Houston Personal Injury Blog - Denena Points, PC

What do you do when you see someone about to drive drunk?

The Houston DWI injury lawyers at Denena Points, PC realize that it’s always awkward to intervene and try to steer someone from an inadvisable course of action. Whether it’s your friend’s budding relationship that you can clearly see is going to be a disaster, or an acquaintance who’s about to drive away from a holiday […]

Willful Negligence Results in OSHA Fines and Murder Charges for Building Collapse

On June 5, a building undergoing demolition collapsed through the roof of the adjoining Salvation Army Thrift Store in Center City, Philadelphia. 6 people died, and 14 more were seriously injured in the collapse. Our building collapse injury lawyers report that Mariya Plekan was the most seriously injured of the survivors. She reportedly remained conscious […]

There was Only One Safe Way to Demolish the Center City Building

Continued from Part 1. Our building collapse injury lawyers point out that demolition and construction experts testified before the Philadelphia grand jury that there was a single safe way to demolish an older building like the one at the Center City site. It had to be taken apart by hand, “brick by brick,” from the […]

How Weaker EPA Chemical Regulations Could Compromise Your Safety

The Houston area economy relies on the chemical and refining industries for much of its both. But with the burgeoning trade and manufacturing activity in toxic substances, our Houston chemical injury lawyers note that safety for both workers and community residents is of paramount concern. An astonishing density and variety of these industries exists around […]

Chemical Safety Comparison of EPA Essential Principles, TSCA, and CSIA

Continued from Part 1. TSCA: The Act established an inventory and notification framework for monitoring and assessing commercial production and importation of chemicals. The TSCA excludes broad categories of chemicals like pesticides and drugs. We note that poorly regulated and monitored pesticide chemicals led to a devastating explosion in West, Texas several months ago that […]

Tesla runs afoul of U.S. NHTSA auto safety agency – again

Just after writing about the investigation the U.S. NHTSA (National Highway Transportation Safety Administration) opened into the risk of fires in the Tesla Model S, our Houston car accident injury lawyers have learned that the NHTSA has decided to take new action to tighten the rules on how automakers can use ratings data from government […]

Can your medical device be hacked and your health compromised?

Yes. According to Dan Koeffler of ABC World Nightly News (10/19/13), that was the premise behind the season finale of the TV series “Homeland,” which ended with the assassination of the series’ fictional Vice President when a hacker remotely accessed his pacemaker. Based on fears that something like that could happen, apparently doctors disabled the […]

Crash Safety Systems Needed in U.S. Passenger Vehicles and Buses

After traffic fatalities rose by more than 1,000 last year over the year before, reversing a trend of declining fatalities that had held since 2005, the U.S. government began trying to speed up the process of having certain automatic vehicle safety systems installed in new passenger vehicles. 72% of the increase in accident deaths occurred […]

Another Possible Down Side to Your Medical Device: Hackers

The Houston medical implant injury lawyers at Denena Points, PC have been discussing some of the dangerous down sides to medical devices. Sometimes they are poorly tested or not tested at all before being used as implants and surgical tools. Sometimes they have hidden defects or design flaws. And sometimes they’re used for unapproved purposes […]