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Traffic and Accident Concerns Surrounding Eagle Ford Shale The number of serious car wrecks continues to rise in the Eagle Ford Shale region of Texas. The 23-county area, stretching from Laredo to the eastern edge of the play near Huntsville, saw 236 fatalities in 2013, down from 248 the year before, but there were…

Texas Distracted Driving Law Proposals The Texas Department of Transportation attributed 94,943 traffic crashes in 2013 to distracted driving. These crashes resulted in 18,576 serious injuries and 459 deaths. Seeing as nearly one in five crashes in Texas involves driver distraction, some members of the Texas Legislature made several attempts to implement a statewide…

New Texas Sunset Advisory Commission Recommendation Would De-Regulate X-Ray Technicians The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission (TSAC) was established in 1977 to evaluate state agencies and make changes their missions or operations if necessary. TSAC has abolished seventy-nine agencies since 1977, saving Texas an estimated $945.6 million. Despite previous success, one of the newest recommendations…

Chrysler Recalls Nearly One Million SUV’s in July 2014 The Dallas Morning News reported on July 11, 2014 that Chrysler Group (a division of General Motors) is recalling 895,000 SUVs. The recall is due to Chrysler’s need to re-route or replace wiring in vanity-mirror lights that could potentially cause a fire. The wiring is…

Dallas/Fort Worth Area Veterans Complain of Long Waits, Insufficient Help at Dallas VA You may have seen any one of a stream of news stories recently that reveal alleged “waiting lists” at Veterans Administration Hospitals across the country. Veterans in Dallas/Fort Worth and the Metroplex are included in the thousands of veterans who have…

From the CDC: Preventing Burn Injuries in Children According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a US federal government agency based in Atlanta, GA, around 100,000 children aged 14 and younger received treatment for burn injuries in 2010 and approximately 300 actually died from burns. Most of these injuries were preventable. As part…

Medical Malpractice in Texas: Requirements for Experts and Expert Reports An injured person who files a medical malpractice or other healthcare liability claim in a Texas court is required to serve an expert report and the expert’s curriculum vital on each defendant no later than the 120th day after the date each defendant’s original…

Time Limits for a Texas Medical Malpractice Case A medical malpractice lawsuit is a serious case in which a patient alleges that a doctor made a mistake while treating the patient and harmed the patient by making that mistake. Texas has several laws that are specifically directed at medical malpractice claims filed in the…

Texas Cap on Medical Malpractice Case Damages In 2003, Texas passed legislation limiting the amount of compensation a plaintiff can receive in a medical malpractice case. This law is found at Chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice Remedies Code. The law caps how much a patient may receive in noneconomic damages from each…

Is Testosterone Therapy Really Necessary? You may have noticed a lot of commercials aimed at men suggesting that they may candidates for testosterone replacement therapy. Bloomberg News reports that the market for testosterone has passed the $1 billion mark—and may pose a host of risks to men who use it, including heart attacks and…