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Follow-up: 2 Confirmed Dead, 1 Missing After Hard Rock Hotel Collapse Two workers have been confirmed dead and a third is missing but presumed dead three days after the partial collapse of a hotel that was under construction near New Orleans’ historic French Quarter. The cause of the accident, which occurred at the site of a Hard Rock Hotel that was being erected along Canal Street, is under investigation by state and federal workplace safety agencies, including the Occupational Safety…

New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel Collapses: Catastrophic Building Disaster Revisits Tragedy in the Iconic French Quarter Without warning, an 18-story building under construction on Canal Street at the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter began to collapse just after 9:00 on Saturday morning. The building was to be a New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel when completed. More than 100 workers were in the structure at the time of the deadly calamity. By mid-afternoon, emergency personnel reported that at least one…

Who Is Liable in “Mass Shootings” and Other Acts of Public Violence? As the recent mass shooting incidents in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio, have tragically demonstrated, we live in a society where acts of “planned” or “premeditated” public violence have become a matter of great concern in regard to public safety. Although we will avoid the very real issues of concern to both the law enforcement and civil libertarian communities, at The Doan Law Firm we believe that…

An explosion was reported at Exxon’s Baytown chemical plant this morning. According to the City of Baytown, the fire started in a unit that stores polypropylene. Exxon has mobilized their emergency response teams which advised a shelter-in-place be issued west of the plant and south of Highway 330. Multiple plumes of thick black smoke can be seen rising from the Exxon chemical plant. First responders are continuing to battle the chemical fire. There have not been any reported injuries. The…

The family of a former West Virginia University student has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit after their son’s fraternity “brothers” waited two hours before calling 911 after he fell at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Read this post to learn why Bloomberg.com called Sigma Alpha Epsilon “The Deadliest Fraternity in America.”