Texas Legal News & Case Updates

Pros and Cons of Sturdier Cars

While reinforced alloys, impact-absorbing crumple zones and dozens of air bags in today’s passenger vehicles certainly help save lives, the newer designs are also hindering rescue efforts. Hydraulic cutters commonly used by rescue crews to remove injured persons from a vehicle are less effective and

By The Legal Examiner

/ 19 Mar 2008

Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Based on Genes

Whether a victim of abuse, witness to a heinous crime, or involved in some other form of trauma, your risk for post-traumatic stress disorder may depend on your genetic makeup, new research said today. A study by researchers at Emory University found that of adults who had endured abuse as a child,

By The Legal Examiner

/ 18 Mar 2008

Dennis Quaid: Medical Mistakes Far Too Common

While Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly are lucky that their twins are still with them today after a hospital-administered overdose of an adult blood thinner had them fighting for life in November, not all victims of medical mistakes are so lucky. In fact, according to a 2000 Food and Drug Administrati

By The Legal Examiner

/ 17 Mar 2008

Dallas Plagued by Drunken Driving Accidents

A 4-year-old girl. An 18-year-old man. A 60-year-old man. Someone’s baby girl. Someone’s brother. Someone’s dad… All victims of fatal accidents involving suspected drunken drivers in the Dallas area.The 4-year-old Haltom City girl, Kaitlyn Sanchez, died about 10 p.m. March 14, an hour after a 32-yea

By The Legal Examiner

/ 17 Mar 2008

John Ritter's Doctors Cleared in Malpractice Case

After his death from a torn aorta in 2003, the widow and children of actor John Ritter filed a lawsuit against his cardiologist and radiologist for medical negligence. Radiologist Matthew Lotysch was cleared today of the claims that he had failed to spot an enlargement of the aorta in a body scan do

By The Legal Examiner

/ 14 Mar 2008

Ride Malfunction Prompts Six Flags Suit

When the Six Flags ride the Texas Tornado malfunctioned in March 2006, nine people were injured from bumping into each other as the operator utilized the emergency safety switch to lower the ride. Trista Price, who suffered minor back injuries, filed a lawsuit this week claiming that Six Flags Over

By The Legal Examiner

/ 14 Mar 2008

Parkland Hospital Sued for Unpaid Overtime

Claiming she and other nurses had not been paid overtime for work done over the course of three years, Carrolton-resident Angela Valcho has filed a lawsuit against Parkland Health & Hospital System. As an hourly employee, a 30-minute lunch was automatically deducted when clocking in and out of the p

By The Legal Examiner

/ 14 Mar 2008

Car Collides with School Bus

A school bus transporting 12 children to an Arlington school for the hearing impaired (Jean Massieu Academy) was struck by a passenger car around 7 a.m. March 13. The small vehicle was attempting to make it through a yellow light on the service road at Loop 12 and Keeneland Parkway in Dallas. It is

By The Legal Examiner

/ 13 Mar 2008

Is Your Doctor Sleeping Enough?

A recent Internet survey by the American College of Chest Physicians’ Sleep Institute (ACCP) found that most physicians are probably not getting enough sleep for top performance at work.As a patient, anxiety may affect your ability to sleep the night before a medical procedure – we all get a little

By The Legal Examiner

/ 12 Mar 2008

Early Morning Dallas Crash Kills 2

Morning rush hour traffic was backed up for miles around the investigation of an early morning – about 3:20 a.m. – crash on Westbound Interstate 635 in Dallas. Another sad incident involving a tractor trailer truck and a small passenger vehicle, WFAA Channel 8 News reported that the car ran undernea

By The Legal Examiner

/ 12 Mar 2008

Truck Driver: "I Might Have Fell Asleep"

Semi-truck driver James Buchholz reportedly told police, “I don’t know what happened. I might have fell asleep,” when questioned in regard to the fatal crash involving his 2007 Freightliner and a Missouri family of four. The freightliner struck the family’s Ford Crown Victoria from behind at an inte

By The Legal Examiner

/ 11 Mar 2008

Update: State Revoking Killeen Day Care License

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services today issued the Little Blessings Child Care Center in Killeen, Texas a letter stating that the center’s child care license would be revoked, citing the alleged February 20 sexual assault of a 4-month old child while under the care of the center

By The Legal Examiner

/ 10 Mar 2008