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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 an off duty apartment security guard.

Come to find out they were high as a kite and ready to fly.

Luckily for my client he had minor soft tissue injuries, but he had pre-existing neck problems including cervical neck fusion. Obviously we were concerned that he may have had neck injuries. But after medical evaluation he was cleared of major injuries.

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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 could be $10,000 per day per violation.

The explosion, which could be seen for miles, occurred June 7 when the carbon-steel pipeline was struck by an auger drilling a 48-inch-diameter hole to install high-wire electrical poles. The operator of the auger truck was killed. McClatchy Newspapers, Houston Chronicle 09/01/2010
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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 Center owned the steel and fabric facility as well as the land on which it stood.

One victim was paralyzed from the waist down and the second suffered a broken vertebrae when the building collapsed in a wind storm on May 2, 2009. DANNY ROBBINS, AP, Houston Chronicle 08/31/2010
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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.

She died the next day of aspiration pneumonia. The suit accused Dr. Matthew Galumbeck and his staff of completely ignoring Lopez and her symptoms, which resulted in her death. Jen McCaffery, Virginian Pilot 08/27/2010
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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 no serious action was taken against the officers because the man waited too long to file a complaint, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.

Mike Lee, Ft. Worth Star Telegram 08/24/2010
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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, the state and two of its contractors will have paid out $100 million to the families of the 13 people who died and the 145 people who were injured when the Mississippi River bridge broke apart during rush hour.

BRIAN BAKST, AP, The Washington Post 08/24/2010
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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, suffering serious injuries. The suit alleges the county was previous aware of the dangerous pot hole but had done nothing to fix it.

Michael Mansur, Kansas City Star 08/23/2010
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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 at the pharmacy, said it took medical workers nearly 10 minutes to get there. Once there, he said that two defibrillators the workers tried to use did not appear to work.

Alex Branch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram 08/19/2010
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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 and stopped breathing for 18 minutes after being tased.

He suffered severe brain damage, and now requires around-the-clock care, the suit claims. The settlement money will go toward Bulter’s past and future medical costs. Jennifer Squires, San Jose Mercury News 08/12/2010
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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 Chiariello got into Homatas’ car and left the club.

Homatas crashed into an SUV driven by April Simmons. Simmons, who was pregnant, and Chiariello were killed in the accident. Homatas is serving a 12-year sentence for DUI and reckless homicide. Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune 08/12/2010
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