I still remember the day I walked in on my mother crying. I was only seven years old and we had just ended the year with less than $70 in our bank account. My parents did everything they could to make ends meet and to provide for their children. My father immigrated to the United […]
All things considered, my family has not lived in the United States very long. My great grandfather immigrated to this country through New York around the turn of the century. He came from Pau, France, which is the northern edge of the Pyrenees, near Spain and the Atlantic. He was a young peasant working on […]
The Deadline Has Been Extended In a recent release from the Deepwater Horizon Claims Center (DWHCC), the Claims Administrator has finally announced that April 22, 2014 will not be the deadline to file new claims. Many residents and businesses of the Gulf Coast have feared that they would have to file their claim by the […]
A major medical malpractice lawsuit filed against Baylor Medical Center in Plano alleges that the hospital allowed a neurosurgeon to operate after learning of his history of botched surgeries. The suit claims that neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch had a history of poorly-executed surgical procedures when Baylor Health Care System recruited him in 2011. The suit states […]
Congratulations to team David! David Christoffel and his paralegal, Blanca Garcia, for being our top-performing team for the first quarter of 2014. David and Blanca have been handling a variety of cases, but the vast majority of their work has been in litigating first party insurance property damage cases—specifically bad faith cases for hail damage […]
This Memorial Day will represent my parents’ 35th wedding anniversary. However, more importantly, it will also represent their thirty-fifth anniversary of living in this country, and in Houston, Texas. Leaving both of their families behind, and the only country that they had ever called home, my parents left India and came to Houston in 1979. […]
My family has been in America for quite a long time. I have heard that my mother’s family descends from Isaac Stearns, who came to America in 1630 and then served as secretary to Governor John Winthrop, the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My mother’s family eventually came to live in Aurora, Illinois, […]
Ms. Nishi Kothari recently joined our team, and she has been kicking butt and taking names! I recently attended a mediation with Nishi where she got an astoundingly good settlement for the kind of case we had. Due to confidentiality issues, we can only speak about some settlements in general terms. But the mediation of […]
According to a report from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), Texas had the lowest per capita rate of medical malpractice payouts in the nation last year. Texas medical practitioners paid $3.03 per capita for medical malpractice payouts in 2013, up only one cent from 2012. The per capita rates allow for more accurate comparisons […]
On April 4, 2014, severe storms and tornados hit the Dallas and Denton, Texas areas, including Frisco and Allen, Texas. I have personally worked hail storm claims in the North Dallas area before, both as a public adjuster, as an insurance adjuster, and as an insurance bad faith attorney. In my experience in Garland and […]