$325,000 RECOVERED FOR SHRIMP BOAT DECKHAND
Attorney Joe Terry of Terry & Thweatt, P.C. negotiated a $325,000.00 settlement on behalf of a deckhand working aboard a shrimp boat, which was located off the shores of Texas and Louisiana. The...
View ArticleLeak Forces Offshore Workers to Evacuate Rig in the North Sea
Ninety two workers on board The Cormorant Alpha oil platform in the North Sea were evacuated Tuesday due to elevated hydrocarbon levels. The offshore rig will be down-manned from 159 oil rig workers...
View ArticleSEAMAN SWEPT OVERBOARD; BODY NEVER RECOVERED
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau recently released results of its investigation into the November 17, 2011 fatality of a seaman that was knocked off the M/V MSC SIENA’s accommodation ladder by a...
View ArticleBODY FOUND AT AIR LIQUIDE PLANT EXPLOSION IN LA PORTE, SECOND WORKER BURNED
The body of former Air Liquide employee Javier Ortiz, 30, was discovered 12 hours after the explosion and fire at the Air Liquide plant at 11450 W. Fairmont Pkwy in La Porte, Texas. A second employee...
View ArticleURINE SOAKED CARPETS AND NO AIR CONDITIONING REPORTED FROM ILL-FATED CRUISE SHIP
A fire broke out Sunday morning in the engine room of the Carnival Triumph about 150 miles off Mexico’s Yucatan coast. While ship’s automatic fire extinguishing systems activated and extinguished the...
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson Ordered Pay $3.35 Million in Vaginal Mesh Case
Johnson & Johnson Ordered Pay $3.35 Million in Vaginal Mesh Case Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by a jury in Atlantic City, New Jersey to pay a South Dakota woman $3.35 million for failing...
View Article$7.76 Million In Punitive Damages Awarded In Transvaginal Mesh Case
A New Jersey jury Johnson & Johnson to pay $7.76 million in punitive damages to a South Dakota nurse who was injured by the company’s now-recalled Prolift vaginal mesh. The product, before being...
View ArticleTerry & Thweatt Give Back
Terry & Thweatt, P.C. took part in sponsorship of a golf tournament on February 18 to support and raise funds for West University Place Elementary School in Houston.
View ArticleJustices to Take Up Case on Generic Drug Makers’ Liability
In spite of 13 surgeries, she’s legally blind now from a defective drug. She spent two months in burn unit and longer in a medically induced coma because her skin burned off. Nobody seriously disputes...
View ArticleEagle Ford Shale Oil/Gas Boom Make South Texas Roads More Dangerous
A Texas Department of Transportation traffic accident report for 2012 reviewed 23 counties in the Eagle Ford Shale region, from Laredo to Madisonville, and showed that fatal traffic accidents increased...
View ArticleREASONING BEHIND TEXAS TORT REFORM FAILS YET AGAIN
One reason given by tort reformers for the necessity for the medical malpractice reforms Texas passed in 2003 was that physicians were leaving the State in droves due to lawsuits. But in a recent...
View ArticleTEXAS CONSTRUCTION SITES RIDDLED WITH HAZARDS
“Like almost everything in the Texas, the construction industry in the Lone Star State is big. One in every 13 workers here is employed in the state’s $54 billion-per-year construction industry.”...
View ArticleTerry & Thweatt, P.C. Sponsors Galveston County Bar Association Charity Golf...
On April 4, 2012, Joe Terry and Lee Thweatt, along with teammates Tony Denena and Chap Points, place second in the Galveston County Bar Association Charity Golf Tournament in Galveston, Texas. Terry...
View ArticleWest, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explodes, Firefighters Missing
Volunteer firefighters are missing after a deadly fire and chemical explosion at a West, Texas fertilizer plant. The fire and explosion on Wednesday night sent at least 180 people to hospitals and it...
View Article12 Workers Injury in Fire at Exxon Refinery in Beaumont, Texas
Twelve contract workers were injured on April 17, 2013 when a fire broke out at a shut hydrotreater heat exchanger unit undergoing repairs at Exxon Mobil Corp’s refinery in Beaumont, Texas. The shut...
View ArticleLee Thweatt Defending Billy Martin’s Right To Fly The American Flag
In the Houston Chronicle this morning the news hit about Lee Thweatt defending Billy Martin’s right to fly the American flag in his yard. Lee is thrilled to be a part of this case and will continue to...
View ArticleExplosion at Plant in DONALDSONVILLE, LA
Our hearts and thoughts go out the to workers and families affected by this tragedy! For info click here.
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