Wrongful Death Articles

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 deaths. Texas accounts for roughly 10 percent of work-related deaths nationwide. In…

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 were inside the hopper space (the area between…

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 floor. The baby’s mother was…

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 involved in wrongful death lawsuits. Last fall, a…

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 Department of Public Safety in Conroe, the crash occurred just before noon…

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 is precisely what happened. Following…

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 was killed and another was seriously injured when the…

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 had never previously been. When…