On March 20, Paul Blankenship filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Hutchinson County on behalf of his mother, Joyce "Joy" Blankenship. The lawsuit names Xcel Energy, Southwestern Public Service and Osmose Utilities. Southwestern Public Service Company is a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, and Osmose Utilities Services is a Georgia-based contractor that inspects wood utility poles. Joy Blankenship died on February 27 "as a result of a preventable, massive wildfire that ignited when a faulty wooden pole snapped and caused power lines to contact the ground ...
You have legal options when it comes to moving forward after the loss of a loved one. A wrongful death lawyer in Texas can step in to represent you as you face legal challenges.
A month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Houston mother of two experienced an unplanned pregnancy with her now ex-husband and allegedly sought abortion care with the help of her friends. For nearly a year, Texas had imposed a six-week abortion ban, and a full “trigger” ban would be enacted in just a few weeks. Silva needed to act fast and extricate herself from what appeared to be an emotionally unhealthy relationship with a husband she would go on to divorce in February. Her friends offered their unwavering support. ...
A Texas woman has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against two Mexican resort travel companies, seeking more than $1 million, after her husband tragically died after being electrocuted in a...
Three women in Texas are being sued for wrongful death by a man who claims they helped his... In a lawsuit filed late Thursday in Galveston County, Marcus Silva alleges assisting in a self...
August 4, 2015 · 3:10 PM ET · By Lucy Perkins ; The family of Sandra Bland, who was arrested in Prairie View, Texas, and was later found dead in her jail cell, announced Tuesday that they're suing authorities in Texas. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reported for our Newscast unit that the wrongful-death lawsuit names the Texas state trooper who arrested Bland, Waller County, the Texas Department of Public Safety and two guards at the jail. "Among other things, the lawsuit accuses the state trooper of depriving Bland of her constitutional rights," Wade sa ...
The trial for Travis Scott's Astroworld's final wrongful death lawsuit has been officially set for later this year.
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by a Galveston County man accuses three women of helping his ex-wife obtain abortion pills used to terminate her pregnancy last year.
A Texas man is suing three women under the wrongful death statute, alleging that they assisted his ex-wife in terminating her pregnancy, the first such case brought since the state’s near-total ban on abortion last summer. Marcus Silva is represented by Jonathan Mitchell, the former Texas solicitor general and architect of the state’s prohibition on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, and state Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park. The lawsuit is filed in state court in Galveston County, where Silva lives. ...
a Texas jail earlier this year. The lawsuit alleges that 31-year-old Anthony Johnson Jr.... the death of Johnson,” the suit reads. “The attack on Johnson was not an isolated incident...