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Texas Court of Appeals Rules Against Injured Worker For Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies in Holmes v. Zurich Insurance Company

One of the most difficult aspects of coping with a workplace injury can be dealing with the your employer’s insurance company. Most employers are required to carry workers compensation insurance so that ideally, when a worker is injured, he or she can receive payments until able to resume work. However,…

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Texas Father Killed and Family Injured After Teenage Drivers Run a Stop Sign Near the Texas Motor Speedway

In a recent tragic case, a father is dead and the other family members were critically injured when a car plowed into their car near the Texas Motor Speedway in northern Fort Worth. The accident happened in the early evening, when a Dodge four-door sedan ran a stop sign and…

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OSHA Cites Municipal Company For Willful Violation and $63,000 After Two Workers Are Killed in a Trenching Collapse

Recently, Municipal District Services, LLC in Cypress, Texas was cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for willful violation of health and safety laws. The reason was due to a trenching collapse that led to one worker’s death and another’s injury. The tragic accident…

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Teen Who Killed Four in a Drunk Driving Accident May Face Jail Time After All

Many in Texas and across the United States were horrified to learn the outcome of a drunk driving case in which four people were killed. Ethan Couch, 16 years old, pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault in Tarrant County court. In return Judge Jean Boyd sentenced Couch to…

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Texas Military Veteran Sues Medical Device Company After Plate in His Leg Breaks Twice

A Texas military veteran recently brought a lawsuit against a medical device company after the plate in his leg broke for the second time. Sergeant Don Gustafson, a veteran of the Marine Corp and Navy Reserve, sued Zimmer, Inc. in state court in Collin County, claiming that the medical device…

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South Texas Jury Awards $281 million to family of man killed in Eagle Ford Shale Truck Accident

On December 7, 2013, a jury in South Texas found that Heckmann Water Resources Inc., an oil patch supplier near San Antonio, Texas, negligently failed to maintain a tractor-trailer truck that caused the death of Carlos Aguilar. The lawsuit stems from a May 2012 accident in which Aguilar, a U.S.…

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Multi-Million Dollar Verdicts Awarded in Two Separate Topamax Birth Defect Lawsuits – Gurley v. Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceutical and Czimmer v. Ortho-McNeil Janssen Pharmaceutical

On November 18, 2013, a Philadelphia jury awarded over $10 million to a family whose son was born with a cleft palate and other birth defects after being exposed to the drug Topamax during his mother’s pregnancy. More specifically, in Gurley, et al. v. Ortho-McNeil Janssen Pharmaceutical, Haley Powell was…

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Comparative Negligence in Drunk Driving Accidents in Texas

On December 16, 2011, Sarah Patton filed suit against the Texas Department of Transportation in Jefferson County District Court on behalf of the estate of Pamela Freeman, who was killed in a car accident (Case No. B191-484). The complaint alleged that the Texas Department of Transportation acted negligently by allowing…

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Issues Updated Safety Ratings and Releases 2012 Traffic Fatality Statistics Revealing Texas as State With Highest Increase in Traffic Fatalities

Traffic Fatalities Increased in 2012 The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released its 2012 Fatality Analysis Reporting data. Unfortunately, after six consecutive years of declining fatalities on U.S. highways, the data indicates that highway crashes and deaths increased in 2012. Specifically, fatalities increased to 33,561…

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California Jury Awards $150 Million to 13-Year-Old Girl in Wrongful Death Trucking Accident Case – Asam v. Ortiz and Bhandal Bros. Trucking

In early November 2013, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded over $150 million in damages to a 13-year-old year girl who witnessed three members of her family burn to death following a car accident on a Southern California freeway. This verdict could be one of the largest of its…

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