Brooks was featured in a short interview on News 8 Austin about resolving car wreck property damage claims. Click here for a short article and the video.
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A Dallas Morning News article from yesterday describes the long, tortured journey of two homeowners’ search for justice. Bob and Jane Cull bought their home from Perry Homes more than ten years ago, but they are still waiting for some type of resolution. After a lengthy delay and numerous appeals, the Culls were awarded over $800,000.00 by an arbitrator. Whether they get to keep that award is now before the Texas Supreme Court.
The kicker? According to the article, Bob Perry, the owner of Perry Homes, is the largest individual political donor in the country. And among his political donations are hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to the supreme court justices now set to hear the case.
For a more detailed discussion of the case, including links to additional resources, check out the post on our main blog.
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A recent confidential industry survey of truck drivers revealed some startling facts. In the survey, 77 percent of the responding truck drivers admitted that they had deliberately broken trucking regulations in the past, and 55 percent said they were still breaking the rules. The drivers said that the most common violations were logging time as off-duty while actually on duty (78 percent), using more than one logbook (21 percent), and indicating that a team driver is operating the vehicle when they really are not (11 percent).
Frankly, we’re not sure how to respond. Trucking cases are always subject to questions about the driver’s hours and the legitimacy of their logbooks. This type of data only confirms all of our fears.
And, this is particularly disheartening to those of us in Austin and Central Texas. With the passage of NAFTA, truck traffic continues to make up a bigger and bigger percentage of traffic in Central Texas.
At Perlmutter & Schuelke, LLP, we continue to handle claims arising from trucking accidents, not only in Austin, but all over Texas. For additional information on trucking accidents, please visit our website.
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This week, the Consumer Federation of America has released a new study finding that the nation’s homeowner’s and automobile insurance companies are gouging consumers by (1) making excessive charges; and (2) shifting risks from their policies to consumers (by decreasing coverage) and to taxpayers (by getting the government to subsidize some losses). For more information and links to the article and commentary, visit our main firm blog.
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It has long been known that driver inattention is a leading cause of wrecks. These distractions can take any number of forms, including talking on cell phones and eating in the car. Now, the Austin Police Department and University of Texas advertising students have partnered up to try and do something about it. To read about the action and to see a Fox 7 news story about the partnership, click here.
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