Do you know the real story behind the McDonald’s coffee case? Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald’s coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America’s legal system, [...] Read more »
Robert Haslam wins another excess verdict against an automobile insurance company
WednesdayNov 16,2011
October 25, 2011 Robert Haslam won an excess verdict against Safeco Insurance Company, in the 96th District Court of Tarrant County, Texas. The new paid or incurred law was a significant hammer to a wonderful Texas mom of three children who suffered shoulder surgery from an underinsured motorist driver causing an automobile wreck. Safeco Insurance [...] Read more »
Patrick Gallagher Named Super Lawyer for 2011
MondayOct 3,2011
J. Patrick Gallagher, III visit superlawyers.com Patrick Gallagher has the distinct honor of being chosen as one of the top 5% of practicing attorneys in the state of Texas for 2011. Super Lawyers magazine names attorneys in each state [...] Read more »
Jury finds bar that served driver partially responsible for wreck that killed 4 teens
ThursdayJun 16,2011
By Deanna Boyd dboyd@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH — For 51/2 hours on a hot summer night in 2005, Michael Miles sat in the Harlem Nites Cabaret and drank. Throughout the evening, attorneys say, bartenders at the topless bar continued to serve Miles, a 47-year-old father of three who lived in Arlington, until [...] Read more »
Texas Laws Already Protect Insurance Industry
WednesdayApr 13,2011
By Robert “Bob” Haslam Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 Special to the Star-Telegram Gov. Rick Perry’s proposals for Texas’ legal system would help his insurance company contributors further increase their profits on the backs of those least able to help themselves after being injured by others’ negligence — and limit the already small [...] Read more »
Robert Haslam and Patrick Gallagher were both Recognized by Texas Monthly as a “Super Lawyer” and Fort Worth magazine as a “Top Attorney” for 2010
MondayJan 17,2011
Robert Haslam and Patrick Gallagher were both Recognized by Texas Monthly as a “Super Lawyer” and Fort Worth magazine as a “Top Attorney” for 2010 . Robert Haslam Link Patrick Gallagher Link Patrick Gallagher was selected by Super Lawyer for successfully representing clients seriously injured by dangerous products against manufactures in product liability lawsuits
New Puzzle: Why Fewer are Killed in Car Crashes
MondayJan 17,2011
Original Link to Wall Street Journal The number of drivers involved in fatal accidents who were eating, talking on a phone or otherwise distracted rose 42% from 2005 to 2008. But that’s just one way to read a new study of highway deaths. Another way is that “inattentive” or distracted driving was recorded [...] Read more »
Extend tax cuts, strangle runaway spending
ThursdayNov 4,2010
Posted Wednesday, Nov. 03, 2010 By Cal Thomas For newly empowered congressional Republicans, Priority One must be an extension of the Bush tax cuts. There should be enough votes not only from a new Republican majority, but also from some of the decimated and dispirited (and even newly elected) [...] Read more »
Robert Haslam and Richard "Racehorse" Haynes – Houston May 2010
FridayJun 25,2010
Fort Worth trial attorney, Robert Haslam and Richard “Racehorse” Haynes appear in trial together in Houston - May 2010.
