Why Do West Texas Oilfield Companies Keep Hiring Dangerous Truck Drivers?
The other day, one of my staff wrote about the possibility that authorities aren't properly counting fatalities in oilfield truck crashes in west Texas. While that article raises some interesting...
View ArticleOne Danger to Police Officers Will Continue Until We Hold Bars Accountable
Mention police officers and drunk drivers in the same sentence, and I'll bet most people will assume that you're talking about the role that police play catching drunk drivers and protecting the...
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Warning: Scammers are Pretending to be attorney Keith Purdue. Don’t fall for it.
One of the problems of having a semi-public persona in the internet age is that anyone can obtain your basic biographical information from a Google search. For scammers and con artists, this...
View ArticleWhat are Reporters Missing About the 6 x Fatal 133-Car- Pile-Up in Fort...
To say that the Thursday, February 11, 2021 133-car-pile-up on I-35W in Fort Worth, Texas received a lot of media coverage is an understatement. Hundreds of articles and dozens of videos of the...
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The Chamber of Commerce Is Lying About Our Legal System (Again)
Last fall, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (the organization's tort reform propaganda arm) released a shocking report, Tort Liability Costs for Small Businesses, claiming that...
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What Are the 5 Deadliest States for Truck Drivers?
While many people worry about the dangers that tractor-trailers pose to them on the highway, few consider that they aren't the only ones at risk in accidents with large vehicles. In fact, nearly 700...
View ArticleJust Because Police Rarely Enforce Texas’ Texting Ban Doesn’t Mean it Doesn’t...
Recently, the Dallas Morning News measured the enforcement of the texting while driving ban in Texas. The initial ban went into effect in September of 2017, in the wake of a horrific mass-casualty...
View ArticleIs There a Downside to Record Alcohol Sales in Texas?
In May 2021, Texas bars, restaurants, and other licensed alcohol vendors sold $742,884,835 worth of beer, wine, and spirits. This eclipsed the previous record of $722 million in monthly sales from...
View ArticleCan We Retire the Myth of the Truck Driver Shortage?
Have you heard that a shortage of truck drivers exists and it's only getting worse? According to the American Trucking Associations (ATA), the American trucking industry finds itself in need of 61,000...
View ArticleAm I Eligible to File a Lawsuit Under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022?
It's a confusing time for those injured by their exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. law firms across the country have flooded practically every website, television...
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