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Some Dangerous Drivers are Following Unsafe Orders.
There are times when we should weigh the morality of a decision against its profitability. Occasionally in the name of progress people in charge make decisions that, while not necessarily illegal, are...
View ArticleFlorida Casino Boat Fire Presents A Tricky Legal Situation
It was all over the news recently when a casino boat in Florida caught fire, resulting in the death of Carrie Dempsey, 42, and leading to at least 8 other injuries. At first, I had no intention of...
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Is There Any Way a Truck Driver Isn’t Responsible for a Detached Trailer?
One of the most dangerous categories of truck accidents is when the trailer becomes detached from the truck. When this happens, it instantly places the equivalent of a multi-ton boulder in the path of...
View ArticleNew Data Shows Houston Leads the Nation in Distracted Driving
All the major Lone Star cities see their share of DWI injuries and fatalities every year, but as I've noted, Houston is the undisputed state champ in that department--not that the crown is anything to...
View ArticleWhy Are People Defending Clerk in Fatal Atascocita Crash?
Don't sell alcohol to minors. Could there be a less controversial law? Apparently, for some internet pundits prohibitions against selling alcohol to minors is a little more nuanced that most of us...
View ArticleNip It In the Bottle: Better to Prevent DWI Crashes Than to Litigate Them...
We spend a lot of time writing about dram shop law, which provides an avenue to remedy for people injured due to an establishment's unlawful alcohol service. When someone is over-served at a bar or...
View ArticleThoreau, NM Bus Crash Reporters: I’ll Do Your Job For You
Upton Sinclair is eye-rolling over in his grave today. The man who toiled for almost 2 months in a meatpacking plant to uncover the horrific working conditions of American laborers, can only watch...
View ArticleAttorney Michael Grossman Selected For MADD North Texas Advisory Board
The aspect I most enjoy about my job is that the people I work with are highly dedicated to helping our clients. Every lawyer, paralegal, researcher, mailroom clerk, and receptionist has, at one time...
View ArticleDid a Trucking Company Admit that Drivers Cheat Hours of Service Rules?
When a commercial truck accident injury and wrongful death law firm makes claims about reckless behavior and rule breaking in the trucking industry, people rightly take such claims with a shaker full...
View ArticleAlcohol Delivery and Texas Dram Shop Law
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1232 in June 2019, ending the ban on alcohol retailers delivering beer and wine to their customers. This law allows existing beer and wine retailers to...
View ArticleIt’s 2020: Why Doesn’t Texas Require Bars to Carry Liquor Liability Insurance?
In the last several sessions of the Texas Legislature, lawmakers have unsuccessfully tried to pass a law making liquor liability insurance mandatory for bars, restaurants, and alcohol retailers. Each...
View ArticleWhy Do West Texas Oilfield Companies Keep Hiring Dangerous Truck Drivers?
The other day, one of my staff wrote about the possibility that authorities aren't properly counting fatalities in oilfield truck crashes in west Texas. While that article raises some interesting...
View ArticleOne Danger to Police Officers Will Continue Until We Hold Bars Accountable
Mention police officers and drunk drivers in the same sentence, and I'll bet most people will assume that you're talking about the role that police play catching drunk drivers and protecting the...
View ArticleWhat are Reporters Missing About the 6 x Fatal 133-Car- Pile-Up in Fort...
To say that the Thursday, February 11, 2021 133-car-pile-up on I-35W in Fort Worth, Texas received a lot of media coverage is an understatement. Hundreds of articles and dozens of videos of the...
View ArticleFMCSA Rule Suspension Doesn’t Mean that Hours of Service Rules Are Pointless
A couple of years ago, attorney Michael Grossman wrote about the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate implementation. As you can imagine, there were heated comments from a diverse group of truck...
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The Chamber of Commerce Is Lying About Our Legal System (Again)
Last fall, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (the organization's tort reform propaganda arm) released a shocking report, Tort Liability Costs for Small Businesses, claiming that...
View ArticleWhat’s the Difference Between an Injury Attorney and a Truck Accident Injury...
An accident injured you, or perhaps killed a loved one. Initially, your focus is on your recovery or remembering your loved one, as it should be. Then you have to manage the hospital expenses and...
View ArticleCan We Retire the Myth of the Truck Driver Shortage?
Have you heard that a shortage of truck drivers exists and it's only getting worse? According to the American Trucking Associations (ATA), the American trucking industry finds itself in need of 61,000...
View ArticleWhy Is a Trucking Magazine Bragging About Poor Out-of-Service Rates?
Perhaps there isn't a stranger sight than someone bragging about mediocrity. That's what an author in Land Line Magazine did recently, when discussing the results of International Roadcheck 2021. For...
View ArticleA Look Back at How Spectacularly Wrong a 1982 Truck Accident Study Predicted...
New data bombards us, regardless of what we do. Given what I do for a living, I see a constant stream of truck accident data and studies. While I read, digest, and comment on this data, federal...
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