| Brantley Inducted Into Texas State Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers |
| The Texas State Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers are proud to announce that, Jose, Henry, Brantley, MacLean & Alvarado, LLP; Fort Worth, have been inducted into the Fellowship. The College strives to improve the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice and the ethics, civility and collegiality of the trial profession. Invitation to Fellowship is extended... Read More |
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| Fort Worth Personal Injury Attorneys win huge settlement from Insurance for the Family of a Disabled Infant |
| A Glen Rose couple could be paid as much as $82.6 million under a court settlement with an Irving-based insurance company that refused to pay for a transplant operation, leaving their 10-month-old baby permanently disabled. Sanus Texas Health Care has reached an agreement with Dallas firefighter John Hedrick and his wife, Jaye, to establish a trust fund for their son,... Read More |
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| Syringe maker fights class-action designation |
| Attorneys for a syringe manufacturing company argued before the 2nd Court of Appeals that a Fort Worth nurse's lawsuit over the safety of their product should not be given class-action status. The lawsuit, which names Joan Usrey as lead plaintiff, alleges that conventional syringes are hazardous and seeks compensation for health-care workers who were accidentally stuck by used needles, requiring... Read More |
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| Fort Worth Personal Injury Lawyer, John Jose gets $24 Million for Family of Victim from Trucking Company |
| Nine months after Janie Bartula died in a fiery chain-reaction freeway crash caused by a tractor-trailer ramming into a row of cars, her family has settled a lawsuit against the trucking company for $24 million. Lawyers, who claimed the driver worked longer hours than the law allows, called the recent settlement one of the largest in a wrongful death suit... Read More |
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| Sterling Trust penalized in punitive stage |
| After deliberating for a week, jurors decided that Waco-based Sterling Trust Co. breached its legal duty to protect account-holders who had been deceived by their broker. Jurors also said Sterling did not commit securities fraud but aided the broker, Norman Cornelius, in violating Texas securities law. The 69 plaintiffs, not all of them Sterling account holders, claimed damages of $7... Read More |
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| $9.9 Million in Damages Awarded to Hurt Driver Represented by Fort Worth Personal Injury Attorney, Scotty MacLean |
| A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the government to pay $9.9 million to a 24-year-old Missouri woman who suffered permanent brain damage in a 1998 head-on collision with a vehicle driven by a census worker in Denton County. Fort Worth attorney Scotty MacLean filed the lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act because the accident involved a government employee. The... Read More |
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| $15 Million Awarded to Family of Blinded Twins because of Fort Worth Personal Injury Attorneys, JHBMA |
| A jury awarded $15 million to an Azle family after determining that doctors failed to diagnose and properly treat a condition that blinded their twin sons. Hunter and Tyler Burt, who were born 10 weeks premature Dec. 26, 1996, developed retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a condition that occurs when blood vessels to the retina do not fully develop in some... Read More |
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