AUSTIN — Texas home insurers, led by the three largest companies, racked up a third straight year of healthy profits in 2014, thanks to higher rates and low levels of stormy weather across the state. But the industry is still seeking legislation that would curb the ability of homeowners to sue insurers for unpaid claims

By: Nan Aron, Source: Huffington Post. For the past six months, Alliance for Justice staff have been crisscrossing the country telling the stories of three everyday Americans caught up in a practice called forced arbitration. Alan Carlson, Nicole Mitchell, and Debbie Brenner are featured in our short documentary, Lost in the Fine Print. The film

By: Jesse Hagopian, Haymarket Books “We are experiencing the largest ongoing revolt against high-stakes standardized testing in US history,” according to Jesse Hagopian, high school history teacher, education writer and editor of More Than a Score. This remarkable book introduces the educators, students, parents and others who make up the resistance movement pushing back against

Along Recovery  is an intimate documentary portrait of the signature wound of Afghanistan and Iraq–traumatic brain injury (TBI).  The film chronicles the recovery of four US soldiers evacuated from combat for treatment at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. With unprecedented access to film inside the Army’s flagship hospital, Along Recovery depicts the

  Watch full stories of the people featured in this trailer at Landowners for Property Rights on YouTube.

By: Leah M. Nicholls, Source. Highway guardrails are big business. And they are also important safety devices: The wrong guardrail design can mean the difference between life and death, between walking away from a car crash and losing a leg. But one of the biggest guardrail manufacturers, Trinity Industries, Inc., has been trying to hide