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Bloomberg BusinessWeek: An Arkansas jury’s $2.7 million award to a woman who claimed her use of the hormone replacement drug led her to develop breast cancer was allowed to stand.

Detroit Free Press: Former Michigan Association for Justice president Robert M. Raitt writes, “Our crippled economy, record unemployment and foreclosures, and the environmental catastrophe in the gulf have revealed the lies of tort reform.”

Daily Business Review: A Miami couple was awarded almost $2.5 million after their house was ruined by gas emitted by drywall.

The Pop Tort (blog): The New York State Department of Health is participating in a new federally-funded hospital program “where the health industry essentially becomes (or highly influences) the decision maker as to whether malpractice occurred.”

Television Business Report: Teamster official disputes Tribune’s television station licenses after the company was reorganized under an employee stock ownership plan.

North County Times: Palomar Pomerado Health System officials said “PPH employees missed a few steps while cleaning equipment used in certain procedures.”

New Orleans Times-Picayune: “After 9/11, the government compensated people who were victims of a terrorist attack; in this case, the perpetrators are for-profit, multi-national oil companies.”