Semi-Autonomous Truck Convoys Appear Unnecessarily Dangerous at First Glance
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) made headlines at its recent Analysis, Research, and Technology Forum. The trucking industry regulator rattled many in the trucking industry with its aggressive forecast for driverless commercial vehicles deployment. Most of the hoopla surrounded FMCSA's projection that fully autonomous trucks will hit the road sometime around 2030. Even...
Grossman Law Offices Accepts Semi-Truck Accident Referrals Throughout Texas
It's no secret that any personal injury attorney in Texas is more than happy to take on a commercial truck accident case. To be perfectly blunt, the reason is simple: commercial trucks have more insurance than most passenger cars. The problem that many attorneys run into is that they quickly discover that 18-wheeler wrongful death...
Grossman Law Offices Accepts Dram Shop Referrals Throughout the State of Texas
Grossman Law Offices has more experience litigating Texas Dram Shop cases than any other firm in the state. In fact, at any given moment, at least half of our firm's docket consists of Dram Shop cases. While we obtain some through other channels, the majority of these cases are referred to us by other firms...
If You Need Local Counsel In North Texas, Grossman Law Offices Can Help
If you're looking for a lawyer to serve as local counsel in Dallas/Fort Worth and the surrounding areas, we'd like to help. Below, we'll tell you a little bit about our experience as local counsel and give you a better idea of what we can offer you if you decide to ask us for assistance...
NBC News Gives Its Trusting Readers a Wrong Interpretation of the Law.
A news piece I recently encountered tried to summarize Texas policy about certain kinds of auto accidents, but the piece itself shows a highly flawed understanding of the very laws it attempts to explain. It's wrong of them to spread that faulty information, considering how many readers will likely accept their version as gospel truth--after...
When Open-and-Shut is Anything But: The Detailed Defenses in Trucking Accidents
Sometimes we at the firm read about cases that seem fairly open-and-shut. Having worked on thousands of personal injury cases, we know they often get a lot more complicated than they seem at first blush. Attorneys are trained to examine those complications--intentionally seeing the trees instead of the forest. Sometimes an accident's details aren't obvious...
There’s a Lesson in Potential Jurors’ Hate-Filled Interviews About Martin Shkreli
"The Internet is written in ink," as they say. Many people observe these guidelines without trouble, but others seem to thrive on riling people. Martin Shkreli, the infamous "Pharma Bro," seems to be one of the latter type, but he found out recently the same lesson we've tried to impart to clients for years: Watch...
The 1st-Rate Intelligence of Truck Accident Defense Attorneys
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." -F. Scott Fitzgerald In this line, the renowned author makes a point that modern life requires us to keep contradictory ideas straight in our heads while at the...
A Quick Refresher on Temporal Proximity and Dram Shop Law
Few articles that we write are more contentious than those that touch on the topic of dram shop law, or liquor liability. These provisions of Texas law hold bars accountable for their role in drunk-driving accidents. Rather than spend time getting into the merits of such laws, I'll simply say that dram shop is the...
Commercial Truck Drivers: Here’s How Not to Get Sued
Among the most easily prevented type of accident where a truck driver is usually at fault are those where passenger vehicles collide with poorly marked trailers. While some may argue that these types of accidents are uncommon, we've seen accidents that involve this fact pattern, not once, not twice, not three, but four times in...
Is the 2017 Plains Ice Storm an Act of God, Legally Speaking?
This past weekend, an ice storm coated parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri with up to an inch of ice. As a result hundreds of thousands of people lost power, there were massive disruptions, and most tragically, 6 people are known to have lost their lives in storm-related traffic accidents. There is no word...
How Trucking Company Lawyers Shift Blame Following an Accident
Defense Attorneys Say The Darndest Things About a year ago, one of our firm's attorneys, Keith Purdue, was taking the deposition of a trucking company's "safety manager." This deposition was a fairly heated affair, wherein we were essentially accusing the man being deposed of having a largely ceremonious title and/or a job that merely existed...
Johnson & Johnson Seeks Change of Venue for Talcum Powder MDL
I wrote recently about the results of the third test case in the ongoing talcum powder lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson. For those emerging from an Internet-free cave for the first time in a few years, allow me to quickly recap: the allegations against the company involve the idea that talc, the primary ingredient in...
Are Meritor WABCO Air Brake Modulator Valves Dangerous?
This past Friday, a wrongful death suit was filed in Alabama on behalf of Jordan Mays Matson. Ms. Matson lost her life October 20, 2015 in a collision with an 18-wheeler. What makes this lawsuit different from a typical 18-wheeler wrongful death suit is that in addition to the truck driver and trucking company, a...
Despite Court Case: Electronic Truck Logs Very Likely
Earlier this week we chronicled the potential Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) electronically-enforced national truck speed limit, which pitted the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the FMCSA against the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA). That doesn't appear to be the only controversy where the ATA and OOIDA find each other on opposite sides of...
2 Keys for Personal Injury Lawyers: Restraint and Patience
There are two general schools of thought for personal injury attorneys when they're hired on in a case. The first school immediately files suit, regardless of the evidence they have at the time. These attorneys figure that they'll find something along the way that they can work with. Armed with subpoena power, they try to...
Attention Truckers: You’re Not Always On The Clock When You’re In the Sleeper Berth
When an trucker is injured while in the sleeper berth of his rig, he may have an injury lawsuit on his hands, not a workers' comp claim. In most instances, when an employee is injured on the job, their losses (wages, medical bills, etc.) are covered by a worker's compensation plan, meaning they file a...
What “The Wire” Teaches Us About the Justice System
When a client brings us a case, our first impulse is to investigate, while their desire is to get into a courtroom, hop up on the witness stand, and tell their side of the story. Their thinking goes that the quickest way to resolve a case is to get in front of jury, explain what...
Car Accident Investigations: How Private Investigations Beat Police Reports
After an accident, it is not unusual to see an array of first responders from policemen to firemen moving about trying to right the mayhem of the accident before them. As part of their duty to serve, they are there to help the victims, take reports, and arrange transport for what it is left of...
Myth: Insurance Carriers MUST Pay Accident Victims
The first thing you should know is that auto insurance DOESN'T work the way you think it does. We hear from people who have been involved in car accidents almost every day, and one thing they all seem to have in common is that they think, if the accident wasn't their fault, that the other...