SHERMAN-State Farm is suing Whirlpool to regain more than $100,000 in insurance benefits that it paid to its insured after part of an ice maker caught on fire.
SHERMAN-A former captain with the Highland Village Fire Department has filed suit against the city alleging violations of the Family Medical Leave Act after he received a demotion for allowing a subordinate to swap shifts due to a medical problem.
LUFKIN - After three years as The Colony's development services director, Donna Bateman was told that another city employee had made sexual harassment allegations against her.
SHERMAN--As an employee of Stallion Oilfield Services, Wilbur Harris was preparing to empty the tanks of an oil well when he tripped on a wire protruding from the pipe. He required immediate emergency attention and was airlifted to the hospital.
SHERMAN -- A woman in her 70s was getting a shopping cart at the entrance of the Wal-Mart in Lewisville when a Wal-Mart employee allegedly rammed a rack of carts into her. She claims the force and surprise of the impact caused the woman to fall to the ground, hurting her hip.
SHERMAN � A cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy in December 2007 developed a serious blood infection that he alleges was caused by the use of a bacterially contaminated product.
SHERMAN -- In a suit recently transferred to the East Texas federal court, the maker of a popular anti-depressant drug is being blamed for a murder-suicide committed by a woman who had taken the drug.
Justice Don Willett AUSTIN � Denton County failed to secure a 17-foot floodgate arm that speared Rhiannon Beynon through a car, but according to the Texas Supreme Court the county doesn't have to pay her family for her injury.
GALVESTON � A Denton County man is suing a local timeshare condominium after a young female relative of his was reportedly injured during a visit in early 2007.
Jim Blackburn A herd of Denton County residents calling themselves the Highland Village Parents Group are seeking an injunction against the U.S. Federal Highway Administration and Texas Department of Transportation in hopes of stopping a massive highway project that would allegedly endanger the lives of children.
MARSHALL -- In an attempt to take the family to Louisiana for the 2006 Thanksgiving holiday, Amanda and Steve Espinosa rented a 2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer from an Oklahoma Enterprise Leasing Company.