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| | 2011 Reel Justice Fishing Tournament, Sep 30 - Oct 1 in Port Aransas | |
| | Join the TTLA Advocates for our first Annual Reel Justice Fishing Tournament, and see who gets bragging rights as TTLA's fishing champion! The fun starts Friday evening with a Welcome dinner, where you'll meet your guide and pick up your tournament materials. Saturday morning at first light, it's ON! Registration fee includes boat, guide, Welcome dinner on Friday, breakfast, lunch & snacks on Saturday, tournament t-shirt, and other goodies! | | Share on FB & Twitter | |
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| | More Accusations for Local Brain Surgeon | |
| | New patients are coming forward accusing a Corpus Christi brain surgeon of harmful practices. Dr. Stefan Konasiewicz has already faced several malpractice suits in Minnesota, two reportedly involving patient deaths, before he headed to Corpus Christi. Now, accusations are starting to pile up in South Texas. The Duluth News Tribune reports that Konasiewicz settled at least five lawsuits accusing him of serious injury or death in Minnesota. He came to Texas in 2007 after facing reprimand by the Minnesota Medical Board. Steven Romo KRIS - TV Corpus Christi, n/a 09/27/2011 | | Read Article: n/a | | Laws/Cases | |
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| | Suit: Kansas City Priest Fathered Child in Affair | |
| | A Missouri man has filed a lawsuit against a priest in the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese, claiming he fathered a child with the man's wife. The suit claims the priest had an affair with the plaintiff's wife in 2004 and 2005 after providing counseling. The priest's actions, the suit states, "tore the family apart." The plaintiff is seeking unspecified damages. Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star 09/26/2011 | | Read Article: Kansas City Star | | Guidant to Pay $9.25M in False Claims Settlement | |
| | The U.S. Justice Department said Monday that a medical device manufacturer has agreed to pay $9.25 million in a false claims settlement. Guidant LLC, a subsidiary of Boston Scientific Corp. in Natick, Mass., allegedly promoted the longevity and reliability of its pacemakers and defibrillators to physicians in an effort to persuade them to purchase Guidant products over competing devices. The company allegedly touted the generous credits available should a device need to be replaced while covered under warranty. Associated Press, San Antonio Express News 09/27/2011 | | Read Article: San Antonio Express News | | Fair Collapse Suit Challenges Ind.'s $5M Tort Cap | |
| | An Indiana law that caps the state's liability for damages at $5 million for a single event violates the U.S. and state constitutions and should be thrown out, six plaintiffs suing over the deadly collapse of an Indiana State Fair stage argue in a lawsuit filed Monday. The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis on behalf of the estates of three of the seven people killed in the Aug. 13 collapse and three others who were injured seeks class-action status on behalf as many as 70 plaintiffs. The lawsuit said the state liability cap violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment as well as federal laws and the Indiana Constitution. KEN KUSMER, Associated Press, San Antonio Express News 09/27/2011 | | Read Article: San Antonio Express News | | Injured War Contractors Sue Over Health Care, Disability Payments | |
| | Private contractors injured while working for the U.S. government in Iraq and Afghanistan filed a class action lawsuit in federal court on Monday, claiming that corporations and insurance companies had unfairly denied them medical treatment and disability payments. The suit, filed in district court in Washington, D.C., claims that private contracting firms and their insurers routinely lied, cheated and threatened injured workers, while ignoring a federal law requiring compensation for such employees. Attorneys for the workers are seeking $2 billion in damages. T. Christian Miller, ProPublica 09/27/2011 | | Read Article: ProPublica | | Mother Files Suit Against Hospitals over Son's Death | |
| | An Illinois woman has filed a lawsuit against three Chicago hospitals, two doctors and an ambulance service, all of whom she claims were negligent in treating her 7-year-old son, resulting in his death. The boy was taken to a hospital in Sept. 2010 with severe asthma problems, and was transferred to two other hospitals over the next 12 hours. By the time he reached the final hospital, the suit claims, his brain was so starved for oxygen that he did not survive. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages. Staff Report, United Press International 09/26/2011 | | Read Article: United Press International | | Issues | |
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| | Third-Party Cases Pose Liability Risks to Doctors | |
| | The Utah Supreme Court is reviewing whether the children of a patient can sue their father's physician for medication mismanagement after the patient shot his wife to death. In a similar case, the Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled that a psychiatrist can be sued for medication negligence after a patient fatally attacked his mother. The cases raise concerns about doctors' potential liability for criminal actions committed by their patients and what duty, if any, physicians owe to nonpatients. Experts say the cases remind doctors to take note of circumstances that could increase their liability risk to third parties. Alicia Gallegos, American Medical News 09/27/2011 | | Read Article: American Medical News | |
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