A 41-year-old man was killed in a car accident when he was ejected from a rolling vehicle. Officials say that alcohol was a contributing factor in the accident. The vehicle, driven by a 28-year-old man, ran off the right side of the road and rolled twice. The fatally injured victim was ejected through the rear window. The driver and another …
Texas Nursing Homes Lead the Nation in Serious Violations
If your loved one is in a nursing home in Texas, make sure you check the nursing home’s background. More nursing homes in Texas have been cited for serious violations than in any other state, according to data compiled by ProPublica. Click Here to Call Our Law Office A recent Dallas Observer article shared that one reason for the high …
Woman Killed in Wrong-Way Collision
A 43-year-old woman was killed and two others were injured in a car accident involving three vehicles. Officials say the driver of a westbound car veered left and struck the woman’s eastbound vehicle, which in turn hit another vehicle that was traveling east. The woman was killed in the crash, and the drivers of the other vehicles were hospitalized with …
Texas Nursing Home Abuse Leads to Arrest
State investigators recently completed their investigation into alleged nursing home abuse at an Arlington, TX nursing home we discussed in a previous blog post. The investigation resulted in one nurse being arrested for assault of an elderly person and four employees being suspended indefinitely. The four employees who were suspended included the center’s administrator who had been informed previously of …
Texas City Endures Refinery Accidents and Chemical Spills
Refinery accidents are kept as quiet as possible by the responsible party — especially when the responsible party is oil and gas giant BP. Two weeks before the catastrophic 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery in Texas City quietly released over 500,000 pounds of gases into the air via a tall flare used …
Drunk Driving Suspected in Fatal Dallas Crash
Drunk driving is suspected in last night’s devastating accident in Dallas, which killed two adults and critically injured an 8-year-old girl. Witnesses say a driver sped through a red light and plowed into 3 vehicles. One of the vehicles slammed into a utility pole, instantly killing two adults inside and ejecting the girl onto the street. It is unknown if …
Nursing Home Abuse: A Growing Problem
Elder abuse is a nationally recognized problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 500,000 older adults are abused or neglected in the United States every year. Sadly, it’s likely that many more occurrences of elder abuse that go unreported aren’t reflected in this statistic. The state of Texas has 1,376 nursing home facilities and 140,859 …
UT-Dallas Crane Collapse Kills Two Construction Workers
A construction accident occurred this weekend at the University of Texas-Dallas campus that involved a crane that collapsed and killed two workers. Workers were heard screaming while the incident occurred. The men who died were 58-year-old Thomas Fairbrother, Jr. and 50-year-old Terry Weaver. Their official cause of death is blunt force injuries. In the process of dismantling the crane, it …
“Watch for Motorcycles” Signs Posted around Dallas
Allstate Insurance Co. is putting up signs to alert drivers to motorcyclists in 25 metropolitan areas to try to stop crashes and save lives. There were almost 600 motorcycle related accidents in Dallas County in 2010, according to the Texas Department of Transportation, and 35% occurred at intersections. On average three motorcyclists are killed every day at U.S. intersections. Drivers …
Family Sues Applebee’s for Over-Serving Alcohol
In 2009, there was a tragic drunk driving car accident in which a North Texas child, Abdallah Khader, received brain injuries. The boy was 2-years-old at the accident and suffered damage to 80 percent of his brain after Stewart Lee Richardson hit his family’s car. Abdallah’s parents were also injured in the crash. The family of six-year-old Abdallah Khader sued …
