As a Dallas, Texas Steven Johnson Syndrome attorney, I am providing this jury verdict against J&J Motrin. A Pennsylvania jury ruled that a Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) unit must pay $10 million in damages to the family of a 13-year-old girl who suffered skin burns and eye damage after she…
The personal injury sage continues. As a Fort Worth Personal Injury attorney I am writing this blog to hopefully provide insight to my readers, about the law works with its byzantine rules and regulations. The Law and its practical applications are murky at best and we as lawyers have developed…
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.” And so it begins, twenty four hours from now, with a drop of the hammer and a cry of “Order, Court now in session,” the battle banners would have unfurled with the sounds of trumpets. As a Fort Worth Personal Injury…
Thirteen workers jump to safety after an explosion on the offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The company, Mariner Energy, says the site’s seven active wells have been ‘shut in’ and are not leaking. Another offshore oil facility caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico, sending 13 workers into…
According to OSHA, 4,340 workers died on the job in 2009. “With every one of these fatalities, the lives of a worker’s family members were shattered and forever changed. We can’t forget that fact.” -Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor Poorly Managed Construction Sites Are Dangerous. Construction site injuries include: *…
I am proud of our work this week. We just settled another car accident injury claim. My client was minding his own business, one night in Dallas. Somebody plowed into him and rear ended him. The folks who hit him were drunk and tried to run. They were caught by…
A subcontractor trying to install an electrical pole hit a 36-inch natural gas transmission line south of Pecan Plantation today, leading to a huge gas explosion that burned for more than two hours. Two or three people, most likely workers at the scene of the blast, were missing, officials said,…
A teenager badly injured when he was shocked by a fallen power line near a state beach in late June has filed a lawsuit against the utility company that operates the wires. Jacob Kirkendall, a 17-year-old Aptos High student with strong family ties in Los Gatos, names Pacific Gas &…
A Darlington County SC jury returned a verdict of $9 million after finding Progress Energy responsible in the wrongful death of 21-year-old Allen Toney of Hartsville. According to a press release, the jury awarded Mary Washington, the victim’s mother, $3.5 million in actual damages and $5.5 million in punitive damages.…
Nearly four years after 23 Bellaire nursing home residents died in a fiery bus while evacuating from Hurricane Rita, their families have reached a settlement awarding them $80 million. In the chaotic week leading up to Hurricane Rita, Brighton Gardens, a Bellaire nursing home owned by Sunrise Senior Living Services…