Blog Category - Personal Injury Page 6

Sep

The Importance of Recovering Compensation After a Catastrophic Injury

One of the most important things we know from handling catastrophic injury cases—and one of the reasons that life care planning is so important with all long-term injuries—is that there is a correlation between the type of long-term care a person receives and the leng...

Sep

How to Find the Right Catastrophic Injury Lawyer

If a family member or loved one suffers a catastrophic injury, you may be forced into the position of making decisions that can and will affect them for the rest of their life. These are not decisions you are going to make without thoughtfulness or contemplation, but it is someth...

Sep

Significance of Traumatic Brain Injuries in Service Members

Recently, Iran launched a retaliatory rocket attack on one of our military bases in Iraq. In an effort to downplay the effectiveness of the strike, initial reports from President Trump himself indicated that there were no injuries. We quickly learned that 34...

Sep

Can Clear Fault Cases Really Not Be Won?

Sometimes I have clients, friends, and other people I talk to say something akin to, “Well, this is easy. The injury is obviously the other side's fault. There is no way anyone could lose this case. ” To that I say, 1) Even obvious cases are never eas...

Sep

Charlie Ginn Receives Reich Chandler Outstanding Advocate Award

The Reich Chandler Outstanding Advocate Award is given to a member of the TTLA Advocates who embodies the qualities of balance, tradition, and professionalism. Proverbs 17:17 says a friend loves at all times and a brother is born for a time of adversity. That's how this yea...

Sep

Study Indicates Texas Appellate Court Rulings Now More Fair to Plaintiffs

According to a story in the Texas Lawbook, the courts of appeals in Texas have been treating litigants much more fairly in 2019 than in the past. A study found that during the final four months of 2018, Republican-controlled appellate courts reversed a whopping 39 percent of case...

Sep

Older Drivers are More Likely to be Distracted by Technology

According to AAA, older drivers are more likely to be distracted while driving when using in-vehicle technology than their counterparts. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the University of Utah released a report this week indicating that, when performing simple tasks like...

Sep

Texas Workers Are Dying on the Job at Alarming Rates

This week, the Texas Observer published a story confirming what many of us in the legal industry knew to be true from observation: Texas workers are dying on the job much more often than they should. Every year since 2009, Texas has had more worksite deaths than any other state...

Sep

Study Shows Women at Higher Risk Than Men in Car Wrecks

We have all heard about gender gaps in different areas of our lives. Differences in our elected leaders, job types, and earnings are all applicable to gender. One new gender-based statistic that has recently been identified is that women are at much greater risk to sustain seriou...

Sep

Oil Rig Explosions Highlight Indifference to Safety

Last Wednesday, the U. S. Chemical Safety Board issued a rare but scathing indictment of the oil and gas industry for the lack of regulation and supervision of the onshore oil and gas industry. The report analyzes an explosion that killed five oil field workers near Quinton, Oklah...

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