Freshly returned from summer recess, the Supreme Court of Texas met in conference this week and issued one new opinion today involving the sufficiency of evidence for lifetime income benefits under the Texas Labor Code. Dallas National Insurance Company v. De La Cruz,...
The Case Lout v. Methodist Hosp., 2015 Tex. App. LEXIS 6272 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.] June 23, 2015). Background The Plaintiff Omega Lout sued The Methodist Hospital ("Hospital") when she slipped on water that had accumulated on the floor of the Hospital's...
Suarez v. The City of Texas City, Case 13-0947 The Facts The deaths of a young father and his twin daughters happened when they went swimming in the Texas City Dike, a man-made peninsula jutting into Galveston Bay. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the Dike...
This week, the Supreme Court issued no opinions, but did set one case for oral argument that we had previously analyzed in our Weekly Update on July 3: Williams v. The Texas Taxpayer & Student Fairness Coalition, et al, Case No. 14-0776. The case is scheduled for oral...
