Truck accidents regularly occur throughout the state of Texas, with many caused by aggressive driving. The operator of any type of motor vehicle, truck or not, must understand the importance of defensive driving. This is the opposite of aggressive driving, in which a person makes decisions that could have a negative impact on him or…
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On Sunday, October 12, 2014, an inflatable bounce house in New Hampshire was lifted from the ground and flew some 40 feet across a farm before crashing down and injuring two toddlers who were inside. The two boys inside had climbed into the bounce house at Sullivan Farm in Nashua, NH. According to the farm’s…
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Daniel, five years old, and his older brother were swinging a telescopic plastic T-ball bat inside their home when the toy came apart and a jagged piece of plastic gashed his face. Daniel required more than 300 stitches to repair the U-shaped gash between his eyebrow and down his nose. Mitchell Ducalo filed a $4.5…
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Florida is the eighth state to find caps on non-economic damages are unconstitutional in medical malpractice cases. Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Washington have all struck down medical malpractice damage caps. Texas has very strict caps on medical malpractice suits that were enacted into law as part of the Tort Reform legislation….
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Maritime collisions can produce substantial property damage as well as injuries, and even death. Often, we think of such crashes in the context of commercial shipping. But, yesterday, a grand jury did not issue any indictments in a boating collision that involved pleasure craft. The incident occurred after dark on July 1, 2014. A bass…
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Did you know that Houston is one of the deadliest places to live? Not necessarily because of our crime rate, but because of our traffic fatality rate. In Harris County, drivers take their lives into their own hands every time they get behind the wheel. A perfect storm of non-native drivers and aggressive motorists makes…
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Since 2008, Texas experienced an oil and gas boom with an increase in highway deaths related to drilling activities. The Houston Chronicle and Houston Public Media recently discovered that between 2009 and 2013, while traffic deaths across the country were declining, fatalities involving trucks and other large vehicles in shale drilling and urban locations in…
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Our Texas readers are well aware that drunk driving accidents are extremely common throughout the state, with many leading to serious injury and even death. With police doing their best to crack down on drinking and driving, some progress has been made in most states throughout the country. Even then, this remains a major problem….
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