Feb
19
2008
Also this week, both chambers of Congress held important hearings on efforts to improve health care for returning service members, as well as to improve the veterans’ disability benefits system. BIAA submitted questions and comments in relation to several of the hearings.
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on “Care for Sick and Wounded Service Members” on Tuesday, February 13. BIAA submitted questions for the hearing regarding TRICARE coverage of cognitive rehabilitation.
On Thursday, he House Veterans Affairs Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee held a hearing on the VA’s disability claims system. BIAA submitted its recent Comment Letter on a Proposed Rule by the Department of Veterans Affairs to overhaul the Schedule for Rating Disability related to TBI to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.
To view a copy of BIAA’s Comment Letter to the VA, please visit our website at http://www.biausa.org/policyissues.htm.
Feb
19
2008
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS-Ed) held a hearing on Thursday on this year’s proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services, featuring HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt as a witness. At the same time, BIAA signed on this week to a coalition letter to the Subcommittee urging its Members to provide $30 million for TBI Act programs this year.
BIAA also signed on to a coalition letter urging Members of Congress to increase funding for all aspects of public health included in the Function 550/discretionary budget allocation in Fiscal Year 2009 by $5.3 billion.
The letter states:
“Our nation struggles with escalating health care costs, growing numbers of uninsured, and the prospect of declining health measured by overall morbidity and mortality. The President’s budget for FY 2009 continues to seriously underfund and undermine an important part of the solution: public health activities and programs…The undersigned organizations urge you to increase funding for all aspects of public health…by an amount that will: 1) restore funding cuts to public health programs enacted in FY 2006; 2) restore lost purchasing power that flat-funding for at least five years has eroded and 3) provide investments that begin to truly meet health challenges facing the nation.”
The three federal agencies charged with implementing TBI Act programs – the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – received either flat or significantly decreased funding in the President’s Budget.
A key legislative priority for BIAA this year is to work to prevent any cuts in funding for TBI programs from occurring and to instead achieve a significant increase in federal support for TBI programs. Stay tuned for BIAA Legislative Action Alerts regarding TBI-related appropriations.
Oct
11
2006
Name : Katharhynn Heidelberg
Daily Press News Editor
DENVER — In a surprising move Friday, the woman the IRS says participated in one of the biggest prime banknote fraud schemes in Colorado changed her plea to guilty.
Jannice McClain Schmidt, 69, had been indicted in 2004 for her role in a prime bank note scheme the IRS contends bilked victims, including Cliff Seigneur of Paonia, out of a total of $56 million. Schmidt and her co-defendants George Beros, George Weed, Michael Smith, Charles Lewis, Norman Schmidt and Peter Moss allegedly used the money for such extravagant purchases as the Redstone Castle and NASCAR vehicles. Continue Reading »
Oct
06
2006
May 07,2006
ROSELEE PAPANDREA
DAILY NEWS STAFF
Greg Acosta was the kid who made everybody laugh.
During his senior year at Jacksonville High School in 2005, he was voted class clown and most unforgettable in the yearbook.
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Sep
28
2006
Paul Roberts/Staff Writer
Issue date: 4/26/06 Section: News
The results of the autopsy of Juan Manuel Nunez III were released Tuesday stating his death was caused by “acute alcohol intoxication and concussive brain injury complicated by post traumatic apnea.”
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Sep
22
2006
Name : JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE, The Virginian-Pilot
PORTSMOUTH - A woman has been accused of murdering a 2-year-old boy she was caring for in October, when he suffered injuries that doctors suspected show abuse.
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Sep
04
2005
Recent Scarlett Law Group Victories:
On July 7, 2005, in Rasmussen v. Shade, et al., SCV 14935, Placer County Superior Court, Lincoln Division, the jury reached it’s Verdict awarding Kim Rasmussen $1,248,024.00 as a result of injuries he sustained in a relatively minor rear end automobile accident occurring in Roseville, California.
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Jan
01
2005
In Greener v. Hospital, et al., plaintiffs brought suit on behalf of their eight year old daughter as a result of a birth injury. Mrs. Greener was asymptomatic, though Beta Strep positive. It was alleged that defendants failed to give prophylactic antibiotics, and further, that defendant failed to appropriately diagnose plaintiff’s child with meningitis following birth.
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Jan
01
2005
In Harrison v. North Las Vegas, et al., Mr. Scarlett, together with his co-counsel Cal J. Potter III, Esq., again took on the correctional facility run by the City of North Las Vegas. This federal civil rights action was settled for a confidential amount.
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Jan
01
2005
Settlement reached with defendant TRANSIT DISTRICT when plaintiff was rear-ended by a transit bus. Plaintiff sustained a mild TBI, though plaintiff had a ten-year pre-existing history of debilitating migraines. Plaintiff also suffered from a whiplash during the accident though all x-rays and neuro-imaging was negative. Case settled on second day of trial.
