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Earlier this month, Brian New and the “I-Team” at local CBS affiliate KTVT produced a television news report entitled “Texas Leads Nation In Deadly Crane Accidents, Target Of OSHA Safety Enforcement.” In that story, which dealt with crane accidents in North Texas only, it was noted that: Between 2011 and 2015, Texas had 4 times the yearly average of deaths when compared to the rest of the nation. Since 2012, there were 8 North Texas crane-related accident deaths. However it…

The DUI/DWI lawyers at The Doan Law Firm discuss this accident from the viewpoint of Florida’s “Dram Shop Law” and how that law might apply. Read more about why the victims of accidents involving Dram Shop Law should always seek the advice of an experienced wrongful death lawyer.

Like other states, Michigan is forced to confront the public safety and health issues caused by hundreds (if not thousands) of accidents each year that are caused by drivers who are later convicted on a charge of DUI/DWI. One of the methods adopted by the state legislature to deal with the tremendous financial burdens caused by these accidents is to allow, under certain conditions, the filing of lawsuits against the businesses that sell alcoholic beverages to customers that are obviously…

Read more about New York’s “Dram Shop” and “Social Host” Laws, and their potential impacts on DUI/DWI accident injury cases from the experienced car accident lawyers at The Doan Law Firm.

In 1987, the Texas Court of Appeals ruled that a bar, lounge, tavern or similar business where alcohol is sold has a legal duty not to sell alcoholic beverages to a patron who is showing “… obvious signs of intoxication …” (Poole v. El Chico Corp). Within days of that ruling, the state legislature passed what has become known as the “Texas Dram Shop Act” (after the English term for an establishment that sold alcohol “by the dram,” where 1…