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Credit card scammer sentenced in $2 million money laundering scheme

Authorities have nabbed a New York-based quartet of scammers who masterminded a multimillion-dollar identity theft and money laundering scheme using credit card skimmers. Ring leader Davit Kudugulyan, 45, pleaded guilty to second-degree money laundering in New York State Supreme Court

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Sleep disorders are on the rise among veterans

Sleep is an essential part of a person’s wellbeing. However, many veterans are not getting the sleep they need. Recent research shows sleep disorders have increased six-fold among former service members over the past decade. The largest rise in sleep

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Study finds that stricter limits on medical malpractice lawsuits do not reduce healthcare costs

Proponents of limits on medical malpractice lawsuits have long argued that lawsuits drive up the cost of care, in part because doctors order expensive and unnecessary tests in order to protect themselves from legal liability. According to the theory, wasteful

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New study calls the benefits of Texas medical malpractice reform into question

Texas tort reform is again in the news, thanks in part to the recent Ebola crisis. Legal news analysts have been assessing the case of Thomas Eric Duncan, the deceased Dallas Ebola patient. Texas Presbyterian Hospital has admitted that Duncan

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Texas Named Among the 10 Most Dangerous States for Pedestrians

A new report on fatalities from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that Texas is one of the most dangerous states for pedestrians.   In 2012, the rate of pedestrian fatalities in Texas was 1.83 per 100,000 population

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Laws To Ban Texting While Driving Are Sweeping Slowly Across The Nation

Washington was one of the first states to recognize that they needed a law banning texting while driving. That happened in 2007, and since that time, all but nine states have jumped on the bandwagon. The Governors Highway Association indicates

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Orthopedic surgeon leaves patient a paraplegic

A South Carolina orthopedic surgeon leaves a patient a paraplegic. Jury awards one of the largest judgments in the state for medical malpractice. The Green family of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was awarded $2.85 million in a medical malpractice case

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Supreme Court Rules for Adoptive Couple in ‘Baby Veronica’ Case

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a South Carolina couple in a child custody battle over a girl of Native American descent known as “Baby Veronica.” In the next-to-last day of its term, the court decided 5-4 that the federal

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