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Texas Watch hosting event Oct. 26 at Plaza Club in San Antonio Texas Watch recently selected San Antonio attorney Frank Herrera Jr. of The Herrera Law Firm to be its guest of honor at its Champions of Justice Luncheon in October. “I am honored to be chosen by Texas Watch as guest of honor at...

MySanAntonio.com reports that in Texas, the state's Department of Insurance fields dozens of reports annually about amusement park injuries. State statute mandates owners and operators of these rides turn in a quarterly report that details any incident requiring medical treatment or resulting in death. "Medical treatment" in this case excludes injuries like minor burns, scrapes...

Wrong-way driving causes serious injuries to Texas road users. It may not receive the same amount of attention as drunk driving, drugged driving, distracted driving, or other common driving dangers, but it can be even more deadly. Wrong-way drivers often cause head-on collisions at high speeds. This is why technology developers and government transportation authorities...

The Permian Basin, which encompasses the Midland and Odessa area, has been the hub of Texas’s rich oil industry for nearly a century. A 2016 report released by U.S. Geological Survey estimated that roughly 20 billion barrels of oil could be buried beneath the Wolfcamp Shale of Midland. It is estimated that enough oil could be extracted...

Estimated $240 million worth of unnecessary medical procedures performed San Antonio’s The Herrera Law Firm recently began taking legal action against Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, a physician who falsely diagnosed patients and performed unnecessary medical procedures as part of a health care fraud scheme which allowed Zamora-Quezada to collect an estimated $240 millions dollars in fraudulent...

The Permian Basin of Texas is the state’s oil hub. Nearly a century ago, oil was discovered in the small town of Midland. After oil was discovered, the region – which includes the neighboring town of Odessa - saw an economic boom that attracted workers from everywhere. Highly traveled roads and construction quickly encompassed the...

A dozen transportation safety rules under development or already adopted have been repealed, withdrawn, delayed, or put on the back burner since President Donald J. Trump took office in 2017, according to the Associated Press. There have also been no significant new safety rules approved since 2017. The rules that have been stalled would have required...