As Houston prepares for another cold snap beginning this afternoon, the dangers of icy roadways was made tragically clear in the spike of accidents that occurred during last Friday morning’s slick commute. Three individuals died in car crashes in the Houston area during a short span of time on Friday morning. The first accident occurred…
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According to the Houston Chronicle, family members of a worker missing after an explosion in a Chambers County fear he may have died in the blast. Mark Shaw, confirmed his brother Rick Shaw, of Baytown, is the worker missing after a pipeline failed at the Enterprise Products facility 35 miles east of Houston yesterday shortly…
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Mont Belvieu and Chambers County emergency personnel have responded to an explosion and large fire at Enterprise Products oil and gas facility today near Mont Belvieu, a small city 35 miles east of Houston. Flames were shooting about 100 feet into the air and black smoke could be seen all the way from downtown Houston….
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In a tragic accident Saturday afternoon, five people were killed in West Texas when a car and a dump truck collided head on. The casualties included all four occupants of the car as well as the driver of the dump truck. The occupants of the car, a Volkswagen Beetle, are thought to have to have…
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A Houston motorcycle rider, who was thrown from his motorcycle during an accident in the Katy area, was later pronounced dead at Hermann Memorial Hospital-Downtown. The fatal collision occurred when the motorcycle struck a 2007 Dodge pick-up truck that was exiting the freeway. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences determined the cause of death…
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A baby allegedly injured by malpractice during delivery at a public hospital has no right to sue the negligent doctors employed by the hospital. That is the result of a recent ruling from the Texas Supreme Court in Franka et al. v. Velazquez, et al., ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. 2011)(1/21/11). In Franka, the family of…
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GlaxoSmithKline recently settled a case brought by the family of a North Carolina man who alleged that he died of a heart attack caused by its diabetes drug, Avandia. The amount of the settlement is confidential. The trial was to be the first of approximately 2,000 arising out of heart attacks alleged to have been…
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During the summer of 2007 an employee of a garbage collection company was killed when he was run over by a garbage truck driven by another employee. The family of the deceased employee filed a wrongful death claim against his employer alleging negligence. The family won the lawsuit and a jury awarded them more than…
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