Texas Court Decisions’ Category
Texas Worker Awarded $7.7 Million for Electrical Injuries
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
A Texas worker, who was left with serious electrical burns in a workplace accident, has been awarded $7.7 million. The accident occurred in 2007. The worker, Marco Murillo was engaged in salvaging cables from electrical boxes. He sustained a serious electroshock, and suffered major burns on both his hands and forearms.
His injuries were so serious they required skin grafts, and muscles from his back and nerves from his ankle had to be transferred into his forearms. The employer Oncor Electric Delivery was found 60% liable in the accident, and the other defendants were found about 40% liable. Murillo has...
Texas Supreme Court Throws out $15.8 Million Judgment in Fatal Truck Accident
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
The Texas Supreme Court this week threw out a verdict for $15.8 million awarded to a family in northern Texas in a fatal truck accident that killed four people in 2002.
The accident occurred in Wise County. Kimberly Hughes was driving four members of her family members to Fort Worth, when their GMC Yukon pickup sideswiped a gravel truck. Only a one-year-old boy survived the crash. Hughes, the boy’s great-grandmother, uncle and mother were killed in the accident.
During the trial, the Hughes family lawyers repeatedly made at least 80 references to the truck driver Ricardo Rodriguez’s poor immigration record. A...
Worker Awarded $171,762 In Leg Injuries Sustained during Fall from Ladder
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
A Texas worker who suffered leg fractures and other injuries when he fell from a defective ladder, has been awarded a verdict of $171,762.
The worker Julian Gallegos, worked for a tree cutting service, Big Bird Tree Cutting Service Inc. In 2006, Gallegos was performing some welding activities about 14 feet off the ground. Gallegos claims that the ladder he was standing on, broke, causing him to lose his balance and fall. During the fall, his left ankle caught between the rungs of the ladder. He suffered fractures in his tibia and fibula.
Gallegos required three surgeries, and was unable to...
