The odds of dying in a plane crash are about 1 in 10 million. Sounds like a relatively small risk, especially compared to the odds of dying in a motor vehicle crash — which are about 1 in 5,000. But even riskier than dying in a transportation accident is dying due to a medical error….
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The widow of a Texas pizza delivery man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the pizza giant Domino’s after her husband died due to injuries received while on the job. In 2009, a call came into the Fort Worth Domino’s for delivery to a house that the pizza place had never previously been. When…
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[email protected] Jr. of is receiving nationwide recognition once again. While attorney [email protected] is often recognized for his dedication to the Houston community and the legal profession, this time he is being singled out for his work on the widely published immigration article “But Your Honor, He’s an Illegal! Can the Undocumented Worker’s Alien Status Be…
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Two MetroLift passengers were killed in Harris County just over a week ago when their taxi driver hit a stalled tanker truck. Disabled individuals who need transportation for outpatient medical treatment, but are unable to use the local bus, work with MetroLift to get to and from their appointments. The MetroLift transit system works with…
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Two teenagers were killed a few weeks ago in an accident that involved distracted driving, prescription medications and a speeding patrol car. On Thursday, June 30, two teenage girls in a Pontiac Grand Am had stopped at a stop sign at the intersection of Jacksboro Highway and Holliday Road around 9:30 in the evening. As…
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Alliteration aside, Barron Hilton, an heir to the Hilton Hotel fortune, was recently ordered to pay $4.9 million to Fernando Tellez, a gas station employee in Malibu. According to the Los Angeles Times, Barron Hilton struck Tellez with his Mercedes Benz back in 2008 after witnesses said Hilton drove the wrong way for miles down…
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According to the Associated Press, mortgage industry employees are still signing documents they haven’t read and using fake signatures more than eight months after big banks and mortgage companies promised to stop the illegal practices that led to a nationwide halt of home foreclosures. County officials in at least three states say they have received…
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I will be attending the MultiDistrict Litigation hearing for the Sony data breach litigation in San Francisco next week. Abraham Watkins filed one of the forty class action lawsuits arising out of the hacking of Sony’s PlayStation Network. Sony’s PlayStation Network was hacked in April 2011 and resulted in personal data, including credit card information,…
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