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Car Wrecks: Insurers Playing Hardball

12 Feb

Last week, CNN ran a special report detailing how insurance companies, led by Allstate and State Farm, have adopted hardball tactics on car wreck claims in order to boost their profits.  Some excerpts of an article are as follows: If you are injured in a minor car crash, chances are good that you will be…

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Tort Reform – The False Choice

07 Feb

As the legislature reconvenes in Austin, Texas Watch released a new study called THE FALSE CHOICE: DOCTORS OR ACCOUNTABILITY. The main premise of the study is that Texans were provided a false choice between access to health care and protecting patient rights when presented with tort reform’s Prop 12 in 2003.  The study makes three…

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Insurance Premiums — We're Not Number 1

06 Feb

Great News.  According to an article in the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Texas is no longer number 1 in the country in costs of homeowners’ insurance.  We have recently slipped into second place behind Florida.  However, our drop could be shortlived.  Alex Winslow, director of Texas Watch, says that Florida has recently enacted homeowners’ insurance…

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Car Wrecks: Personal Injury Claims

02 Feb

Brooks had his follow up interview on News 8.  This time he addressed what to do for your personal injuries following a wreck.  To watch the segment, click here, then hit the play button in the “watch the video” box. To contact Austin Personal Injury Lawyer, Austin Personal Attorney, Austin Accident Lawyer, Austin Injury Lawyer…

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The Vanishing Jury Trial and the Texas Supreme Court

31 Jan

It’s no secret that jury trials are disappearing. In fact, Texas Supreme Court justice Nathan Hecht had a cover article in a recent Texas Bar Journal article addressing the problem. In the article Hecht provided his own hypotheses about the cause of the problem. But the truth is, Hecht and his brethren at the Supreme…

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