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Bill Paxton's Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Actor's Untimely Death
By Joshua Glotzer in Wrongful Death on March 02, 2018
Last year, only 11 days after having heart surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, actor Bill Paxton died from a stroke. His family recently filed a wrongful death claim against the hospital, alleging that Paxton's surgeon performed "a high risk and unconventional surgical approach with which he lacked experience." The family fully believes that had Paxton received adequate medical care his untimely death could have been prevented. Filing a wrongful death lawsuit can allow the family to recover damages for the loss of their loved one.
Paxton was a very well-known actor and likely shouldered most of the family's financial obligations. In the wake of his death, Paxton's family may be struggling with money. If their wrongful death lawsuit is successful, they may be able to recover damages to compensate for the loss of Paxton's income and support.
Wrongful Death Damages
Family members who are harmed by the unexpected loss of a loved one may be entitled to damages when their loved one's death is the result of another person's negligence or wrongful conduct. Damages can compensate for direct financial costs (e.g., funeral and burial), indirect financial costs (e.g., lost contribution and services), and non-financial harms (e.g., pain and suffering). The value of the damages that are awarded will vary from case to case. Damages that are not linked to the family's direct out-of-pocket expenses can be difficult to value.
Damages for Lost Contributions & Services
In California, families may be entitled to recover monetary damages to make up for the financial contributions and servicesof their now-deceased loved one. How much can families recover? How is the value of those contributions and services calculated? Courts will consider a few different factors when making a decision.
Earnings: A court will review the victim's income and earnings to gain a better understanding of the victim's contributions to his family.
Life Expectancy: How much a family can recover in lost expected contributions will depend on how long the victim would have been expected to live, had the fatal accident never happened. The greater the life expectancy, the more a family will be able to recoup.
Health: The victim's health prior to the accident will be an important factor in determining damages. If the victim was unhealthy, their ability to work and contribute to their family was likely diminished.
A judge and/or jury will balance all of these (and any other relevant) factors to calculate an appropriate value for these damages.
Damages for Loss of Society, Comfort and Protection
Courts in California have held that families can also recover monetary damages to make up for the loss of the society, comfort, and protection once provided by the victim. Families who want to recover these damages can present evidence to prove the closeness of their relationship with the victim and show how their lives have been changed by their sudden loss. Evidence should help to prove:
Closeness of the family unit
Warmth between family members, and
Kind, loving, and attentive behavior of the victim.
The closer the family, the more devastating the death. Damages awarded to the family can directly reflect the gravity of their loss.
Damages for Loss of Consortium
Spouses (or partners) of a victim are also entitled to ask for damages to compensate for loss of consortium. This is a fancy way to say that their intimate and romantic relationship has been destroyed. In California, loss of consortium can include the loss of:
Love, companionship, comfort, care, assistance, protection, affection, society, and moral support, and
Enjoyment of sexual relations or ability to have kids.
Experienced Los Angeles Wrongful Death Attorney
If you have recently lost a loved one in a Los Angeles accident you may be entitled to compensation. The money you recover from a wrongful death lawsuit can be incredibly helpful you as recover from your shocking loss. Contact Glotzer & Leib, LLP to request a free consultation and learn about how you can file a wrongful death claim. You have a limited amount of time to take legal action, so it is important to act quickly.

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Stacey was named an AVCA Honorable Mention All-American and was an AVCA All-West Region First Team selection ... She led the team with 405 points on the season and finished second on the team with 333 kills ... She averaged 3.00 kills per set and appeared in all of UCSB's 111 sets ... Led the team with a .324 hitting percentage which ranked fifth in the Big West ... In conference games she hit .307 and averaged a team-high 3.11 kills per set ... Also led the squad with 0.81 blocks per set in Big West play ... Had 17 matches with double-digit kills ... Stacey's career-high 23 kills carried the Gauchos to a 3-2 win over Cal St. Northridge on Sept. 24 ... Recorded a double-double on Oct. 1 with 14 kills and 10 block assists in a five-set win over Long Beach State ... She also had 18 kills against UC Davis on Oct 16 ... Stacey led the team with 90 blocks averaging 0.81 blocks per set ... Totaled a team-best 90 blocks (12 solo) ... She also finished the season with 21 aces putting her second on the team ... Tallied 83 digs or 0.75 per set ... Was an Big West All-Academic Team selection ... Was UCSB's Big West Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Finished second on the team with 279 total kills, an average of 2.34 per set ... Hit a team-best .330, which was also third-best in the Big West ... That mark also placed her 86th in the nation ... Tied for second on the team with 80 total blocks ... Had 11 solo blocks, second-best on squad, and averaged 0.67 blocks per set ... She also tallied 69 digs, for a 0.58 per set average ... In conference games, Stacey hit .278 and averaged 2.34 kills per set ... Had 16 matches with double-digit kills ... Had season-best 15 kills (one off her career-high) on Oct. 10 vs. Cal Poly ... Hit .300 or better in 21 of 30 matches ... Her .714 hitting percentage on Sept. 4 at San Diego (10k, 0e, 14a) ranks as 11th-best all-time in UCSB rally-scoring history ... Tallied at least one block in all but one match ... Had season-best eight digs on Oct. 30 vs. Cal State Fullerton ... Posted 14 kills on Oct. 16 vs. Pacific ... Opened the season with consecutive 10-kill performances vs. Portland State and Delaware ... In fact, she had double-digit kills in 10 of the season's first 14 matches ... Had 16 service aces on the season, including a career-high three on Oct. 31 vs. Long Beach State.
Received a medical redshirt as she recovered from knee surgery.
Played in 23 matches a freshman...Posted double-digit kills on four occasions, the first time at Santa Clara (Sept. 15) when she tallied 15 and also collected a season-best six digs...The following match, she had 13 kills in a five-game loss to Cal State Northridge (Sept. 21)...Had a strong showing at the season-ending Baden Thanksgiving Classic, posting a .303 (14k, 4e, 33a) clip in the win over Temple (Nov. 23) along with a season-high three block assists...The next day, she notched a season-high 16 kills in a win over Yale...Was third amongst Gaucho freshmen and sixth overall with 108 kills on the year.
Played at Marina High School where she was team captain, team kills leader, and Most Valuable Player in 2005 and 2006 under head coach Brad Simons...A three-year varsity letterwinner, she helped the Vikings to a CIF Division IA appearance in 2006...Named First Team All-Sunset League during both her junior and senior years...Was a Scholar-Athlete for all four years of her prep career and was tops amongst four-year letterwinners with a 4.1 GPA...Earned Los Angeles Times Orange County Edition Player of the Week honors after posting 29 kills against cross-town rival Edison...Was voted Most Athletic Female of her senior class at Marina HS...Graduated with honors.
Played club ball with TCA for four years under coach Neil Mason...On the TCA 18-1 team, she earned a gold medal at the 2006 National Girls Junior Olympics Open Championship in Atlanta, Ga....In 2007 her team took third in the 18-open championship...The same year, her team won three qualifiers and placed second in Las Vegas...In 2005 she earned all-tournament honors as her 16-1 team took gold at the Junior Olympics Invitational in Louisville, Ky.
Stacey Brianne Schmidt was born on March 5, 1989 in Anaheim, Calif. to Debbie and Craig Schmidt...Has a younger brother named Jacob...Enjoys playing beach volleyball...Majoring in business economics at UCSB with a minor in sports management...A member of the Dean's List at UCSB...Enjoys swimming when she's not playing volleyball...Her favorite movie is "Forrest Gump"...Most memorable athletic achievement was winning Junior Olympics in 2006.


Pain is universal. More than 25 million adults experience chronic pain and about 40 million adults experience severe levels of pain, according to recent surveys.
And just like humans, animals experience pain. Which is why September, declared Pain Awareness Month, is also Animal Pain Awareness Month.
Pain is prevalent though often poorly understood and underdiagnosed in veterinary medicine. At the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), Duncan Lascelles is committed to understanding and managing pain in companion animals.
Lascelles, a professor of small animal surgery specializing in orthopedic surgery and pain management, directs the NC State Comparative Pain Research Program (CPRP), he and his team are international leaders in research focused on improving the way we measure pain in animals — and determining which therapies work best to alleviate it. The goal? Individualized patient pain management.


Fearless chipmunk: between people and precipice (a view from Tiger Mountain).
It is so close to reality that it's impossible to know whether the ad is parody or not. The $30 per blog post is the real kicker. We want you to be from a wealthy background, but starving enough to accept $30 for a great piece of writing, three times a week.
Could you repost it there?
And absolutely: that's part of the absurdity of the boast, which is why I took it for parody – the meager fee offered for assuaging the existential angst of the wealthy.


Here is a thread for daily responses to the strips, if you want to make them!
Say anything you want: comment on the plot, mock the quality of the art, complain that the lettering is sloppy, ponder who is the worst pirate, etc.
The only thing I'm ambivalent about is predictions. On the one hand, I love to know what I've made people THINK will happen (especially if it's wrong). On the other, even though I've already planned out what I'm going to do so there's very little chance a prediction could affect it, I don't want people who guess correctly to claim that I stole their idea. So maybe if you want to make a prediction you do it in a thread which I don't look at.
This one I will look at!
First topic for discussion: Is making this post a desperate cry for attention?
Second: Did I spell "desperate" right?
From today's episode, i'm glad to see that Krys's scary character's page picture comes from her making "air-quotes" rather than doing a frightening "COMIN TA GITCHA!" kind of thing that i had imagined--even if it means she's neglecting the sails.
Though, now that my "comin ta gitcha" myth has been debunked, I can reflect on how Eskimo's recruitment of Lance can perhaps be seen as through the most amiable "press-gang"ing ever!
Some of the details on the noses seem to be missing on some of the characters. No colour.
I think the man at the end was dreaming the whole thing up.
I could say that it's a personal preference to do b&w instead of color and in some ways, it is. I don't really mind lack of color in a comic, and I did the original L&E storys in b&w (well, pencil).
The bottom line though is that color takes a long time to do. As it is, it takes me about 1.5-2 hrs to draw a page (1 hour to pencil, about 45 minutes to ink/clean up). Doing a page of color (as I did the other day) takes more like four hours (and that was only one large panel, and I totally shirked when it got to the background). If I were going to do the comic in color, I could only do about one a week instead of one a weekday. Because I'm impatient to get the story moving along, I'd much rather do it this way. I am totally willing to sacrifice quality of art for story (which might also explain the missing detail).
That said, there will be occasional splashes of color. I mentioned I just did a page of color the other day. That was the cover for the second storyline, which will debut in--oh, about two weeks, I think. (The current comics, the "Lance and Eskimo Set Sail for Adventure" set, are kind of a character-development mishmash/prelude to what's going to happen in the next story.) I think I will try to do a color cover for every new storyline.
I'm liking it a lot. I think I'll just redirect my site to that comic since I've given up on the whole updating thing. I'm sorry I havnt come by to say anything but today's comic was the first one that really gave me a good snicker and I wanted to make note of that.
Just incase there's a test later, or something.
They are a VIDEOTAPE-transferring operation...yet ChefElf's mysterious gift appears to be square, & thus a DVD? He is indeed mysterious & subversive!
Maybe it's a CD-ROM. You know, a WMV file or something.
The new logo for the front page fills me with fear and trepidation.
Also, the border needs to be aliased. Or anti-aliased. Whatever the cool kids are doing these days.
This all sounds exciting. I liked the one I saw; I'm going to wait about a month before looking at any more. I am generally impatient and like to have lots of contect to catch up on.
I'm going to wait about a month before looking at any more. I am generally impatient and like to have lots of contect to catch up on.
yikes, really? my monitor's so dark I can't tell. Thanks for the heads-up. I hope I remember to deal with that when I get home from work.
yeah, I prefer a bunch of comics all at once to one a day too--that's why I love finding an established comic and reading all the archives in one day.
Join the club! The dirty, dirty slackers club. Of which I am at least co-president-for-life.
Um, now that I look at it more closely, not really. But the outline is a good deal bolder than anything else on the page.
On the subject of Chefelf's secret mystery gift, maybe it was a VHS tape in a square box. And the extra space in the box is a secret compartment that contains a lightsaber, or an autographed picture of Chewbacca, or that necklace from Lord of the Rings. Just guessing.
Woah; I didn't see that coming!
Never has an off-screen point/thinking-they're-talking-about-something-else lead to such a frightening character introduction. Still, I feel they may escape with their lives...I hope!
Did you really think they were talking about something else? what?
(The comic continues, the focus becoming the pirate-girl introduced by Lance's non-sequitor).
If my interpretation is wrong (& Eskimo was trying to make Lance aware of off-screen competitor) then my comments make no sense!
Also I was unable to read her ship's name, despite squinting a bit. Set sail for mystery!


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They're the brands we use every day, they're the colourful staples that compete for our attention on the supermarket shelves, but they're also part of an investment sector with major potential.
The consumer staples sector captures companies selling everything from toothpaste to chewing gum, from chocolate bars to fish-fingers. Garry Laurence, portfolio manager of the Perpetual Global Share Fund, has been on the road looking for the best performers in the sector – and especially for ones that are under-priced.
"I went to a consumer staples conference in the US… there's a pickup in excitement around revenue growth for consumer staples companies as they look to re-invest the savings from the Trump tax cuts back into new products and innovation." Garry Laurence says.
One such company is US-based Mondelez. It's the world's second largest confectionary maker and it owns brands like Cadbury, Oreo, Toblerone and Milka. We all recognise these brands, but what might be surprising is how broadly they're sold – they're well-loved across the US, but also in Europe and India. In fact some 76 per cent of their revenue comes from outside the US, with 35 per cent coming from emerging markets.
In India, Cadbury is the number one chocolate brand. It may have only a one per cent market share in the US, but it's much larger in other markets. It's a great company with considerable brand power. Its growth potential remains strong on the back of new products like the Milka-Oreo chocolate bar.
More than chocolate bars
Nomad Foods is another high quality company and owns some well-loved consumer staples brands. In Europe they own the Birdseye brand, as well as Findus and Iglo which sell frozen vegetables, fish fingers and frozen chicken.
The company is currently in a consolidation phase after a flurry of acquisition activity. Gains have been made in streamlining the overall product offering to focus on the most valuable labels.
Consumer staples seen as recession proof
While many sectors find themselves rising in good times but suffering in a downturn, the consumer staples sector tends to be counter-cyclical. Chocolate bars and frozen dinners are things we buy no matter the over-riding economic conditions. In some circumstances we may even end up buying more as belts are tightened and we forgo more fancy options and instead opt for the cheap-and-easy.
The whirlwind of ecommerce has caused widespread digital-disruption, but when you dig into the numbers, it appears this strong growth may just be getting started.
The sector is maturing, however globally 90 per cent of sales are still coming from bricks & mortar stores. Most interesting is that in China the shift is stronger, with 20 per cent of sales being online.
The next 5 – 10 years are poised to see continued strength in this online retail trend.
The Perpetual Global Share Fund owns stakes in big names like Alphabet (owner of Google) and EBay; and in China the fund is enjoying the success of the giant online retailer VIPshop.
Gaining exposure to the upside of this trend can also be achieved indirectly. Companies like FedEx are seeing strong gains as they adapt their logistics services to facilitate the delivery of all these goods.
In the US, FedEx sits next to UPS as the one of the two key players in the market.
By Garry Laurence, Global Equities Portfolio Manager, Perpetual
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Today is World Refugee Day, which provides an opportunity to reflect on the suffering of displaced people and what we can do to provide them safety as well as to prevent future displacement. On this year's World Refugee Day, Bangladesh stands out as a beacon of hope and inspiration. Bangladesh has saved the lives of more than 7,00,000 Rohingya that fled ethnic cleansing in Burma since August 2017, and is working with Burma to lay the groundwork for a sustainable future for those displaced.
Through high-level engagement, we continue to urge all actors in Burma to play a constructive role in resolving this crisis — restoring rule of law, immediately granting unhindered humanitarian and media access, and guaranteeing those who voluntarily choose to return to their places of origin are able to do so in safety and dignity, and addressing the root causes of conflict in the Rakhine State. We also continue to call on Bangladesh to do all it can to prevent loss of life in Cox's Bazar, particularly as the monsoons begin, including by providing additional safe space to shelter those vulnerable to or displaced by the monsoons.
The United States is the largest single country provider of humanitarian assistance not only in Bangladesh but also worldwide. US humanitarian assistance for refugees is focused on helping refugees and other displaced people in countries close to their homelands so that they may return home safely and voluntarily.
The United States has provided nearly $204 million in assistance to those displaced in Burma and Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh in direct response to the crisis that started in August 2017. Our assistance provides urgent, life-saving services, including child and women protection programs, food, shelter, healthcare services, and access to clean water in Cox's Bazar. We also are working closely with our UN partners to ensure increased support to Bangladeshi communities affected by the crisis, including addressing deforestation and the impact on local markets.
Marcia Bernicat is US ambassador to Dhaka.


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