BEAUMONT – Entergy is looking to appeal a summary judgment loss in a lawsuit brought by two men claiming they were injured by an energized power line while navigating Hurricane Harvey floodwaters.
HOUSTON — The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is facing a suit alleging it negligently administered chemotherapy to a patient suffering from sepsis which led to his death.
HOUSTON – Nearly two years after an appellate court found Brent Coon must arbitrate a dispute with another lawyer over referral fees stemming from asbestos litigation, the Beaumont attorney has finally entered a notice of nonsuit.
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.
Jefferson County District Judge Kent Walston is staunchly supported by trial lawyers practicing before him. When he last ran for reelection, unopposed, big contributions came in from attorneys at Provost Umphrey, Reaud Morgan and Quinn, Moore Landry, Weller Green Toups & Terrell, and the Ferguson Law Firm.
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.
BEAUMONT – After denying UPS a trial by jury, Judge Kent Walston, a district judge in Jefferson County, awarded the plaintiffs suing the company $27 million in damages for an auto collision that didn’t occur in Texas.
BEAUMONT – Back in December, the Ninth Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling rejecting an expert report offered by Christus Health Southeast Texas in a lawsuit brought by a patient who delivered her baby into a toilet while admitted to St. Elizabeth Hospital.
BEAUMONT – Judge Mitch Templeton did not err by opting not to grant a new trial in car wreck suit that resulted in a jury awarding no damages, according to an opinion issued by the Ninth Court of Appeals today.
The following cases categorized as "other civil case" were on the docket in the Harris County Civil Court on April 26. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals recently affirmed a ruling declining to dismiss a lawsuit alleging an over prescription of anti-depressant medication led to an older man shooting himself in the head.
BEAUMONT – The Ninth Court of Appeals has reversed Judge Kent Walston’s award of $1.34 million to Aattaboy Termite and Pest Control – a judgment Walston handed down when the defendants in the case were without representation.
