John Morgan Clearly marked with yellow paint, David Pouncy still slipped and fell on a concrete ramp while exiting a gas station owned by Steinhagen Oil Co. Pouncy says the incident left him partially disabled and is suing Steinhagen Oil, claiming the company failed to treat the ramp with "non-skid materials."
Ready for bed, seaman James Castle stepped on a milk crate and hoisted himself up to the top bunk. In the morning, his leg hurt. Castle claims his employer Five B's Inc. forced him to serve aboard an unseaworthy vessel and has filed a Jones Act suit.
Dodge Ram 1500 Traveling late at night with her granddaughter, Ruth McCall, 76, says her rented Dodge truck "suddenly showed a lack of stability and went out of control" causing the vehicle to rollover and slide across Texas 73 � finally stopping upside down in the median.
Holiday Inn Park Central in Port Arthur According to a new suit filed in Jefferson County, Holiday Inn is negligent for allowing people to walk around in its lobby and should have warned plaintiff Sandra Strother of the "dangerous condition" before she entered the hotel.
Elizabeth Manning has filed suit against the Beaumont Independent School District and one of its bus drivers, claiming the driver's negligence caused an automobile collision in December 2006.
AutoZone may be well known for selling the parts needed to maintain an automobile, but Sherry Grandchampt claims the company failed to maintain its premises, negligently allowing her to slip and fall in a puddle of water.
Keith Hyde Alfred Willis, a former Texaco employee, died of lymphoma last January. Now, his wife, Betty Wills, and child, Alpha Shine, are suing the oil company, which they claim negligently exposed him to benzene.
Claiming his prescribed blood pressure medication caused him to have a heart attack, a Texas inmate has filed a medical-malpractice lawsuit against the doctor who prescribed him the pills.
A business that washes your car while changing your oil may sound like a time-saving combination, but Arlicia Craven claims the service cost her a new engine.
David Wilson Kansas City Southern Railway Co. employee James Walter Murray has filed a Federal Employers Liability Act suit against the railroad claiming he suffered a foot injury due to the company's alleged negligence.
2250 Harrison in Beaumont Officials with the city of Beaumont have been ordered to appear before Judge Gary Sanderson, 60th District Court, on March 18 and show cause why the city should not be restrained from destroying Betty Briscoe's home.
A former Beaumont city employee says he was forced into early retirement almost two years ago after a Caterpillar compactor caught fire and exploded near him while working at a municipal landfill.
Nearly two years ago, a refinery worker "slammed" his shoulder into a piece of protruding scaffold metal while climbing a ladder. Now, Brett Jackson Sr. has filed suit against Atlantic Scaffolding, claiming the company negligently failed to "safeguard from the dangers of the scaffolding system."
Lou Thompson Black Paul A. Wilhelm is suing A.W. Chesterton, along with 29 other companies, for conspiring to mine, process and sell asbestos products, suppressing the information pertaining to the fiber's hazardous influence on human health and purposely inflicting him with an asbestos disease.