Florence Brown of Port Arthur, Texas has filed a lawsuit against H-E-B Grocery Stores following a slip and fall she suffered at one of their locations. The incident occurred at the Port Arthur store on May 13^th, 2009 when Brown slipped on a puddle of water she claims was not labeled by the business’s staff. According to Brown, the business and its employees had a duty to make the hazard known to her and other customers.

Brown also maintains in her suit against the grocery giant that the business did not maintain safe levels for customers by failing to inspect and keep the premises clean. She lists past and future mental anguish, impairment, medical expenses and disfigurement as factors for seeking monetary damages. The case will go to court in April.

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A Rusk County, Texas boy is recovering from injuries suffered from a dog attack that happened a few miles outside of the City of Henderson. Authorities have stated that they are aware of who owns the animal but no information will be released yet. According to Joe Sorrells, Rusk County 5^th Precinct Justice of the Peace, nine-year old Julio Hernandez was outside of his home playing with friends when he was attacked as he was retrieving a ball.

Hernandez suffered injuries to the left side of his face. He was immediately transported to Dallas where he was treated for his wounds. He is expected to make a full recovery. The investigation has discovered that the animal belonged to someone on another street and has been ordered to be put down by the court. Sorrells went on to state that it is unknown if the animal received a rabies vaccination. The body is being tested to determine if it has. If the animal was not kept up with rabies shots, charges will be filed.

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An accident, which occurred in McAllen early Sunday morning at the corner of North 23^rd and Trenton Road, has left one person in the hospital and the other incarcerated. The McAllen Police Department has identified the driver, who is believed to have been drunk at the time of the accident, as 28-year old Ulises Rodriguez. The victim has not been identified.

The charge brought against Rodriguez is intoxication assault, a third-degree felony in Texas which carries a punishment of two to ten years in the Texas Department of Corrections with a fine not exceeding $10,000. The MPD’s investigation revealed that Rodriguez struck the victim as he rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle at the intersection at 2:30 AM Sunday. The victim has been listed in critical but stable condition. Rodriguez is currently being held on a $50,000 bond.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly one in three people will be involved in a drunk driving-related accident at some point in their lifetime.

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In 2008, the Center for Disease Control released a statistic revealing that the causes of brain injury stem from:

• Assault (37%)
• Auto Accidents (25%)
• Sports Activities (11%)
• Falls (11%)

A different study revealed that 87% of those incarcerated in American jails suffered from brain injuries as well. Adam Lanza, the man responsible for the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, allegedly suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome. Tests are currently underway to determine if he had suffered any sort of brain injury, which may have led to the devastating shooting.

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The BBC reported on December 5th that a convicted car thief who’d been caught on CCTV breaking a car window was bitten by the local police force’s dogs. The man spent several days in the hospital recovering before being convicted of attempted theft. The Nottinghamshire police paid the suspect £2,000 (over $3,200 USD) in damages following the incident. It was later reported that 340 suspects have suffered dog bites in the East Midlands area of England.

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43-year old David Jimenez of New York suffered serious injury to his right leg after a 600-pound statue of Christ crushed it, leading to an amputation. Jimenez had been cleaning the statue at the St. Patrick’s Church in Newberg when it toppled and landed on top of him. Allegedly, only a single screw had been holding the statue in place. The church has claimed that it is not liable for the accident. Jimenez filed a $3 million lawsuit in March of 2011. The trial to determine the outcome of the incident is expected to begin in late 2012.

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NBC News has cited Chetan Sharma’s US Mobile Data Market Update, which claims that text messaging amongst users has dropped from 696 texts in the second quarter of 2012 to 678 in the third quarter. Despite this, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a statistic showing that cellular phone-related deaths, which include auto accidents associated with texting, still continue to rise. The NHTSA’s numbers seem to suggest that Sharma’s statistic is incorrect. Despite this, auto accident attorney Richard Console, Jr. urges drivers to take caution and not text while driving.

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Christopher Schmidt, his wife Diana and their three children (one unborn) were tragically killed on September 9^th after truck driver, Josef Slezak, crashed into the rear of Mr. Schmidt’s car at 75 mph, causing him to crash into his wife’s car in front of him. The children were in Mrs. Schmidt’s car. The entire family was killed instantly. The parents of the Schmidts filed a lawsuit against Slezak, his employer, two other truck drivers who had caused a delay in traffic that the Schmidts were stuck in and the employers of those truckers as well. This is the first wrongful death suit to include an unborn fetus due to a Nebraska law extending legal protection to fetuses at any stage in development.

Slezak has been charged with four counts of manslaughter, 4 counts of vehicular homicide and a single count of vehicular homicide of an unborn child. He is currently awaiting trial in a Cheyenne County District Court.

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62 year old Jose Malena was cooked to death in an industrial oven at a Bumble Bee seafood plant in Santa Fe Springs, California.

The police and fire department arrived in response to a 911 call made by a worker who found Malena dead inside the “steamer machine.”

Malena had been an employee of the Bumble Bee factory for more than six years.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is conducting an investigation to see if Mr. Malena wound up in the oven due to workplace safety regulatory violations.

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In almost any accident, fault hinges on who acted the most careless. This “rule of carelessness” is often the determining factor for settlements when it comes to awarding damages and other forms of compensation. Other considerations for determining who was at fault may include:

• Whether or not the injured party was somewhere they should not have been
• Whether the person who caused the accident had no “duty” to be liable for the injured person
• Comparative negligence is also considered where the injured person’s damages may be reduced because they were also liable for causing the accident.
• If a person displays negligence while working for someone else, the employer can be held negligible

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While there are always two sides to every story, determining who has acted carelessly or in a negligent manner could mean the difference between receiving compensation for your pain and suffering or not. To inquire further about building your personal injury case, contact the McAllen personal injury attorneys at the J. Gonzalez Injury Attorneys, P.L.L.C., at 956-630-6700.