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Dealing with the harsh realities of Houston cargo vessel accidents

Our Houston Jones Act attorneys point out that the Port of Houston is one of the busiest ports in the entire world, and handles the largest amount of foreign shipping tonnage of any U.S. port. In fact, the Texas Gulf Coast boasts many of the nation’s busiest ports, including Galveston, Texas City, Corpus Christi, and […]

Houston metro area leads Texas in child drowning deaths

Our Houston swimming pool accident lawyers noticed a recent article by Robert Arnold for kprc.com, which pointed out that metro Houston leads our state in tragic drowning deaths. The article (click2houston.com, 6/26/2012) mentioned that this year alone has already seen 16 child drowning deaths in Texas, 8 in Houston alone, and most of the summer […]

Learn about the technical side of amusement rides’ simulated dangers

Amusement ride injury attorneys understand that the keys to your thrill and sense of imminent danger on an amusement park ride are acceleration and g-forces. “G force” is the unit used to measure the acceleration you experience on a ride. 1g, as you probably know, is the measure of our normal gravity on earth. It’s […]

Shippers unite to protest proposal requiring weighing of all containers

Well, our Galveston maritime lawyers predicted that shippers would speak out against the recent proposal to the IMO to require accurate weighing of each separate container loaded aboard ships. It didn’t take shippers long to react. The European Shippers’ Council has already lodged its protest against the recommended requirements. The proposed requirement to weigh each […]

Maritime industry proposal asks IMO to require weighing of all cargo

Each year, maritime industry workers and others receive needless injuries, some of them fatal, because cargo containers exceed their declared weights. Overloaded containers might cause lifting cables to snap and drop their cargo, dock cranes to topple, cargo container stacks to shift and fall aboard ship, ground-based shipping trucks to tip over, and overburdened roadways […]

Illegal immigrant, drunken wrong-way driver, causes fatal 4-car pileup

Our Houston injury attorneys note that on Sunday morning in Dallas, one person died and others suffered injury when a man named Santiago Gonzalez, identified as being in this country illegally, was driving the wrong way on I-35. Gonzalez apparently caused a fatal four-car pileup while driving the wrong way and allegedly while intoxicated. According […]

TxDOT crash data for Texas paints a grim picture of traffic safety

Deer Park accident lawyers ask: did you know that in 2010, we all traveled more than 234 billion vehicle miles in Texas? If we had been in a NASA spacecraft on a single journey, we might have reached another solar system in that distance. No wonder drivers have problems with fatigue. TxDOT’s traffic accident statistics […]

Enjoy a safe summer: learn the limitations of “jet skis” before you ride

Galveston PWC injury lawyers recognize that personal watercraft (PWCs), commonly called “jet skis,” are fast and fun. Old and young alike enjoy them for their speed and their ability to carry riders through thrilling stunts. The PWC, which by design has no external rudder or propeller, benefits from the lack of the “drag” that these […]

Know your personal watercraft jet ski injury danger to have safer ride

(Continued from Part 1.) The accessibility and lure of the PWC means that many riders begin to drive and ride the vehicles with no training. Training and experience could help riders cope with the limitations of the device. Critics point to the crash and injury dangers from PWCs and call the machines’ design flawed and […]