Cars and pedestrians often have to share a roadway. Unfortunately, these interactions have catastrophic results when vehicles and pedestrians collide. It is important that both drivers and pedestrians are aware of each other and carefully share the road. A federal agency is preparing to help cities prevent accidents between cars and pedestrians. For Houston residents,…
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According to a report in the New York Times, with the rising cost of health care in the United States rise, an increasing number of Americans are going overseas for elective procedures. Michael Shopenn went overseas for a hip replacement surgery in 2007 which would have cost close to $100,000 in the United States. But…
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A jury has ordered Equifax to pay an unprecedented eighteen million dollars to an Oregon woman who spent over two years trying to get her credit report corrected. After being denied for credit, the woman discovered inaccuracies in her credit report. As consumers are generally instructed to do, she contacted Equifax to have the information…
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Accidents that involve cars and pedestrians often have dire outcomes. A person who is struck by a car has no protection; therefore injuries from these types of accidents are often severe, and in the most tragic cases, fatal. Our Houston readers may be interested in the outcome of a plea deal that stemmed from an…
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It is no secret that the number of cases that result in a jury trial has decreased dramatically over the past 20 years. Recent litigation surveys by the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics found that the number of civil cases going to trial has decreased by 40%. When cases do go to…
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The American Association for Justice recently issued a report showing that accidents involving big-rig trucks have increased, including those that caused death or serious bodily harm. In 2011, 3,757 people nationwide died in accidents with trucks, and Texas had the highest number of deaths at 381. Trucks currently represent 4.7% of all vehicles on the…
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Production of oil and gas is not the only thing on the rise in South Texas. According to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), fatal traffic wrecks have increased by 40 percent since last year in the Eagle Ford Shale region, a 20,000 square-mile area that runs from the Mexican border across 20 counties in…
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The explosion of multiple propane tanks sounded like an array of bombs going off that lasted for almost 30 minutes according to residents near a Blue Rhino plant earlier this week. There were more than 53,000 20-pound propane tanks at the plant at the time of the explosion; the propane storage tanks at that location…
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