Phil GriffisMar 7, 20162 minTexas Supreme Court Gives Businesses New Defenses in Personal Injury CasesCompanies are routinely sued for “premises liability” claims. Examples include customer and employee slips, trips and falls. They also...
Phil GriffisFeb 27, 20163 min6 Proactive Measures Your Company Should Take to Protect Itself from Personal Injury LawsuitsOne of the most unfortunate certainties of business ownership is that you will likely at some point or another face at least one lawsuit...
Phil GriffisFeb 27, 20162 minProtecting Your Company's Trade SecretsAlmost all businesses have information that qualifies as trade secrets. In Texas, a trade secret is any information that (1) the...
Phil GriffisFeb 10, 20161 minClear Lake Regional Medical Center Sued for Alleged Failure to Diagnose MalariaA leading Houston Bay Area hospital has been sued for the alleged failure to diagnose a patient’s malaria. According to the petition,...
Phil GriffisJan 9, 20162 minBig Win for Boeing in Sea Launch LawsuitBack in 2013 I first wrote about Boeing Commercial Space Company’s $355 million breach of contract suit against its overseas partners in...
Phil GriffisDec 12, 20152 minCity of Kemah Responds to Jail Suicide LawsuitChad Silvis died in the Kemah City Jail in 2014. Soon afterwards his father sued the City of Kemah and one of the police officers...
Phil GriffisNov 22, 20153 minProtecting Your Business from ADA Accessibility SuitsTitle III of The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) forbids businesses from discriminating against the disabled with respect to goods,...
Phil GriffisOct 18, 20152 minUber Sued for Alleged Driver Sexual AssaultsI remember thinking on my first Uber ride what a legal can of worms the fantastically successful new service had opened. It is amazing...
Phil GriffisOct 7, 20152 minPro Basketball Player Sues Friendswood 24 Hour Fitness for InjuryA professional basketball player has sued the Friendswood, Texas 24 Hour Fitness, claiming that a defective floor at its facility caused...
Phil GriffisSep 20, 20151 minWondering If You Should Settle or Take Your Civil Lawsuit to Trial?One of the questions I’m often asked is “Do you think my case will have to go to court?” In reality there is no way to answer the...