Negligently Prescribed Medication Causes Harm to Baby

A young woman was improperly prescribed a dangerous teratogenic (which causes birth injuries) drug for a minor condition. Unknown to her, the drug’s effects persist in the system for up to three years, and although this effect is not well known to the public, it is or should be well known…

Severe Brain Injury During Elective Surgery

A young man having elective surgery never recovered from the brain damage caused by surgical and anesthesia negligence, poor hospital staffing and training and dangerous surgical products. The surgeon, using a robotic assistive device, made an inadvertent hole into the chest cavity, which he did not detect. This led to the…

18-Wheeler Traveling in Wrong Lane Results in Liability Lawsuit

Slack Davis Sanger recently resolved a case involving the wrongful death of a 22-year-old young man who died as a result of a head-on collision with an 18-wheeler that was traveling in the wrong lane in West Texas. The case settled for the policy limit of liability of the trucking company…

Downed Power Line Results in Electrical Burn Injuries to a Child

Slack Davis Sanger recently successfully resolved a case involving serious electrical burn injuries to a 6-year-old Navajo boy living on Navajo tribal lands in the Four Corners area of Utah. Texas-based oil companies operated an oil field adjacent to the boy’s home. An electrical power pole supplying power to the field…

First Officer’s Improper Rudder Use Results in Commercial Airplane Crash Lawsuit

Case Title: American Airlines Flight 587 On November 12, 2001, American Airlines Flight 587, flying from JFK International Airport, New York to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, crashed into the Belle Harbor neighborhood in Queens, New York. All 260 people on board died (251 passengers, nine crew members), along with five people…

Inadequate Safety Guards and Safety Training Lead to Cotton Gin Worker Losing His Leg

Case title: Damon Wilson v. PPF Gin & Warehouse, LLC; Lummus Corporation; Ram Manufacturing Company; and Stover Equipment Co., Inc.; Cause No. 11248 in the 62nd Judicial District Court of Delta County, Texas. Mitch McCrea represented Damon Wilson, a recently-hired cotton gin laborer, who lost his leg when his supervisors asked him…

Inadequate 18-Wheeler Brakes Lead to Wrongful Death Case

Case Title: Duckworth v. Clayton Homes Mitch McCrea represented the surviving family of Dickie Duckworth who was killed when another 18-wheeler hauling a Clayton manufactured home crossed the center line and crashed into him head-on on U.S. 79 in Anderson County, Texas. During the course of discovery, we learned that only…

Discriminatory Auto Insurance Rates Result in Significant Settlement

Case title: Grigson, et al. v. Farmers Group, Inc. (W.D. Tex.) In 2017, Charles Grigson filed a class action lawsuit against Farmers Insurance Group, Inc. alleging discriminatory rates. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of all Farmers auto insurance customers in the state of Texas who were policyholders in the Farmers…

Malfunctioning Power Swivel Unit Results in Catastrophic Personal Injury Lawsuit

Case Title: Murphy v. Excel Site Rentals, LLC On November 11, 2017, an employee of Consolidated Well Services LLC was working as a floor hand on the Yoder 2-H well site in Bradford Country, Pennsylvania. A power swivel unit owned and operated by Excel Site Rentals, LLC rotated unintentionally as the…