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A San Diego jury will decide this week if Pizza Hut is liable for a November 2008 accident involving one of their drivers.

The accident left a mother and daughter severely injured. According to the lawsuit, driver Nicole Fisk had a seizure while driving during work, causing her to black out and crash into the car containing Olena and Shari Novak.

The lawsuit claims that Pizza Hut should have known that Fisk was at risk for seizures and has the responsibility of putting safe drivers on the road.

Fisk was eventually dropped from the Novaks’ lawsuit. Dana Littlefield, San Diego Union Tribune 07/25/2010
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Current, former workers and documents question care of medically fragile residents at the Austin State Supported Living Center the Cardinal residence.

Some current and former employees say that Cardinal is so poorly run that residents who are unable to speak for themselves are at serious risk for harm.

Five current and former staffers identified problems that were not mentioned in an independent monitoring report published in June that found critical staffing shortages, high staff turnover, “dehumanizing practices” and a serious staff morale problem at the Austin facility. Corrie MacLaggan, Austin American Statesman 07/26/2010
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The Washington State Department of Transportation has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man involved in a serious motorcycle crash in 2006.

John Lancaster claims in his lawsuit that the DOT was aware for years that the roadway where he crashed was dangerously designed, but had failed to do anything to fix it.

The area has a high level of traffic accidents, and a 2001 report by the DOT recommended the road be fixed. Four years later, Lancaster still cannot use his right arm and has limited mobility in his left hand. Jeremy Pawloski, The Olympian 07/20/2010
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A committee within the F.D.A. has advised the agency to denounce its marketing approval of the popular cancer drug Avastin for treating breast cancer because “new trials showed no apparent benefit from the drug.”

The committee found that new trials of the drug, which is combined with the breast cancer drug paclitaxel to treat metastatic breast cancer, actually showed that survival rates decreased slightly for women due to complications from the drugs.

If the F.D.A. decides to follow the committee recommendation, it would not affect marketing of the drug for brain, lung, colon and kidney cancer. Thomas H. Maugh II, LA Times 07/21/2010
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A group of former Motorola workers and their children filed a lawsuit Friday against the Schaumburg-based company, claiming toxic substances used to make Motorola products caused serious birth defects in at least 30 children born to workers employed by the company since the 1960s.

The 71 plaintiffs filed the suit in Cook County Circuit Court. The suit claims Motorola knew the chemicals used to make semiconductors and computer chips in sterile “clean rooms” were toxic and had the potential to cause birth defects in children born to people exposed to the compounds.

Thirty children of former employees allegedly suffer from physical and developmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy, autism, spina bifida, sterility and brain malformations, the suit claims. LEEANN MATON, Chicago Sun-Times 07/26/2010

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The AP (7/13) reported, “A Latino civil rights organization sued an international gym chain, accusing 24 Hour Fitness of racial and gender discrimination against its workers in California.

The lawsuit filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and a law firm claimed that black, Latino, Asian and female staffers systematically hit glass ceilings when they applied for management jobs at some of the company’s approximately 200 California clubs.”

The suit claims “the fitness club violated state anti-discrimination laws and seeks class-action status, which would allow it to represent an estimated 10,000 California employees of the fitness chain.”

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Under the headline “Bad Nurses Able To Keep Working In Other States,” USA Today (7/15, Weber, Ornstein) carries an article and interactive map by the independent reporting organization ProPublica that explain how nurses can slip from one state to another for work even if they have felony drug convictions.

The report opens with the case of a nurse who “was fired from a hospital in Wausau, Wis., in 2007 after stealing the powerful painkiller Dilaudid,” was convicted of felony drug charges, and later managed to “get a job as a traveling nurse at a hospital 1,200 miles away in New Bern, N.C.” According to ProPublica, this case “illustrates significant gaps in regulatory efforts nationwide” to keep track of nurses’ misconduct. The report examines applicable licensing issues and agreements that it says perpetuate the problem.

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Gaps in regulatory efforts nationwide allow nurses from avoiding the consequences of misconduct by hopping across state lines. Compacts created to help get good nurses to areas where they are needed most recognize a license obtained in a nurse’s home state in the other compact states.

But an investigation by ProPublica found that the pact also has allowed nurses with records of misconduct to put patients in jeopardy. In some cases, nurses have retained clean multistate licenses after at least one compact state had banned them. They have ignored their patients’ needs, stolen their pain medication, forgotten crucial tests or missed changes in their condition, records show. Tracy Weber Charles Ornstein by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica 07/15/2010
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The AP (7/14) reported, “Novartis will pay up to $152.5 million to potentially thousands of women after a jury found it discriminated against them by paying them less than men, the pharmaceutical company and plaintiffs’ lawyers announced Wednesday after a deal was struck. The agreement, which still must be approved by a federal judge in Manhattan, also calls for an additional $22.5 million to be paid for company programs to eliminate discrimination. The settlement covers claims by 5,600 women at the drug company who were part of the class-action lawsuit that resulted in a six-week trial earlier this year.”

Bloomberg News (7/14, Van Voris) reported, “The suit was filed in 2004 by Amy Velez and four other women who claimed they faced discrimination over pay and promotion and for pregnancy.”

The Wall Street Journal (7/15, Bray) reports that lead plaintiffs’ attorney David Sanford said, “Novartis has agreed to a momentous settlement,” adding, “the terms of this agreement allow for full compensation of both former and current female field force employees, ensuring that every woman who worked at Novartis over the past eight years has been compensated fairly.”

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A lawsuit has been filed against the Arizona Board of Regents by a former Arizona State student who claims that the university police department and disciplinary office failed to properly investigate her accusations that she was raped.

According to the police report, the woman reported the alleged incident the day after it occurred, and officers determined that she had not withdrawn consent during the sexual activity. The lawsuit, however, claims that the police department “refused to give the woman a forensic sexual assault examination,” and performed an inadequate investigation. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages. Derek Quizon, Arizona Republic 07/13/2010
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