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Powder Mailer Strikes Again
Monday, Aug. 16, 2010

Global Security Newswire http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20100816_2130.php
 
An unidentified individual or group of people this month has sent 30 powder-filled letters to businesses and other sites in three states, part of an apparent campaign that has involved hundreds of mailings and reached eight U.S. embassies, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Dec. 17, 2008).

Rite Aid Agrees to Pay $1 Million to Settle HIPAA Privacy Case - Company agrees to substantial corrective action to safeguard consumer information

From an email from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

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Dear All
Can you please provide me with a risk management report or risk assessment report or any report to indentify risks in the bank
Regards
(Name withheld to protect the guilty)

The above was posted to - well what is supposed to be - a professional list.

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From http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr5853-10.html

RELEASE: PR5853-10
July 14, 2010

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Going Green" is good PR, good for the environment, and good for the bottom line.

Suit: 35W bridge consultants knew structure was 'overly stressed' and could collapse [Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.]
http://tinyurl.com/29r6obt
 
June 29--Engineering consultants working on the Interstate 35W bridge 11 months before the August 2007 tragedy were concerned that the bridge was "overly stressed" but did not lay out the breadth of the problems to Minnesota transportation officials, according to documents filed Monday in connection with an ongoing lawsuit over the collapse.

At issue are safety calculations an engineer at San Francisco- based URS Corp., working under contract to the Minnesota Department of Transportation, used to analyze the condition of the bridge. But when those initial results were poor, the engineer deployed a different -- and previously unused within URS -- set of calculations, a move that alarmed the company's project manager enough to notify his boss that the engineer was "trying a little too hard to advise MnDOT that the (I-35W) bridge is okay."

Attorneys representing 34 victims and surviving family members are asking a judge to allow them to seek punitive damages in their case against URS Corp.

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The following email just crossed my desk:

I often write that a good enterprise risk management plan needs input from the legal staff (in-house or external).

An article on the Advisen FPN site (http://tinyurl.com/28otd8x) titled Natural Disasters (from Mondaq.com), lists concerns linked to the following legal issues:

*  The Fair Labor Standards Act

Check-in-the-Box planning

The following invitation to disaster was posted on the Projects for Freelancers web site (http://tinyurl.com/238hnon) by oDesk.

Anyone who thinks IT is an organization's only concern should consider the following:

In a blurb at http://tinyurl.com/26ahmqh promoting a for-fee Webinar: "According to the Department of Labor, wage and hour class actions currently outnumber all types of employment discrimination class actions combined. The retail sector has been the hardest hit, but no sector is immune. To better understand this epidemic and effectively manage increased risks of wage and hour claims, join a panel of experts for an Advisen Wage and Hour Webinar on Wednesday June 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM EDT."