Texas Lawyer: the ticker
Public Citizen Inc. wants the court to turn down a request from Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone-Firestone Inc. for a protective order that would keep documents in a tire-tread suit private. Public Citizen, a nonprofit public interest group founded by Ralph Nader, filed the amicus curiae brief in a suit filed in state court by a Crosby woman who was injured in an accident in 1999 in a Ford Explorer equipped with Firestone tires.
Group fights Firestone motion
Crosby litigant gets help in effort to publicize tire problems
A consumer watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader has gotten behind a Crosby woman’s fight to disclose publicly any information that she gains on Firestone’s tread-separation problems.
Suits, Births and Videotape
Doctors fear blessed event can turn into legal nightmare
Since the late 1970s when childbirth returned to a more natural procedure and a family event, videotaping soon followed as delivery room routine.
Texas Lawyer: On Tape
A videotape taken in the delivery room of a Houston hospital when a woman gave birth to a daughter in February 1999 turned out to be gripping evidence in a medical malpractice suit instead of the record of a joyous family occasion.
Medical verdict in Botched Back Surgery
A Kingwood hospital and two of its doctors were ordered by a jury to pay a family harmed by the doctors in the first known verdict in the state finding a hospital malicious for retaining a physician on its staff.
Hospital, doctors liable in malpractice suit
In an unprecedented jury decision, a Kingwood hospital and two of its doctors were found guilty of malice and ordered to pay damages to a local man, following surgery which left him incapacitated.
Jury Verdict for Brain Damaged Man in Malpractice Suit
In an unprecedented jury decision, a Kingwood hospital and two of its doctors were found guilty of malice and ordered to pay damages to a local man, following surgery which left him incapacitated.
Monetary Award for Botched Surgery
A jury ordered Columbia Kingwood Medical Center and two doctors to pay damages for botching a relatively simple back surgery and causing a 42-year-old man severe brain damage.
Suit Names Bus Firm in Colorado Crash; Teen One of Many Hurt After Ski Retreat
A Houston family filed suit stemming from a bus crash in Colorado that killed three people and injured dozens of others traveling on a church-sponsored skiing retreat.
Jury awards couple, finding hospital negligent
A Houston jury awarded damages to a Missouri City couple after finding a hospital’s negligence caused the woman’s coma.