Phil GriffisMay 21, 20163 min readIs Your Business Being Targeted for a Frivolous ‘Deep Pocket’ Lawsuit? Watch for These 3 SignsWhen a business or individual achieves success, lawsuits often follow. Some of the suits may have merit. Others will not. Unfortunately,...
Phil GriffisApr 20, 20163 min readMedical Practitioners: Here Are 7 Tips to Help You Mitigate Your Medical Malpractice RiskNo one goes into a medical profession in order to cause harm. You do what you do so that you can help people. Unfortunately, medical...
Phil GriffisMar 7, 20162 min readTexas 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 min read6 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 min readProtecting 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 min readClear 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 min readBig 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 min readCity 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 min readProtecting Your Business from ADA Accessibility SuitsTitle III of The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) forbids businesses from discriminating against the disabled with respect to...
Phil GriffisOct 18, 20152 min readUber 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...