Insurance Fraudster Jeffrey Cohen Gets 37 Years in Prison
We pulled this one from the "stranger than fiction bin." Last December, 40-year-old Jeffrey Brian Cohen was sentenced to a 37-year federal prison sentence for several charges, including wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and making false statements to an insurance regulator. Essentially, Mr. Cohen ran a scam insurance company that collected over $100 million in...
Exposed Bridge Supports Are Killing Texas Motorists
The next time you're driving in your car, take a moment to glance at and bridge or overpass support pillars you come across. If you are driving on a safely-built road, there should be a guardrail or concrete barrier between the roadway and the pillars. Obviously that's not the type of scenery that most motorists...
Does Tyson Bully Injured Workers with Post-Injury Waivers?
We owe a hat tip to a reader who sent along an older, but still fascinating piece from ProPublica. The story details efforts around the country by companies to influence workers' compensation laws in favor of employers. One of the more shocking aspects of the story is how it details efforts of companies to exploit...
Merced Co., Ca Bus Crash and Bus Accident Law
On August 2nd, an Autobuses Coordinados USA bus travelling from Mexico to Seattle crashed near Livingston, California, in Merced County. The accident resulted in the deaths of 4 people, with as many as 21 more suffering significant injuries including amputations. According to media reports, rescue workers were literally bagging up body parts of injured people...
Scam Firm Puts 600 Unqualified Truck Drivers on the Road
With the recent guilty plea of Adrian Salari, the saga of RussianTruckingSchool.com nears its conclusion. This case originated from four alleged scammers, who targeted Russian-speaking individuals wanting become commercial truck drivers. Operating out of Florida, Mr. Salari, Ellariy Medvenik, Natalia Dontsova, and Clarence Davis were responsible for fraudulently obtaining Commercial Driver's Licenses (CDLs) for roughly...
Why Lawyers Are Suing The Makers of Xarelto – Allegations, Justifications, and Big-Picture Implications
If you've watched TV in the past six months, chances are that you've seen a handful of lawyer commercials asking you to "call now" to begin your Xarelto lawsuit. Every example of these commercials that I've seen does an okay enough job explaining what the supposed side effects of Xarelto are, yet all of them...
Cell Phones, Traffic Fatalities, and How the Law Works
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) made a startling announcement last week: If trends for the first half of the year hold for the rest of it, the United States may experience an 8% spike in traffic fatalities. This comes on the heels of several years of flat or declining numbers of victims on...
The Season’s Hottest Gift: Flaming Hoverboards
UPDATE: On Monday, December 14, 2015, Amazon announced that it would stop selling hoverboards until manufacturers present more evidence that the toys are safe for consumers to use. In the spirit of various news organizations who ran hoverboard stories, we would like to credit our story—which Amazon executives almost certainly never read—for being the reason...
Why are Batteries Blowing Up?
If you have caught the news lately, you may have noticed an increase in stories about fires being started by electronic devices. Everything from battery powered cars, toys, cell phones, laptops, to e-cigarettes seem to be catching fire, exploding, or in some way injuring people. While it is easy to find these stories, most of...
The Bizarre Death of Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, Cryotherapy, and The Law
News broke this morning that a worker at a Nevada spa, Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, was killed in an accident involving a cryotherapy* tank. According to reports, Ms. Ake-Salvacion decided to take a dip in the cryotherapy tank after work, unsupervised, and an accident occurred. Her body was discovered frozen solid the next day. Other reports, citing...
Michael Grossman Named A Texas Super Lawyer For the 4th Straight Year
Congratulations to our boss, Michael Grossman for being named to Texas Super Layers for the fourth straight year. Being named to Super Lawyers is an honor that only 5% of attorneys practicing in an particular field receive in a given year. To be named four years in a row is a particularly impressive accomplishment. Super...
