Houston Personal Injury Blog - Denena Points, PC

U.S. dialysis product recall for GranuFlo due to cardiac death risks

The Texas dialysis injury attorneys at Denena & Points remark that GranuFlo is a concentrated powder product that gets mixed with water. The resulting acid solution combines with a bicarbonate solution in the dialysis machine to create “dialysate.” The dialysate passes through the machine’s artificial kidney to cleanse the patient’s blood. Our Texas dialysis injury […]

Kingston: Rot in wood decks just a few years old could cause collapses

Deck collapse injury lawyers note that a 12-foot high wooden deck in midtown Kingston, NY collapsed on Friday night. The deck was identified as being between 6 and 8 years old. Initials reports indicated that up to 8 people had been injured in the collapse. Only one person, a woman who was a tenant in […]

Effects of variances in ownership & usage on railroad crossing safety

The Texas truck crash injury lawyers at Denena & Points realize that you might not worry much about the possibility of being hit by a train at a railroad crossing. It may be that you only cross rails in urban centers equipped with automatic gates, flashing lights, and loud warning bells. Our Texas truck crash […]

Will new FDA medical device tracking system really enhance your safety?

The Houston medical device injury lawyers at Denena & Points note that the FDA has proposed a new medical device tracking system in an effort to help the agency keep watch over patients’ safety and medical device effects on that safety. The new medical device tracking system responds to concerns raised over the past several […]

Rapid spread of MO fire reveals dangers of modern light construction

Our structural collapse injury attorneys point out that over the past couple of decades, some controversy has been simmering over the dangers posed by modern light construction methods when a fire breaks out. Until fairly recently in time, all construction relied on heavy materials like solid masonry, brick, timber, metal, and concrete. In a fire, […]

Mercedes’ M class dangerous unintended braking problem

Another flaw in sophisticated electronic vehicle control systems rears its ugly head. Our Lake Jackson auto defect attorneys have been writing about Toyota’s as yet unexplained unintended acceleration problem. So we thought it fair to give equal time to Mercedes’ unintended braking problem. Both problems seem to issue from hard-to-pinpoint defects in the vehicles’ electronic […]

Austin Balcony Collapse – More Needless Injuries

Misunderstanding or frankly, ignorance, are so often the foundation of opinions that then become facts in the eyes of many. This phenomenon is very accurate when it comes to the reporting of, and sometimes the investigation of balcony collapses. If you are injured as a result of the July 15, 2012 balcony collapse in southeast […]

Texas storms taking their toll: lightning kills 2 men in Houston

Houston injury attorneys remark that the recent spate of storms lingering in southeast Texas has taken a heavy toll on our area, with massive amounts of flood-related losses and weather-related traffic accidents. Sunday added two saddening fatalities from a lightning strike to the list of storm devastation. 2 men sheltering under a tree during a […]

U.S. senator asks NHTSA for more data on Toyota unintended acceleration

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is asking the U.S. NHTSA, the agency tasked with oversight of auto safety issues, for a deeper probe into the unintended acceleration problem that’s been linked to some Toyota models. Our Clear Lake Toyota acceleration injury lawyers have written before about the ongoing struggle faced by the injured victims of accidents […]