Two MetroLift passengers were killed in Harris County just over a week ago when their taxi driver hit a stalled tanker truck. Disabled individuals who need transportation for outpatient medical treatment, but are unable to use the local bus, work with MetroLift to get to and from their appointments. The MetroLift transit system works with…
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Two teenagers were killed a few weeks ago in an accident that involved distracted driving, prescription medications and a speeding patrol car. On Thursday, June 30, two teenage girls in a Pontiac Grand Am had stopped at a stop sign at the intersection of Jacksboro Highway and Holliday Road around 9:30 in the evening. As…
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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 after witnesses said Hilton drove the wrong way for miles down…
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According to the Associated Press, mortgage industry employees are still signing documents they haven’t read and using fake signatures more than eight months after big banks and mortgage companies promised to stop the illegal practices that led to a nationwide halt of home foreclosures. County officials in at least three states say they have received…
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I will be attending the MultiDistrict Litigation hearing for the Sony data breach litigation in San Francisco next week. Abraham Watkins filed one of the forty class action lawsuits arising out of the hacking of Sony’s PlayStation Network. Sony’s PlayStation Network was hacked in April 2011 and resulted in personal data, including credit card information,…
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Women who have undergone certain surgical procedures involving the placement of surgical mesh are being warned by the Food and Drug Administration that the added risk associated with the surgical mesh may outweigh the intended benefit. Earlier this month, the FDA released an updated safety bulletin warning health care providers and patients that this product…
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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 death of her 52-year-old son after he was tased 18…
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Personal information belonging to 34,000 investment clients of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has been lost, and possibly stolen, in a data breach. Morgan Stanley sent two letters to clients warning them of the breach. The information includes clients’ names, addresses, account and tax identification numbers, the income earned on investments in 2010, and in some…
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