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• Learn The Process Before Trying To Settle Your Personal Injury Claims

  Brooks Schuelke | September 28, 2007 10:02 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Anchorage, Alaska personal injury lawyer Michael Schneider has a great post today featuring a story about a client who lost a personal injury case because the client spoke to the insurance adjuster, trusted the adjuster, and apparently followed the adjuster's bad advice, which ended up hurting the claim.Mr. Schneider doesn't have specifics but only says that at trial the client couldn't explain...

• Austin Man Convicted of Murder for Drunk Driving Death

  Brooks Schuelke | September 27, 2007 10:20 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Not completely personal injury news, but for the second time in a month, an Austin driver was sentenced to prison based on a murder charge for a death caused by the driver's drunk driving. Earlier this month, in the first trial of its kind in Travis County, a jury convicted the drunk driver and sentenced him to fifty years in prison. Yesterday's case was a result of a plea bargain that...

• Video Showing Forces Imparted In Auto Accidents

  Brooks Schuelke | September 25, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Marietta, Georgia personal injury lawyer Matt Flournoy has posted a video on YouTube that shows some of the forces that are imparted in even a "minor" car wreck. While you might find the editing of the video (and its numerous inserts of text) annoying, it does have some decent information.Thanks to Lowell Steiger's Los Angeles Personal Injury Law Blog for the link. For more information on this...

• Children's Wrongful Deaths Prompt Crib Recall

  Brooks Schuelke | September 24, 2007 9:39 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Friday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall of over a million baby cribs --- the biggest recall of its kind -- after three children died while using the cribs. But the real story may not be the recall, but an alleged delay in the recall.The original reported death from the cribs occurred in April 2005. As the Chicago Tribune wrote:But the company and the Consumer Product...

• Personal Injury Lawyer Seeks Recusal of Supreme Court Judges in Wrongful Death Case, continued

  Brooks Schuelke | September 21, 2007 9:02 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  We earlier posted about a personal injury lawyer that filed a motion to recuse four of our Texas Supreme Court Justices from hearing a wrongful death case. The motion, which alleged that the justices were biased in favor of defendants, was based in large part on a law review article by a UT professor that found the Court ruled in favor of defendants in 2004 and 2005 over 80% of the time. Not...

• Texas Hospital Files Suit Against Critical Blogger

  Brooks Schuelke | September 20, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  It's not really medical malpractice news, but a Texas hospital, the Paris Regional Medical Center, has filed suit against an anonymous blogger who has been critical of the hospital's practices, including claims that the hospital "values the individual staff member or patient less than the buck" (an allegation that some personal injury lawyers think might be applicable to more hospitals than just...

• First BP Trial Results In Settlement

  Brooks Schuelke | September 19, 2007 9:58 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  One of the big personal injury stories in Texas for the last two years has been the litigation surrounding the explosion at British Petroleum's Texas City refinery. The explosion, which killed 15 people and injured 170 more, was the worst accident in the gas and chemical industry in almost 15 years. The first trial commenced on September 5 and ended earlier this week with a confidential...

• Personal Injury News at ACL Festival

  Brooks Schuelke | September 14, 2007 8:51 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The firm was virtually closed today so that most of us could attend the Austin City Limits Music Festival, but even there we couldn't escape personal injury news. Unfortunately, one of the big news stories of the day was an explosion and fire that broke out around 2:30. The fire was quickly contained, but there were still four people that suffered severe burn injuries and were taken to the...

• Lawyer Seeks Recusal of Judges in Wrongful Death Case

  Brooks Schuelke | September 13, 2007 12:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  The plaintiffs in a wrongful death suit have sought the recusal of Texas Supreme Court justices Dale Wainwright, Scott Brister, Wallace Jefferson, and Nathan Hecht. A Motion to Recuse is a motion asking that a judge not hear a case, usually because the judge has some involvement or bias. This lawyer's motion is based in large part on a study performed by University of Texas Law Professor David...