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Steps a Company should take, including general advice about conducting an investigation Imagine that one of your supervisors discovers that thousands of pages of confidential Company billing and financial information has been downloaded, and e-mailed to a personal e-mail address. Upon further investigation, your supervisor has discovered that an employee has asked other employees…

According to the SongFacts.com website, in 1962-and again in 1975-Neil Sedaka had a hit song called “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.” Sedaka was, of course, referring to how painful a romantic breakup can be. However, the breakup of a Texas business partnership can also be painful. This could be especially true if the…

On behalf of Ethan Shaw In recent years, many hailstorms in Texas have resulted in tens of thousands of claims against property and casualty insurers. Many of these claims are the result of third-party contractors, adjusters and attorneys going into affected areas and soliciting business. In response to this situation, earlier this year Senator…

In Johnson v. Heckmann Water Resources (CVR), Inc., the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by a federal district court in Texas which summarily denied a suit by employees alleging that their former employers violated the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime wage requirements. The appeals court determined that an employer’s…

In a notice issued last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration discouraged the use of laparoscopic power morcellation for the removal of the uterus (hysterectomy) or uterine fibroids (myomectomy) in women because, based on an analysis of currently available data, it poses a risk of spreading unsuspected cancerous tissue, notably uterine sarcomas, beyond…

On March 5, 2015, a California jury awarded $5.7 million to a Transvaginal Mesh plaintiff that alleged she suffered personal injuries after receiving an implantation of Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon TVT Abbrevo. The TVT Abbrevo is used to treat problems such as incontinence, and is one of numerous Tranvaginal Mesh products that are the…

Plaintiffs that have filed suit after receiving a DePuy Pinnacle hip are waiting for the second “bellwether,” or test trial, to be scheduled. In the first bellwether trial, a Texas jury found in favor of DePuy. The Plaintiff in that case, however, had a medical history not necessarily representative of the majority of other…

In September 2014, two juries returned verdicts in favor of Plaintiffs that suffered damages after being implanted with transvaginalmesh devices. In West Virginia, a jury found Ethicon liable for selling faulty devices and failing to warn patients and their doctors that the devices may cause harmful side effects. The jury awarded $3.27 million to…

A few years ago outside of Houston on I-10 one of most severe documented auto accidents in Texas history occurred.  Heavy fog covered the highway on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. In the accident, as many as 150 vehicles piled up, two were fatally wounded and 100 more were injured. Multi-car pileups…

The validity of your patent will come into question. Count on that as fact if you decide to pursue taking legal action in order to protect your patent from infringement. If the defense is unable to weaken the validity of the patent itself, adversarial attorneys will attempt to say that your patent is unenforceable…