Blog Posts in February, 2012
Posted on Feb 29, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
David Duerson was a player for the NFL team the Chicago Bears. A year ago he killed himself, allegedly in connection with the severe brain damage that he suffered after a concussion. Duerson's ...
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Posted on Feb 29, 2012 By Personal Injury Attorney
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been investigating the car-rental industry for over a year because of accusations that recalled cars were being rented out to customers ...
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Posted on Feb 28, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Lawyer
Pending reforms concerning truck driver hours of service (HOS) prompted Administrator A. Ferro of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to reveal the increase in truck accident ...
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Posted on Feb 27, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A New Jersey accident that led to a fatality and one other injury was caused by driving while intoxicated. Two men over the age of 70 were intoxicated when they failed to yield to a pedestrian and one ...
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Posted on Feb 23, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Last Sunday night in Houston, a driver ran a red light and crashed into another vehicle on the 610 Loop, injuring five people. The crash happened at 10:45 pm according to the Houston Police ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
An Alabama woman filed a wrongful death suit against her doctor after her baby died while she was three months pregnant. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the wrongful death suit was not viable ...
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Posted on Feb 16, 2012 By Product Liability Attorney
In what is just the latest in a string of examples of pharmaceutical companies placing profits above all else, the New York Times reported this week that Johnson & Johnson continued to market an ...
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Posted on Feb 16, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into allegations of abuse at a Johnson City, Tennessee nursing home. So far, five employees have been fired. The Tennessee Department of Health has put ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
According to the Associated Press, a Florida A&M member of the school's band, initials R.C., was killed after being hazed. Hazing typically involves abuse and humiliations as a way of ...
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Posted on Feb 10, 2012 By Trial Lawyer
A recent concession by private equity giant Carlyle Group has called into question the ethics of other organizations. Carlyle Group has filed for an initial public offering (IPO), and as part of that ...
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Posted on Feb 9, 2012 By Arnold & Itkin LLP
Arnold & Itkin, LLP maritime attorneys Jason Itkin and Cory Itkin recently filed a Jones Act lawsuit on behalf of a Grambling, Louisiana man. The offshore worker was injured when he fell while ...
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Posted on Feb 9, 2012 By Arnold & Itkin LLP
Jason Itkin, Cory Itkin and Noah Wexler filed suit on behalf of an individual who was injured during the September 2011 Houston Wine Festival at Sam Houston Park due to a dangerous condition on the ...
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Posted on Feb 9, 2012 By Arnold & Itkin LLP
Kurt Arnold, Paul Skrabanek and Caroline Chapman filed suit on behalf of an individual who was injured while working on a vessel that was docked in Port Fourchon, Louisiana on October of 2011. The ...
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Posted on Feb 9, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Tragedy struck Chatsworth, California four years ago when 25 people were killed and 135 more were injured because of a negligent engineer. After this accident, the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 ...
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Posted on Feb 9, 2012 By Arnold & Itkin LLP
Jason Itkin, Cory Itkin and Noah Wexler filed suit on behalf of an individual who was injured while working on a natural gas platform in the Matagorda Island Block in September 2011. The individual ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Dover Chemical Corporation agreed to pay $1.4 million in civil penalties after they illegally manufactured substances at plants in both Ohio and Indiana, according to the Justice Department. ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2012 By Industrial Injury Lawyer
In a strange set of events, two men died last Friday in eerily similar industrial accidents that were in no way related. One man was a driver with Venture Express. His accident took place when he was ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
According to a recent federal report, 86% of patient harm events aren't caught due to failures in the hospital reporting process. Incident reporting systems are required in all hospitals that are ...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Lawyer
If you have been injured in a catastrophic industrial accident , you need to take action now to protect your rights. In some cases, the first hours can be some of the most critical in an ...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Texas residents can breathe a little easier thanks to a new oil company regulation that takes effect today. State law dictates that any company engaged in hydraulic fracturing -also known as ...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A new study published on January 20, 2012 has revealed that exposure to the organic solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE) during pregnancy and early childhood may increase your risk of developing diseases ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2012 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Recently a man was killed in York County, Pennsylvania after his four-passenger airplane crashed in a field. The accident is still in the very early stages of investigation. What is known is that the ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2012 By Arnold & Itkin LLP
After sustaining a serious injury to the foot, an injured offshore worker has approached Kurt Arnold and Paul Skrabanek of Arnold & Itkin LLP to file a lawsuit on his behalf. The injury took place ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2012 By Arnold & Itkin LLP
While performing his duties aboard a jack-up rig off of the Louisiana coast, a Jones Act seaman sustained serious injuries to his neck and back. The plaintiff has filed a claim in Harris County, Texas ...
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