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Motorcycle riders are particularly vulnerable to significant injury and death because of the lack of protection motorcycles provide.  Motor cycle riders are five times more likely to suffer serious injury or death than drivers of other types of vehicles.  Most of these accidents are not the fault of the motorcycle operator.  Approximately one third of motorcycle injuries are caused when automobile drivers suddenly turn into the path of a motorcycle.  At our Houston, Texas law firm, we understand that seriously injured motorcycle accident victims face a long road to recovery.  Our personal injury attorneys will fight to enforce your rights and make sure that you have the resources behind you to put your life back on track  Contact the personal injury auto and motorcycle lawyers at Norris & Cantu LLP in Houston, Texas for a free evaluation of your case.

Brain injury is not an injury that is necessarily noticed as soon as it occurs. In fact, a victim of brain injury in Houston could go for months without even having any idea that they were hurt. Brain injuries can be so difficult to detect that they often go unnoticed even at hospitals. This means that if you get into an auto accident and get checked out by a hospital that fails to look for signs of brain damage, you could still go home with a serious problem and not be aware.

Symptoms of brain injuries can include problems with concentrating, difficulty remembering, irritability, depression, and even problems with hearing and vision. If you have any reason to believe that you may have brain injury, it’s important to get help right away. The first place to turn is Norris & Cantu, Houston brain injury lawyers. You will need to get checked out by a hospital, but by contacting Norris & Cantu first, you will ensure that all of your bases are covered through the process.

Wrongful death is when a person is killed due to negligence of another person. This could involve recklessness or even inaction of another person or an organization. Most often, wrongful death is due to medical malpractice. Accidents in the workplace, from defective products, or even automobile accidents are also common causes of wrongful death. 

 An example of wrongful death due to medical malpractice could involve a medical doctor not taking the proper precautions before beginning surgery. If the surgeon doesn’t “scrub,” or wash their hands properly to remove infections bacteria, that bacteria could enter the patient’s body and infect them. If this infection were to cause the person’s death, it could easily become a wrongful death due to medical malpractice. 

 Wrongful death on the highway could involve a motor vehicle traveling too fast down the road (beyond the speed limit) and running into a child who is playing the street. If the vehicle had been traveling at or under the speed limit, the child may have had time to see the vehicle and move out of the way, or the driver may have had the opportunity to see the child and swerve so it didn’t hit the child. If this accident was to occur and the child was to die, this could become a wrongful death case due to an automobile accident. 

 Wrongful death due to defective products is also common and very unnecessary. Companies have an obligation to test their products thoroughly for safety before releasing them to the public, but they don’t always take all precautions. Their negligence can cause the death of unsuspecting consumers, and these can become wrongful death cases due to defective products. In fact, if a large number of people are harmed or killed due to a defective products, these cases can become class action lawsuits as well.

 Wrongful deaths, then, are deaths that are caused due to the negligence of another person. Someone should have been more responsible than they were, and their irresponsibility caused the death of someone else. Wrongful deaths are especially difficult for family and friends of the deceased to deal with because the deaths are cause “for no good reason.”  

If you suspect that a loved one has been killed due to someone else’s negligence, you may have a wrongful death case on your hands. To find out more about wrongful death and how it may pertain to your individual situation, contact the experienced wrongful death lawyers at Norris & Cantu today.

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Automobile defects are the cause of thousands, if not millions of injuries and even deaths every single year in the United States. Automobile manufacturers have a responsibility to the public to thoroughly test their vehicles for safety before placing them on car sales lots. However, their testing is not always performed properly and automobile defects are commonly discovered long after a vehicle has been sold to millions of consumers.

Automobile defects cause many different types of accidents. One of the most common types of accidents caused by automobile defects is rollovers. If the weight of a vehicle is not proportioned correctly on a vehicle, that vehicle can be prone to rolling over even in common situations. Jeeps are well known for their likelihood of rolling over, as are trucks and SUV’s. This is because most of their weight is placed near the top of their body, rather than at the lower part of the vehicle body, like that of a car. 
 

If you suspect that you have been in an accident that was caused by an automobile defect, don’t just wonder about it. Call Norris & Cantu today to find out more about automobile defects and how they may be related to your recent automobile accident.

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Have you ever been injured from defective products? The fact is that thousands of people are hurt every month from defective products sold by corporations to consumers. These corporations have a responsibility to insure that their products are safe for public use, and consumers have a responsibility to raise the flag when they are dangerous. Defective product lawyers and courts have the responsibility of punishing these negligent corporations so they strive harder to deliver safe products to the public.  

Some of the defective products that a person may be injured by automotive products, children’s clothing, tools, airbags, prescription drugs, child safety seats, seatbelts, tire defects, and many other products not listed here. In fact if a large number of people have been injured by the same defective product as you, you may be the leader in a new class action lawsuit.

People who are injured by defective products should report their mishaps to defective product lawyers, such as those Norris & Cantu. This legal team has been handling defective product lawsuits for years, and they understand your rights and your concerns about defective product injuries. Contact Houston defective product attorneys today to find out if you have a case; do your part to ensure that corporations adequately test their products for maximum public safety.