
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| J&J Loses $417 Million Talc Verdict in First California Case |
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Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Los Angeles jury to pay $417 million to a 62-year-old woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on the companyâ??s talc, in the first California trial over the product. The jury found the parent company and its consumer-products unit liable Monday for failing to warn a woman over the alleged risk of the baby powder. The verdict includes $347 million in punitive damages. J&J, which faces 5,500 claims in U.S. courts, has lost four previous jury verdicts in St. Louis for a total of $300 million. The trial in Los Angeles was the first before a state jury outside Missouri, where the company lost four out of five trials over the past 2 years and got hit with verdicts as high as $110 million.
Margaret Cronin Fisk , Bloomberg 09/22/2017
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| Court Ends Lawsuit Filed by High School Player Who Suffered Brain Injury |
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A federal appeals court panel says that a Pennsylvania high school football player who suffered a traumatic brain injury cannot file suit against his coach or school district. According to Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, no legal precedent was in place to hold the coach or the school liable for the player's injuries. The lawsuit was filed by the parents of the player in 2014 after the 17-year-old boy suffered two massive hits on the field which caused his brain injury. In depositions for the lawsuit, several teammates "testified that they believed [he] was suffering from a concussion after [the first] hit and were surprised that he was allowed to continue to practice."
Matt Miller, PennLive.com 09/22/2017
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