Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Train-Truck Collision & Wrongful Death Attorneys — Two Union Pacific Crew Members Killed When a Heavy-Haul Tractor-Trailer Sat Stalled on a Railway Crossing in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas for a Full Minute Before the 68-Mph Freight Train Struck It, Derailing the Locomotive and Launching Equipment Into the Chamber of Commerce Building, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin’s Oilfield Trucking Corridor, We Pursue the Carrier Behind the Stall and the Cargo-Securement Chain That Let the Load Become Airborne, FELA Wrongful Death Claims for Railroad Employee Families Under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box and Grade-Crossing Signal Data Before the Overwrite Erases It, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos, Texas Train-Truck Collision: Your Legal Rights After the Union Pacific Crash That Killed Two Railroad Workers The phone call came on a Wednesday in December. Your husband, your father, your son went to work for the railroad that morning the way he had a thousand mornings before, and this time he did not come home. A tractor-trailer hauling heavy equipment through the Permian Basin sat stopped on the railway crossing in Pecos for about a minute — long enough for the Union Pacific train crew to see it, slam the emergency brakes, and know that sixty-eight miles an hour was not going to be enough. Two railroad employees died. Three people in a building nearby were hurt. And in the hours since, the National Transportation Safety Board has recovered the train’s data recorder and opened an investigation that will take months to complete — while the evidence that decides who pays for this, and how much, is already beginning to disappear. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic commercial-vehicle cases in Texas. This page is for the families of the two Union Pacific employees who were killed, for the people who were inside…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Crash on SH-302 at W. Yukon Ave in Ector County, Texas: Kennedy Kimberly Kay, 49, of San Angelo Pronounced Dead at the Scene After a Commercial Tractor-Trailer Failed to Yield the Right of Way at the Intersection — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Trucking Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Carriers and the Oilfield-Hauling Contractor Shells They Hide Behind, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Commercial Crashes, We Extract the ELD Logs and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, FMCSA Post-Fatality Drug-and-Alcohol Testing Mandate and Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum Under 49 CFR, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the Stowers Settlement Doctrine That Forces Insurers to Evaluate Policy-Limits Exposure, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on SH-302: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family The intersection of State Highway 302 and West Yukon Avenue sits in the heart of the Permian Basin — Ector County, just outside Odessa — on a corridor that carries some of the heaviest commercial truck traffic in Texas. On the evening of May 28, 2026, at approximately 8:00 p.m., a semi-truck failed to yield the right of way at that intersection. A 49-year-old woman from San Angelo, driving a passenger vehicle, struck the front of the semi. She was pronounced dead at the scene. If you are her family — her spouse, her child, her parent — you are reading this in the worst days of your life, and we will not waste your time with platitudes. Here is what is true, what is disappearing, and what you can still do about it. The first thing you need to hear is the simplest and the most important: her death was not her fault. A semi-truck failed to yield the right of way at a controlled intersection. That violation of basic traffic law — and federal commercial-vehicle regulation — is the cause of this tragedy. The trucking…

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Jul 16, 2026

Derek Wayne Pearson, 49, Killed When a Semi Truck Failed to Yield at the SH 302 and FM 866 Stop Sign in Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues the Carrier Behind a Nighttime Failure-to-Yield on a Permian Basin Corridor That Blocked the Highway and Left a Belted Driver No Room to Avoid the Trailer, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data, the Hours-of-Service Logs and the Post-Crash Drug and Alcohol Tests Before the Evidence Overwrite Clock Runs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Matters, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Claims for Surviving Spouses, Children and Parents, FMCSA Post-Accident Testing Required After Every Fatal Commercial Crash — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night SH 302 Went Dark — What Happened to Your Family SH 302 is dark at 7:30 in January. The sun set behind the Winkler County line nearly two hours ago, and what remains is the kind of West Texas dark that makes a tractor-trailer pulling across a two-lane highway look like a wall that appeared from nowhere. There are no streetlights out there. There is no intersection lighting. There is a stop sign on FM 866, a stop sign the driver of that semi was required by law to obey, and a highway full of traffic that had the right of way and no warning that a loaded trailer was about to block both westbound lanes. Your husband, your father, your son — Derek Wayne Pearson, 49, from Bellville — was wearing his seatbelt. He was traveling westbound in the inside lane of SH 302, exactly where he was supposed to be. He had the right of way. A 2022 Ford F-250 is a substantial vehicle, but it is nothing against the side of a semi trailer at highway speed. He hit that trailer because it was in his lane and he could not stop in time, because…

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Jul 16, 2026

Nine Killed When a Pickup Crossed the Centerline Into a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van in Andrews County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues Stellantis for Dodge 2500 Fuel-System Crashworthiness, the At-Fault Driver’s Estate, and the University’s Transportation Duty, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract EDR Black-Box Data and Fuel-System Components Before Salvage Destroys Them Within Weeks, 75 mph Closing Speeds on Permian Basin Two-Lane Highways Leave No Margin for Evasive Maneuvering, NTSB Findings Are Inadmissible in Court So We Build the Independent Reconstruction, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Modified Comparative-Fault Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Andrews County Van Crash: What Happened on That Dark West Texas Highway — and What It Teaches Every Family Facing a Similar Tragedy On the evening of March 15, 2022, a pickup truck crossed the centerline of a two-lane asphalt highway in Andrews County, Texas, and collided head-on with a van carrying University of the Southwest golf team members returning from a tournament at Midland College. Both vehicles erupted in flames. Nine people died. Two survived with critical injuries and were airlifted more than a hundred miles to a trauma center in Lubbock. If you are reading this because someone you love was killed or catastrophically injured in a crash anything like this one — on a high-speed two-lane highway, in a vehicle that caught fire after impact, in a van carrying students or athletes — we wrote this page for you. Not as a news summary. As a forensic case study, built the way a trial team builds a case, that tells you exactly who is liable, what the law gives your family, what the evidence clock is doing right now, and what the insurance company is already doing before you ever pick up the phone. We are…

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Jul 16, 2026

Four Houston-Area Women Killed in Fatal 18-Wheeler Rear-End Crash on U.S. 87 in Hartley County, Texas — Attorney911 Wrongful Death & Trucking Accident Attorneys Pursue H-E-B and the Motor Carriers Behind the Contractor Shells, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box and Dashcam Data Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Multi-Fatality Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hartley County H-E-B Truck Accident Lawsuit: Four Women Killed on U.S. 87 — Texas Wrongful Death, Shipper Liability & the Evidence Clock If you are reading this, someone you love was taken from you on November 5, 2025, on a stretch of U.S. 87 in Hartley County where the posted speed runs 70 to 75 miles per hour and the potato trucks roll in convoys from the West Texas growing fields down to San Antonio’s distribution centers. Four young women from the Houston area — ages 19, 20, 27, and 30 — were inside a Nissan Altima that had slowed in the right lane because of a flat tire. An 18-wheeler carrying potatoes for H-E-B hit them from behind at speed. All four were pronounced dead at the scene. You may have already heard what H-E-B said publicly. You may have already received a phone call from someone who sounded sympathetic and asked you to “just tell us what happened” on a recording. You may be sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a funeral program in your hands, wondering whether the company whose cargo was in that truck can really just say “not our driver” and walk…

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Jul 16, 2026

$49 Million Ector County Verdict: 18-Wheeler Unsafe Left Turn on FM 307 Kills Steffan Robert Mick, a 29-Year-Old Husband and Father — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Trucking Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue Carriers Like OPG Logistics and the Oilfield Fleets Running 80,000-Pound Rigs on FM Roads Never Engineered for Sustained Heavy-Haul Traffic, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Texas Gross-Negligence Doctrine That Unlocks Exemplary Damages Against Carriers Who Act With Conscious Indifference to Safety, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened on FM 307 — and What It Means for Every Family on a Permian Basin Highway If you are reading this because someone you love was killed by a commercial truck on a West Texas highway, you are in a moment no one prepared you for. The phone call came. The highway patrol report came. The funeral home came. And now you are sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa or Midland or Andrews or Kermit, trying to understand how an 18-wheeler turned left in front of a 29-year-old husband and father on FM 307 on January 27, 2025 — and what happens next. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial trucking wrongful death cases in Texas. We are not the firm that tried this case, and we are not investigating this crash. What we are doing is something different: we are telling you, as the senior trial team that takes these cases, exactly what this $49 million verdict means, how a case like this is built, what evidence is already dying on a clock you cannot see, and what your family needs to do if you are facing the same kind of loss.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Left-Turn Failure to Yield on FM 307: The Permian Basin Semi-Truck Crash That Killed Steffan Robert Mick, 29 — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Ector County, Texas Wrongful Death Litigation Against the Motor Carriers Operating in the Oilfield Corridor, We Pursue OPS Logistics LLC and the Fleets Behind the Contractor Shells, We Extract the ELD Telematics and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 8-Day Overwrite, 49 CFR 390-399 Financial-Responsibility and Hours-of-Service Compliance, Texas Wrongful Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Jury Sends a $49 Million Message After a Semi-Truck Turned Left Into a Family’s Life and Erased It If you are reading this at 2 a.m. in Midland or Odessa or anywhere across the Permian Basin, you are probably sitting where the family of a 29-year-old man sat after January 27, 2025 — a kitchen table that suddenly became the center of an unbearable new world. The call has already come. The DPS report is already written. The trucking company’s insurance adjuster may have already reached out, sounding sympathetic, sounding helpful, sounding nothing like the machine that is actually working against you. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened on FM 307, what the law says about it, what the evidence clock is doing right now, and what a $49 million verdict from an Ector County jury actually means for a family in your position. None of this is a sales pitch. It is the information we wish someone had handed us if we were sitting where you are sitting. Here is what the public record shows. On January 27, 2025, at approximately 6:41 p.m., a 2016 Peterbilt tractor-trailer operated by a commercial…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Fire & Industrial Accident Attorneys — 17 Injured in the Chevron Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) Deep-Water Platform Fire, Block 14 Concession 97 km Off Angola’s Cabinda Coast, Basement Blaze During a Scheduled Maintenance Shutdown — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Offshore Industrial Cases, We Pursue the Operators and Maintenance Contractors Behind Platform Fires During Turnarounds When Hot Work and Open Systems Create Disproportionate Ignition Risk, Jones Act and General Maritime Law Protections Where US Employment Ties Exist Including the Unseaworthiness Warranty, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Shutdown Safety Plan, Hot Work Permits, Fire Suppression Logs and Gas Detection Records Before Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Injury Cases and Millions More in Catastrophic Matters, Contractor Personnel Rotate Off Platforms Rapidly and Safety System Data Is on a Retention Clock — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Chevron BBLT Angola Offshore Oil Platform Fire: Your Rights After a Deep-Water Maintenance Shutdown Fire You got the call at an hour no family member ever wants to hear it. A fire on the platform. Your loved one is hurt — one of seventeen, one of four classified as serious — and they are being evacuated from a steel structure sitting ninety-seven kilometers out in the Atlantic, off the coast of Cabinda, in waters where the rules are different from anything you know. Chevron has confirmed all personnel are accounted for. The Angolan petroleum agency says the cause is under investigation. And you are sitting at a kitchen table wondering what happens next — whether your family has any legal rights at all, and whether the company that controlled that platform when the fire erupted at three in the morning is going to tell you the truth about what happened in that basement. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle offshore injury cases, industrial fire and explosion cases, and the catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death work that follows them. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and has recovered over $2 million in a maritime…

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Jul 15, 2026

Chevron BBLT Platform Fire Offshore Angola, 17 Workers Injured and 4 Seriously During Scheduled Shutdown Maintenance — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Offshore Oil Platform Fire Cases, We Pursue the Operator and Its Corporate Parent, the Maintenance Contractors and the Equipment Chain Behind the Basement-Deck Blaze, We Secure the Hot-Work Permits, Gas-Test Logs and DCS Fire-Detection Data Before Contractor Crews Disperse and Process Records Are Archived, Burn and Trauma Injuries with the Firm’s $2M+ Maritime Settlement Record and $50M+ Total Recovered for Injury Victims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Cases, the Jurisdictional Battleground Between US Maritime Law and Foreign-Forum Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Chevron BBLT Platform Fire: 17 Injured During Scheduled Shutdown Offshore Angola If your husband, your son, your brother was on the Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco platform on May 20, 2025, you already know the worst part — the phone call, the helicopter evacuation, the hours not knowing how badly he was burned. What you may not know yet is that the legal clock on this fire is unlike anything most families have ever faced, because the platform sits in Angolan waters, the operator is a Chevron subsidiary most people have never heard of, and the evidence of what caused this fire is already being packed away as the shutdown wraps up. We are going to walk you through every piece of it — what happened, who is responsible, what your rights actually are, what the evidence looks like, what it is worth, and what to do before the proof disappears. This page is long because the truth is long. Take it in pieces. We are here when you are ready. What Happened on the Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco Platform On May 20, 2025, a fire broke out on the basement deck of the Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco deepwater platform in…

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Jul 15, 2026

Three Workers Dead, 17 Injured in Cellar-Deck Fire on the CABGOC Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) Deepwater Oil Platform Offshore Cabinda, Angola, Block 14, Lower Congo Basin During a Scheduled Maintenance Shutdown — Attorney911 Offshore Industrial Fire & Maritime Wrongful Death Attorneys, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Pursue the Platform Operator and Its Chevron Parent Corporate Structure, General Maritime Law and the Death on the High Seas Act Govern Offshore Fatalities, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, We Move to Preserve the Permit-to-Work Logs, Fire-Suppression Status Records and Platform CCTV Before the 30-to-90-Day Overwrite Cycle, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Burn-Injury and Death Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Three Dead, Seventeen Injured on a Chevron Platform Off Angola — What the Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this, someone you love was on the BBLT platform on May 20, 2025. Maybe they are one of the three who did not come home. Maybe they are one of the seventeen who were burned, who breathed the smoke, who are in a hospital bed right now while someone from the company calls the house to say they are “supporting the impacted individuals.” That call is not your friend. It is the first move in a process that is already running — a process designed to protect the company, not your family. We are writing this because the hardest thing about this case is also the first thing: it happened fifty miles off the coast of Angola, on a platform operated by a subsidiary of a U.S. oil giant, during a maintenance shutdown that the operator controlled. That combination creates a jurisdictional puzzle that most lawyers will never untangle, and the company is counting on exactly that. They are counting on you not knowing whether an American court can even hear this case. They are counting on…

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