The return of nuclear verdicts to Texas courts (and attorney television advertising) and the recently launched efforts of the medical malpractice plaintiff’s bar to convince the federal courts to strike down Texas’ cap on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (which is likely to play out over several years) could potentially raise an issue for state lawmakers: is it time to consider codifying at least some objective standards and levels of proof for mental anguish damages?
HOUSTON - A Harris County jury awarded a verdict in the amount of $7,110,000 on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 17 to a local nursing assistant who was injured in 2016 while transferring a bariatric patient from bed to wheelchair at the Courtyards of Pasadena nursing home facility in Pasadena, a press release states.
We all do it: self-diagnose. Before we go to the doctor, we try to figure out on our own what condition we have and what may have caused it. Then we go to the doctor and share our findings. He asks us why we bothered coming to see him if we already knew what we had, and we tell him that we wanted a second opinion.
BEAUMONT – Two years ago, a jury awarded a local man more than $17 million in damages for injuries he received when a truck driver for Genesis Energy slammed into the rear of his smoking vehicle.
HOUSTON — An August 2022 trial has been slated in a lawsuit brought by a woman alleging a Sonic employee threw a drink on her and caused her to hit her head on the concrete.
HOUSTON - A 'dubious-tasting kolache’ is legally insufficient evidence to support a $400,000 jury verdict levied against Murphy’s Deli, according to the First Court of Appeals.
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.
HOUSTON — A renter who suffered burns while showering in his condo due to an allegedly improperly adjusted water heater is claiming his landlord's liability.
