Beef Products Inc. sued ABC News, Inc. for defamation over its coverage of a meat product that critics called “pink slime.” Beef Products is claiming the network damaged the company by misleading consumers into believing the meat product was unhealthy and unsafe. The meat processor is seeking $1.2 billion in damages for roughly 200 “false…
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released their annual statistics related to alcohol consumption and traffic accidents. One of the arguably most alarming statistics involves professional and commercial truck drivers. Accidents happen. And, unfortunately, drunk driving accidents happen much more often than they should. While there is no excuse for intoxicated drivers who…
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Texas has approved an 85 mph speed limit for a stretch of toll road outside of Austin. Two controversial issues have arisen following the Texas Department of Transportation’s approval of this, the fastest speed limit in the country. One issue is whether raising the speed limit to 85 mph constitutes reckless behavior on the Texas…
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Oil giant British Petroleum (BP) has agreed to pay an additional $13 million to settle charges of failing to fix safety violations at its Texas City oil refinery after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers. The settlement announced last month its latest move toward resolving hundreds of violations at the plant found by the federal…
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The controversy over fracking (a popular method of fracturing rock layers with pressurized water in order to extract natural gas) rages on. Much discussion has been had in regards to the health effects of the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing drilling process, but there has not been as much discussion about the environmental effects…
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It now appears that former NFL players are more susceptible to dying of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease. Last week, a study in Neurology, a widely read peer-reviewed neurology journal, reported that former NFL players were unusually prone to death from degenerative brain diseases. The study examined the death certificates of more than 3,400…
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According to a recent article in the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express, thousands of claimants damaged by the 2010 oil spill will have to decide soon whether to participate in a class action settlement without knowing what the offer will be. The Deepwater Horizon Claims Center was created by a federal judge overseeing…
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On August 31, 2012, the Supreme Court once again overturned the decision a jury reached in a case after the jurors heard and evaluated all of the evidence at trial. The decision occurred in U-Haul International, Inc., et al. v. Waldrip, et al., ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. 2012)(8/31/12). The father of a woman who rented…
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