Litigation

Update on Sherman Bus Crash

Posted on August 15, 2008
There has been a lot of publicity about the devastating Sherman, Texas bus crash that happened Friday, August 8, killing 17 people and injuring dozens of others.  The Vietnamese Catholic group was headed to Carthage, Missouri to attend an annual religious festival, and sadly, their lives changed forever on the tragic journey...

Putting the Brakes on Bus Accidents

Posted on August 14, 2008
I recently wrote about the tragic Sherman bus crash that occurred last Friday.   Now we can add two other major bus crashes to the list.  On Thursday, August 7th, a bus carrying workers to a casino in Primm, Nevada drove off a freeway, crashed into a guardrail and caught fire...

Sherman Bus Crash on Friday

Posted on August 11, 2008
My heart goes out to the victims and families of the tragic bus crash that occurred in Sherman yesterday, killing at least 16 people to date and injuring dozens of others.  The bus carried 55 members of a Vietnamese Catholic group on its way from Houston to Carthage, Missouri for an annual religious festival...

Law Quadrangle Notes Interview

Posted on August 08, 2008
I recently had the privilege of being interviewed for an article in the 2008issue of the Law Quadrangle Notes published by my alma mater, the Universityof Michigan Law School. The article is below: Law Quadrangle NotesThe University of Michigan Law SchoolVolume 50, Number 2 | SUMMER 2008The language of the LawDiversity, an often elusive goal for many law firms, comes in many forms...

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2008 DiversityFIRSTTM Award Winner

Posted on August 07, 2008
I am honored to be named by the Texas Diversity Council as a winner of the 2008 DiversityFIRSTTM Award.  The purpose of this award is to "recognize and celebrate outstanding accomplishments and sustained commitment by an Individual, Community Organization, Business, Corporation and/or Non-Profit Group in the area of promoting appreciation for diversity, inclusion, and cultural understanding in the workplace that fits within the stated purposes and reflects the goals and/or mission of the Texas Diversity Council...

Angel Reyes Recognized as Emerging Hispanic Leader in Dallas

Posted on August 06, 2008
Angel Reyes has been recognized as an emerging Hispanic leader in Dallas.  The article below is from the Spanish language version of the Dallas Morning News, Al Dia. Ángel Reyes, ayudar lo motiva08:52 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 6, 2008Por THALIA I...

Losses Due To ARS Market Disintegration

Posted on August 05, 2008
Over the past few months, the Auction Rate Securities (ARS) markets have suffered a $350 billion market disintegration. Many companies have been forced to write-down their losses due to investments in ARS. The February 2008 collapse of the ARS market affected companies of all sizes and levels of ARS investment...

Car Safety Advocate's Plea For Preventing Children's Hyperthermia Deaths

Posted on August 05, 2008
The following are a letter from Janette Fennell, Founder and President of KidsandCars.org, and the KidsandCars.org newsletter. It’s astounding how many children have been killed as a result of non-traffic accidents this year.  I can’t fathom how anyone could leave their children in a hot car on a smoldering summer day, but apparently these accidents are still prevalent in this country...

Update on Pharmaceutical Giant, Actavis Totowa LLC

Posted on August 05, 2008
I recently posted an article about the Actavis Totowa LLC recall of the drug Digitek, the #1 choice in the United States for treating congestive heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms.  This recall included Digitek tablets manufactured at the New Jersey Actavis facility because tablets may have been commercially released in the U...

Democrats Take A Stand On Crane Safety

Posted on August 05, 2008
The recent crane accident scourge sweeping the country has finally made the government take notice.  The Democrats are now strongly urging OSHA to do something about the gross lack of safety regulations of construction site cranes.  Read the July 25, 2008 Wall Street Journal article on this topic in its entirety below:   Democrats Seek Tougher Crane Safety Standard as Deaths Mount By KRIS MAHER July 25, 2008; Page A3 Crane-related fatalities continued to mount, with six deaths in the past week, prompting Democrats in Congress to push for an enhanced federal safety standard and put more pressure on the agency charged with overseeing workplace safety...

Car Safety Advocate's Plea For Preventing Children's Hyperthermia Deaths

Posted on August 04, 2008
The following are a letter from Janette Fennell, Founder and President of KidsandCars.org, and the KidsandCars.org newsletter. It’s astounding how many children have been killed as a result of non-traffic accidents this year.  I can’t fathom how anyone could leave their children in a hot car on a smoldering summer day, but apparently these accidents are still prevalent in this country...

Update on Pharmaceutical Giant, Actavis Totowa LLC

Posted on August 04, 2008
I recently posted an article about the Actavis Totowa LLC recall of the drug Digitek, the #1 choice in the United States for treating congestive heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms.  This recall included Digitek tablets manufactured at the New Jersey Actavis facility because tablets may have been commercially released in the U...

Democrats Take A Stand On Crane Safety

Posted on August 04, 2008
The recent crane accident scourge sweeping the country has finally made the government take notice.  The Democrats are now strongly urging OSHA to do something about the gross lack of safety regulations of construction site cranes.  Read the July 25, 2008 Wall Street Journal article on this topic in its entirety below:  Democrats Seek Tougher Crane Safety Standard as Deaths MountBy KRIS MAHERJuly 25, 2008; Page A3 Crane-related fatalities continued to mount, with six deaths in the past week, prompting Democrats in Congress to push for an enhanced federal safety standard and put more pressure on the agency charged with overseeing workplace safety...

Long Overdue Crane Safety (Aug 2 NY Times op ed)

Posted on August 04, 2008
Regulators should turn their attention to preventing casualties, not more after-the-disaster analysis.  Think about it, not since 1971 have crane regulations been updated.  Unfortunately, over 80 people a year since then have died in construction site crane accidents...

The American Crane Collapse Crisis

Posted on July 31, 2008
On July 30, 2008, while an old bridge was being torn down over the Colorado River in Smithville, Texas (near Austin) a construction crane became overloaded with steel beams and toppled over.  The crane then smashed into a manlift basket holding two workers...

We Need A Comprehensive Solution For Our Nation's Immigration Policy

Posted on July 30, 2008
Following the December 12, 2007 raid on the Swift & Company meatpacking plant, my firm, Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei, filed a class action lawsuit against Swift for its pattern of practice of replacing legal US Citizens and legal resident aliens with undocumented immigrant workers...

Better Living Through Chemistry? Dead Wrong!

Posted on July 29, 2008
According to a CNN.com article dated Monday, July 28, 2008, home deaths from medication errors have risen dramatically over the last 20 years.  Twenty-five years ago, prescription painkillers and other potent drugs were only used in hospitals.  Now medical providers give them out like candy...

Dangerous Toxins Found in Toys

Posted on July 29, 2008
After eight long years in the wilderness, the U.S. is finally paying attention to product safety.  Congress is poised to implement the biggest overhaul to U.S. product safety rules in a generation.  Since 2000, the U.S. has seen dangerous products imported from China, India, and other foreign countries that while certainly cheaper than similar products made to stricter standards, caused untold suffering to the people who were injured by these products...

Digitek (digoxin) Dosage, Symptoms and Recall

Posted on July 25, 2008
My firm, Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei, is currently handling Digitek cases.  Digitek (digoxin) is the #1 choice for treating congestive heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms in the United States...

Dangerous Truckers Claim Disability Yet Drive Anyway

Posted on July 22, 2008
A new study by the Federal Government showed that tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the U.S. suffered seizures, heart attacks or unconscious spells while driving.  These health issues caused hundreds of deadly crashes on our highways.  Many tractor-trailer rigs weigh 40 tons or more...

It's Not Too Late to Take Advantage of Spin Life Policies - An Update:

Posted on June 25, 2008
If you are a senior sitting on a life insurance policy that you no longer need, or better yet, a senior with a decent net worth and a need for cash, then get on the ball and look into spin life policies ASAP.  I say ASAP because the window may be closing, the insurance companies who write these policies are about to get into the business of buying them back themselves! The new acronym to know is STOLI...

Brian Cuban Blogs "Why Athletes Go Broke"

Posted on June 18, 2008
Aside from being the brother of Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks' owner, Brian Cuban is a good friend of mine and a maintains and interesting blog at www.briancuban.com. Brian blogs about sports, politics, history and about anything else that interests him...

Pfizer Propaganda About Chantix

Posted on May 30, 2008
In spite of the fact that the stop-smoking drug Chantix has been linked to suicides, seizures, violent episodes, traffic accidents, nightmares and more – and was EVEN banned by the FAA for pilots and air traffic controllers -  its manufacturer, Pfizer, plans to shove these shocking facts under the carpet through newspaper ads and letters to doctors...

Hispanic Role Model's Name Being Considered For Renaming Industrial Boulevard

Posted on May 27, 2008
The Dallas City Council’s Trinity River committee is looking to rename Industrial Boulevard.  César Chávez, an altruistic farm worker is on the short list of names.  As I said in an article from the May 24, 2008 edition of the Dallas Morning News, in eight years, the Dallas Hispanic population will become the majority...

Chantix Going Up In Smoke

Posted on May 23, 2008
And yet here comes another drug with way too many bugs.  Granted, smoking is bad news and I’m all for quitting at most costs, but not all. If my choices are hacking, smoker’s cough and future lung cancer vs. current depression, thoughts of suicide, violent behavior, horrible nightmares and loss of motor control skills that could lead to serious or even fatal injury, I think I’d rather smoke like a chimney and hope for the best...

United Way Outlines Ambitious 10 Year Goals Around High School

Posted on May 19, 2008
For a couple of years now I've been blogging about problems.  Subprime meltdown, dangerous drugs, defective products, toothless FDA, toothless FTC, wrongheaded immigration policies, etc.  Fortunately, at times, I am able to write about solutions...

Surge in U.S. Hispanic Population

Posted on May 19, 2008
Breaking news: the Hispanic population in America is surging. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Funny enough, when I was younger, I just couldn't imagine a day when this type of headline would make the Wall Street Journal. Remember, I was the kid who actually thought about changing my name when I moved to the U...

Dangerous Heart Surgery Drug Trasylol Now Under Special Use Agreement

Posted on May 15, 2008
Following a study published in the May 14, 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Bayer Pharmaceuticals informed the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) of their plan to remove all remaining supplies of Trasylol (aprotinin injection) from hospital pharmacies and warehouses...

VIDEO: Angel Reyes on Legal Marketing

Posted on April 29, 2008
Nationally renown trial lawyer Angel Reyes joins LBN's Rick Kuykendall to discuss an items of interest to trial lawyers, and that is the plan and approach to developing a mass tort practice out of their offices in Dallas, TX. This was part of a CLE sponsored by LBN and presented by the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association and the full video CLE with credit hours is available by contacting WTLA in Cheyenne, WY...

VIDEO: Angel Reyes & Jim Orr on 2007 Duragesic Fentanyl Patch Verdict

Posted on April 29, 2008
Attorney's Angel Reyes and Jim Orr join Jan Schlichtmann of the Legal Broadcast Network while at the recent CLE event in Scottsdale, AZ put on by the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association. Learn a bit more about the legal team that won the largest Duragesic Patch verdict in 2007 and how their firm approaches mass tort litigation...

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