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IEHA to Host the 68th Annual Fall Education Conference at Old National Events Plaza

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Old National Events Plaza will host Indiana Environmental Health Association’s 68th Annual Fall Education Conference, September 24-26, 2018. The organization last hosted their conference in Evansville in 1998.

With a membership over 400+ from all over the state of Indiana, the conference looks to combine education, professional development, and technical proficiency during their time in Evansville. The two-and-a-half-day conference will generate approximately 400+ sleeping room nights.

“We are thrilled to host IEHA’s Fall Education Conference in September,” said Alexis Berggren, general manager, for Old National Events Plaza.  “We look forward to welcoming their attendees back to Evansville, a destination that the organization has not met in for 20 years, and I am confident that our community will deliver an outstanding experience that we hope will lead to more meetings and partnership with IEHA in the future!”

Conventioneers traveling all over the state to attend the conference are employed by federal, state and local governments, schools, medical care facilities, industries, trade organizations, solid waste districts and are students and educators of environmental health.

“After many hours of careful consideration, we are pleased to announce Evansville as the home of our 68th annual Fall Education Conference!  Evansville offers us excellent opportunities and amenities for our conference and its attendees as well as a chance to see how the city has changed in the 20 years since we were last there.  We want to thank everyone who has helped with the selection effort thus far, and thank them for our continued help in making our long-awaited return to Evansville a huge success!”  – JoAnn Xiong Mercado, IEHA President-Elect

The annual conference aims to further promote the organization’s mission: to promote, preserve and protect environmental public health in the state of Indiana, and to encourage a spirit of cooperation among all environmental health stakeholders while serving its members in the regulatory, industry, and academic communities.

Indiana Environmental Health Association has planned a full conference schedule in hopes to further accomplish their key goals. IEHA works closely with other Environmental and Public Health Protection Agencies and Departments to control environmental hazards and to attain optimum human health.

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Gov. Holcomb will participate in 2018 SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C. June 20-21

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Indiana Gov. Eric J. Holcomb will participate in the 2018 SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C. June 20-21. SelectUSA is a U.S. Department of Commerce program dedicated to facilitating job-creating business investment into the United States. At its fifth annual summit, SelectUSA will convene global executives and business leaders to discuss opportunities in key sectors—including infrastructure, energy and advanced manufacturing—as well as issues like tax and regulatory reform, trade, infrastructure and workforce development.

While there, he will participate in meetings with business executives and government leaders. On Thursday, he will give remarks highlighting Indiana’s global economy and Next Level Jobs workforce initiative. The governor will be joined by Indiana Secretary of Commerce Jim Schellinger, Indiana Economic Development Corporation President Elaine Bedel and a delegation of economic development professionals from across Indiana.

The 2017 Investment Summit drew more than 3,000 participants, including 1,200 business representatives and economic development organizations from 52 U.S. states and territories.

Indiana is home to more than 950 foreign-owned business establishments that support approximately 190,900 Hoosier jobs across the state. Indiana has the highest percentage of private sector jobs coming from foreign-owned firms in the Midwest, and that number continues to grow as companies like India-based Infosys, China-based SF Motors, Israel-based MCP USA, Germany-based ElringKlinger, and Japan-based Subaru, Toyota and Honda choose to locate and expand in Indiana.

 

Jury awards $15M after Indiana cancer patient’s misread CT scan

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Dave Stafford for www.theindianalawyer.com

A federal jury Friday awarded $15 million in damages on behalf of a woman who claimed a Carmel imaging center failed to identify a tumor that went untreated and undetected for nearly 18 months, severely reducing her chances of surviving cancer.

The jury returned its verdict Friday after a four-day trial, awarding $14 million to Courtney Webster and $1 million to her husband, Brian Webster. The jury found Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Inc., doing business as CDI Indiana LLC, was responsible for the conduct of a doctor who failed to identify a tumor after Courtney underwent a CT scan in November 2014.

The Websters sued Minnesota-based CDI in October 2016, claiming that the tumor went undiagnosed until May 2016 and CDI was negligent.

“As a direct and proximate result of CDI and CDI Indiana’s substandard care, Courtney Webster’s rectal cancer grew and spread, significantly reducing her chances of surviving the disease, significantly altering her treatment options, and causing her severe pain, suffering and emotional distress,” the complaint alleged.

CDI denied responsibility in the case and asserted that the corporation did not operate the center and was not a medical provider. The company argued in response to the suit that it “provided certain management services to an Indiana professional corporation that provided diagnostic imaging services” at its location at 11900 N. Pennsylvania St.

Because of its stance in the case, CDI was not subject to caps on damages that typically would be in place when medical providers opt in to coverage under the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act. Had CDI been covered by the act, Webster’s recoverable malpractice damages would have been capped at $1.25 million.

“We’re just thrilled the jury came back with a verdict that reflects the magnitude of the harm in this case,” plaintiff attorney Jerry Garau said Tuesday afternoon. He said that before the suit was filed, Webster was diagnosed with a form of stage 4 cancer that has a survival rate of about 10 percent over five years. He said she is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

Along with Garau, the Websters are represented by Barbara Germano and Kathleen DeLaney. CDI is represented by attorneys from Bleeke Dillon Crandall, P.C., and Katz Korin Cunningham.

“This is a very difficult case that involves a number of complicated issues,” a CDI spokesman said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. “We’re clearly very disappointed in the verdict, and we’re strongly considering all options including appeal. As a result, we are not in a position to discuss the case further at this time.”

The case before Chief Judge Jane Magnus Stinson in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana is Webster, et al. v. Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Inc., et al., 1:16-cv-02677.

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Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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Volleyball announces 2018 schedule

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University of Southern Indiana Volleyball will begin the 2018 season at home, hosting the Double Tree Invitational at the Physical Activities Center August 24-25.

USI will play four games over the two days, taking on Ohio Dominican University, Kentucky State University, Minnesota State University-Mankato and Edinboro University.

The following weekend, the Screaming Eagles play four more games in Canton, Ohio, as part of the Malone Hall of Fame City Challenge.

Upon return from Ohio, USI opens Great Lakes Valley Conference action at Maryville University September 7 to kick off five straight road games, concluding with defending GLVC champion Lewis University September 15.

The Eagles are back at home for a pair of games September 21-22 against Truman State University and Quincy University, before hitting the road once again. The three-game road trip begins September 28 with a visit to national semifinalist Rockhurst University, followed by visits to William Jewell College and Bellarmine University.

USI then hosts Lewis and the University of Indianapolis before traveling for the Midwest Region Crossover October 12-13 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Five of the final six games on the Eagles’ schedule will be in the PAC, with the exception being October 23 at the University of Illinois Springfield. USI wraps up the regular season by hosting McKendree University November 3.

The GLVC Tournament is scheduled for November 8-10 at the EastSide Centre in East Peoria, Illinois. After improving to 12-9, 5-13 GLVC a year ago, USI is looking to get back to the GLVC Tournament for the first time since 2015.

USI loses defensive specialist Shannon Farrell, the career leader in digs, but returns junior outside hitter Mikaila Humphrey (Floyd Knobs, Indiana) and sophomore setter Casey Cepicky, (St. Louis, Missouri), who led the team in kills and assists, respectively.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY RECENT BOOKING RECORDS

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Voter Turnout In May Primary Only 20 Percent

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Turnout in May primary Only 20 Percent

June 18, 2018 

By Seth Fleming
TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS—Only one in five Hoosiers who are registered to vote cast ballots in the May primary election, continuing a trend of low voter turnout in Indiana.

Of the state’s 4.4 million registered voters, 870,336 cast ballots on May 8, which saw one of the most contentious contests in the nation when three Republicans battled for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate.

In that race, former state Rep. Mike Braun, who touted his business credentials, beat U.S. Reps. Todd Rokita and Luke Messer by a comfortable margin.

Even though the turnout was relatively low, it was up substantially from the 13 percent who voted in the 2014 midterm elections.

“It’s candidates and issues that push people to the polls,” said Valerie Warycha, spokesperson for the Election Division of the Secretary of State’s office.

“Contested statewide and county races across the state brought voters from both parties out in significant numbers, and thanks to the preparations made by clerks and election administrators in all 92 counties, Indiana’s reputation for safe and efficient elections continues,” said Secretary of State Connie Lawson in a news release.

But Laura Merrifield Wilson, assistant professor of political science at the University of Indianapolis, noted that 20 percent isn’t a particularly strong turnout.

“Historically we have ranked among the lowest in the union with getting registered voters out to the polls,” Wilson said. “We were among the top 15 in lowest voter turnout in 2016 and we had the lowest voter turnout in 2014 in the general election.”

Age, income, and education are usually the factors that determine voter turnout, but Indiana falls in the middle of those categories, Wilson said.

“I think part of it is our institutions. You have to be registered 29 days before election day,” she said. “We have one of the more stringent voter ID’s in the country.”

As a result, some voters may show up on election day without the knowledge that their registration has expired or without proper identification.

Across the state, turnout was highest in Jay County at 57 percent or 3,483 of 6,132 registered voters. Vanderburgh County experienced the weakest voter turnout—10 percent of registered voters made it to the polls.

The largest of the state’s counties, Marian, Lake, and Allen, experienced low turnout—16, 17 and 15 percent respectively.

Overall voter turnout numbers from this year’s primary are comparable to the 2010 midterm primary election. That year, 21 percent of registered voters made it to the polls.

This year saw an upswing in early voting. Twenty percent of all primary voters cast their ballots at one of their county’s early voting centers, according to the state Election Division. The number has nearly doubled since 2010 when 11 percent of all votes were cast through early voting programs.

FOOTNOTE: Seth Fleming is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

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