AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Having convinced a federal court to dismiss a class action by thousands of disgruntled former clients because the cases were different, Texas attorney George Fleming can’t now argue the cases should be dismissed because he won a favorable verdict in one of them.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Parents who wanted $1 million in compensation for the suffering of their daughter after she was bitten by a rattlesnake have no case against the emergency-room doctor who refused to immediately administer antivenom, the Texas Supreme Court ruled.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A lawsuit over the death of a woman who hit her head in the parking lot after her wheelchair tipped over is subject to a Texas law governing malpractice suits, the state’s highest court ruled, reversing an appeals court that held the accident lacked a “substantial nexus” to health care.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - There was no reason to order a new trial in a lawsuit over a beer-fueled accident involving car dealership employees that resulted in a $4 million verdict neither side was happy with, the Texas Supreme Court ruled.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Jurors can’t just pick “numbers out of a hat” to award emotional damages in wrongful-death cases and lawyers can’t use irrelevant comparisons to guide them, the Texas Supreme Court ruled, setting down for the first time guidelines on noneconomic damages for relatives of fatal accidents.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Texas courts have jurisdiction over a lawsuit by a man who improperly hooked up an LG lithium battery to his e-cigarette, causing it to explode in his pocket, the Texas Supreme Court ruled.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A law firm can’t escape a malpractice suit by citing a state law designed to protect free speech, the Texas Supreme Court ruled, finding the plaintiff had presented enough evidence to allow the case to proceed.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Courts continue to grapple with the issue of race on juries, as Texas' highest court has found a trial was sullied after the plaintiff's attorney announced a preference for Black women jurors during selection.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Volkswagen can be sued in Texas over the “dieselgate” scandal even though it is based in Germany and its VW and Audi vehicles are distributed by a New Jersey subsidiary, the Texas Supreme Court ruled, reversing an appellate court decision dismissing the case for lack of personal jurisdiction.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A woman who won a $14.1 million malpractice verdict for brain damage she suffered after gastric bypass surgery should have had the award reduced by the multimillion-dollar settlement her daughter received over the same injury, the Texas Supreme Court ruled.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A man who was freed after 12 years in prison and received compensation under a Texas law can’t sue officials in federal court for violating his rights, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in an advisory opinion to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - The Texas Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by relatives of two men who blamed an oilfield-services company for a fatal accident involving a contract employee who was running personal errands at the time.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A man who won a jury verdict for $216,000 in damages after being hit by a bus operated by a county social-services center will have to settle for $100,000 after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that state law limits the power of courts to award any more.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - An apartment company has the right to have its own medical expert examine six family members who claim they were exposed to carbon monoxide gas and are seeking $33 million in damages, the Texas Supreme Court ruled.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A Texas man will get his chance to sue the City of Tyler after a piece of lumber fell off one of its trucks and struck him in the head.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) – A trial court was wrong to order the alcohol and drug test results of all UPS drivers in Irving, Texas, in a wrongful death lawsuit concerning only one of them.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Parents who won a $1.4 million verdict against a pediatrician and physician assistant they blamed for their daughter’s suicide failed to prove poor medical care was the cause of the girl’s death, the Texas Supreme Court ruled, reversing the verdict and affirming a stringent test for liability in suicide cases.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) – A car insurance company isn’t liable for telling a client to take a picture of her single-car accident and the death that resulted from that instruction.
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A woman whose attorneys artfully rewrote her lawsuit to try to avoid a Texas medical-malpractice law requiring plaintiffs to supply expert reports within 120 days lost her case and must pay the other side’s legal fees, the Texas Supreme Court ruled.
