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Veterans who have been diagnosed with constrictive bronchiolitis can now be put on the fast track to receive health benefits. The Social Security Administration updated its "compassionate allowances" list (CAL), effective August 11, 2012, to include this rare lung disease that is found in many veterans who were recently exposed to burn pits on military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq.

One week after three U.S. Airways passenger planes nearly collided on July 31, 2012, over Washington's Reagan National Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a ban on traffic-switching.

According to a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, underbidding to obtain a government contract can be the basis for liability.

On Aug. 2, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion marking the first time a circuit court has held that an underbid can be the basis for liability in a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit.

In a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, Motley Rice securities attorney and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Labaton, discusses reasons why the CEO of the collapsed brokerage firm Peregrine Financial Group Inc. may have decided to waive a preliminary hearing in his criminal case.

It was a close call on Tuesday afternoon, July 31, 2012, when two outbound commuter jets came within seconds of a midair collision with another flight coming in for a landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

Motley Rice members and asbestos lawyers Anne McGinness Kearse and Nathan D. Finch have been invited to speak at the upcoming American Association for Justice (AAJ) Summer Convention being held from Saturday, July 28 to Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at the Chicago Hilton.

Motley Rice member Don Migliori will attend the 2012 FealGood Foundation's (FGF) Best of the Best Gala on Thursday, July 26, 2012, at the Watermill Inn in Smithtown, NY.

On July 23, 2012, a jury awarded a Bakersfield, Calif., couple $5.5 million in a case against C.R. Bard Medical, the manufacturer of the Avaulta Mesh pelvic mesh implant. The plaintiffs alleged that C.R. Bard knew that the mesh was unsafe but decided to continue selling it.

Last week, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security released its findings from a year-long investigation into HSBC, stating that HSBC had "exposed the U.S. financial system to a wide array of money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorist financing risks due to poor anti-money laundering (AML) controls."