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The roof of an under-construction hotel in Houston, Texas collapsed in the morning hours of Monday, July 29, 2019. Multiple workers were present and working at the hotel when the sudden collapse occurred and many workers sustained injuries. The Houston Fire Department was dispatched to the scene of the collapse hotel and rescued at multiple victims from the ruble utilizing the baskets of their fire-engines. At this time, the Houston Fire Department has reported that none of the injured workers…

What started as a typical day at the construction site of a hotel in the 3400 block of Main in Houston devolved into an emergency situation that sent nine workers to the hospital. Seven other members of the construction team suffered injuries that were treated at the scene. Initial reports from area hospitals treating the workers indicate that injuries seem to consist of a myriad of different types of broken bones. None of the workers appear to be in serious…

“Cancer Clusters” are cancers that develop within limited geographic areas and involve more victims than can be explained by purely random disease development. In many cases, such clusters are due to exposure to some environmental toxin. This post explains how both the medical and legal communities investigate such unusual disease occurrence patterns.

Virginia Tech has identified over a dozen fraternities that could still be operating after they were suspended from campus for any number of school policy violations, most of which were for hazing and providing alcoholic beverages to minors. This post identifies these “rogue” fraternities and discusses their records at other institutions.

Former LSU Fraternity Member Convicted of Negligent Homicide in Hazing Death In September of 2017 Maxwell Gruver, a freshman at Louisiana State University, died as a direct result of hazing administered by members of the LSU chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After details of Gruver’s death were made public, the Louisiana legislature passed the “Maxwell Gruver Act,” which criminalized certain specific acts traditionally associated with fraternity hazing. In today’s post, our fraternity hazing lawyer gives a recap of…