Driving in Texas is dangerous. Texans routinely encounter obstacles – from potholes, mattresses, ladders, and giant spools of cable – while traversing highways that are over ten (10) lanes wide with speed limits of 85-miles per hour. Turn on the nightly news and you are likely to hear about the latest road-rage incident on I-45 or…
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With COVID taking hold of the world in 2020, workers ended up working fewer hours directly due to the pandemic. Statistics show that there was a 9% decrease in the number of hours worked overall. Work-related fatalities decreased likely to fewer hours worked. There appeared to be a corresponding drop in work-related deaths. Preventable work…
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A Houston mother has filed suit against her child’s daycare after her 3-year-old was allegedly sodomized in its care. After picking her son up from the Prince and Princess Daycare on West Airport, the victim’s mother says she noticed he was not the same. It was at bathtime that night that she noticed that her…
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If you cannot work after suffering an injury, the damage is two-fold. First, you are faced with medical expenses. Second, your ability to pay them is reduced by your lost wages. Your best course of action is to exercise your right to pursue damages from the liable party, including lost wages. A personal injury attorney…
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On April 7, 2022, Stokke brand recalled a trendy highchair style called the Stokke Clikk (White) due to hazards associated with the chair. According to the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) “The white plastic seat can break, posing fall and injury hazards to children.” Hundreds of defective Clikk High Chairs were sold in the…
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On March 31, 2022, PlayMonster recalled about 8,900 units of its Kid O Hudson Glow Rattles kids’ toy. The recall was due to a danger that the rattles’ legs may break off, posing a choking hazard for small children. In fact, the company has received three reports of the rattle legs breaking off, but no…
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A federal judge has allowed the addition of a negligent entrustment claim in a wrongful death lawsuit against a national armored car company. The lawsuit arises out of an auto-pedestrian accident in which an armored car driver ran over a pedestrian, taking her life. The armored car driver stated that he saw the victim prior…
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A jury in Grayson County, Texas recently awarded a $15.6 million verdict in a case involving three plumbers who were electrocuted while working at an apartment complex. The electrocution occurred when the three plumbers lifted a flagpole out of its sleeve in order to continue digging around a water main. During the process of lifting…
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