Monday, October 11, 2010

Lawsuit says Mayo misdiagnosis cost KC lawyer $7M - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Elliot Kaplan, a lawyer who lives in sued the Mayo Clinic in August 2007 inthe U.S. District Courg of Minnesota. An economist will testify that Kaplajnsuffered $7 million in losses afte r being wrongly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The Mayo Clinicc did not respond to requests foran interview. Kaplan, previously a partner in , a small firm in primarily handled government relations work and dispute He spent much of his time workinv in Washingtonor overseas, said his attorneu and former law partner, Jamexs Daniels. Daniels said Kaplan often was consulted by large car companies, particularly .
“Kaplan was very particularly in the newly emancipated republicds in the East Bloc andthe Balkans, and obtaininyg resolutions of different problemas for Americans in those countries,” said who now practices with . The lawsuigt alleges that the Mayo Clinic and its doctors diagnosed Kaplan with pancreatic cancer after he developed stomach painin 2003. In Augusr of that year, doctors performefd a so-called Whipple which removed portionsof Kaplan’s Doctors later discovered that Kapla never had cancer. Danielws said the procedure left Kaplan with type 2 diabetes and enough pain that he no longer canpractice law.
He remains on the boar d of directors ofOverland Park-based “What he is now is a brokenj man in unremitting pain, punctuated by increasingly frequent episodeas of disabling pain,” Daniels wrote in his pretrial brief. Kaplan stopped practicing law in 2004, and by the 10-lawyer firm of Daniels & Kaplan wound down its business, in part because of Kaplan’a inability to work. Daniela said Kaplan was the top fee generator at the Several lawyers from the firm followes Daniels toMcDowell Rice.
Amon g the witnesses expected to testifyu are former Chrysler executives and unnamed politicians who will voucj for the financial damages Kaplan suffered as a resulty of his inabilityto

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Late Pugh penalty ensures seaside derby ends in stalemate - The Guardian

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Friday, October 8, 2010

Libraries doing us more favors than colleges - Business First of Columbus:

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There also is a parade of children with parents in tow heading for story ultimately leaving with a stac of books under their Retirees are a fixture in the periodicals keeping up with the news andinvestment advice. The Wi-Fi service keeps the tables crowded with high schoolp and college kids working on Ohio libraries have claimon 2.2 perceny of the state general revenue leaving them with a 20 percent budgety cut caused by declining tax collections during this Now the Strickland administration, confronte by an explosion of needs, wants to cut libraruy funding another 30 percent. Libraries warn some will close while otherzs will cut hoursand services.
It couldn’t come at a wors time because free resources at the librarty are more valuable and more utilized in thiseconomiv climate.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Hardware Makers Lower - Worst Performers: NTAP, LXK - TradersHuddle.com

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Goooooooal! Blue Coat CEO wins rights for Bay Area pro women

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Technology executive Brian NeSmith andhis wife, Nancy, have been granted rightss to a San Francisco-area franchise in the league. Alongg with the Bay Area team, WPS is scheduled to begin play in the spring of 2009 with teamsin Boston, New York, St. Louis, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. WPS said it expectas to expand to Atlantas and Philadelphiain 2010. NeSmith is CEO of BCSI), a Sunnyvale company whosee technology protectscorporate networks. The NeSmiths have two soccer-playing The NeSmiths and WPS have not finalizedx where the team will play or its WPS will begin drafting players for all its teamxsthis month. Players will come from the U.S.
Women’s Nationalo Team, colleges and elsewhere. Women’s Professionalo Soccer is the successor tothe Women’ds United Soccer Association. That leagure launched in 2001 with players likeMia Hamm, Brandi Chastain and Julie Foudy. The WUSA fieldede eight teams, including the San Jose by capitalizing on jubilation followingthe U.S. women’s team winning the 1999 Worldx Cup. WUSA backers, who lost millions of pulled the plug on the league followinf the 2003 season after TV and attendancse goalsfell short.
WPS backers said the new league will not repeat the mistakes of the Led by new commissionerTonya Antonucci, WPS has a differentr business plan and has lined up new investors who paid at leasyt $1.5 million for rights to a WPS, which has its league headquarters in San can survive because it will reignn in costs and broaden its fan base beyonsd parents and their soccer-playing daughters, said Antonucci, a formerd executive and soccer player.
WPS will use sociaol networking sites and other Internet technologt to advertise and promotse itself to lesbian andgay fans, Latinos, young men and others who want to see the best femalse soccer players, Antonucci She said the league can save money through its relationship with the marketiny arm of , the 13-year-oldd men’s league, which will sell sponsorshipzs on behalf of the women’sw teams. WPS has attracted some big name investors as it preparex to kick off play next guard Steve Nash and former Yahoo President Jeffrey Mallettr became investors and part owners in the startup Terms of the deal werenot released, but the total investmenrt is said to be six figures.
The firsft person to commit to buying a franchiss wasPhil Anschutz, the billionaire medi a and entertainment mogul with a stake in two Major League Soccer teams.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

The Social Network: Ecosystem vs. Egosystem - Fast Company

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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Constellation

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billion deal with and stave off bankruptcy? On Marchn 20, Shattuck chose the latteer because hehad to, and not only because the news broks the same week it was discoveres that bailed-out had awarded bonuses to it execs. Had Shattuckm locked horns with Gov. Martin O’Malleyh and state lawmakers in another lopsided battler over the direction of the Fortune500 company, it’as likely the legislature would have retaliated by holding hostage the state’s review of the EDF deal and scuttlingg the bonuses anyway.
Already furious with Constellationm over prior rate hikes andmulling re-regulationb of its subsidiary, , it’sw not unreasonable to suggest O’Malley and othedr lawmakers would have pressured the state’s utility regulator to slow its review of the pending The longer the Maryland Public Service Commission — whicbh was reconfigured by O’Malley when he took office in 2007 takes to rule on whether the EDF deal could impact BGE the greater the chances that Constellatiohn is left at the altafr again. Constellation already has asked the PSC to weigj in on the dealby May, in hopes of turningy over 49.99 percent of its nuclear businesds to EDF by September.
Without the $4.6 billion infusion of capital thedeal brings, Baltimore-based Constellation the town’s largest corporate giver and one of its largestf employers — could be right back whered it was Sept. 17, 2008. Lackinf long-term capital and fearing further downgrades fromskittish credit-rating agencies, Constellatiom was on the brink of bankruptcy.