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• Speeding. Not So Fast.

  Staff Writer | January 16, 2006 7:08 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  As early as August 2006, cameras may be recording your traffic violations at the busiest Dallas intersections. But the question remains, is this leagl. Dallas council member Leo Chaney said, "If you travel all over America, everyone is utilizing this technology We're in the 21st century. It's an inevitability." Richardson and Frisco plan on utilizing the red light cameras and others are not...

• Unpaid Overtime Wal-Mart Class Action Lawsuit

  RLF Staff | January 13, 2006 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Recently, a Pennsylvania judge approved a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, Inc. brought by employees who allege that Wal-Mart, Inc. pressured them into working off the clock.The Unpaid Overtime Class-Action lawsuit alleges that employees worked regularly through breaks and after hours without overtime pay. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay covered employees who...

• Should Drug Maker Be Responsible for Death?

  Staff Writer | January 12, 2006 3:04 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  If drug companies knew that drug addicts were buying every day over the counter cold medicines to extract the ingredients needed to make methamphetamine to get high, could you award monetary damages and send a message to the drug companies that they should have done something to prevent to it? Linda Green believes that people are sick and tired of drug companies not taking responsibility for...

• Wrongful Death Suit Planned Against Southwest

  Staff Writer | January 12, 2006 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  The family of a six year-old boy who was killed when a Southwest jet skidded off a runway at Midway airport in Chicago plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the Dallas-based airline.Joshua Woods was riding in the family car when the jet crashed through a runway barrier on a snowy evening in early December. The airplane hit the car on central avenue. Joshua died of compression...

• 2005 A Record Year For Recalls

  Staff Writer | January 12, 2006 11:32 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 397 consumer products were recalled in fiscal year 2005. This was the most recalls in a decade. The Commission also set a record for the amount of fines levied against companies for failing to report product defects. Six different companies were fined a total of $8.8 million.Federal law requires manufacturers, distributors, retailers and...

• Plano Teen Can File Birth Injury Lawsuit

  Staff Writer | January 02, 2006 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  The Wisonsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that one of our clients can file a birth injury lawsuit claiming the Wisconsin doctor and hospital are responsible for denying the client's brain of oxygen in the moments before and after his birth, which led to the child developing cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy lawyer Jeremi Young represents the family. The defense argued the lawsuit was past the...

• Texas Car Accident Negligence and Liability

  Staff Writer | December 30, 2005 11:07 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Automobile negligence and liability is an area of the law for which Texas has no specific legislation. Cases dealing with this subject matter are forced to rely on the common law and case law for negligence. A driver of an automobile generally owes a duty of care to other drivers, pedestrians or anything that may be affected by the operation of that vehicle. The operator of a motor vehicle...

• Caps On Medical Malpractice

  Staff Writer | December 28, 2005 11:14 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  In Texas, the legislature has placed caps on medical liability. Effectively, there is now a cap of $250,000 per claimant on non-economic damage awards in cases involving health care providers or an individual health. The limit applies regardless of the number of providers involved or the number of issues upon which the claim is based. If the claim involves several institutions, the cap is $...

• Jeffrey H. Rasansky, Attorney at Law

  Staff Writer | October 15, 2005 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  For the third consecutive year, Jeff has been named a Texas Super Lawyer by the publishers of Law & Politics magazine and Texas Monthly magazine. Jeff is listed as one of the state's top personal injury attorneys in Texas Monthly magazine and Texas Super Lawyers magazine, a publication co-produced by the publishers of Texas Monthly and Law & Politics Media Inc. Among his other honors, Jeff has...

• The Rasansky Law Firm

  Staff Writer | October 01, 2005 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  At The Rasansky Law Firm, we not only demand strict professional standards, we demand excellence. Our attorneys are among the finest in the country and excel in their fields, having resolved numerous multi-million dollar cases.The Rasansky Law Firm believes that each case, no matter how big or small, deserves to have the best professionals available to review it. That is why at the Rasansky...