AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court recently found that Elephant Insurance did not owe a duty to an insured motorist whose spouse was killed while taking photos of her single-car accident.
Nearly a year has passed since the Legislature enacted SB 6, which extends liability protections to health care providers and businesses from lawsuits related to COVID-19. Has the bill been successful in its policy objective to prevent a wave of litigation in Texas courts, primarily health care liability, premises liability, and employer-employee claims?
HOUSTON — Houston attorneys Benny Agosto, Jr. and Spencer T. Speed of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner, along with co-counsel Nicholas Fleming of Fleming Law, have filed a personal injury lawsuit on behalf of the Mejia family in Harris County, Texas against Harvey-Cleary Builders and Lakey Electric Company, a press release states.
HOUSTON - The First Court of Appeals today affirmed a trial court ruling denying attorney Tony’s Buzbee’s motion to dismiss a tortious interference lawsuit brought by Terry & Thweatt.
HOUSTON – Rape survivor Kathleen Dawson has won a lawsuit against Hilton Management and accused assailant Larry Clowers, after a jury determined that Hilton's negligence played a sizeable role in the woman's attack, a press release states.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals today granting a summary judgment win in favor of an insurance broker in a lawsuit seeking payment of proceeds from a life insurance policy following her husband’s death.
HOUSTON — A suit alleges the spouse of a former chemical company worker developed Mesothelioma due to her years of exposure to her husband's clothing which contained asbestos fibers.
HOUSTON — A model and social media influencer who immigrated to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia is alleging that during divorce proceedings, her husband took more than $164,000 of her company's revenues and went on a spending spree without her consent.
HOUSTON – The First Court of Appeals recently affirmed a summary judgment win in favor of the Atlantic Richfield Company in an asbestos lawsuit alleging wrongful death.
FORT WORTH – A Fort Worth woman has filed a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit against the Texas Department of Transportation, I-35 Tarrant County tollway operators and maintenance companies, and various trucking company owners and operators over a massive multi-fatality pileup on Interstate 35 in February that killed her husband.
HOUSTON - A pediatrician has filed a brief in opposition to a federal magistrate’s recommendation to dismiss her lawsuit against a state judge alleging racketeering and estate trafficking of her 91-year-old mother who died under court-appointed guardianship.
The Pandemic Liability Protection Act provides COVID-19 liability protections for health care providers, businesses, non-profits, religious institutions, and schools that made good-faith efforts to follow safety protocols during the course of the public health emergency declared by Gov. Greg Abbott.
HOUSTON — A Houston area construction company is facing a wrongful death suit after one of its workers was exposed to a co-worker with COVID-19 symptoms, caught the virus and died from complications.
HOUSTON - The husband and wife team of Randy Sorrels, a former Texas Bar president, and Alex Farias-Sorrels, a trustee on the Bar Foundation, have announced their new team of lawyers and new office location for Sorrels Law.
HOUSTON - The adult grandson of a deceased 90-year-old Texas woman was appointed as independent executor of her estate following a lawsuit filed against the recused Harris County Probate Judge who had disqualified his mother from serving in the position, a press release states.
