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Sep
For the last several weeks, deaths from the Coronavirus have exceeded 3,000 Americans a day. Some of the epidemiologist measuring the impact of the virus estimate close to a total of 500,000 deaths from the virus by the end of February. We really do live in unpreceden...
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Sep
Having seen the reaction of insurers to a number of “crises,” both real and imagined, it did not surprise me to read an op-ed by the CEO of Chubb Insurance in the Wall Street Journal. In the piece, the CEO seems to foreshadow what we need to expect from an indus...
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Sep
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...
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Sep
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...
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Sep
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...
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Sep
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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Sep
Several weeks ago, I wrote to warn you about cranes and the dangers that they pose. You can read the blog entry here. Yesterday, during some severe weather in Dallas, the inevitable happened. A crane crashed into condos at Deep Ellum Apartments. A 29-year-old woman was kill...
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Sep
It sounds like the beginning to a bad joke, but there is a very dangerous answer. Recently, a professional basketball player living in Plano, Texas was injured when his LG cellphone exploded in his hand. In a related story, a vape pen exploded recently and killed a man in Fort Wo...
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Sep
According to a recent story in the Dallas Morning News, Texas leads the nation in deadly crane accidents. At least eight workers have been killed in seven different accidents in North Texas alone since 2012. In addition, at least one high-profile crane tipped over along Interstat...
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Sep
It may not seem obvious, but being careful about posting on social media accounts after an injury is essential. Insurance companies often spy on social media accounts maintained by an injured party, as well as the social media accounts of their friends and family. Innocuous activ...
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Sep
Today, I read about a recent lawsuit regarding a horrific 2017 crash that killed three people in far West Texas. The wreck occurred when storm chasers, hired by The Weather Channel, were livestreaming their chase of a tornado near the town of Spur, southeast of Lubbock, Texas. Yo...
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Sep
I recently spoke to a colleague about an all-too-common and very invasive insurance practice of spying on anyone who makes a claim for injuries. In my friend's situation, his client was seriously injured by a company truck with a commercial insurance policy with high liabil...
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If you are in need of a personal injury attorney in North Texas, please contact the team at McCraw Law Group today. We are ready to help you in a broad range of serious accident and injury legal issues, and offer multiple ways to reach us.