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Deer Park, Texas has been issued a shelter-in-place at 8:58 a.m. after a fire broke out in a chemical plant. The International Terminals Company’s plant has around 13.1 million barrels of storage on site and first responders have indicated that the fire has begun to spread. The facility located on Independance Parkway, just north of Highway 225, in La Porte,TX has been on fire for hours and is still not under control. It’s unclear at this time if there have…

A chemical fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company facility located on Independence Parkway in Deer Park began burning late in the morning on March 17, 2019. 30 ITC employees were on the scene at the time the blaze started. According to company officials, the employees have all been accounted for as of this time. ITC hasn’t issued any information about possible exposure of employees to the chemical fire or to gasses that are emitted as a result of the blaze….

At the the The Doan Law Firm, our staff routinely monitors both the print and electronic media for news reports suggesting the previously unreported or “under-reported” presence of a potential defect in popular consumer products. In today’s post we report on a recent accident involving a Tesla Model S that, according to its driver, suddenly accelerated before winding up in a Shanghai, China river. Whether or not this accident happened exactly as reported is not our issue. Instead, we call…

Next year will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the word entry of the “robot” into the English language when it was used in the title of the 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti – “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) by the Czech writer Karel Capek, who credited his brother Josef Capek as creating it from the Czech term for “drudgery”,robota. In today’s post, the personal injury and defective consumer product lawyer at The Doan Law Firm reports on an unusual recent event…

In a recent post, we reported on a South Florida auto accident involving a 2016 Tesla Model S which claimed the life of Omar Awan, a 48-year-old father of five. Although traffic accident fatalities are an almost routine occurrence in the Greater Miami area, this accident became newsworthy for two reasons: 1) a malfunction of the vehicle’s electronic door handles prevented rescuers from removing the victim after the driver-side airbag failed to deflate after inflating in response to the accident…