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U.S. Victim’s Family Sues Boeing for Ethiopian Plane Crash

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | April 19, 2019

The family of an American passenger on board the recent Boeing 737 Max passenger plane that crashed last month in Ethiopia has filed a lawsuit against the plane’s manufacturer.

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Border Patrol Chase Injuries Are Skyrocketing — Will Lawsuits Follow?

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | April 19, 2019

According to a joint investigation by ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times, at least 22 people have died and another 250 have been injured and following a Border Patrol pursuit — in the last four years alone.

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Airline Sexual Assault on The Rise?

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | April 19, 2019

They’re not stories you hear often, but when you do, they sound horrific. JetBlue is being sued by two flight attendants who claim two pilots drugged both and raped one during a layover.

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Cozy Doctors

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | April 19, 2019

This April 2019 piece (see link below), by investigative journalist Will Evans, focuses on a cozy relationship between Tesla and Dr. Basil Besh, a prominent Bay Area orthopedic upper-extremity specialist.

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Bars Sued After Deadly Car Crash: What Is Dram Shop Liability?

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | April 19, 2019

Joey Lee Bailey drank at least two 22-ounce beers and three double White Russians at Roosters Wings in Georgetown, Kentucky last January.

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Remember IBR?

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | April 10, 2019

After the 2012 reforms most of the attention went to IMR and the huge volume of UR disputes that wound up on the doorstep of Maximus, the DWC’s IMR provider.

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L’Affair Baker

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | April 6, 2019

Most of California’s major newspapers have covered the controversy surrounding former DIR head Christine Baker and the report of the California State Auditor which I outlined in my last post (see some links to the newspaper coverage below).

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California Women’s Hospital Sued for Allegedly Filming 1,800 Patients

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | April 4, 2019

Sharp Grossmont Hospital in El Cajon, California claims it was investigating employee theft of anesthesia drugs. So it installed motion-activated cameras on drug carts in three operating rooms at the facility.

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Xarelto Settles 25,000 Cases for $775M

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | April 2, 2019

The makers of the blood-thinning drug Xarelto, Bayer and Johnson & Johnson, have agreed to settle the 25,000 consolidated cases against them for $775 million.

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Jury Orders Monsanto to Pay $80M in Roundup Cancer Case

Pratt Williams, A Professional Law Corporation | March 30, 2019

Last week, a California jury determined Monsanto’s popular Roundup weed killer was a “substantial factor” in causing a longtime customer’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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