On November 5, 2021, the music festival Astroworld 2021 began with large crowds in attendance. This third year for the festival was advertised to “Open Your Eyes to a Whole New Universe”, but the preventable tragedy that struck opened concert goers’ eyes to a whole new nightmare. The festival featured many high-profile musical artists, including…
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A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (“JAMA”) appears to show a link between the introduction of rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft in the Houston area and a decrease in drunk driving convictions and hospitalizations. The study tracked cases in Houston’s two level-1 trauma centers, Ben Taub and Red…
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The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is the federal government entity that investigates industrial chemical accidents. Like many federal agencies, the CSB suffers from a backlog in its incident investigations. The backlog faced by the CSB affects investigations of significant industrial incidents, including notable Houston-based incidents such as the International Terminals Company (ITC) fire and the…
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According to the lawsuit, in January of 2020, Brandon Stowers was illegally wearing noise-canceling headphones while driving a FedEx semitrailer. Unable to hear the truck’s built-in alarm system that would have alerted him about objects in the roadway, Mr. Stowers caused a collision that killed five and injured approximately 60 others, per the petition. During…
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A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against FedEx earlier this week. The lawsuit alleges that a FedEx 18-wheeler crashed into a bus full of people. The force of the impact caused the bus to veer off the road and hit an embankment, killing three people, and injuring 16 others. Further, after hitting the bus, the…
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In early October of 2021, two people died and two were injured as the result of a collision in Uvalde, Texas. The collision occurred when one truck made a left turn in front of another truck around 2:10 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 90 West and FM 2369. Lanes on the highway were closed…
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A few days ago, a lawsuit was filed by the surviving family members of a man who was killed in his house when it exploded. The lawsuit alleges that a propane gas leak existed in Edward Hahn’s house, flooding the home with propane gas. After a substantial amount of propane gas accumulated in the house,…
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At least 11 class-action lawsuits have been filed against SoClean, Inc., the manufacturer of products that sanitize breathing machines, including Philips breathing machines that were recalled in June of this year. The lawsuits allege that SoClean’s products use harmful levels of ozone to sanitize the breathing devices. These new lawsuits come after Philips issued a…
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