As a Texas medical doctor and Medical Malpractice attorney, I am providing this case law update and commentary. As part of Texas’s tort reform laws, enacted by the Texas legislature in 2003, one of the requirements in order to file a medical malpractice claim, was the furnishing of a medical…
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…
A federal investigation has found that Texas is failing to protect disabled residents who are living in large state facilities, from possible lapses in health care. The U.S. Justice Department said in a report that deficiencies in staffing put residents in 13 facilities at risk of abuse and neglect .…
A congressional report out Monday September 15, 2008 says 1,600 U.S. nursing homes — nearly one-third — have been cited for abuse. Some 5,283 nursing homes were cited for abuse violations, according to a review of state inspection records requested by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. These homes were cited for…