Two Texas residents recently died in a car accident near Wichita Falls. One was 23 years old, while the other would have been a 17-year-old high school senior at Maud High School. The cause of the car accident is still under investigation, but the details appeared to be that the…
At a time when onshore oil and gas drilling continues to rise, many questions remain unanswered about the safety of “fracking,” or hydraulic fracturing, a method of oil extraction that has grown increasingly popular. Hydraulic fracturing is a method used in Texas and across the United States to access oil…
While Texas has been fortunate to have sustained economic growth for several years, enough to be dubbed the “Texas miracle,” some argue that this growth has come at a disturbing price, particularly higher worker fatalities and weak benefits for workers who are injured. Texas is the only state in the…
One year after a Dallas woman tragically fell to her death at a Six Flags amusement park in Arlington, the legal issues are far from over. The accident occurred on the evening of July 19, 2013, when 52-year old Rosa Esparza fell 75 feet from where she had been sitting,…
A mother and her two children were killed recently by a driver driving the wrong way in Kilgore, Texas. The driver may have been intoxicated at the time, and had previously been convicted of anther DWI. The crash occurred early in the morning, on Loop 259 near Dudley Road. Police…
Fireworks are a long-standing tradition on July 4th. However, they can also be highly dangerous, especially if not handled appropriately. Recently, tragedy hit the Comanche area when one person was killed and four others injured in a fireworks accident. The accident occurred when Kiwanis Club members were preparing fireworks for…
It appears as though General Motors is not the only major automaker to order recalls of thousands of its automobiles. Now Japanese automakers Mazda, Honda, and Nissan have ordered recalls as well. Between the three, more than three million vehicles were slated to be recalled, due to faulty airbags supplied…
In a tragic set of circumstances, a newlywed couple died in Prosper, Texas after slamming into each other’s car head on. Nicolas Cruz, age 31, and Kristina Munoz, age 26, were both employed at the same egg farm, Mahard Pullet Farm, but reportedly drove separate cars due to their different…
Rod Bordelon, the Commissioner of Texas’ Division of Workers’ Compensation, abruptly resigned from his position last week, possibly due to criticism that his division was too cozy with the insurers it was supposed to be regulating. Bordelon’s resignation will officially take effect on August 1. In the meantime, both workers’…
The Texas Court of Appeals of the First District recently affirmed a trial court’s summary judgment motion against a plaintiff injured by an air compressor box at Lowe’s. In Carpenter v. Campbell Hausfeld Company, Dwayne Carpenter was shopping for an air compressor at a nearby Lowe’s store in 2009. He…