Heygood, Orr & Pearson recently received notice of their success on appeal in their defense of a client in a theft of trade secrets case. The client is a company involved in the sale of investments known as life settlements.
The law firm of Heygood, Orr & Pearson has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of a Fort Worth teenager who died from heatstroke in June while hiking as part of a Boy Scouts summer camp. The lawsuit alleges that the Boy Scouts of America were negligent for failing to provide…
Heygood, Orr & Pearson has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of a Connecticut woman’s daughter and other beneficiaries alleging that the woman died of fentanyl intoxication because her health care providers failed to heed “black box warnings” clearly providing that she should not have been prescribed the fentanyl patch.
In June of 2010, a Mississippi woman’s doctor wrote her a prescription for four 25 mcg fentanyl patches. She had the prescription filled the next day at her local CVS Pharmacy. However, rather than filling the prescription with the 25 mcg fentanyl patches that were prescribed, CVS filled the prescription with four 75 mcg Sandoz…
Heygood, Orr & Pearson is pursuing a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the husband of a Dallas, Texas woman who died of sepsis due to necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease or flesh-eating bacteria syndrome). Medical experts in emergency room care believe that this woman died because of the failure of the physician’s assistant and doctor at the hospital where she was admitted to recognize and treat the flesh-eating bacterial infection.
Heygood, Orr & Pearson is currently pursuing a putative class action lawsuits against Life Partners, Inc., a company that specializes in “life settlement” investments. A “life settlement” is the sale of an existing life insurance policy by the policyholder to another party. By selling a life insurance policy, the policyholder receives an immediate cash payment…
In early 2011, the husband and father of our clients was at work operating a Kenworth truck on a gas well construction site in Fort Worth, Texas. The truck had been fitted with a water tank and was being used to spray water to wet down the construction site. As he was going about his…
Standing up for the rights of a Texas consumer, our law firm, Heygood, Orr & Pearson, has just filed a lawsuit against Safeco Insurance Company of Indiana, Home State County Mutual Insurance Company, and one of their insurance adjusters alleging violations of the Texas Insurance Code, violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Consumer Protection…
Texas Monthly magazine recently selected Heygood, Orr & Pearson name partners Michael Heygood, Jim Orr and Eric D. Pearson as 2012 “Texas Super Lawyers.”
D Magazine has named Heygood, Orr & Pearson partner Eric D. Pearson to its 2011 list of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas.”
Texas Monthly magazine recently selected Heygood, Orr & Pearson name partners Michael Heygood, Jim Orr and Eric D. Pearson as 2011 “Texas Super Lawyers.” In compiling their list of outstanding attorneys, Texas Monthly magazine use a rigorous multi-step process combining peer nominations and evaluations with third party research.
Attorneys from Heygood, Orr & Pearson have filed a class-action lawsuit in Ellis County on behalf of Texas investors who say Waco-based Life Partners Inc. charged excessive premiums on the company’s so-called “life settlement” policies.