Fort Worth Injury Attorney Blog

It's been a very busy couple of weeks here. I've settled five cases for good money. One was concluded just before trial. Four were automobile/ truck collisions, one involving a drunk who crashed into my wonderful client at 3 pm then fled the scene. The other involved a pedestrian who was struck and critically injured on the side of an interstate. I'll post more details when I get a chance.

The best part was hearing how pleased my clients were with their financial recoveries. I took one client (and now a friend) to lunch today at a favorite restaurant, The Wood Shed, and I loved hearing him tell me "You've made me rich." (This was their second crash, and their third recovery of money.) Two others said I was "awesome." No, I said they were the ones who were awesome, going through all of the pain they had endured with such grace.

Please contact my office if you need help with a collision.

Have a great weeekend.

I'm taking depositions Monday in Dallas - a company truck hit a man next to his disabled car on the shoulder, nearly killing him, so this topic is on my mind. Having handled injury cases like this over the past 33 years, I know they can be difficult. It's safe to say that while an individual could try to handle the myriad legal, insurance, and medical aspects

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I hate drunk and stoned drivers and pursue them vigorously when they injure my clients. For example, I am pleased that P____ is about to receive the full policy limits from a man who crashed into her in Fort Worth after his insurance company claimed he was not at fault because he was recovering from heart surgery and was driving to a doctor's appointment; I proved he was driving while under the influence of prescription medications. L___ is about to receive a large settlement for relatively minor injuries caused by a drunk truck driver in Arlington. T__ will soon receive a good recovery after she was hit by an intoxicated Mercedes driver in Hurst.

Impaired driving is far too commonplace. This is just in today's paper:

1. After a two week trial, a Dallas jury returned a verdict of $10.5 million, primarily against the strip club bar that overserved a drunk man, to the family of a young woman run over in its parking lot. The driver -- whose BAC was more than two times the legal limit and who was already on probation -- didn't even know he had hit the woman with this illegal "monster truck." Under the Texas Alcohol Beverage Code, bars, restaurants, and liquor stores can be held liable if they serve alcohol to clearly intoxicated customers.

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Police in Grand Prairie arrested a middle school teacher after she ran a stop light and struck a first grader, John Raidy on Thursday.Then she sped off.

Police had released photos of the car and were hunting for its driver, which presumably caused Tammy Lowe, 53, of Grand Prairie, to finally turn herself in yesterday.

The teacher has been charged with felony counts of manslaughter and failing to stop and render aid.

Evidence shows that the youngster, who was walking with his mother and sister, had lhe green light for 14 seconds as they crossed North Carrier Parkway before Lowe crashed

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A handicapped woman who was restricted to a motorized wheel chair was going across a Weatherford street last year when a pickup truck hit her. The driver and an eyewitness said the woman was negligent and the driver's liability carrier refused to pay this woman's damages. I filed suit and have forced the company to pay the entire policy's limits. Then my staff and I worked with the federal government and other medical providers to greatly reduce the money the woman had to pay for her medical bills.

And yesterday I successfully settled another case for a woman hit by a car as she was being pushed by her fiance in a wheel chair near Hulen Mall, and again slashed my client's medical bills to make sure she would receive a lot more money.

I have been successfully handling all kinds of collision cases for over 32 years. If you or someone you know has unfortunately been injured in an accident involving a motor vehicle, please contact me. I will fight to get you the money you deserve.

A case involving a woman hit by a pickup truck as she was leaving the WalMart in Arlington has been settled.

I am pleased that I was able to obtain 100% of the truck's liability policy as well as my client's underinsured motorists policy and personal injury protection benefits. I also greatly reduced

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I wanted to wish every one a happy and safe Thanksgiving.

I will pause to thank God for my blessings, be with my wonderful family, see some movies and football games and exercise. And my birthday is Friday (how did I ever get to be 58?).
But unfortunately driving during the holidays can be dangerous.

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OK, so it's been a long time since my wife and I took our daughter to school (she started graduate school at SMU last week), but I'll be over at Rufino Mendoza Elementary School to help out with its after-school running club for the 8th year as school sponsor and I wanted to remind motorists to be extra careful now that classes are in session.

I have unfortunately had to represent the parents of children who were struck while walking or riding their bicycles to school over the last 32 years and these can be the worst cases imaginable.

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I was angry to read recently that a 44 year old man was killed by a 16 year old girl driving her mom's SUV and texting. The girl finally turned herself in to authorities almost two months later, only after learning that there was a warrant out for her arrest for negligent homicide with a motor vehicle.

I run on our streets and am always worried that I or a friend will get hit just like this.

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Take a look my new cases from the past two days to see how I get the results my clients deserve!

1. Fort Worth accident - A man in a Lexus IS300 was rear ended at a high rate of speed by a 20 year old in this SUV, but he claimed he was hit from behind so his insurance carrier denied liability. I sent a paralegal to the same wrecking yard I entered to climb inside the truck tractor and take photos which helped win this case several years ago. Our photos showed zero damage to the SUV's rear.

Continue reading "Why You Need a Good Fort Worth Injury Lawyer: 4 Latest Cases" »

Texas is a ridiculously dangerous place to drive.

In Texas in 2010, car and truck wrecks injured and killed the following people.

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Today the U.S. Transportation Department again delayed the mandate that rearview cameras be standard on 2014 passenger vehicles, this time until the end of the year. No reason was given.

The law was passed to protect pedestrians from being run over by vehicles when the drivers are backing up and fail to see them. This happens a lot more than you might imagine, with 228 deaths tragically occuring each year, or two a week. 44% of these are children who are four years old or younger. And a startling 17,000 people are injured - many seriously -- when they are run over each year.

I realize this will cost more -- the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates an additional $160.00 to $200.00 (with the camera installed in the mirror, not in the dash) -- but this seems like a relatively small price to pay. This is especially true since this camera is

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A Fort Worth woman faces intoxication manslaughter charges in the death of an 18-year-old Fort Worth man.

Althea Voynn Wilson, 28, was arrested Thursday after the pickup she was driving late Wednesday ran a stop sign and struck another truck in the intersection of East 2nd Street and Pecan Street in downtown Fort Worth,

Sean Michael Satterfield was thrown from a 1996 Chevrolet truck when it was hit by a 1998 Dodge truck that was southbound on Pecan Street.

Satterfield died at the scene from blunt trauma of the chest.

The driver of the Chevrolet, Arnold Razon, 19, of Fort Worth, also was arrested and faces charges of driving while intoxicated and possession of marijuana

I call on the protesters across America to focus on some of the worse abusers of power: insurance companies.

Legislators do nothing to control them. Yet they routinely rip off thousands of people damaged in motor vehicle collisions --and brazenly pocket billions of dollars they collect from their policyholders when they refuse to pay claims.

The Dallas Morning News investigated this problem in the article on its front page yesterday. Its reporter talked to the leading state official in charge of policing the insurance companies, House Insurance Committee Chairman John Smithee, R-Amarillo. He claimed he had growing concerns about certain insurers who regularly refuse to pay claims in which their policyholders are at fault. "I get calls about this all the time," he admitted.

So why doesn't he/the Legislature do something to stop these rampant abuses?

Why was Old American County Mutual Insurance Company allowed to illegally rescind hundreds of auto policies from 2005 - 2009 after claims were filed and not pay any money to injured drivers, even though hundreds of complaints were filed with TDI?

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I was saddened to read that Floyd Jones, a 60 year old resident of south Fort Worth, tragically lost his life Monday night when he was hit by a vehicle as he was walking around his neighborhood.

The collision occurred about 6:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Garden Acres Drive in Fort Worth near I 35.

A motorist told police that she was driving eastbound when she slowed down for a speed bump and heard something hit a passenger side mirror. She told officers that she saw a "flash of red," stopped her vehicle and saw the victim laying in the ditch.

It is hard to believe, but over 5,000 pedestrians are killed and 78,000 are injured each year in the United States.

Without knowing more, I cannot tell whether the driver or pedestrian is at fault. Perhaps the driver was driving carelessly or was distracted as she talked on her cell phone. Or perhaps the man was wearing dark clothing or walked suddenly across the road and she could not have avoided hitting him. Perhaps both were partially at fault. It hardly seems to matter now.

In any event, I urge motorists to drive slower in residential neighborhoods and use utmost caution.

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