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 Houston company failed to adequately mark the path of a buried 36-inch natural gas pipeline in Johnson County that was struck and exploded in June, killing one person, according to the Texas Railroad Commission. Enterprise Products Operating Llc. violated several state regulations, the commission said in a report. Fines…
Companies controlled by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones have paid out about $10 million to the two employees seriously injured in the 2009 collapse of the team’s practice facility, according to their attorney. The payments settle lawsuits the two brought against Cowboys Center Ltd. and Blue Star Development Co.; Cowboys…
A Virginia jury has awarded $1.95 million in a lawsuit over the death of a woman less than two days after she received plastic surgery. Maritess Lopez was sent home an hour after her July 2008 surgery even though she was having respiratory problems, dizziness and fever, the lawsuit claims.…
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, has agreed to a $120,000 settlement of a police brutality lawsuit. The suit claimed local officers slammed a man’s head into a wall and the floor of the police station while booking him for a DUI in 2008. Video surveillance confirmed the allegations, but…
Victims of the deadly 2007 Minneapolis Interstate 35W bridge collapse reached the end of their legal fight after an engineering firm agreed to pay $52.4 million to settle scores of lawsuits. The settlement by San Francisco-based URS Corp. resolves the last major piece of litigation brought by victims. All told,…
Jackson County, Mo., has agreed to a $270,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by a motorcyclist who crashed his bike in a pot hole last summer. Derek Jackson was riding his motorcycle in east Jackson County when he pot hole ankle-deep and as wide as his arms, his lawsuit claims,…
John Peter Smith Hospital (Ft Worth) officials will review the medical response to a man who collapsed and died in the hospital pharmacy after witnesses complained that help was slow to arrive and that emergency equipment did not appear to work properly. Jeff Dickerson, who was picking up a prescription…
A stun-gun manufacturer has agreed to a $2.85 million settlement with a California man who suffered brain damage after being tased four years ago. Steven Butler was shocked by a Watsonvile, Calif., police officer in 2006 after refusing to exit a bus. The suit says Bulter went into cardiac arrest…
A Chicago strip club has agreed to a $1 million settlement after a patron left the club and got into a car accident, killing two other people. John Homatas was kicked out of Diamond’s Gentlemen’s Club for being too drunk in January 2006. According to the lawsuit, he and John…