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According to a recent NHTSA report, Texas leads the nation in sleep-related fatalities on the road. More than twenty percent of sleep-related fatalities in the United States occur in the State of Texas, and about twenty percent in Texas involve sleepy drivers....
GARDAWORLD, a private security firm, is being sued for $100 million after one of its armored vehicles allegedly caused a motor vehicle accident when it made an illegal left-hand turn. The GARDAWORLD armored vehicle was driving in the right lane of a road in Arlington,...
A Southeast Texas man, Brandon Fregia, is suing Jeffcoat Production and SETX Oilfield Services after suffering second and third-degree burns across the entire upper half of his body in an oil rig explosion. The explosion occurred in Jasper County, Texas, on County...
Takata, just years removed from an airbag recall scandal that bankrupted the company, is likely to issue a recall of all vehicles containing its seat belts. This is based on statements issued by the Japanese Transport Industry, instructing automakers across the world...
A local mother is suing a local motel after her 15-year-old son was electrocuted in the hotel's pool. On August 30, 2020, Khaleel Reynolds was swimming in the pool at North Villa Inn when he came into contact with exposed pool light wires, resulting in his...
A 24-year-old medical student Samantha Alison Thomas was recently killed in an accident involving a drunk driver. Ms. Thomas' family has filed a lawsuit against the drunk driver, neurosurgeon named Jonathan Nakhla, who is currently under indictment for the...
The roads in Texas, specifically Houston, Texas, have deteriorated to the point of constituting a driving hazard to Texas drivers. According to a study by CoPilot, nearly one-third of Houston roads, 28.6 percent, are in poor condition. 28.6 percent is worse than the...
A lawsuit was filed recently accusing long time U.S. Figure Skating Coach Richard Callaghan of sexual abuse and alleging that U.S. Figure Skating did nothing to stop it. The lawsuit was filed by Craig Maurizi, a figure skating coach and former student of Callaghan....
A woman has sued the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, as well as her former southwest Houston parish, due to sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of a former youth minister. The woman's lawsuit states that she met with youth minister Ralph Garza to receive...
On June 10, 2020, Ms. Cynthia Wallace filed a lawsuit against NuWave, LLC, the manufacturer of the Nutri-Pot Pressure Cooker. The lawsuit alleges NuWave, LLC misrepresented the safety of its pressure cooker, causing those who use the pressure cooker to be injured. Ms....
On the morning of January 27, 2017, Marie Moser Meister was waiting for the bus as she did every day when she was crushed by a telephone pole. The telephone pole in question had rotted through, snapped at its base, fallen over, and landed on an unsuspecting Mrs....
Two of the families whose relatives were killed in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash in January of this year have filed wrongful death lawsuits against the company that owned and operated the helicopter, Island Express. The lawsuit alleges that Island Express was...
A California man has filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Evenflo, alleging that Evenflo sold its "Big Kid Booster Car Seat" with misleading advertising and safety claims. The lawsuit alleges that Evenflo advertised its car seat as "side-impact tested" and...
According to a federal lawsuit, a Tennessee truck driver's employer forced him to drive 49 hours without a proper break while making shipments for Amazon. Unsurprisingly, the exhausted truck driver fell asleep behind the wheel, leading to a major accident.Commercial...
Mercedes is recalling more than 750,000 vehicles due to detaching sunroofs, which have led to road hazards and accidents. The cars being recalled include the Mercedes-Benz's C-Class, E-Class, CLK-Class, and the CLS-Class, made between 2001 and 2011. Each of these...
At least one person has died on Texas roads every day since November 7, 2000. Fatalities are on the rise despite the Texas Department of Transportation's and the Texas Transportation Commission's efforts to "end the streak."Road fatalities are on the rise in Houston,...
The family of a 10-year-old boy who fell from a zip line at the Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park has filed suit against the park's operators. The accident occurred on a ride called the "Sky Rider" when the young boy fell out of his harness. The ride operators...
General Motors is recalling more than 650,000 trucks and SUVs because a software error can activate these vehicles' brake systems, leading to car accidents. This recall covers the 2014-2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, 2015-2020 Chevrolet Suburban, 2015-2020 Chevrolet...
Boeing has begun to settle the claims of families whose loved ones were killed in a Boeing 737 MAX crash which occurred on October 29, 2018, in the Java Sea. The crash occurred shortly after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia,...
The family of a deceased man is suing Lyft after one of its drivers caused his death in a car accident. Accidents, injuries, and deaths caused by the negligence of drivers that work for ridesharing companies such as Uber or Lyft have become quite common. Further,...
On June 27, 2019, a 12-year old boy died while riding a roller coaster called the "Hoosier Hurricane" in Indiana Beach, Indiana. The young boy was attended to by medical personnel on the ride but died later that afternoon. The actual cause of death is still unknown as...
In Texas, a worker dies at his or her workplace every day. In 2017, a worker in Texas died on the job on average every sixteen hours. These workers died as a result of electrocution, asphyxiation, falls, exposure to toxins, equipment malfunctions, heatstroke, and...
On June 14, 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court struck down Kansas' cap on damages for noneconomic damages in personal injury lawsuits on the basis that the cap was unconstitutional. In Kansans, the legislature imposed a limit on the amount noneconomic money damages a jury...
The fourth of July is a day friends and family get together to celebrate America's independence, as well as celebrate her patriotic heritage. There will be fireworks, there will be barbeque, and of course, there will be swimming. As mothers and fathers across this...
Earlier this year a professional basketball player living in Plano was injured when his cell phone exploded. The injured player, Khouraichi Thiam, is a 31-year-old Senegalese man who plays basketball overseas in countries like Saudi Arabia, Spain, Serbia, Bahrain, and...
When GM installed engine block heaters in some of their trucks, they did not foresee the potential increased fire hazards as a result of this intended convenience. The engine block heaters were designed to warm the engine to allow for easier starting in very cold...
With elevators, we often take them for granted. You might consider the danger of the door closing too soon. You might stick your hand out to hold it open, or just stand back and wait for the next one. Yet once you are inside the elevator box, most of us forget about...
Volkswagen is under scrutiny again as they have recently announced another recall of over 56,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. This time, the culprit appears to be the rear coil spring that can break without warning and cause a driver to lose control of his or her...
In today's world, new diets and weight loss programs are ubiquitous. One such diet trend is called the Whole 30 Diet, which doesn't allow the consumption of milk, cheese, sugar, bread, legumes or alcohol for 30 days. In essence, the Whole 30 Diet strips the most...
Natural gas has become a modern-day convenience that most of us can't seem to live without. Used for everything from heating, cooking, and electricity generation, this ubiquitous fuel source has woven itself into our every day lives and infrastructure. Unfortunately...
Just over a year ago on November 5, 2017, one of the deadliest mass shootings ever to occur on American soil took place in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The carnage was brought on by a gunman by the name of Devin Patrick Kelly of nearby New Braunfels. In total, 26 lives...
A $10 million lawsuit was filed against the city of Tempe, Arizona after a woman was killed by an autonomous Uber vehicle. The suit states that the Arizona suburb created a dangerous situation by installing a brick pathway across the median where people were not...
In July of 2015 3-year-old Stephanie Martinez fell approximately five stories to her death at an Embassy Suites in Anaheim, California. Stephanie and her family were visiting California on a trip to Disneyland. Stephanie's parents, Jesus Martinez Avila and Alejandra...
Ford Motor Company issued a recall in North America for select 2012 to 2018 Ford Focus vehicles equipped with 2.0-liter GDI and 2.0liter GTDI engines for a malfunctioning canister purge valve. These affected vehicles are equipped with a canister purge valve that may...
Richard Bouder, 54, was killed in July of 2017 by a gas explosion when he suffered fatal injuries due to flying debris. Bouder, an employee of UGI Utilities, was investigating a potential gas leak at a residence in Lancaster County Pennsylvania at the time of the...
The Japanese automaker, Toyota, announced that it will recall more than 2.4 million hybrid cars over a defect that could cause crashes. This recall comes in the wake of another recall made by Toyota in September 2018 that recalled more than one million hybrid cars...
A botched knockoff of the drug Tri-Moxi (which is often injected into a patient's eye during cataract surgery) has caused at least 68 people in the Dallas area to suffer partial blindness or worse within days or weeks of being injected in the eye during routine...
A former Lyft driver attempted to sexually assault a woman in Austin, Texas after picking her up downtown on West 6th Street. According to police reports, forty-six-year-old Daniel Kifle is a former Lyft driver that continued to pose as a Lyft driver and who...
A Federal Jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina awarded $473.5 million to six residents near a North Carolina Farm run by Murphy-Brown L.L.C. for the mismanagement of hogs on their farm. Murphy Brown L.L.C. is run by a Chinese...
Zachary Coleman, a passenger of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines for personal injuries he sustained after witnessing a woman die midflight due to an engine explosion. On April 17, 2018, Flight 1380 was flying from New York...
On July 17, 2018, Texas jurors awarded a $101 million verdict to Joshua Patterson after his vehicle was struck from behind by a FTS International employee driving a tractor-trailer in September 2013. Due to the collision, Mr. Patterson suffered significant neck and...
On the morning of July 6, 2018, Karen Reed was having her coffee at her home in Porter, Texas. "I heard a metal on metal noise, a boom. When I heard it I looked at my son who lives next door and said, 'baby that can't be good,'" Reed said.Nearby Reed's home, four...
A St. Louis jury ordered the Los Angeles Rams to pay former NFL running back Reggie Bush $12.5 million after he suffered a severe knee injury in a game at the Edward Jones Dome in 2015. In the lawsuit, Bush claimed he suffered a season-ending knee injury during a game...
The Court of Appeals for Texas' 5th District unanimously upheld a jury verdict that made the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma liable for $9.3 million of the total $11 million awarded in a wrongful death action resulting from a chartered bus crash in April 2013. The...
On January 10, 2018, a street racing crash killed two children and severely injured a woman in Cedar Park, Texas. The two drivers held responsible-21-year-old Blake Kirkpatrick and 18-year-old Hayden Hammer-were drag racing on the westbound lanes of West Whitestone...
A woman was literally eaten alive by parasitic mites while the staff at her nursing home looked on. In 2015, forensic pathologists found 93-year-old Rebecca Zeni had died from "septicemia due to crusted scabies" after millions of parasitic mites, known as scabies,...
In a jury trial in a wrongful death and product liability lawsuit, the plaintiffs alleged that the bus manufactured by Motor Coach Industries caused the death of Kayvan Khiabani, a Las Vegas surgeon who was riding his bicycle alongside a tour bus manufactured by Motor...
The family of a 72-year-old woman with Alzheimer's is suing Charter Communications and DCOMM Inc. after the woman, who is not named in the lawsuit, was raped last year while having communications services set up in her home.According to the lawsuit, Charter...
A Texas jury awarded $8 million to a San Antonio couple as compensation against a funeral home for the disappearance of their deceased daughter's remains. The Bexar County Court garnered national attention after it heard two weeks and two days of testimony.Julie Mott...
In January of this year, the 26-year-old Byron Jones died when he fell into a tire shredder at Genan, Inc., a tire recycling plant in Sheldon, Texas. Genan, Inc. opened their Houston recycling plant in 2014; the company also has recycling plants in Germany and...
On January 11, 2018, an accident between several vehicles on Interstate 69 caused an 18-wheeler to drive off the overpass at University Boulevard and land on a car on the feeder road below. Investigators believe the incident was caused by the truck driver jack-knifing...
A Texas family has filed suit against a Colorado ski resort after a mother and her two children were thrown from a ski lift due to a ski lift malfunction.On December 29, 2016, Kelly Huber, a Texas mother, and her two young daughters were on a holiday trip at the...
Despite a finding that Takata airbags are prone to dangerous explosions when deployed, the Japanese auto supplier, Takata, and the auto industry as a whole have been slow in their widespread recall. This slow recall poses a deadly threat to millions of drivers and...
The State Fair of Texas is investigating one of its rides after a woman, Dixie Dodd, reported a maintenance malfunction which left her 14-year-old son seriously injured. Dodd filed an incident report with the Dallas police, claiming that something went wrong, causing...
In 2015, 301 passenger vehicle occupants were killed when colliding with the side of an 18-wheeler's trailer. This has led to the call for side guard rails, which are aimed at preventing deaths caused by side-impact collisions with trailers.Federal law requires...
A Pennsylvania federal judge recently ruled that the federal government pay $41.6 million to a couple after determining that a doctor at a federally funded health clinic negligently used forceps to deliver the couple's baby, causing permanent brain damage. The judge...
Last Friday evening, a speeding white Dodge Durango caused a deadly 3-car pile-up at a toll booth stand on the Sam Houston Tollway. Video surveillance shows a brown Buick sedan waiting in line to pay the toll fare at the drive-up toll booth stand moments before...
Every spring, people come from far and wide to Houston for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The Rodeo offers many attractions including concerts, rodeo events, livestock shows, and amusement park festivities. Inevitably, with so many people concentrated in a...
Policymakers and enthusiasts in support of self-driving vehicles echo the promise from autonomous vehicle lobbyists that these self-driving cars will make our roads safer and more efficient. Supporters contend that technology could make those car accident deaths a...
Today, in terms of age groups, the riskiest drivers on the road may not be brand-new drivers or elderly folks, but millennials. The term millennial is usually considered to apply to individuals who reached adulthood around the turn of the 21st century. Millennials...
Undoubtedly, technology has changed the world over the last few decades. An area that has created one of the biggest concerns is cell phones, particularly smart phones, and their use by drivers while operating a vehicle. Along with cell phones, there are numerous...
Each summer, thousands of children attempt to fully utilize their break from school as a time to have fun and to enjoy the outdoors. Of course, that line of reasoning sends families across the country to water parks to enjoy the various rides that parks offer and...
For years, we have all heard about the dangers of operating a vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. In the last few years, concerns with texting and driving have become newsworthy with many municipalities making it illegal. New studies now show that...
On Wednesday, August 10, 2016, seven people were killed following a fatal explosion and fire at the Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Springs, Maryland. The incident left an additional twenty-five individuals injured and as many as 150 displaced. Even worse, of the...
On the evening of September 11, 2016, Bertha Lazcano was making her way down U.S. 290 in Houston, Texas. Meanwhile, Orlando Reyna-Principal at Houston Independent School District's Madison High School-was also driving down U.S. 290, heading home after leaving Brick...
Recently, Samsung has been facing difficulties with its newly released Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones. The phone's battery is prone to overheating, which can result in the phone catching fire or even exploding. To help cure the problem, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety...
On August 30, 2016, Kenneth Glazer filed a wrongful death lawsuit in state court subsequent to his parents' fatal airplane crash on their trip from New York to their vacation home in Naples, Florida. After take off from the Greater Rochester Airport, Larry and Jane...
As a society, we put considerable faith in professionals-deferring to their education and citing their professional titles as reliable. To that end, we trust that engineers will properly plan and construct buildings and roadways. We expect that our accountants are...
Given the nature of firearms, a day at the gun range can be exhilarating, but should always be treated with precaution and a safety-first mentality. On August 25th, 2014, a 9-year-old girl was taken by her parents to the Last Stop outdoor gun range in Arizona to shoot...
A day at the water park was supposed to be the 20th birthday celebration for Ms. Tolyndra Pierre but instead ended in a trip to the hospital after Ms. Pierre broke her ankle while riding the King Cobra water slide at Six Flags in New Jersey. According to the facts of...
Texas safety guidelines exist and mandate that protective barriers should barricade concrete bridge posts that are less than 30 feet from the freeway road. Not only does this safety precaution exist, it is often not adhered to in different locations throughout Texas....
A normal day at work ended tragically when an asphalt tanker exploded at a refinery, covering Darrell Allen, a Texas truck driver, with molten asphalt. One year later, the truck driver is suing the Shreveport-based oil company, Calumet Specialty Products Partners, and...
A waterpark should only illicit fond memories. However, this was not the case on August 9, 2014 when not one but two individuals were severely injured while attending the same event, an organized function benefitting special needs children. 83-year-old Irudayam...
Fatalities caused by drivers in traffic collisions, crashes, and other incidents have risen to a rate not seen in fifty years. Estimates from the National Safety Council reveal deadly crashes rose by nearly eight percent in 2015, claiming the lives of roughly 38,000...
A federal judge said two women whom allege sexual assault against Uber drivers can to sue the company for the alleged attacks. One sexual assault allegation comes out of South Carolina and the other from Boston. In San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston...
The life of 24-year-old Shane Holland was abruptly cut short on a rainy night eighteen months ago by a driver for Lyft, a San Francisco based ride company similar to Uber. Shane and his friend were on the way home from a Halloween party when they called Lyft for a...
On April 30, 2012, Marcia Gray was driving on Interstate 580 in Oakland, California. A car accident in front of her vehicle caused Ms. Gray to break suddenly to avoid the wreck. As a result, a Chevrolet pickup truck struck her 1995 Mazda Protégé from behind. Ms. Gray...
A lawsuit was filed against an elementary school in New Jersey for $10 million. The suit was brought by the family of 7-year-old Brendan Jordan, who died on January 7, 2015. According to authorities, during indoor soccer practice at the school gymnasium a 108 pound...
A lawsuit was filed against Uber after one of its drivers caused a collision in Miami Beach, Florida. The suit was brought by Richard Day, M.D. and his wife Jean Day. Dr. and Mrs. Day were in town for a medical conference in December of 2015. The couple requested an...
The Archdiocese of Hartford agreed to pay $500,000 to settle sexual abuse allegations against a Roman Catholic priest, Reverend Stephen Bzdyra. The victim, William Dotson, was abused by Bzdyra from 1985 to 1990. Dotson never spoke of the abuse he suffered from Bzdyra,...
Amazon is offering full refunds to hoverboard purchasers. Due to the flammability of the lithium-ion batteries used to power the product, hoverboards have been implicated in multiple explosions and fires. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has...
The first of six bellwether trials for claims remaining against General Motors Co. will begin this month in New York City. The plaintiff in this first trial, Robert S. Scheuer, suffered a vehicular collision in Oklahoma. Mr. Scheuer blames a faulty ignition switch for...
The Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas is the United States' only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. It also is charged with maintaining the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. Currently, according to the Fort...
Thursday, November 19, 2015, three California men filed lawsuits against e-cigarette makers, wholesalers, and retailers. Each man suffered injuries after their e-cigarettes exploded. One of the men, Vincente Garza of Bakersfield, California, lost half of his left...
Dexter Culclager, the widower of Yakel Culclager, brought a lawsuit against the driver of a Peterbilt truck and several other companies involved in the death of his wife and step-children. Mr. Culclager filed a $10 million personal injury and wrongful death lawsuit....
Kia will recall over 419,000 sport utility vehicle (SUV) crossovers in the United States and Canada due to a problem with the gear shift lever. The defective gear shifts affect 2011 to 2013 model years of the Kia Sorento. As a result, Kia will notify owners to bring...
Estelle Jordan, the mother of Amos Pierce, filed a lawsuit against the 17-year old driver who struck and killed her son. Ms. Jordan alleges Alyssa Shunkweiler was negligent when she caused the accident that resulted in Mr. Pierce's death. Mr. Pierce was walking along...
In August, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) determined that Uber drivers are employees of the company. Uber has previously claimed their drivers are merely independent contractors, however, after the EDD found a former driver in Southern...
Teenagers who have been drinking and subsequently decide to drive can pose a major threat to other drivers and themselves. Due to summer break, teens have extra time for fun activities and have more time on their hands than during the school semesters. The time...
According to a report by the personal finance website WalletHub, Texas is listed dead last among all states and the District of Columbia on a combined score of punishment for speeding and reckless driving. To compose its report, WalletHub collected data on twelve...
Mickey Murray, a Navy veteran and former Norfolk, Virginia sheriff's deputy, filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming medical malpractice regarding a surgery performed on his right foot. Mr. Murray is asking for $2.15 million for his injuries. Last...
On Monday, May 18, 2015, four passengers of Train 188 sued Amtrak in federal court in Philadelphia for injuries suffered from the crash that occurred while the train was in route from Washington D.C. to New York City. Additionally, two other suits were filed Monday,...
The family of Ellen Brody has filed a notice of claim against the Metro-North Railroad, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Westchester County, and the Town of Mount Pleasant, NY for failing to install safety precautions at a dangerous railroad crossing. The...
Last month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) closed an investigation into 16 tire blowouts on 18-wheelers. Government officials concluded that each blowout was caused by truck drivers exceeding the 75 mile per hour rating on their tires....
On June 30th of last year, Dennis Montgomery, a sanitation worker in Longview, Texas, was working his usual route down Alpine Road. While he was working, a car driven by Susan Skinner slammed into the rear of the garbage truck, pinning Montgomery between Ms. Skinner's...
A Washington state man has filed suit against the Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese for the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a priest while he was a student at Notre Dame Middle-High School in Wichita Falls. The victim alleges that his seventh grade history...
For the first time since 1974, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that an injured victim's failure to use a seat belt in a car accident case may now be offered as evidence at trial to apportion responsibility in civil lawsuits. In other words, defendants that negligently...
A young man who endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of his elementary school principal has been awarded a multimillion dollar verdict from a federal jury last week. In 2011, former elementary school Principal, Michael Alcoser, was sentenced to 20 years in...
According to a recent report by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Harris County roadways accounted for 394 roadway fatalities in 2014, with 169 believed to be alcohol related. Both of those numbers outpaced all other Texas counties by a wide margin. By...
Speaking before a Senate committee, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso confirmed that the deaths of the 4 workers at the DuPont chemical plant in La Porte, Texas were the result of broken plant equipment and lax safety practices. A clogged pipe...
American chemical manufacturer, DuPont, has recently stated that 23,000 pounds of toxic gas have leaked from the company's La Porte chemical plant, resulting in at least four deaths. This is a substantial increase over the initial estimate of 100 pounds reported...
On November 11, 2014, Kayla White died when her 2003 Jeep Liberty was rear-ended and suddenly caught on fire with Ms. White trapped inside. According to investigators, Ms. White's car ignited when her vehicle's fuel tank, which is positioned below the rear bumper and...
Fortune 500 medical device manufacturer Stryker Corporation has reached an agreement to settle thousands of lawsuits with patients who have been forced to have surgery to remove their problematic hip implants. The medical implant manufacturer is expected to pay at...
Following recent lawsuits in Florida and Texas, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has estimated that at least 7.78 million vehicles are equipped with faulty Takata airbags. The recent airbag crisis has prompted a nationwide response, including...
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...
According to the Houston Chronicle, the parents of a teenage girl have filed suit against two well-known Houston churches, Second Baptist Church and Community of Faith Church. Both parents are claiming that the religious organizations were negligent by employing and...
Four survivors of sexual abuse, including a few at the hands of St. John's Abbey monks, will be at a news conference last Thursday where lawsuits will be announced against St. John's Abbey and the Dioceses of St. Cloud in Minnesota. Two victims that previously settled...
On March 22, 2013, a large flight information sign at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham, Alabama fell on a family returning home from a Florida vacation. The flight information sign, which was made of metal and glass and weighed as much...
A Florida woman who was severely injured in a 2010 accident caused by a man who was texting and driving has won a $4.3 million verdict. The final judgment hasn't been signed by the judge yet, but a verdict was handed down Aug. 5 in Flagler County Circuit Court...
Recently, a family of four near Kilgore, Texas suffered a tragic car accident when a drunk driver collided with their vehicle. The accident claimed the life of Heema Patel and her two children, six year-old Ryera Patel and twelve year-old Trish Patel. According to...
A roller coaster in Santa Clarita, California hit a tree branch at the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park last Monday. The impact dislodged the front car, leaving four people injured and keeping nearly two dozen people hanging 20 to 30 feet from the ground for...
In April of this year, the American Bar Association (ABA) issued a formal opinion from its Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. In Formal Opinion 466, the ABA provided guidance to trial lawyers with regards to researching potential jurors'...
The June 7th truck crash that claimed the life of James "Jimmy Mack" McNair and critically injured Tracy Morgan and three other passengers has given new urgency to a long-running debate over federal rest rules for commercial truckers. According to the criminal charges...
The surge in domestic oil production has generated intense debate about the environmental impact of fracking and gas pipelines.Little attention has been paid however to highly dangerous oil train transportation practices.Last summer a freight train derailed in Quebec...
In February of 2008, Chesapeake Energy, an Oklahoma City-based energy company, purchased a 5 acre lot of land in Fort Worth, Texas. By 2011, natural gas was flowing from what would eventually become three wells on the property. Unfortunately for nearby resident Sam...
Remington Arms Co., the nation's oldest firearms company, announced in April that it would be conducting a nationwide recall of its Model 700 and Model Seven rifles equipped with the X-Mark Pro trigger. According to Remington, "excess bonding agent" could cause some...
On April 10, 2014, ten people were killed in northern California when a commuter bus was struck head-on by a FedEx truck. The commuter bus was transporting high school students to visit Humboldt State University. The mother of Jennifer Bonilla, a seventeen-year-old...
A defective ignition switch installed in General Motors vehicles has caused thirteen deaths and severely injured a Houston-area woman. Tiffany Adams, a 30 year old Sam Houston State University graduate, was traveling on U.S. 59 on December 23, 2013. A defective...
The Houston Ship Channel, a 50-mile waterway that transports some of the world's largest quantities of petroleum and chemical products remains shut down due to a massive fuel oil spill in the Galveston Bay. Over 150,000 gallons of oil, a vital source of the Texas...
A weekend oil spill in the Houston Shipping Channel left one of "the nation's busiest seaports" closed for at least part of the day today. The spill was caused by the collision of a ship with a barge and dumped as much as 168,000 gallons of oil into the water. The...
On March 13, 2014, the Florida Supreme Court issued a 5-2 ruling that invalidated Florida statutes that place caps on the recoverable non-economic damages in medical negligence (malpractice) cases. In 2003, then-governor Jeb Bush called a special session of Florida...
A Santa Monica jury awarded $5.4 million to a victim who was allegedly raped by an employee of a West Hollywood nightclub in 2009. After a 15-day trial, jurors found that the nightclub's negligence played a substantial part in the assault and would therefore pay 40%...
Federal safety regulators are overseeing the largest recall for child car seats that this country has seen in the last 5 years. Graco, a leading manufacturer for children's products including baby monitors, strollers, swings and high-chairs, is recalling 3.8 million...
Last week, a settlement for $3.15 million was reached between a sexual abuse victim and the Archdiocese of Chicago. The victim who was repeatedly sexually abused throughout his adolescence by then-Reverend Daniel McCormack filed a lawsuit in 2010 against the...
Texas has by far the most miles of underground natural gas pipelines of any state. Texas also has the greatest number of accidents that occur when these and other underground pipes are damaged or disrupted. Companies that dig, construct, and work around these...
In a new study conducted by researchers at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, the data again confirms the dangers of texting, dialing, or reaching for a cell phone while driving. The study is being touted as "sophisticated" and "real-world" because it utilized...
Federal bus safety regulators announced last week that it will be shutting down 52 motor coach companies deemed to be a hazard to the riding public. After a nationwide investigation called "Operation Quick Strike," feds uncovered bus companies whose drivers routinely...
This month, a jury directed manufacturer Advance Cast Stone to pay $39 million in damages after a Milwaukee parking garage panel collapsed killing a teenager and severely injuring two others. After a five-week trial, the jury found that Advance Cast Stone...
Last week, a Corpus Christi jury issued a historic verdict that awarded $18,750,000 to the surviving parents of a victim killed in a drunk driving accident. The verdict was issued against the bar that over served the drunk driver, as opposed to the driver himself,...
This week, Penn State officials announced that the university will be paying $59.7 million to the 26 sexual abuse victims of former assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky. This settlement is "another step in the healing process" for the young men who were abused by...
Last Tuesday, Anthony Badalamenti became the first person to enter a plea of guilty for crimes associated with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the most devastating offshore oil spill in petroleum history. Badalamenti,...
A Labor Day family reunion turned deadly last month when a swimming pool unexpectedly filled with live electrical current leaving four severely injured and one dead. The surviving family of 27 year-old Raul Hernandez Martinez has filed a lawsuit against the major...
In Texas, bartenders can face substantial fines, civil liability, and even jail time for overserving visibly intoxicated patrons. In Pennsylvania, the Superior Court is reviewing whether this same principle should be extended to valet services offered at hotels,...
Starting next year, a new law will take effect aimed at protecting Texas drivers from injuries and accidents caused by uninsured and underinsured motorists. The law, recently enacted by the Legislature and signed off by Gov. Rick Perry, is intended to clarify the...
Texas' work-related death toll jumped by over 20 percent last year, despite an overall decrease across the country. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Texas lost 531 workers in 2012 compared to 433 workers just the year before. At the same time, the total...
Earlier this month, Bradley Jones, a 45 year-old Harris County resident filed suit against his former employer, Fred Fincher Motors, and two co-workers for repeatedly shocking him with a Taser gun. According to the lawsuit, Jones, who had been a car salesman for over...
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...
According to its website, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was founded "to protect student-athletes." Recently, however, six college football players became the first current athletes to join a lawsuit against the NCAA for its unauthorized use and...
Earlier this week, the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese put an end to 30 years of tribulation for Rosemary and Donald Teeman, surviving parents of Brian Teeman who took his own life in 1983 after being repeatedly sexually abused in his hometown church. At fourteen years...
Major U.S. energy drink manufacturer, Monster Energy Company, faces allegations in a California court for wrongful death and product defect claims after 19 year-old Alex Morris died in his home last year from cardiac arrest. According to his surviving family, Morris...
On May 7, 2013, the surviving family of five-year-old Jaclyn Santos-Sacramento settled its lawsuit against teenage driver, Carly Rousso. The young driver who turned 19 last week was accused of losing control of her vehicle and striking the Santos-Sacramento family...
Just this past Tuesday, Chrysler announced that it was refusing to recall 2.7 million Jeep models that, according to the government and other safety groups, are defective and pose a fire risk. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) contends that...
On Tuesday, it was announced that six men reached a settlement with the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus for a total of $19.6 million. According to the attorney for the victims, the average amount recovered by each individual makes this the largest settlement...
Recently, two women filed suit against Chevron U.S.A., Inc. after being trapped in an elevator in Chevron's building located at 1400 Smith Street in Houston, Texas. The lawsuit alleges that the two women were trapped in the malfunctioning elevator for approximately 40...
On April 16, 2013, a twelve person jury Cook County, Illinois jury rendered a verdict in favor of DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, in a lawsuit brought by Carol Strum for personal injuries. This is the second case to go to trial regarding...
On Monday of this week, a federal jury returned a verdict finding that insurance giant State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (State Farm) shifted windstorm losses to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a program administered by the Federal Emergency Management...
An Essex County jury has ordered Nissan to pay Larry Clanton $4.2 million for his injuries and damages suffered after a run-away tire fell off a pickup truck and struck the roof of Clanton's Nissan Altima. The verdict was just announced last week. As Clanton was...
On March 8, 2013 a Los Angeles jury awarded $8.3 million in compensatory damages to the Plaintiff, Loren "Bill" Kransky, in the four week jury trial against Johnson & Johnson's DePuy subsidiary. The jury concluded that DePuy was liable for the design defects in...
On Sunday, March 3, 2013 in the early hours of the morning, a wrong-way crash claimed the lives of two Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets freshmen and injured another. According to the Houston Chronicle, the head-on collision happened on U.S. Highway 290 as the...
On February 22, 2013, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) posted that it notified healthcare professionals regarding a Class I recall of the LPS Diaphyseal Sleeve. The LPS Diaphyseal Sleeve is a component in the DePuy LPS System, an end-stage revision knee...
On January 25, 2013, opening statements began in a trial that will likely have major implications on more than 10,000 lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson. The case of Kransky v. DePuy, et.al. is the first of many impending claims against Johnson & Johnson...
In an article published just yesterday by The New York Times, we learned that newly disclosed court records show that Johnson & Johnson, and its subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., were aware of an alarmingly high failure rate in their metal on metal hip implants...
A total of 16.2 million vehicles were recalled last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Thursday. Interestingly, more than half of the recalled vehicles were manufactured by Toyota and Honda. Toyota had 12 recalls covering 5.3...
General Motors (GM) has recently issued a recall for nearly 69,000 of its vehicles due to the risk of the vehicles unexpectedly rolling away. This recall applies to almost 55,000 vehicles in the United States and another 14,000 in Mexico, Canada, and other parts of...
On Thursday, December 20, 2012, General Motors announced that the company is recalling more than 145,000 pickup trucks due to a defect in the truck hoods which could cause hoods to fly open unexpectedly. GM informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
On Wednesday, December 5, 2012, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) filed an administrative complaint against Baby Matters, LLC, for its Nap Nanny and Nap Nanny Chill infant products. CPSC announced this step after failed discussions with the company...
On Thanksgiving morning, several people were injured as a result of a string of accidents that led to a massive pile-up on I-10, just southwest of Beaumont, TX. As per the Houston Chronicle, at least 140 vehicles collided, including many tractor-trailers and at least...
A local Houstonian that was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned has reached a settlement with the city of Houston, according to the Houston Chronicle. George Rodriguez will receive $3.1 million in a compromise settlement, according to Mayor Annise Parker. George...
Parents and school officials are reeling in the San Francisco area regarding the breaking news about the fantasy sex league that was uncovered at Piedmont High School. Parents of kids at Piedmont High School were informed of the fantasy league in a letter and an email...
Kellogg's has issued a voluntary recall of its Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size and Mini-Wheats Unfrosted Bite Size products because these food items may contain metal fragments. According to the United States Food and Drug Administration, the recall is "due to the...
General Motors is recalling vehicles again. This time, GM is recalling over 40,000 vehicles for a fuel leak defect which can lead to a fire hazard. The recall stems from defective plastic parts that may crack and lead to a fuel leak in warm-weather states....
The Travis County DA's office has launched a criminal investigation of State Farm, the massive insurer, regarding its handling of thousands of insurance claims following Hurricane Ike. Now, Senator Rodney Ellis is demanding that the Texas Department of Insurance...
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...
Just this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) officially announced a recall that will affect approximately 250,000 vehicles. The recall stems from a defect in the driver's door module that allows water to come into contact with the...
The Associated Press is reporting on a case arising out of a June 2010 auto crash that killed Kaitlynn Fisher. Progressive Insurance Company is now dealing with wide-spread negative publicity for its efforts to avoid paying policy benefits to the family of its...
A recent lawsuit has been filed against Rick's Cabaret for the wrongful death of Katherine "Emily" Jones, a Conroe teen. Jones, a senior at Caney Creek High School, was killed by a drunk driver in a fatal car collision on March 30, 2011. According to the suit filed by...
Last week, Ford Motor Company recalled thousands of its 2013 Escape models for a hazardous risk of fire. Ford recently filed documents with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicating that the cause of the recall was due to defective fuel...
In Riverside County, California, a jury awarded Jaishree and Prakash Sheth over $36 million for an 18-wheeler crash that left Jaishree Sheth with a fractured spine. According to the evidence at trial, Mrs. Sheth suffered fractures at C5-6 and was completely paralyzed...
On June 20, 2012, a Harris County jury returned a $2.26 million verdict against a drunk driver that caused a 2010 crash that killed one and severely injured another. Houstonian, Angela Maxwell, was driving home with a friend from church on August 25, 2010 when her...
The surviving family members of United States Marine Corps (USMC) Corporal James "JP" Salinas recently filed suit against the City of Eagle Lake in Colorado County. Corporal Salinas died on April 28, 2012 from injuries he sustained in an auto collision while riding...
Last Tuesday, Kia announced that it is recalling nearly 73,000 of its Rio models due to a hazard existing with the passenger airbag system, which could erroneously deploy with a small child seated in the front passenger seat. This recall is now posted on the National...
In Morristown, New Jersey, the Daily Record, and now USA Today, is reporting on a lawsuit that was filed against Shannon Colonna for causing an auto collision - when Colonna was not in any vehicle involved in the crash. The lawsuit stems from a head-on collision...
According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Central Freight Lines has been ordered to pay settlements to eight dock workers to settle age discrimination lawsuits. Central Freight Lines, a Waco-based company, has terminals that it operates in both Fort Worth and Dallas....
According to the Corpus Christi Caller Times, a Corpus Christi jury awarded $24 million last Friday to a woman that was catastrophically injured by a Coca-Cola driver that was using her cellphone at the time of the collision. Of the $24 million awarded, $14 million...
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. ("Citizens") has appealed to the United States Supreme Court over an award of $104.6 million to thousands of its Louisiana policyholders. Citizens is the insurer of last resort in Louisiana, which means that Citizens insures...
On March 29, 2012, the 1st Court of Appeals in Houston, Texas affirmed the trial court's summary judgment in favor of the employer and essentially held that there is no legal duty on an employer to investigate its employees' driving records, absent other indicators of...
German automaker BMW (Bavarian Motor Works) is recalling 1.3 million of its luxury vehicles, world-wide. The recall is due to defects with a battery cable cover in the trunk of the affected vehicle. According to BMW's statement, the improper mounting "can result in...
According to the Los Angeles Times, a California jury recently awarded over $8 million to an elderly homeowner whose home was nearly destroyed after a dump truck crashed into the home, rupturing a gas line, and causing an explosion. Residence Mutual Insurance Co. had...
An August 2009 internal e-mail from DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.'s vice president confirms that Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary (DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.) were well aware of the FDA's refusal to approve the metal-on-metal ASR hip replacement and resurfacing...
According to a new study from the Center for Progressive Reform, medical tort reform won't provide significant savings. The article explains that the costs of malpractice insurance and paying injured patients amounts to only 0.3 % of total healthcare costs each year....
Texas City senior living apartment complex, Colonial Park Apartments, suffered a fatal fire on April 7, 2010. In that blaze, Melody Fitzgerald Rivera, 52, lost her life after the fire erupted in her room. The fire spread through the complex while Rivera was asleep in...
In Georgia, the mother of a murdered seven-year-old is suing her apartment complex for hiring and retaining a maintenance man with a history of committing crimes against children. Joselinne Rivera, mother of slain Jorelys Rivera, is alleging that River Ridge at...
By now, this may be old news - given the rapid media cycle and twenty-four hour coverage by national networks. However, this story deserves being revisited. LaDondrell Montgomery was sentenced to life in prison by a Harris County jury in November of 2011 for...
After tremendous frustration and debate, the city of Houston was obligated last year by an overwhelming majority of its voters to end its contract with red light camera manufacturer American Traffic Solutions (ATS) and permanently shut down the controversial cameras....
Fourteen years after the State of Texas recovered $17.3 billion from tobacco manufacturers, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott now returns to the courtroom this week against pharmaceutical giant, Janssen Pharmaceutical LLC in hopes to recover more than $1 billion in...
On December 19, 2011, a Dallas County jury awarded Ashley Reedy $7.2 million for the personal injuries she sustained when a Greyhound bus flipped in December of 2007. According to the allegations at trial, the Greyhound bus driver was using a cell phone in icy...
On Tuesday, a Fayette County jury awarded $150 billion to the family of Robbie Middleton. The verdict was rendered against Don Wilburn Collins, who doused Robbie Middleton with gasoline and set him on fire on Middleton's eighth birthday. This incident happened as...
On Friday, Ford Motor Company recalled nearly 130,000 vehicles in the United States, including its Mercury Milan and Ford Fusion. According to a posting on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website, the affected vehicles with model years 2010 and...
Toyota Motor Corp. is once again issuing a recall, this time announcing the recall of more than 420,000 vehicles in the United States in connection with potential steering problems. The problem is involved with the "crankshaft pulley on the V6 engine" and affects over...
On October 18, 2011, a Michigan jury awarded $144 million against Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. According to The Detroit News, Kimberly VanSlembrouck, the mother of Markell VanSlembrouck, sued the hospital and the delivering doctor for medical negligence...
On October 13, 2011, a Massachusetts jury hit Toys 'R' Us with a $20.6 million verdict in a wrongful death case involving a swimming pool slide. According to the AP, the Salem Superior Court verdict was awarded to the family of Robin Aleo, who was fatally injured when...
A Dallas County Court-at-Law No. 1 jury announced a $9.3 million verdict against Episcopal School of Dallas on September 21, 2011. According to press releases distributed by PR Newswire, the trial lasted a grueling nine weeks and focused on evidence that officials...
Topamax is a prescription drug used to treat patients with epilepsy and prescribed to adults to prevent migraines. On March 4, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identified Topamax as a Pregnancy Category D drug, which means there has been evidence of human...
In a recent verdict announced on August 17, 2011, a Dallas County jury awarded a doctor $3.4 million against his malpractice insurer for unfair and deceptive insurance practices. Medicus Insurance Company was found to have wrongfully denied insurance coverage to Dr....
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...
On Friday, July 8, 2011, a Houston jury returned its verdict in Jamie Leigh Jones' case against KBR, Inc., Halliburton Co., and Charles Bortz. Jones is the former KBR employee that was allegedly drugged and raped by fellow employees while working in Iraq. The...
According to a lawsuit filed on May 17, 2011, CenterPoint Energy has overbilled Houston for the past twenty years. Noting a similar lawsuit settled by New Orleans for $12 million, City Attorney, David Feldman, said the claim could be for "tens of millions of dollars."...
The Texas House of Representatives this week has passed a bill that is being called the "loser pays" bill. Proponents of this bill are touting the necessity of the bill by misleading the general public into thinking that this bill is only aimed at "frivolous"...
On April 26, 2011, a Harris County jury hit Jubilee Financial Management, LLC, The Credit Card Solution (TCCS), Freedom from Debt Alliance, and Robert M. Lindsey with a $13.8 million verdict. The jury found that these defendants defrauded indebted Texans and failed to...
On March 17, 2011, 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie was struck and killed by a custom 2003 Ford F-250 pickup truck outside a bar in Dallas, Texas. Recently, the parents of Kasey McKenzie have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against their daughter's killer, Eric Brent...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a recall of the Summer Infant - Slim and Secure Video Monitors. According the CPSC, the rechargeable batteries in the handheld video monitor can overheat and rupture, creating a burn and fire hazard. Consumers...
Today, around 2 p.m., an explosion at the KMTEX chemical plant near Port Arthur, Texas claimed the life of one worker and injured three others. According to preliminary reports, the explosion involved the processing of gasoline and a 500-barrel fuel tank exploded,...
On the last day of this year's Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Brian Greenhouse (47) fell twenty-eight feet to his death from the "Hi-Miler" roller coaster. According Leroy Shafer, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo event CEO, this was the first fatality at the...
Since August of 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. issued a worldwide recall of both its ASR XL Acetabular System (total hip replacement) and its DePuy ASR Hip Resurfacing System. In 2003, DePuy released the ASR systems and marketed them as a unique, state of the art...
Just recently, the Texas Department of Insurance has placed TWIA under administrative oversight. In a February 28, 2011 letter to TWIA, Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin laid out a multitude of reasons why regulators believe that TWIA management is not capable...
As I was driving home from work last night I heard a commercial on the radio that caught my attention. The commercial was narrated by a man that runs a business on the beach in Destin, Florida. That narrator, Rick Scali, is in the business of renting beach and...
Recently, the Houston Chronicle published an article indicating that the Unites States consumes over 70% of the world's legal medicinal supply of opiates. The Houston Chronicle cites to an analysis of the Congressional Record and international treaty data in reaching...
By now, most trial lawyers have realized that you need to talk to your clients about Facebook. With The Social Media poised to take the Best Picture Oscar this year, I am not suggesting that trial lawyers need to tell their clients to watch the movie or that they need...
On January 18, 2011, jurors in Harris County sent a message to health care providers when they awarded $10.1 million in damages to the family of an overdose victim, Michael Skorpenske. According to jurors interviewed following the verdict, this was a clear message to...
On December 21, 2010, Arrow International announced a recall of its 5800 Series Intra-Aortic Balloon (IAB) Catheters with Super Arrow-Flex Sheath Introducer. Arrow International is a subsidiary of Teleflex Incorporated, a global provider of medical technology...
A recent survey by the Texas Transportation Institute found that 52% of drivers in Texas would support a law banning mobile phone usage while driving. Additionally, about 85% of Texas drivers felt that texting or talking while driving is worse than it was just five...
According to a recent Houston Chronicle investigation, more than half of the major natural gas transmission lines in Texas were laid more than 40 years ago and are "vulnerable to failure." In Texas, there is are nearly 46,000 miles of transmission pipe and, according...
On November 4, 2010, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and Britax Child Safety Inc. announced a voluntary recall of the Chaperone Infant Car Seat. According to the recall, approximately 23,000 of these units have been imported into the United States...
Just recently, General Motors (GM) issued a recall of over 300,000 Chevy Impalas due to a defect in the seat belts. According to GM earlier this week, the front seat belts may not be properly anchored within the car. This defect could prove fatal to those occupants in...
According to many experts in the oil and gas industry, the industry has not yet incorporated many of the lessons learned from the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster. According to government officials, industry veterans, and environmental experts, the industry needs better...
Recently, at the end of August 2010, Johnson & Johnson, along with its DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary, announced that it is recalling parts used in hip replacements. The recall includes the DePuy ASR XL Acetabular System - the cup portion of a replacement hip joint...
Recently, at the end of August 2010, Johnson & Johnson, along with its DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary, announced that it is recalling parts used in hip replacements. The recall includes the DePuy ASR XL Acetabular System - the cup portion of a replacement hip joint...
The entire world is still watching the unprecedented oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster is still mounting. Most of the blame for the disaster in the gulf is being placed on British Petroleum (BP). Meanwhile, in Texas...
Just recently, on August 6, 2010, Florida real estate company St. Joe Co. filed suit against oil field contractor, Halliburton. According to the allegations in the suit and announcements made by lead counsel for St. Joe Co., Halliburton bears full responsibility for...
In the ongoing saga that is now being touted as the worst environmental disaster in human history, we have more disturbing news. A confidential survey of workers on the Deepwater Horizon, which was conducted weeks prior to the oil rig explosion, showed that many of...
A few days ago, the President delivered good news. The cap is on, and early tests show that oil is being contained as efforts to permanently plug the well continue. The President also delivered words of caution; "...I don't want us to get too far ahead of ourselves."...
On Monday, July 5, 2010, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon disaster are washing up on Texas shores. On Tuesday, July 6, 2010, Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, issued a request for BP (British Petroleum) to provide Texas with...
On Thursday, June 17, 2010, BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, went before members of Congress to answer questions regarding the Deepwater Horizon disaster. It has now been two months since the massive blowout that left 11 people dead and the Gulf of Mexico in ruin. Despite the...
By now, the whole world has taken notice of the mess that BP has caused in the Gulf of Mexico. However, this story is developing day by day, hour by hour, and minute by minute. According to a memo outlining the results of a recent internal investigation by BP, there...
An Alabama jury deliberated for about 90 minutes before awarding an Alabama woman $10 million in damages for the death of her husband in a workplace accident in 2008. The woman's husband was killed when he fell about 150 feet while helping paint a water tank. The...
Now, the car manufacturer has agreed to pay a record $16.4 million fine for not disclosing safety defects regarding sudden accelerations in over 2 million of its vehicles. However, Toyota will stop short of accepting full legal responsibility for intentionally...
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