Medicare fraud results in higher health care costs and taxes for everyone. Here is an informative website maintained by the federal government concerning Medicare fraud and how it might affect you or your parents, especially if you are elderly or care for an elderly parent. This website is aimed more at how telemarketer crooks and con artists can obtain your …
Hit and Injured or Killed by a Drunk Driver? The Bar or Restaurant Where the Driver Was Drinking Can Be Sued for Damages in Texas
Now that bars and restaurants are re-opening to full capacity in the wake of Covid-19, we in Texas need to be particularly mindful of drunk drivers. Yes, they are out there every day and night, on roads and highways everywhere in Texas. It is common sense that drinking to excess and driving is wrong and deadly. While those who drink, …
Carbon Monoxide Deaths in Recent Cold Texas Weather
Texans have recently been through a rough stretch due to the severe cold weather experienced in late February. No tap water to drink, cook or bathe with, and the loss of electricity to power furnaces and other heat sources was a very common problem for many Texans due to the stunning lack of competence by the Electric Reliability Council of …
3 Dead After Wrong-Way Crash in Haltom City, Police Say
It breaks our heart to have to blog about this yet again (this is about the third time in the past couple of months), but here is a news report about another wrong-way, likely intoxicated driver that has caused immense tragedy on North Texas roads. Three deaths. Just awful. The crash happened at about 8:35 p.m. Sunday evening (August 30) …
Texas Now Has a 30-year Statute of Limitations Benefiting Child Sex Abuse Victims and Certain Claims
Effective September 1, 2019, Texas made progress and increased its statute of limitations from 15 to 30 years concerning certain claims against individuals “arising from” sexual assault or abuse of children. This is an article from WFAA in Dallas concerning this increase, authored back in May 2019. The newly enacted, larger limitations period is now codified at Tex. Civ. Pract. …
Transform Recalls Four-Drawer Chests Due to Tip-Over and Entrapment Hazards; Sold Exclusively at Kmart
Here is yet another piece of recalled furniture – this one a 4-drawer chest sold exclusively at Kmart stores – that poses a dangerous tipping hazard. The recall is effective August 11, 2020 and involves about 19,900 Essential Home Belmont 2.0 chests. These were sold at Kmart stores and online by Kmart between March 2018 and April 2020. There are …
Texas to Allow Limited Visitation in Nursing Homes With No Active Coronavirus Cases
As reported by the Texas Tribune and other Texas news outlets, here is some good news if a loved one of yours resides in a nursing home with “no active coronavirus cases.” Of course, the risk of infection in nursing homes remains substantial. Caution is still required. More aggressive testing in Texas ought to be one key to controlling entry …
Blood Tests for Alzheimer’s Disease in Development
We read yesterday in the New York Times about an exciting development in the ability to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease via a mere blood test. In the past the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, as opposed to dementia or other form of brain disorder causing cognitive impairment, has been very difficult, expensive, and oftentimes inaccurate. This difficulty, inaccuracy, and cost have created …
When Discrimination Reaches the Level of Medical Malpractice
Although discrimination in the healthcare industry is illegal, unethical, and morally repugnant, it still happens every day in the United States.
Dallas Dogs on the Loose
While known as “man’s best friend” in more cozy environments, the stray dogs roaming the streets of Dallas pose a very real threat to the residents.
