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A mother sued the owner of a north side motel, where her 15-year-old son was electrocuted several months ago. The fifteen-year-old child died after touching the wires of an interior swimming pool light at North Villa Inn on the North Freeway at North Vista.According...
The surviving son of Texas deceased man, Augustin Suchil, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against an apartment complex and the management company for the apartment complex. In April of 2019, the apartment complex caught fire during a lightning storm. Suchil was...
Earlier this month, the family of Timesha Beauchamp filed a lawsuit against the paramedics who wrongfully declared her dead before she was later found breathing after her body had been delivered to a funeral home. On August 23, Southfield EMS was sent to respond to a...
Hazing has been a part of fraternity lifestyle for years, and even though some people enjoy the culture, it can be harmful to its members and their families. In 2019, Sam Martinez was one of these members that lost his life while being hazed during a college...
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...
On February 4, 2020, the son of a former resident of The Village of River Oaks ("the nursing home") filed a lawsuit in the Harris County District Court against the nursing home. The son filed the lawsuit individually and on behalf of his father's estate, while two...
In January 2018, an armored truck driver in Arlington, Texas, made an unexpected left-hand turn, hitting and killing a motorcyclist. The motorcyclist's family filed a lawsuit against the security company that employed the driver, arguing that the company had a history...
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...
The widow of a Union Pacific Railroad engineer who died in a train collision last October filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company after an apparent mechanical brake malfunction. On the day of the incident, engineer Jason Martinez's train was heading east to...
In March of 2016, a pedestrian was struck by a car at the Whittier Uptown Association's Farmers Market. The driver of the vehicle was a vendor at the market, and she struck the pedestrian while backing out of her parking spot. The death was ruled an accident, but the...
The mother of a Northport woman killed in a boat crash on July 4 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the boat. Ricky Latham, 29, was charged with reckless murder in the deaths of Destiny Graben, 23, and Ricky Glover, 46, after the fatal crash on...
The parents of Jake Stone, a student killed during the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School last month, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Galveston County against the alleged gunman's parents. Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Kosmetatos are the parents of Dimitrios...
Firm Partner Benny Agosto, Jr. will be investigating a recent incident involving a worker who was killed in an industrial accident at Houston Tubulars, Inc. on 13600 Hatfield Road in Pearland, Texas. The site is just west of Mykawa Road and north of Broadway....
Dr. Celia Lloyd-Turney, an Alabama doctor, is being sued for the wrongful death of one of her patients who died May 15, 2016. The lawsuit was filed by the deceased's administrator and states Dr. Turney began treating Felicia Ann Kelly for "alleged anxiety and chronic...
On the night of January 23, 2017, Thomas "Tommy" Ketterhagen was reported missing by his family in Georgetown, Texas. He was last seen cycling on the shoulder of the road along the 2300 block of Patriot Way. After searching for him all night, his mother found his body...
On the morning of August 1, 2016, Manuel Delacruz tragically died as a result of excessive use of force by officers of the Port Arthur Police Department. Manuel was 26-years-old and suffered from severe schizophrenia. On the morning of his death, he went to Medical...
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...
A family has recently filed a lawsuit against Boy Scouts of America, alleging negligence on behalf of the organization for the death of their teenage son. Last June, Reid Comita enrolled in a backpacking course in order to fulfill his final requirement to accomplish...
In 2014, an 18-year-old woman, Madeline Roskie, died when she was electrocuted while inner-tubing on the Puyallup River in Washington State. The family of the deceased woman has sued Puget Sound Energy ("PSE") for wrongful death.While PSE would not comment on the...
The family of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man who was fatally shot in 2014 by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, reached a settlement with the City of Ferguson after more than two years of filing a wrongful death lawsuit. The judge agreed to keep...
The dangers of leaving children alone in the car during the summer months are well known to us in society. Unfortunately, despite the numerous public service announcements reminding us of these dangers, it seems that every year we hear about another heat stroke death...
The family of Bessie Shealey, a 73-year-old woman who died last year is suing a nursing home in Deep Creek, alleging the staff there didn't properly monitor and care for a bedsore, leading to her death.Bessie Shealey was recovering from a broken femur in May 2016 and...
The family of a 14-month-old girl who died while under anesthesia at the dentist has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging the toddler's death was part of a Medicaid scheme. The lawsuit was filed against Dr. Michael Melanson, Austin Children's Dentistry, Dr. David...
George Springer and Janet Springer are suing Visiting Angels and Visiting Angels employee Aimi Ariel Salazar for the wrongful death of their mother, then 96-year-old Emily Springer. Ms. Springer, a retired teacher, died as a result of an auto accident in 2014. The...
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...
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...
On July 31, 2015, a twenty-one year old University of Alabama student died in Amarillo, Texas as the result of a fireworks explosion. Petyon Trueblood was working as a stage manager for a musical production at the Pioneer Amphitheatre in Palo Duro Canyon State Park...
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...
The family of Zelda Rothman has sued the Southern California Gas Company alleging that a gas leak exacerbated Ms. Rothman's health. Ms. Rothman was suffering from lung cancer when natural gas began to leak from a well in Aliso Canyon approximately three miles from her...
Wednesday September 30, 2015 at 8435 Tidwell Rd., a black Chevrolet Camaro swerved from the road to avoid slamming into another car. Instead, it smashed into a Ford Escape while the owner was pumping gas into it. This caused the Ford Escape to strike the owner and...
The family of Heather Cater, a 22-year-old newlywed, filed a wrongful death lawsuit after Mrs. Cater was struck and killed by 19-year-old Deonte Jones, who was fleeing from the sheriff's deputies. A settlement agreement has been reached. Mr. Jones is currently facing...
The family of a 6-year-old girl killed when she was struck in a crosswalk by a car settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the popular "ridesharing" service Uber. According to the lawsuit, the driver was logged into the smartphone app for "Uber X"-a "peer-to-peer"...
Uber has settled with the family of six-year-old Sofia Liu who was killed by one of their drivers on New Year's Eve in San Francisco. At the time of the accident, the driver was logged into the Uber app on his phone, but he was not currently carrying any passengers....
James Ednie's sister, appointed as the wrongful death representative for Mr. Ednie, filed suit in federal court against FedEx Ground Package Systems, Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations and its various subsidiaries, and CLR Transportation. She alleged the defendants...
Over four years ago, Gregory Fleniken was found dead in his room at the MCM Elegante Hotel in Beaumont, Texas. For a while, police were baffled as to the cause of death and the curious circumstances garnered national attention. The coroner initially thought the cause...
On April 10, 2014, a FedEx truck collided with a chartered bus. Several high school students, their chaperones, and the bus driver were killed. Senio Taiao, the husband of Talalelei Lealao-Taiao, the bus driver, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against FedEx.The crash...
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...
On July 10, 2014 Andrew Orvis suddenly fell from a dock into Lake Conroe at the Piney Shores Resort. Andrew's father was able to quickly retrieve his son from the lake and administer CPR in time for Life Flight to arrive. Unfortunately, Andrew was pronounced dead at...
In the most unfortunate of circumstances, a loved one is lost due to the negligence of a third party. Remedy or recovery for such a loss is addressed by bringing forth a Wrongful Death action which is addressed in Section 71 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies...
David Lee White and Lomax Phillips were working on an overpass when the wagon lift they were in collapsed. The men fell 90 feet to their death. Mr. Phillips' wife and two children filed suit against Mr. Phillips' employer, which is the contractor hired by the state...
In the most unfortunate of circumstances, a loved one is lost due to the negligence of a third party. Remedy or recovery for such a loss is addressed by bringing forth a Wrongful Death action which is addressed in Section 71 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies...
The unlawful acts doctrine has been overruled by the Texas Supreme Court. In a 6-3 decision, the court said that there is no longer use for the unlawful acts doctrine. In the past, the doctrine barred plaintiffs from recovery in suits in which plaintiffs were involved...
The aftermath of the horrific train wreck in northern Spain has reached home in Houston, claiming the life of 58-year-old Myrta LaSalle Fariza. She had called the Houston-area home for the past 35 years and was originally from Puerto Rico.Fariza was onboard the...
There's a deadly bull at the Ranching Heritage Center on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. A 14-year-old boy playing hide-and-seek with at least two other teens didn't see the bull while he was running and impaled himself on one of the statute's sharp...
The parents of Megan Cramer, a hostess killed in the February blast at JJ's restaurant in Missouri, have filed a wrongful-death suit against six defendants that include five companies and one person.The plaintiffs are hoping that the litigation will result in better...
The town of West, Texas, about 80 miles south of Dallas, was rocked this week by a huge explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. At the moment, emergency responders and investigators know that people have died in the explosion, others are missing, and more hundreds were...
At least two people have been confirmed as fatal victims of an explosion at West Fertilizer in West, Texas that happened in the late evening hours Wednesday night. The small Texas town, just 20 miles outside of Waco, was completely evacuated. All 2,600 residents were...
A Utah Judge recently ruled that the Utah Department of Transportation ("UDOT") is immune from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Justine Barneck who died in 2011.The parents of Justine Barneck sued UDOT after the 15-year-old girl died from injuries in a...
When an aircraft crashes, lawsuits look at a wide range of factors to determine who is responsible for what went wrong. In one recent crash, however, the National Transportation Safety Board pointed to an unusual problem. It concluded that a billionaire's 5-year-old...
We all enter this world in more or less the same way. But our modes of departure vary greatly and some deaths occur in ways one would never expect. Below are a few of the more surprising causes of death - a number of rather mundane activities - that occur more often...
A few weeks ago, we posted the third part in our dangerous job series. It focused on the dangers involved in fishing and farming. In this post, we're going to take a closer look at three dangerous jobs for workers who work in "the sky": window washers, helicopter...
A headline in today's newspaper asks, "How Could It Happen Here?" The article refers to the recent hpd shooting death of Brian Claunch, a mentally challenged double amputee. One reason it could happen here is that courts have removed accountability from those who have...
Parents of a teen from Georgia have filed a wrongful death suit against the distributers and manufacturers of a synthetic marijuana alleged to have killed their son. Chase Burnett, 16 years old, drowned in a hot tub on March 4, 2012. This suit is believed to be the...
Brian Harvey, the husband of Phyllis Harvey, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Mrs. Harvey's psychiatrist alleging negligence, fraud, fraudulent concealment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Mrs. Harvey's psychiatrist, Dr. Alexander...
According to the Associated Press and Reuters, the parents of stuntman Kun Liu have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the producers Nu Image and Millennium Films. Kun Liu was a stuntman killed while working on the action sequel The Expendables 2, which has a...
The family of Lois Ekind has filed a wrongful death suit against Synthes, Norian, and Dr. Bart Sachs of the Texas Back Institute in Plano. Lois Eskind died on January 13, 2003 when she went into cardiac arrest moments after bone cement made by Synthes, a then...
In a post a few weeks ago, we blogged about the dangers of mining. In this post, we'll examine two more inherently dangerous jobs that often result in on-the-job fatalities: loggers and construction workers.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fatality...
A recent federal court decision determined that Taser International is not responsible in the wrongful death of a 38-year-old man.In August 2004, police responded to a call that a man was "behaving erratically." When they appeared on the scene, two officers had...
Some jobs are inherently dangerous, like deep sea fishing, oil and gas drilling and mining. And while the dangers of working on the seas or in the energy industry are readily apparent, that is not the case with all jobs. In fact, many people would likely be surprised...
According to the Florida Times Union, the estate of a 19-year-old woman slain in the crossfire of a drug-related attack last year has received a $1 million settlement from the apartment complex property owner for a wrongful death claim. The beneficiaries include her...
Is there a link between the suicides of ex-NFL players and permanent brain injuries caused from hits during the game? The recent lawsuits filed against the National Football League think so.Last week, in a Philadelphia federal court, 81 lawsuits against the NFL were...
A lawsuit was filed in federal court on Monday against the Las Vegas police department by the mother of an unarmed, disabled veteran who was shot and killed by the police. The lawsuit alleges that faulty Las Vegas police policies and the use of an AR-15 assault rifle...
Summer is upon us, and children will likely seek the fun of a swimming pool throughout the season. But the fear of a child drowning is a fear that has haunted every parent's mind at some point. Luckily, there are some important safety precautions parents can take to...
Many Texas companies see federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations as designed to add unnecessary expenses and responsibilities for employers, but do not see the benefits of complying. The truth is, OSHA's safety regulations are intended...
The timesunion.com is reporting that the parents of a Boston College honors student who drowned last year after binge drinking at Skidmore College have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against nine Saratoga County men for allegedly supplying or buying alcohol for their...
Back in December we blogged about how Florida A&M University was being sued for their role in the hazing death of one of the traveling marching band members. Now the family of the deceased student has also filed suit against the charter bus company.In November,...
A Texas man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ford Motor Company following the death of his wife in a rollover accident involving one of Ford's SUVs.Two women were headed eastbound on Highway 30 on May 30, 2010, when one of the rear tires on their 2003 Ford...
An industrial accident in a Texas City facility claimed the life of a 26-year-old worker last weekend.The incident occurred on Saturday, February 11, just after 10 p.m. on Dock Road in the Port of Texas City at plant owned by Dallas Group of America, Inc.According to...
The fallout after an accident is never easy to deal with. And for one family from Montgomery County, life has been even further complicated after a family member went into shock after seeing a toddler mauled by a dog.On a recent Saturday evening, a 23-month-old boy...
Money is of little comfort to the families of the victims of the Upper Big Branch Mine collapse that occurred in April 2010. Just over a week ago, federal prosecutors announced a $209 million settlement with the new owners of the coal mine. It is the largest workplace...
A decision made by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) three years ago may have resulted in over 400 car accidents and the tragic loss of life of one Texas man.On December 17, 2008, the TxDOT made a decision to spray the roadways with a magnesium chloride...
It is believed that a Florida A&M University (FAMU) student recently died after he was hazed by fellow students.The 26-year-old student, a drum major in the FAMU marching band, was found on the band's bus just outside a hotel in Orlando on November 19. Earlier...
Aviation giant American Airlines, headquartered in Texas, was named in a wrongful death lawsuit after a passenger is believed to have died because of food poisoning during a connecting flight.Earlier this year, in May, the 73-year-old passenger flew from Barcelona to...
A local Texas police department is being sued by the parents of a man who committed suicide while in a holding cell earlier this year.The story starts back on February 27, when the 29-year-old Richmond man fled the scene of a car accident. A police officer witnessed...
This post is part two in a two-part post; last week, we blogged about the number of innocent teenagers and kids that were killed due to explosions and fires at unsecured storage sites for oil and gas tanks. In looking at the recent incidents -- such as the explosion...
After a number of deadly incidents at oil and gas storage facilities over the course of the last 20 years, federal investigators are these facilities to better secure their storage sites.According to statistics provided by the Chemical Safety Board (CSB), at least 44...
The death of a 14-year-old boy at a juvenile detention center in Texas now the public wondering whether official will take a closer look into what exactly is happening in these Texas juvenile centers.The middle school boy was found unconscious in his cell at the...
An employee with the Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority died on the job just over a week ago.The 45-year-old maintenance worker died late one afternoon after fatally striking his head on support beam. A slow moving rail car was being brought into the Metro's Rail...
According to records kept by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, work-related fatalities in Texas dropped last year. In 2009, 482 Texas workers died due to incidents in the workplace. In 2010, this number fell by 5 percent to 456...
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has cited a Texas barge company for 40 safety violations related to a flash fire earlier this year.In April, two Texas Barge & Boat Inc. employees were working on a barge in a dry dock in Freeport. The men...
In one of the saddest stories reported in a long time, a two-week old baby in Harris County died last week after it was attacked by the family dog.Law enforcement officials say that on late Saturday evening the two week old was in an infant carrier sitting on the...
While we typically focus our posts on lessons learned from tragic incidents throughout the state of Texas, we could not help but take note when we saw the following story about Washington state in the news earlier this month as it is not often that animals are...
For the second time in three months, an airplane crash near Lake Conroe outside Houston has resulted in death.On Saturday morning seven home-built planes were flying in a formation near Lake Conroe when two of the experimental planes collided. According to the...
Your wedding day is supposed to be a hectic yet fun day, surrounded by friends and family wishing you and your new spouse well as you journey into marriage. The day is not supposed to end in death. But for one Houston couple that was married earlier this month, that...
The erection of a new building usually signifies growth for a company, or for some businesses, it means a new beginning. What should have been seen as a step toward the future for one manufacturing company will now forever be marred by tragedy.One construction worker...
The widow of a Texas pizza delivery man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the pizza giant Domino's after her husband died due to injuries received while on the job.In 2009, a call came into the Fort Worth Domino's for delivery to a house that the pizza place...
The Texas Court of Appeals recently upheld a $3 million verdict in a wrongful death case involving police brutality, stun guns and a paranoid schizophrenic who was off his medication.A Texas mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Harris County in 2009 following...
The 39-year-old firefighter who died after falling from the stands as he attempted to catch a ball at a Texas Rangers game was laid to rest on Monday. It was reported that hundreds attended his funeral in central Texas and thousands more lined the street of the small...
A number of families received a closure of sorts this past week when an out-of-court settlement was reached with families of 11 of the 17 victims from a 2008 Texas bus crash.On August 8, 2008, a charter bus carrying 55 passengers went over the side of a highway...
Just over a week ago, a drilling rig accident in Dawson County left two workers dead. The fatal workplace incident is currently being investigated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).On Saturday, June 11, two twenty-something workers died after...
Every parent's worst nightmare is the death of child. For one Harris County woman that nightmare became a reality when her 8-month-old daughter was killed in a car accident last month.On May 29, at around 1:40 p.m., a Chevrolet pickup truck crashed into the side of a...
A construction worker died last Wednesday after being severely injured as he was working with a crew to demolish the historic Flagship Hotel in Galveston, Texas.The Flagship Hotel, located at 2501 Seawall Blvd, was originally built on the pier over the Gulf of Mexico...
The widow of a man killed last year when a plane crashed into an office building housing Internal Revenue Service offices has settled her wrongful death lawsuit against the pilot's estate. The widow's late husband was a 68-year-old IRS employee and one of two people...
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