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Press Releases from The Law Offices of John David Hart (6 total)

Easter Sunday Truck Crash Prompts Lawsuit

CLEBURNE – A Cleburne couple has filed a lawsuit against a tractor-trailer driver and his employer, charging that their negligence caused an Easter evening truck crash that killed their young daughter, seriously injured their son and also killed the children’s grandmother. According to police reports, 53-year-old truck driver Larry Dean Roberts drove through a stop sign at the intersection of Texas 171 and Farm Road 916 in Johnson County and collided

Lawsuit Filed in North Carolina Tractor-Trailer Crash; Father of five killed in …

FORT WORTH – The family of a Katy, Texas, man who was killed in a fiery truck crash on a North Carolina highway last month has filed suit against a Texas trucking company and one its drivers. On Feb. 16, Christopher Friday Oko, 40, was a passenger in a tractor-trailer that slammed into two other big rigs parked on the side of Interstate 85 near Creedmoor, N.C., not far from Durham.

Company Pays $1.2 Million in Truck Crash Case

FORT WORTH – A Cleburne resident who was critically injured in a June 2004 collision with an 18-wheeler has reached a $1.2 million settlement with the driver and owners of the tractor-trailer rig. Lidio Ortiz, 54, suffered severe back and head injuries, two bone fractures and multiple lacerations when his car was struck by the 18-wheeler driven by William Donald Golaz, an employee of JM Oil Field Services of

Overweight Women Warned About Using Birth Control Patch

FORT WORTH – The maker of the Evra* birth control patch sold in Canada is warning women there that they are at “particularly high risk” of developing blood clots if they are overweight and use the drug. Canadian drug manufacturer Janssen-Ortho Inc. also says women should not expose the Evra birth control patch to sources of heat such as saunas and whirlpools, based on what the company calls a theoretical risk

New Ortho Evra Cases Show Problems Continue

FORT WORTH – Life-threatening problems and complications among women using the Ortho Evra birth control patch continue, as demonstrated by the latest lawsuits filed against the drug’s manufacturer, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ). The lawsuits claim more than 40 women using the Ortho Evra patch have experienced health problems, including blood clots and other difficulties. One case filed this week reports that a woman using

Johnson & Johnson Sued Over Ortho Evra Damage

FORT WORTH – A Plano, Texas, woman who suffered a miscarriage and developed potentially life-threatening blood clots after using the Ortho Evra® birth control patch has filed a federal lawsuit against drug manufacturing giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) in Marshall, Texas. Elizabeth Barroso, now 24, began experiencing chest pains and difficulty breathing after using Ortho Evra® for only three weeks in 2004. She spent eight days in the hospital, where

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