Recently, the Texas Supreme Court ruled on the case, Texas West Oaks Hospital v. Williams, and in the aftermath, nurses and healthcare providers across the state have been adversely affected. Before the Texas West Oaks Hospital ruling by the Texas Supreme Court, if nurses and hospital employees were injured on-the-job, and their hospital employers did…
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The massive explosion at BP’s oil refinery in Texas City in 2005, which we recently blogged about, led to safety measures being taken at chemical plant and oil refineries throughout the nation. But similar safety measures were not taken at oil drilling and other gas operations offshore. This was readily apparent after the Deepwater Horizon…
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The truck crash that claimed the lives of 14 people in South Texas just a few weeks ago likely occurred because of a problem with one of the truck’s front tires. Crash scene investigators from the Texas Department of Public Safety believe that when the front right tire on the pickup truck came apart it…
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Earlier this month, the Texas Supreme Court continued a trend of exonerating governmental entities from facing any responsibility for their alleged negligence by ruling that a city was immune from suit. The decision was rendered in City of North Richland Hills v. Friend, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. 2012). In this case, Sarah Friend was in…
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What would you think if someone told you that over 271 pipeline accidents could have been prevented (or seriously contained) all for about $15 a piece? What about if it cost $300 a piece? What price do you put on the safety of more than 400 lives? The Associated Press recently discovered that by placing…
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The family of Lois Ekind has filed a wrongful death suit against Synthes, Norian, and Dr. Bart Sachs of the Texas Back Institute in Plano. Lois Eskind died on January 13, 2003 when she went into cardiac arrest moments after bone cement made by Synthes, a then subsidiary of Norian, was injected into Eskind’s spine….
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