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Alejandro Doe, a 74-year-old husband and father of seven, was pushing his bicycle across the crosswalk of Avenue S at the intersection of Wayside when a Yellow Freight truck driven by Henry Johnson hit him. Doe was drug along the ground underneath the wheel of the truck.  The plaintiffs alleged that Alejandro was properly in the crosswalk…

FACTS & ALLEGATIONS: On Sept. 23, 2004, plaintiffs’ decedent Teodoro Doe Jr., 24, a farmhand, lost control of his 1988 Pontiac Grand Prix while traveling south on I-25 in Dona Ana County.  The car left the road and overturned.  The plaintiffs claimed that the driver door opened during the rollover, and Doe was ejected.  He sustained fatal injuries. The car’s…

June 8, 2010 Houston, Tx.: A Harris county jury today found the company that constructed, engineered and installed a Cleburne natural gas processing plant negligent in the death of a Mineral Wells, Texas man.  Hanover Compression LP, now known as Exterran Energy Solutions LP of Houston was ordered to pay $82.5 million dollars in damages to the deceased’s family, together…

FACTS & ALLEGATIONS: Cynthia Doe, a 49-year-old music teacher and church choir director, was traveling on I-45 near Texas City when her Ford Explorer’s left rear tire had a tread separation which led to loss of control of the vehicle and rollover.  Doe’s seat belt inertially unlatched and she was ejected from the vehicle, suffering injuries to both legs. Clarence Doe, a passenger,…

FACTS & ALLEGATIONS: On Christmas Day 2002, Veronica Doe, 19, was riding in the right front seat of a 1994 Ford Aspire, which went into a ditch in Harris County.  The passenger airbag deployed in the low-speed frontal impact, and Doe was injured.  Doe sued Ford Motor Co., alleging that there were several clear defects in the car’s airbag system.  First,…

The Ammons Law Firm has successfully negotiated the settlement of a wrongful death case against Ford on behalf of the Estate, husband and four sons of a 47-year-old Texas woman who was killed in a rollover crash. The woman was the right front passenger in a 2001 Ford Expedition when another vehicle entered its path….

The Ammons Law Firm negotiated a cash settlement in a negligence lawsuit against a local trucking company on behalf of a 26-year-old Texas man. The man was operating his Isuzu Trooper II on a state highway when a large dump truck loaded with pea gravel and traveling on the same roadway began spilling its load….

FACTS & ALLEGATIONS Plaintiff was a roughneck working on a jack-up rig in the Gulf of Mexico. While tripping the pipe out of the drilling hole, the brakes on the pipe-lift elevator failed. It dropped onto Bernard’s foot, dragged him across the floor, and threw him against the draw works. Bernard sued his employer, R…

FACTS & ALLEGATIONS: Rosario Doe, 21, was driving a Nissan Pathfinder SUV when the vehicle drifted off the left side of the highway and entered a grassy median.  She steered right to correct the vehicle, but it bean to yaw clockwise across two lanes.  When she steered left in an effort to stay on the road, the…

FACTS & ALLEGATIONS: Baltazar Doe was driving a 1991 Chevrolet Corvette ZR on a highway during a rainy day.  His wife was a passenger. When he made a minor steering correction, the car went out of control, crossed the median, and collided with a tractor-trailer traveling in the opposite direction. Doe 39, suffered a skull fracture when his…