Texas trial lawyers advertise heavily after each storm strike in the state, seeking to sign up clients in mass. As hailstorm litigation mounts, so do charges of illegal barratry.
Another issue may have surfaced: the use of non-lawyers to perform lawyer-level work in representing the thousands of hailstorm clients.
Valero Energy has denied entering into an agreement with a former district judge who sued the energy giant for breach of contract, seeking to extract more than $6 million in damages.
GALVESTON — A man is suing his former employer alleging his rights granted under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) were violated and that we was wrongfully terminated after taking time off from work due to a medical condition.
A software company in Angleton and its owner were recently implicated in a former employee’s sex discrimination lawsuit. In the suit filed Jan. 6 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas, Kimberley Garner asserts that OverNite Software, Inc. and principal Armando Caceres, Jr. created a hostile work environment for female workers. Garner raised issue about the mistreatment in question only for the defendants to terminate her, according to the complaint. Caceres allegedly “beca
Ford Motor Company is seeking summary judgment in a suit brought by a Jefferson County woman claiming she was injured when the airbags in her Ford Escape allegedly failed to deploy during a collision. Elizabeth Jaeger filed her suit against Ford and Kinsel Ford-Mercury on March 27, 2014 in Jefferson County District Court, citing strict tort liability.
Gov. Greg Abbott recently appointed three more district judges, bringing his total to seven judges appointed in the final weeks of August. On Aug. 26 Abbott appointed David Perwin to the 505th Judicial District Court; Susan Rankin to the 254th District Court; and Chad Bridges of Sugar Land to the 240th Juridical District Court.
