Cases of elderly financial abuse are on the rise here in Texas. Last year, Texas Adult Protective Services reported 1,700 confirmed cases of financial abuse; 258 of them were from North Texas. In June of this year, 154 cases of elder financial abuse in North Texas were filed, up from 126 the year before. According to Texas Adult Protective Services, …
Liability in Texas Car Accidents
The law in Texas dictates that drivers will pay for accidents that they cause. This is why all Texas drivers are required by law to have liability insurance: accident injuries are often very expensive, and most people can’t afford to pay them out of pocket. But first, before anyone pays any damages for a given accident, it must be determined …
4 Injured in Oklahoma City Collision
A recent Oklahoma City accident involving a rear-end collision left 4 people injured. The accident occurred on Interstate 240 at Santa Fe in south Oklahoma City. A 24-year-old Oklahoma City resident crashed his car into the back of a pickup carrying four people. Both the car and the truck careened out of control and smashed into barrier walls. The pickup …
Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Homes May Change if New Law is Passed
Nursing homes currently do not have to follow any standardized protocol to obtain informed consent before administering anti-psychotic drugs to elderly patients. According to a news report from McKnights.com, Congress is considering passing a new law, The Improving Dementia Care Treatment in Older Adults Act. If passed, the law will require nursing homes to help residents and their families understand …
Car Crash Results in 7 Fatalities
On Wednesday, seven people died in a head-on collision near the Texas-Oklahoma border. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, a Chevrolet Suburban traveling a high speed cut across the center line of Highway 412 and crashed into a van carrying employees of a Texas meatpacking plant. Both drivers and five van passengers were killed instantly. One survivor was airlifted to …
Woman Killed in Rollover Accident
A 33-year-old woman was killed in a car accident when the vehicle in which she was a passenger rolled over nearly two times. Officials say the vehicle was traveling along normally when another car in the right lane struck the car’s passenger side. The impact caused the vehicle to spin into the median and roll one and one half times. …
Texas Family Has Video Proof of Nursing Home Abuse
A North Texas family was concerned about their mother, 83-year-old Mynez Carter, after they saw her unexplained bruises and how she tried to dodge away from anyone who tried to hug her. They installed a hidden camera in her room to see what was happening when they weren’t around. The family was shocked at the rough treatment shown in the video. One …
Dallas Nerve Injury Lawyers
Nerve damage is common among car accident victims who have suffered from severe burns or trauma. Nerves can be thought of as the “telephone wires” of the human body. They let the brain know when one part of the body is experiencing pain, pressure or a temperature change. In response to these stimuli, nerves also carry messages back to the …
W.T. Johnson Donates to the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas
The Law Office of W.T. Johnson doesn’t just fight injustice in the courtroom, but also by supporting those who are in need in our community. Recently, we began a corporate sponsor partnership with the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, which tries to create lasting community change in Dallas. We will be donating money each month for the next year to …
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 …
