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• Will Austin Ban Text Messaging While Driving?

  Brooks Schuelke | November 04, 2008 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  A few weeks ago, young Griffin Jones was seriously injured in a car wreck near Bastrop. His family's car was stopped to make a turn when another vehicle slammed into them from behind at full speed....

• Is The FDA Even Opposed To Complete Immunity Preemption?

  Brooks Schuelke | October 30, 2008 11:54 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Regular readers know that we've been looking at complete immunity preemption issues this month. In looking at these preemption issues, we've already seen how doctors are opposed to FDA preemption of...

• When is a company liable for a wreck caused by its employee?

  Brooks Schuelke | March 04, 2009 6:43 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  This question came up on another part of the Injuryboard site today, and I wanted to try and answer the question for others. In Texas, there are several situations where a company is liable for a...

• Ways Clients Can Tell If They Have A Good Lawyer

  Brooks Schuelke | January 02, 2009 10:36 AM | 1 CommentAustin, TX

  In 1997, lawyer Stephen Comiskey wrote a very small book entitled A Good Lawyer: Secrets Good Lawyers [and their best clients] Already Know. In it, Comiskey sets out a checklist of the attributes...

• Brain Injury Basics

  Brooks Schuelke | June 13, 2008 11:33 AM | 1 CommentAustin, TX

  A nine-year old boy suffered a brain injury after being struck by a car while walking in front of a bus in New York. The driver, a teen who was allegedly drunk, hit the boy as he tried to drive around the parked bus. The child is currently being treated at a children’s hospital, but has become another tragic example of a victim of a severe brain injury.

• Physicians' Group Sues the Texas Medical Board

  Brooks Schuelke | December 28, 2007 9:06 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  As part of Texas' 2003 tort reform, the Texas Medical Board was given more resources and more powers to police doctors. Where "regulation" through medical malpractice cases decreased, the TMB was supposed to take up the slack to help keep Texans safe. And the TMB started going after doctors. So much so that physicians groups asked legislators to hold hearings on the new TMB enforcement. The...

• Man injured by stray golf ball

  Staff Writer | December 15, 2005 8:42 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Golfer injured by stray ball on Austin Golf Course is suing golfer, coach and school.According to a report by KVUE News, an Austin man has filed a lawsuit against a student golfer, her coach and her university, after he was hit in the head with a golf ball. The lawsuit states that, without warning, the student athlete from St. Edward's University hit the ball while Cortez was still on the green....

• More On Work Zone Safety

  Brooks Schuelke | August 05, 2009 9:40 AM | 1 CommentAustin, TX

  I missed the boat. Yesterday, I wrote about the horrific tractor trailer crash near Gainesville, Texas. The wreck, which killed a Bedford, Texas couple and a Louisiana man, occurred near a work zone...

• Government Covers Up Research Showing Link Between Cell Phones And Auto Accidents

  Brooks Schuelke | July 21, 2009 2:29 PM | 1 CommentAustin, TX

  The New York Times wrote that two public interest groups had obtained documents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that show the link between cell phone usage and auto...

• A Little Rocket Fuel In Your Drinking Water? No Problem

  Brooks Schuelke | September 23, 2008 2:18 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is poised to release a report that recommends against setting drinking water limits for the amount of perchlorate, a byproduct of rocket fuel, in drinking...