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What You Must Know to Protect Your Legal Rights In today’s world, one of the fastest growing types of personal injury in the United States stems from pharmaceutical malpractice (also known as pharmaceutical negligence). Healthcare analysts, as well as those from the insurance industry, estimate that currently there are over 1 million people across the country who are the victims of pharmaceutical malpractice. Only a small fraction of these people who’ve suffered injuries because of pharmaceutical negligence ever obtain justice…

A tremendous explosion in the middle of the night blew out windows in at least a 10-mile radius in and around Port Neches, Texas. The explosion occurred at about 1:00 a.m. at the TPC Group Port Neches Operations center in a processing unit of the refinery plant. Although located in Port Neches, the refinery is also near Beaumont and Nederland. It is situated 95 miles east of Houston. By dawn, emergency personnel responding to the scene reported that three people…

Three Injured In Texas Refinery Explosion An early morning explosion at a refinery in southeast Texas has sent three workers to a local hospital. Initial reports indicate that one worker was transported to a Houston hospital with a burn injury but the other two workers were being treated relatively minor injuries and were expected to be treated and released by a local hospital. The explosion occurred shortly after 1:00 am at the TPC Group facility in Port Neches. According to…

A medical examiner in Washington state announced grim news regarding the death of Sam Martinez, a 19-year old student at Washington State University. Hailing from Bellevue, Washington, Martinez was a member and resident of the Alpha Tau Omega house at the university. Martinez’s death marks the fourth college campus death in the United States over the course of the past month. The medical examiner reported that an autopsy of the young man revealed that he died at 4:30 a.m. Despite…

Hazing Incidents On Rise at College Sororities Here at The Doan Law Firm, we maintain an in-house database that tracks published reports of college fraternity suspensions over infractions related to hazing, alcohol/drug abuse and other types of fraternity misconduct. Although we have previously limited our database to incidents involving fraternities, we have recently noted that an increasing number of sororities have become the targets of misconduct investigations conducted by their hosts schools and/or their national sorority headquarters. In today’s post,…