Juhon In August 2008, the Southeast Texas Record reported on litigation brought by Lee Davis, a construction worker who claimed his employer, W. O'Neill Construction, negligently caused him to shoot himself in the stomach with a nail by removing the safety switch on nail gun.
In October 2007, the Southeast Texas Record reported on a suit filed by Dariel Jones, who stepped into a gas-filled hole and suffered second- and third-degree burns to his right leg and foot while working at a local DuPont plant.
Four years after being rear-ended at a Dowlen Road intersection, Gerald Sawyer has been awarded more than $16,000 for alleged injuries he suffered in the collision.
In early March, the Southeast Texas Record reported that a Jefferson County jury awarded Beaumont resident Clifford Teaslely $155,000 for injuries he suffered when a local police officer ran a stop sign and sideswiped his vehicle.
A Jefferson County jury has found that both the plaintiff and defendant in an automobile collision trial were each 50 percent responsible for causing the wreck.
Beaumont justices recently affirmed a ruling dismissing Goodyear Tire & Rubber from a suit filed by a local plant worker injured when a conveyor belt suddenly started while he was standing on top of the unit.
In March 2006, Walter Harris sued the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department after a motorist ran a red light and struck the prison transport vehicle in which he was captive.
A Jefferson County jury recently awarded a man $155,000 for injuries he allegedly received when a Beaumont police officer ran a stop sign and sideswiped his vehicle.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Department booking photo of Joshua Bush from 2006. A physician attempting to remove a bullet from a patient's head without his consent is not a medical malpractice issue, a plaintiff will argue before an appeals court in Beaumont later this month.
A local plant worker injured by a conveyor belt is asking an appeals court to keep the Goodyear Co. trapped in his suit, even though Goodyear sold the conveyor 13 months prior to his injury.
TEXARKANA, Ark. � A federal judge has partially dismissed a Taiwanese MP3 maker's claims that Apple Inc. is attempting to monopolize the worldwide MP3 player market by squashing and preventing competition from smaller manufacturers of MP3 players.
TEXARKANA, Texas � Injured while riding as a passenger on a Yamaha Rhino ATV, Krissi Henry alleges the vehicle was defective and unfit for its intended use and has filed suit against Yamaha.
TEXARKANA, Ark. � A second lawsuit to force Domtar Industries to allow a pastor to have Sundays off has been denied the chance to proceed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry A. Bryant.
Although jurors found him to be only 30 percent responsible for causing an automobile collision several years ago, William Connally was still ordered to pay Sherrie Pool $1,500 in damages.
West Orange-Cove Mustangs Former West Orange-Cove assistant school principal Jamie Wilson should have appealed her firing to the Texas education commissioner instead of suing the school district, the Ninth District appeals court in Beaumont decided on Feb. 12.
Although he was adamant in his testimony that doctors can only facilitate healing, a Jefferson County jury still levied a $1.5 million against Dr. Charles Domingues, finding that he could have done more for a gunshot victim.
Earlier this month the Record reported on three suits filed in Jefferson County against Mylan Pharmaceuticals over the prescription drug Digitek. Now, four more suits against the pharmaceutical company have been filed in Orange County.