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…
In a column in the Washington Post (8/6), Petula Dvorak writes, “Over their fences, at community picnics but mostly at funerals, the people of one Frederick neighborhood near Fort Detrick wondered whether it was just a horrible coincidence that so many of them had cancer.” They “immediately looked to their…
A lawsuit in south Texas has been filed against British Petroleum over pollutants leaking out of the company’s Texas City refinery. The lawsuit claims more than 500,000 pounds of pollutants were released into the air when one of the compressors went offline in April. The citizens of Texas City experienced…
A Friendswood attorney filed a federal lawsuit over the release of more than 500,000 pounds of pollutants — including high levels of benzene — into the air after a unit failure at BP’s Texas City refinery. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages in the release of pollutants between April 6 and…
A group of former Motorola workers and their children filed a lawsuit Friday against the Schaumburg-based company, claiming toxic substances used to make Motorola products caused serious birth defects in at least 30 children born to workers employed by the company since the 1960s. The 71 plaintiffs filed the suit…
Patients undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery have received pain pumps to assist in their recovery. Now a new study suggests these pumps may deliver too much medicine, destroying cartilage and leading to a condition known as Postarthroscopic Glenohumeral Chondrolysis. A study by The American Journal of Sports Medicine identified intra-articular pain…
A Texas natural gas producer’s decision to voluntarily disclose the chemicals it injects into the ground could prompt other drillers to do the same, and pave the way for regulators to require such disclosure. But Range Resources Corp.’s move also reflects the desire of industry to get out ahead of…
TXI will permanently shut down its four oldest, highest-polluting cement kilns in Midlothian and will stop burning hazardous waste as fuel, the company said Tuesday. The Dallas-based company’s announcement ends an environmental battle that has raged in North Texas for decades. Midlothian became a center for the cement industry because…
Two Texas natural gas pipelines that exploded last month, killing three people, had not been properly marked, according to state records. Incident reports filed with the commission by the pipeline operators and excavators involved in each event confirm that neither pipeline was properly marked before the digging. State law requires…
While most of the discussions about the environmental impact of natural gas drilling in the Barnett Shale have centered on air quality, questions are now being raised about its potential impact on water quality as well. Drilling critics have expressed concern that a drilling process called hydraulic fracturing in which…