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El Expreso Bus Accident Lawsuit: First Filed in Harris County, Texas Hill Law Firm is proud to announce that we have filed the first lawsuit arising out of the East Texas El Expreso Bus Company accident on September 19, 2013 that left two people dead and dozens injured.  The lawsuit has been filed in…

Because they move relatively slowly and they are rather low to the ground, many tend to think of forklifts as not dangerous. Young workers often use them, and rarely think about the potential consequences. But with two forklift accidents in Texas recently, perhaps it’s time to consider the danger, and to emphasize the need…

Greyhound Bus Crash in Ohio: Bus Maintenance Investigated Millions of people ride commercial motorcoaches every year.  Companies such as Greyhound, Coach USA, Tornado, Americanos, Turimex, Megabus, and others receive compensation from people every day to drive them, safely, to and from destinations in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.  This industry has seemingly boomed…

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Surgical Equipment the Likely Cause Most of the time, when you go to the hospital for surgery, you expect to come out in better physical shape than when you went in. In those cases when coming out in better shape isn’t apparent, you at least expect to know all of the risks…

Chobani Mold Yogurt Recall:  Several Illnesses Reported Nearly a week after New Berlin, NY – based yogurt manufacturer Chobani refused to issue a recall notice for its product, even after it received reports that some of its yogurt cups were “swelling and bloating,” they announced a recall of some of its Greek yogurt cups…

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has decided to get serious about grain safety. One reason has to be a research study by Purdue University reporting that there have been more than 900 grain engulfment cases over a 50 year period, and that the fatality rate for those cases…

Five members of the cast of the popular summer musical “Texas” were killed in an automobile accident on August 12, not far from Dumas, Texas, when the car they were driving blew through a stop sign and collided with a tractor-trailer near Dumas. Among the fatal victims of the accident were three West Texas…

Cookie Dough Recall: Peanut Allergy Danger Prompts Action. ConAgra Foods has announced an immediate recall of one type of Kroger brand chocolate chip cookie dough, because some peanut butter cup cookie dough was inadvertently mixed in with the chocolate chip cookie dough in some packages. Consuming this product could result in a serious or…

Cyclospora Outbreak Cause Unknown: Texas Hardest Hit Investigators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continue to get reports of cyclospora infections, nearly two months after two related cases were reported in Iowa on June 28.  As of Aug. 22, at least 625 people have been infected by the parasite across 22 states….

A pickup truck carrying a loaded trailer lost control and crashed into a concrete pillar on the U.S. 59 frontage road on the afternoon of Monday, August 12, killing one of the three passengers in the truck and injuring two others. According to Houston police, the single vehicle crash occurred at about 12:15 p.m….