Texas Child Injury Lawyers
McDonalds Recalls 12 Million Shrek Glasses – Texas Child Injury Lawyers
Yes, another recall… This time, by fast food giant, McDonalds. McDonalds announced today that they are recalling 12 million Shrek-themed glasses because of elevated levels of cadmium. These glasses have been sold for $2 each and have various images from the “Shrek Forever After” movie.
Elevated levels of cadmium have been found in the paint used [...]
Safety Groups Team up to Prevent Deaths of Children Left Unattended in Cars – Texas Child Injury Lawyers
Between 1998 and 2009, there were 445 child fatalities involving children left unattended in vehicles, and dying from heat stroke. A group of more than 40 organizations including Safe Kids USA and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is pooling in efforts to ensure that such deaths don’t occur again.
About 50% of the fatalities occurred because [...]
Several Children Injured in Houston Drunk Driving Accident – Texas Auto Accident Lawyers
Harris County’s reputation as one of the DWI capitals of the country, has always concerned Houston personal injury lawyers. Last week, it was the turn of a few innocent children traveling in their family car, to be injured in an accident caused by an intoxicated driver.
A drunk motorist driving a white Chevy truck crashed into [...]
CPSC Likely to Ban Drop Side Cribs – Texas Child Injury Lawyers
With the total death toll from suffocation/ entrapment accidents involving dropside cribs crossing 46 , there was really no other choice. Last week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that it would soon move towards a ban on the manufacture and sales of cribs with dropsides.
That announcement came after a series of multiple recalls, many [...]
Dramatic Increase in Number of Teen Accidents at Night in Harris County – Houston Injury Lawyers
The Texas Transportation Institute has released new statistics about nighttime teen accident rates. Across the country, there has been an increase of 10% in the number of fatal nighttime accidents involving teen motorists. When it comes to Texas and Harris County, the Transportation Institute has a particularly grim picture to paint.
In the state of Texas, [...]
CPSC Investigating Complaints of Severe Burns, Blisters from Using Pampers Cruisers/Swaddlers Diapers – Texas Product Liability Lawyers
As Houston personal injury lawyers and parents of small children ourselves, we are obviously hugely concerned with product safety, and monitor every recall or safety issue linked to children’s products. It makes us mad to think that companies might be treating our kids as lab rats when they introduce new products. Whether it’s lead-soaked toys [...]
Several Students Injured in Yet Another Houston Bus Accident – Texas Child Injury Lawyers
It’s the latest in a series of accidents in Houston that accident lawyers have come across over the past few months. Several students sustained injuries most of them minor, when the school bus they were traveling in was involved in a multi vehicle accident. The accident occurred on 288, south of downtown Houston on Wednesday [...]
Safety Groups Team up to Prevent Deaths of Children Left Unattended in Cars – Houston Child Injury Lawyers
Between 1998 and 2009, there were 445 child fatalities involving children left unattended in vehicles, and dying from heat stroke. A group of more than 40 organizations including Safe Kids USA and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is pooling in efforts to ensure that such deaths don’t occur again.
About 50% of the fatalities occurred because [...]
Two Students Injured in Klein Independent School District Bus Accident in Houston – Texas Injury Lawyers
Two students have been injured, one of them seriously, in an accident involving a Klein Independent School District bus and a passenger vehicle.
The accident occurred on Monday at about 6.30 in the morning in northwest Harris County. The bus was taking students to an alternative school at the Louetta and Stuebner-Airline district annex, when it [...]
12-year-old Texas Boy In Custody after Midnight Police Chase – Houston Criminal Defense Lawyers
A 12-year-old boy, who took sheriff’s deputies on a wild midnight chase as he drove his father’s pickup truck across Fayette County, was taken into police custody following the chase last month.
The unidentified boy apparently took his father’s pickup truck without permission, and began to drive on interstate Highway 10. Fayette County Sheriff deputies were [...]
