Angel Reyes : Texas Litigation Lawyer and Attorney : Dangerous Drugs : Wrongful Death : Business Litigation

We’ve all been brainwashed to perceive the FDA as the great and powerful government Oz keeping us safe from harmful food, drugs and medical products.  In reality, the folks at this organization do very little to monitor what’s being bought and sold in this country. 

Nor do they punish manufacturers with stamps falsely claiming to be FDA approved or registered.  And once the FDA finally does take action, it’s often too late for the consumers who waste their money on ineffective products, or who are damaged as a result of this agency’s ineptitude.

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I recently co-authored a study of courtroom bias against non-English speakers.  Please read the National Law Journal's article about the study below:

Non-English speakers may face bias in the courtroom
Small study of personal injury cases shows a tilt.
Tresa Baldas / Staff reporter
September 22, 2008
 
Plaintiffs' attorneys have always had a hunch that litigants who don't speak English face bias in the courtroom.

Now they have more than a hunch.

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For 15 years my firm and the lawyers who work here have represented executives, business owners, and individuals seeking money damages for the wrongful conduct of others. Many times the claims we make are covered by insurance bought by insureds specifically to cover the event that underlies our lawsuit.

Often the work we do involves suing insured entities or in other instances, suing the insurance company directly.

Why have we built a specialty suing insurance companies directly on behalf of executives and business owners?  Aren't those folks usually complaining that trial lawyers are driving up their insurance costs?

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Finally Congress acts to require crane operators to pass a certification test.  This is the first baby step regulating cranes in over four decades. Yes, you heard  right  -  four decades!

See the full article below:

Feds to release new crane operator rules
Associated Press
Published Friday, September 19, 2008

WASHINGTON - The federal government is to announce it will require crane operators nationwide to pass a certification test in its first update of crane regulations in nearly four decades, officials said Thursday.

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The Dallas Hispanic Bar Association will award a dozen Latino students attending various Texas law schools between $1,500 and $2,000 at its annual scholarship fundraising banquet to be held on September 17 at the Belo Mansion.  I am deeply honored to be among the list of individuals for whom these scholarships will be named after.

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Partner Eric D. Pearson and Attorney John W. Pate, with my law firm Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei, have filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of plaintiff Anthony Partida and others against Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi Electronics Devices (USA), Inc., and Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc., subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Hitachi, Ltd., for defects in their LCD rear projection televisions with the model #50V500A.  In the lawsuit, it is alleged that Hitachi has known of the defects since early 2005, yet continued to manufacture, sell, and advertise these televisions as superior to competing models even after numerous consumer complaints of “green blobs, red bloom, green haze, blue dots, yellow lines and other color anomalies” that rendered these expensive, high-definition televisions useless. 

According to Eric Pearson, “Hitachi has been more than willing to take people’s money for these TV sets and they should be more than willing to fix them. In some cases, people paid $3,500 or more for these TVs.  You can’t take that kind of money and deliver a defective product.”

If you have purchased a Hitachi Model #50V500A LCD television with any visual defects, please email Angel@ReyesLaw.com regarding your eligibility for participation as a plaintiff in the following lawsuit:

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A lot has been written about big pharmaceutical companies and the devastating aftermath caused by their dangerous drugs unleashed in this country.  Unfortunately there hasn't been nearly enough press about the deplorable tactics employed by these companies to put profits over people.

Apparently, the drug giant, Merck & Co., conducted a so-called scientific study prior to its market release of the deadly painkiller, Vioxx, which has since been withdrawn from the market.  The study, called ADVANTAGE, was peddled to participating doctors and their patients as research to show whether Vioxx caused fewer stomach problems than the older, less expensive drug, naproxen.  The published story did, in fact, indicate that Vioxx was better tolerated.

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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.

As mentioned in a previous entry, the bus was operating illegally, and was owned by Iguala BusMex Inc., a Houston company that also operates as Angel Tours, Inc.  Immediately following the crash, federal officials ceased operations of both firms owned by Angel De La Torre of Houston.  Now due to further investigation by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Liberty Charters and Tours of San Antonio was also banned from operation, as it uses buses considered unsafe that are owned and maintained by Angel Tours, Angel De La Torre and/or Iguala BusMex.  According to the order, "Angel De La Torre places its drivers and the motoring public at continued and substantially increased risk of serious injury or death."  Apparently, Liberty had also been cited for multiple safety violations this year alone. Investigations have uncovered that companies in South Texas operate under different names but often share or lease buses with each other.

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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.  At least 25 people were injured, with three in critical condition.  On Sunday, August 10th, a Harrah's Casino bus was carrying 43 people from Tunica, Mississippi to the airport when it flipped over into a median at an intersection in Tunica, Mississippi. Three women were killed and 27 others were hospitalized.
 

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