HOUSTON – A Houston-area utility worker has filed a lawsuit against CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric after he was severely injured in a fall from a company utility pole.
BEAUMONT – Around a week after the court was notified that Texas oilman Bill Kallop had died, local blogger Philip Klein filed a motion challenging the authority of a Houston lawyer to defend the late businessman’s companies.
AUSTIN – House Bill 2826, which could curtail the growing trend of attorneys soliciting local governments to pursue litigation, has cleared both chambers of the Texas Legislature.
BEAUMONT – Beaumont Chevron was recently hit with a lawsuit alleging a man slipped on water coming from a beverage cooler.
BEAUMONT – An automobile collision lawsuit slated for trial settled before a jury could be selected, according to a courthouse official.
BEAUMONT – For the better part of a decade, a lawsuit over the purchase, financing and leasing of an aircraft has been drifting along the docket of the 172nd District Court in Jefferson County.
HOUSTON - A lawsuit accusing the Harris County Appraisal District of implementing a discriminatory taxing scheme against married couples can proceed, a Harris County judge has ruled.
HOUSTON – A former CITGO Petroleum employee is suing the company, alleging former CEO Nelson Martinez, who was arrested for corruption and theft, fired her for refusing to commit criminal acts.
BEAUMONT – A personal injury lawsuit slated for trial last month appears to have been resolved.
BEAUMONT – A security guard is suing ExxonMobil alleging she tripped on “defective” carpet.
BEAUMONT – A jury recently awarded a local woman more than half-a-million dollars in damages, finding a physician was negligent in his care of her.
HOUSTON – An appellate court has affirmed summary judgment in favor of company that was sued by a trucker who claims a rat caused him to panic and fall while brushing his teeth.
AUSTIN - The State Bar of Texas has launched an all-out offensive, firing a barrage of filings yesterday in hopes of killing a lawsuit brought by three attorneys who contend paying mandatory dues violates their First Amendment rights.
HOUSTON – Perhaps opting to strike first, The Mostyn Law Firm has filed a petition seeking declaratory judgment against a Beaumont law firm, asserting the statute of limitations has elapsed for it to be sued.
HOUSTON – A woman is claiming her lawsuit was “transferred” and settled without her consent and knowledge.
BEAUMONT – A bar patron is suing Luke’s Icehouse for failing to provide “warning signs” and “barriers” around the loose pea gravel spread across the sidewalk, which allegedly caused him to slip and fall.
AUSTIN – On May 5, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the Consumer Protection Division of his office filed a lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction preventing Douglas W. Monahan and his company, iBackPack of Texas, LLC, from participating in deceptive crowdfunding schemes in violation of the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
HOUSTON – A recently filed lawsuit is arguing Pub Fiction is more culpable than the men who sexually assaulted one of its employees.
“How can any appraiser be ‘disinterested’ or ‘impartial,’ as required by all insurance policies,” asks attorney Steven Badger, “when the appraiser has hundreds of appraisals for a single lawyer, in addition to also working for that lawyer as an expert witness and estimate writer?”
HOUSTON – Instead of handling his client’s BP oil spill claim, attorney Mark Lanier had “more important” things to do, according to a recently filed lawsuit.
$555K verdict rendered in JC med-mal alleging doc discharged sedated patient
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