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Hamilton Heights partial apartment collapse causes 2 serious injuries

The apartment collapse injury attorneys at Denena & Points note a serious structural collapse accident in New York City this week. On Tuesday afternoon around 5:30 p.m., part of a second floor apartment collapsed in a 7-story building on W. 151st Street in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Harlem in Manhattan. The partial collapse of […]

U.S. Politicians Beginning to Call for Changes in Drugmaker Regulation

Continued from Part 1. On the Regulate the Compounding Pharmacies Better Bandwagon: U.S. Representative Edward Markey. He sent a letter to U.S. prosecutors asking them to investigate whether the NECC might have been producing medication containing controlled substances in violation of U.S. laws. Our Texas drug injury lawyers note that many medications, particularly pain drugs, […]

Politicians alarmed over deadly meningitis outbreak in U.S. states

The count of infected patients has been going up daily. And yesterday’s headlines screeched that the drug recall related to the fungal meningitis outbreak could rival the Tylenol scare of the 1980s. The Dallas County HHS (Health and Human Services) Director, Zach Thompson, was quoted in Dallas media as saying we’re “talking about probably the […]

Urgent: A Call for Information on Fatal Westheimer Stoney Brook crash

Urgent update from Denena & Points: Houston police are calling for information on the whereabouts of the man surveillance videos link to the fatal Westheimer and Stoney Brook crash that killed 23-year-old Samantha Dorsey. The HPD has released a surveillance video that you can watch here: The image is pretty clear compared to some other […]

Will my Houston injury case settle out of court or go to trial?

Houston personal injury attorneys realize that the fact is that most lawsuits, including Houston personal injury cases, do settle out of court. One reason is that both parties usually want to avoid the high expense of a lengthy court trial. But even where cases settle before trial, the settlement usually only takes place after both […]

Texas IDs first fungal meningitis case from NECC tainted steroid shot

In a deadly outbreak that has killed 15 and spread to at least 13 U.S. states and 200 patients, the State of Texas has identified its first fungal meningitis case from the NECC tainted steroid shots. The infected patient is a woman in Central Texas. (Source: click2houston.com, 10/12/12) Texas health officials had already announced that […]

How to Avoid becoming a Victim of Road Rage and Aggressive Drivers

Studies by insurance companies show that around half of all drivers who encounter another aggressive driver respond with aggression of their own. Insurers and traffic authorities agree that the best way to avoid becoming a victim of road rage and aggressive drivers is to ignore the offending driver and take steps to avoid making things […]

Dallas compounding pharmacy’s super-strength meds behind 3 deaths

A Dallas compounding pharmacy called Apothécure mixed and sold a medication that was 640 times the normal strength for the gout drug and shipped it to Portland, WA. 3 people died from taking the super-strength medication. Federal investigators quickly found the common thread behind the three victims’ sudden deaths: a Dallas compounding pharmacy called Apothécure. […]

Toll from deadly U.S. fungal meningitis outbreak continues to grow

Texas drug defect lawyers note that the death toll from the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to steroid shots for lower back pain currently stands at 7 victims according to the U.S. CDC. And the number of identified meningitis cases rose to 91 on Sunday from 69 on Saturday. The number of cases has risen even […]