Dr Shezad Malik Law Firm has offices based in Fort Worth and Dallas and represents people who have suffered catastrophic and serious personal injuries including wrongful death, caused by the negligence or recklessness of others. We specialize in Personal Injury trial litigation and focus our energy and efforts on those we represent.
Thirteen workers jump to safety after an explosion on the offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The company, Mariner Energy, says the site’s seven active wells have been ‘shut in’ and are not leaking.
Another offshore oil facility caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico, sending 13 workers into the water to be rescued by boat, and sending enough petroleum into the water to create a mile-long by 100 foot wide sheen, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
According to OSHA, 4,340 workers died on the job in 2009.
“With every one of these fatalities, the lives of a worker’s family members were shattered and forever changed. We can’t forget that fact.”
-Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor
Poorly Managed Construction Sites Are Dangerous.
Construction site injuries include:
* Falls
* Struck by falling object
* Struck by laterally moving object or equipment
* Impalement or penetrating injury
* Truck or other motor vehicle accident
* Electrocution
* Explosions
* Burns
I am proud of our work this week. We just settled another car accident injury claim. My client was minding his own business, one night in Dallas. Somebody plowed into him and rear ended him. The folks who hit him were drunk and tried to run. They were caught by an off duty apartment security guard.
Come to find out they were high as a kite and ready to fly.
Luckily for my client he had minor soft tissue injuries, but he had pre-existing neck problems including cervical neck fusion. Obviously we were concerned that he may have had neck injuries. But after medical evaluation he was cleared of major injuries.
A Houston company failed to adequately mark the path of a buried 36-inch natural gas pipeline in Johnson County that was struck and exploded in June, killing one person, according to the Texas Railroad Commission.
Enterprise Products Operating Llc. violated several state regulations, the commission said in a report. Fines could be $10,000 per day per violation.
The explosion, which could be seen for miles, occurred June 7 when the carbon-steel pipeline was struck by an auger drilling a 48-inch-diameter hole to install high-wire electrical poles. The operator of the auger truck was killed. McClatchy Newspapers, Houston Chronicle 09/01/2010
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In March, the FDA warned that Zocor users had an increased risk of rhabdomyolysis when taking the drug at high doses of 80 mg. While all statins carry some risk of the muscle injury, the FDA’s report was the first time a dose-specific connection had been made to a particular drug. Symptoms of rhabdomyolysis from Zocor could include muscle cramps, tenderness, stiffness, pain or spasms. The illness is usually reported in patients over 65 years of age or those who have renal impairment or uncontrolled hypothyroidism.
Zocor (simvastatin) is a synthetic statin developed by Merck & Co., which is now available as a generic. Before patent protections expired in 2005, it was Merck’s best-selling drug and the second best selling cholesterol lowering drug in the world, bringing in $4.3 billion in 2005.
Companies controlled by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones have paid out about $10 million to the two employees seriously injured in the 2009 collapse of the team’s practice facility, according to their attorney.
The payments settle lawsuits the two brought against Cowboys Center Ltd. and Blue Star Development Co.; Cowboys Center owned the steel and fabric facility as well as the land on which it stood.
One victim was paralyzed from the waist down and the second suffered a broken vertebrae when the building collapsed in a wind storm on May 2, 2009. DANNY ROBBINS, AP, Houston Chronicle 08/31/2010
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Contact an attorney immediately, and please remember these Sabine Pilot claims are subject to a two-year statute of limitations.
“Sabine Pilot” is the name of a case decided by the Texas Supreme Court in 1985, Sabine Pilot Serv. v. Hauck (Tex. 1985). The Court recognized a narrow exception to the general “at will” doctrine of employment in Texas, and found that an at-will employee may sue his/her employer if he/she is fired for refusing to commit an illegal act.
Keep a file regarding everything that is said or done to you surrounding your termination and keep all of your records related to your employment. These notes and records may prove invaluable in a later lawsuit.
A Virginia jury has awarded $1.95 million in a lawsuit over the death of a woman less than two days after she received plastic surgery.
Maritess Lopez was sent home an hour after her July 2008 surgery even though she was having respiratory problems, dizziness and fever, the lawsuit claims.
She died the next day of aspiration pneumonia. The suit accused Dr. Matthew Galumbeck and his staff of completely ignoring Lopez and her symptoms, which resulted in her death. Jen McCaffery, Virginian Pilot 08/27/2010
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Central DuPage Hospital in Illinois has agreed to a $5.3 million settlement with the husband of a woman who died of a stroke in 2006.
The suit claimed Dr. Mark Kelly and Dr. Henry Echiverri “failed to properly evaluate and treat” Samantha Medina in December 2006, which lead to her death.
Lawyers for the doctors said the doctors did nothing wrong, but that they settled to “avoid even the small risk of a runaway jury verdict.” Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune 08/26/2010
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The city of Fort Worth, Texas, has agreed to a $120,000 settlement of a police brutality lawsuit.
The suit claimed local officers slammed a man’s head into a wall and the floor of the police station while booking him for a DUI in 2008.
Video surveillance confirmed the allegations, but no serious action was taken against the officers because the man waited too long to file a complaint, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
Mike Lee, Ft. Worth Star Telegram 08/24/2010
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