
ASBESTOS EXPOSURE - We represent the manufacturer of industrial furnaces defending cases brought by workers who have developed asbestos related disease such as asbestosis and cancer and the family of workers who died from contracting mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos fibers. TRUCKING ACCIDENT - We helped a contract pumper from the east Texas oil field who suffered severe injuries when a negligent commercial truck driver crossed the center stripe on a two lane highway causing a horrific front end collision. After being life flighted to a local hospital and undergoing an emergency surgery on his crushed pelvis and broken ankle, this car accident victim could not return to work to support his family for over a year. A nerve injury resulted in permanent incapacity. REVOLVING DOOR - We helped the family of an elderly woman who was struck by an automatic revolving door. Sustaining a traumatic brain injury, this victim of a design defect in the revolving door died as a result of her injury. ASBESTOS EXPOSURE - We represent the manufacturer of industrial furnaces defending cases brought by workers who have developed asbestos related disease such as asbestosis and cancer and the family of workers who died from contracting mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos fibers. GAS CAN EXPLOSION - We represented the manufacturer of a gas can that allegedly exploded. A North Texas man suffered extensive burns over 24% of his body, spent several months in Parkland’s intensive care burn unit, lost his ability to perform his job as a welder and claimed that the accident could have been prevented by the use of a flame arrester. MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - We helped a man and his family when he suffered severe brain damage when an anesthesiologist in a routine minor surgery over-sedated our client with a dangerous combination of versed, phentanyl and propofol (the anesthetic involved in the death of Michael Jackson). The mistakes made by the hospital and the doctor left our client in a wheel chair for the rest of his life unable to care for himself or for his family. TRUCKING ACCIDENT - We helped a family injured in Mississippi when an 18 wheeler rear ended their vehicle. One of the victims of the negligent commercial truck driver developed epilepsy from a traumatic brain injury and suffers from an uncontrolled seizure disorder. FRONT END LOADER - We helped the family of a man crushed to death when the hydraulic system on a piece of farm equipment failed allowing the bucket to suddenly drop as he attempted to enter the cab. TRUCKING ACCIDENT - We helped a woman who was a passenger in an 18 wheeler when another 18 wheeler lost control causing significant injuries to our client. ASBESTOS EXPOSURE - We represent the manufacturer of clutches when workers develop asbestosis or asbestos related disease and the family of workers who died from Mesothelioma. EMPLOYER NEGLIGENCE - We helped a worker who lost partial vision in his eye due to dangerous modifications made to tire cleaning equipment by his employer. PREMISES LIABILITY - We helped the family of a man who was injured when he tripped over a box in a local store which violated company policy developed to prevent tripping hazzards to customers when shopping. Becoming paralyzed from the fall, our client died from complications from his injuries. AUTO-PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT - We helped the family of a woman who was run over at a crosswalk and died as a result of the injuries she sustained when the truck that hit her dragged her into the street. CHEMICAL BURNS - We represented the manufacturer of a popular nationally distributed hair coloring product which allegedly caused significant burns to a woman's head requiring surgery. SURGICAL HARDWARE - we represented a company accused of manufacturing surgical screws in error allegedly causing the screws to break and migrate becoming lodged in a patient's esophagus. CAR ACCIDENTS - We have represented hundreds of people involved in car accidents helping them to resolve property damage disputes, find important and necessary medical treatment and return to work to support their families. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE - We represent a company accused of asbestos contamination in their talc product causing asbestos related lung disease and mesothelioma. PREDATORY LENDING - We helped an elderly woman who was a victim of the predatory lending practices of a national bank. When her husband died, instead of providing a small home equity loan to pay funeral expenses, the loan officer persuaded the grieving widow to sign a note for all of the equity in the couple's lifelong home. The bank ended up evicting the woman from her home and foreclosing on the property. NURSING HOME NEGLIGENCE - We helped the family of a woman who died as a result of the negligence of nursing home employees who failed to ensure that appropriate fall risks were addressed and that necessary fall protection equipment was utilized. OIL FIELD ACCIDENT - We helped a swamper who suffered electric shock when the gin pole truck he was assigned to contacted electric lines which should have been deactivated prior to workers being exposed to this danger. SADDLE FAILURE - We helped a man who was injured when the saddle on his horse failed causing him to fall. The manufacturer failed to make the saddle's harness according to it's own design specifications and faulty quality control procedures allowed the dangerous product to reach one of their customers causing serious injury requiring surgery. CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING - We helped the family of a man who was killed when a floor buffer malfunctioned causing excessive amounts of carbon dioxide to be released overcoming our client and causing his death. SAFETY HARNESS FAILURE - We helped the family of a man whose safety equipment failed as he worked on a tower allowing him to tragically fall to his death. TRUCKING ACCIDENT - We helped the family of a man who was killed when the truck owned by an electric company illegally entered the highway crossing two lanes of traffic causing our client's vehicle to roll over several times. GUARD RAIL FAILURE - We helped the family of a woman who was killed when her vehicle was impaled by a guard rail which failed to collapse and recoil as designed by the manufacturer. |