Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 21, 2026

Fatal 18-Wheeler Crash in Odessa: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Midland-Odessa Permian Basin Where Oilfield Shift Changes and Long-Haul Freight Collide on I-20 at Dawn, We Pursue the Carriers and Oilfield Trucking Companies Behind the Commercial Rig, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite and Demand Post-Accident Drug Testing Under 49 CFR 382.303, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Claims, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions with the Comparative-Fault Rule and Punitive Damages for Gross Negligence — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Loved One Is Killed by a Commercial Truck in Odessa, Texas If you are reading this because someone you love was killed in an early-morning crash with an 18-wheeler in Odessa, we want you to hear something first, before any law or any strategy: what happened to your family is not something you should have to handle alone, and the grief you are sitting in right now is not a weakness or a detour — it is the case. Everything that follows is built to protect you inside that grief, not to rush you past it. An early-morning collision involving a commercial semi-truck took one life in Odessa. The specific details — the number of vehicles, the precise location, weather conditions, the identity of the driver and the carrier — are still emerging. What we already know, because we know this place and this industry, is that an early-morning fatal truck crash in Ector County is not a random event. It is the predictable product of a region where the roads were built for a fraction of the truck traffic they now carry, where overnight oilfield shift changes collide with long-haul freight schedules on the same corridors, and…

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Jul 21, 2026

Two Union Pacific Employees Killed in Pecos Train Derailment: Freight Train & Tractor-Trailer Crossing Collision Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Freight Corridor Where Oilfield Truck Traffic Shares Rural Rail Crossings, We Pursue the Trucking Company and the Railroad Behind the Collision, FELA’s Any-Negligence Standard Protects the Families of Killed Railroad Crews While Texas Wrongful-Death Law Governs the Civilian Claims Including Those Hurt Inside the Damaged Chamber of Commerce Building, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Locomotive Event-Recorder Data, the Crossing-Signal Logs and the Truck’s ELD Telematics Before the Overwrite Cycles Purge Them, the Statute of Limitations Running on Every Claim, 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

Pecos Train Derailment: Two Union Pacific Employees Killed, Three Injured When Freight Train Collides With Tractor-Trailer at Reeves County Crossing If you are reading this page, you or someone you love was connected to what happened in Pecos on December 18, 2024 — the evening a Union Pacific freight train struck a tractor-trailer at a grade crossing and derailed, killing two railroad employees and injuring three people, some of whom were inside the Pecos Chamber of Commerce building when the train cars came through. You may be the spouse of a crew member who did not come home. You may be one of the people who was in that building. You may be a parent, a child, a coworker, a neighbor in this town of thirteen thousand people where a train derailment is not an abstract news story — it is a crater at a crossing you have driven over a hundred times. We are writing this page for you. Not to sell you anything. To tell you, in plain language, what your rights actually are, what the law does and does not do, what the railroad and the trucking company are already doing in the hours after this crash,…

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Jul 21, 2026

West Texas Freight Train Derailment & Fatal Grade-Crossing Collision: Two Union Pacific Employees Killed, Three Injured When a Tractor-Trailer Collided With a Freight Train at a Rural Crossing and Derailed — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Railroad Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Trucking Carrier and the Self-Insured Railroad Under FELA’s Any-Negligence Standard, More Favorable Than Texas’s Modified Comparative-Fault Rule, and FMCSA Grade-Crossing Rules (49 CFR 392.10), Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Self-Insured Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Locomotive Event Recorder, Crossing Signal Logs and ELD Telematics Before the Overwrite, 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

Two Railroad Employees Dead, Three Injured: What Happened at That West Texas Grade Crossing — and What the Law Gives the Families You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to be awake. Maybe you got the call about your husband, your father, your son — a Union Pacific employee who went to work on a freight train and did not come home. Maybe you are one of the three who survived the derailment and you are lying in a hospital bed in West Texas, trying to understand what just happened to your body and your future. Either way, you are in the worst moment of your life, and the railroad has already started building its defense. We are going to tell you everything we know about this kind of case — the law that protects railroad families, the evidence that is disappearing right now, the money that is at stake, and the plays the insurance company is already running against you. This page is long because the truth is long. Read what you can, and then call us at 1-888-ATTY-911. The consultation is free. We do not get paid unless we win your case. On December…

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Jul 21, 2026

FM 1788 Car Accident and Extrication Crash in Midland County, Texas: One Hospitalized After Firefighters Cut a Trapped Victim From a Wrecked Passenger Car and Pickup at County Road 40 — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Rural Intersection Collisions, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and Any Commercial Entity Behind an Oilfield Work Truck, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data and the CR-3 Crash Report Before the Evidence Is Lost, High-Energy Extrication Means Vehicle Intrusion, Deceleration Forces and Polytrauma Risk, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims Including $5M+ in TBI Cases, Texas Comparative Negligence Applies and the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland County Car Accident on FM 1788: What Happened, What It Means, and What to Do Next If you are reading this from a chair at Midland Memorial Hospital, or from a kitchen table in Midland County at two in the morning, we know what brought you here. Someone you love was cut out of a vehicle on Farm-to-Market Road 1788. The Midland Fire Department came with the tools — the Jaws of Life, the hydraulic spreaders, the ram — and they spent minutes that felt like hours pulling that person free from the wreckage. Now they are in a hospital bed, and you are fielding calls from an insurance adjuster who sounds friendly and is not. You have questions. We have answers, and we are going to give them to you straight, because that is what you need right now — not a sales pitch, but the truth about what just happened to your family and what comes next. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle car accident cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin, and we have spent more than 27 years in courtrooms fighting for people who were sitting where you are sitting…

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Jul 21, 2026

Retired Midland Teacher William Pearsey, 85, Killed in Construction-Zone Semi-Truck Crash at East Buttles and State Streets — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Fatal Construction-Zone Truck Crashes, We Pursue the Interstate Carrier Behind the Tennessee Truck Driver and the Construction Contractor Whose Traffic-Control Plan and Excavation May Have Destabilized the Tree That Witnesses Watched Fall Into the Roadway, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and ELD Hours-of-Service Logs Before the Overwrite and Move to Preserve the Fallen Tree and Root System for Arborist Examination Before It Is Destroyed, Michigan’s Wrongful Death Act and No-Fault Threshold Open the Door to Uncapped Non-Economic Damages While the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar and Governmental-Immunity Highway Exception Govern Any Claim Against the City, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Construction-Zone Fatalities, 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

Midland Construction-Zone Truck Accident: When a Tree Falls, a Teacher Dies, and the Evidence Is Already Disappearing If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt or killed in the crash at East Buttles and State streets in Midland on the Saturday of Fourth of July weekend, we want you to hear one thing before anything else: the cause of this crash is not yet known, and anyone who tells you they already know what happened is either guessing or trying to close the case before the evidence is examined. What we do know — from the witnesses, from the scene, from the five hours your loved one survived — is that this crash happened inside an active construction zone, that a large tree fell during or immediately before the collision, that a semi-truck from Tennessee was involved, and that approximately twenty-five people ran toward the wreck to help. What we also know is that the single most important piece of evidence in this case — that fallen tree and its root system — is being destroyed right now, possibly within days, unless someone formally demands it be preserved. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC.…

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Jul 21, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Crash at East Buttles and State in Midland, Michigan: Attorney911 Pursues the Interstate Carrier Behind the Memphis-Based Trucker After the July 4 Collision That Killed an 85-Year-Old Man and Injured His 85-Year-Old Passenger, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the ELD Logs, ECM Black-Box Data, Dashcam Footage and Traffic-Signal Controller Logs Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Where the Mass-Ratio Between an 80,000-Pound Semi and a Passenger Car Turns a Signalized Intersection Into a Fatal Impact Zone, FMCSA Financial-Responsibility Minimum and the MCS-90 Endorsement That Secures Judgment Collectibility, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Michigan’s Wrongful-Death Act and Its Comparative-Fault Rule With the 50% Bar, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Semi-Truck Fatal Crash at East Buttles and State Street: What Families Need to Know It was the Fourth of July. A Saturday afternoon in Midland, Michigan, and an 85-year-old man who lived in this town was driving through the intersection at East Buttles and State streets — the same crossing thousands of people use every week on their way to work, to the store, to home. He had a passenger with him, an 85-year-old woman, also from Midland. At about four o’clock, a semi-truck came through that same intersection. The driver of the car was taken to MyMichigan Medical Center Midland with serious injuries and did not survive. His passenger was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening. The driver of the semi-truck — a 47-year-old man from Memphis, Tennessee — was not injured. What the news did not tell you is what happens now. Because when a commercial truck is involved in a death, the machinery of accountability is completely different from a car crash — and the clock on the evidence starts the moment the vehicles stop moving. You are reading this because someone you love was in that car. We are writing this because what happens…

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Jul 21, 2026

One Dead, Ten Wounded in Midland Mass Shooting Along the Hotel-and-Auto Corridor West of Downtown — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Texas Negligent-Security and Premises-Liability Claims, We Pursue the Property Owners and Hotel Operators Who Owed a Duty to Protect Invitees From Foreseeable Armed Violence After the 2019 Odessa-Midland Rampage Put This Permian-Basin Corridor on Notice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage From Hotels and Auto Businesses Before the DVR Overwrite Erases It, $50M+ Recovered for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Modified Comparative-Fault Doctrine, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland, Texas Shooting: Legal Rights of Victims and Families After the June 2026 Mass Shooting If you are reading this from a chair beside a bed at Midland Memorial Hospital, or from a kitchen table where a chair is now empty, we are writing to you. Not at you — to you. What happened on that commercial corridor west of downtown Midland on the morning of June 12, 2026, was not an act of God, and the legal system has more to offer you than the criminal case that ended when the shooter was found dead in an abandoned veterinary clinic a few hours later. One person is gone. Ten more are injured — five were discharged, four went to surgery, and as the first reports circulated, one was still in the operating suite. The man who did this is dead. The question that remains is whether anyone else is responsible, and the answer — in Texas law, in the evidence that is dying right now on the DVRs of every business along that corridor, and in the duty that commercial property owners owed the people walking past their buildings — is that someone else may well be. We are…

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Jul 21, 2026

Intoxicated Manslaughter Conviction in Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 Turns a Jury Verdict Into Civil Recovery for the Bereaved Family — We Pursue the Dram Shop Establishments That Over-Serve Drivers in the Permian Basin, Where Late-Night Oilfield Shift Changes Feed Elevated DUI Rates, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, We Secure the BAC Toxicology, Bar Surveillance Footage and Point-of-Sale Receipts Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Dram Shop Liability as the Civil Remedy, Negligence Per Se From the Criminal Conviction Eliminates the Liability Fight, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Intoxicated Manslaughter: Your Family’s Civil Rights After a DUI Death The jury has spoken. The person who drove drunk and killed your family member has been convicted of intoxicated manslaughter, and the criminal system has done what it was built to do — it punished the person responsible. But punishment is not the same as justice, and a prison sentence does not pay for a life. If you are reading this at 2 a.m., after seeing the court disposition or hearing the verdict, you are in the exact moment this page was written for. The criminal case is over. Your civil case is just beginning — and the conviction you just watched happen is the single most powerful asset your family has. Here is the first thing you need to know, and we want you to hear it before anything else: the criminal conviction does not close the door on accountability. It opens a second one. The criminal system punished the driver. The civil system is the only mechanism through which your family can be made whole — and in Texas, a jury conviction for intoxicated manslaughter means the question of fault has already been proven beyond a…

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Jul 21, 2026

Five Dead in an Ohio River After Entering to Save a Struggling Swimmer: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Mass Drowning Wrongful-Death Claims, We Pursue the Property Owners, Governmental Entities and Waterway Operators Behind Missing Signage and Unsafe Access Points, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Water-Condition Records, Prior-Incident Reports and Nearby Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Window Closes, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Avvo-Rated Excellent — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ohio River Drowning: When Five Lives Are Lost and What the Law Allows You are reading this because someone you love went into an Ohio river and did not come out. Maybe more than one person. Five people died on that river — several of them went in to help someone who was struggling to swim, and the water took them all. You are sitting with a grief that has no shape yet, and someone told you to look into whether there is a legal case. There may be. There may not be. The answer depends on facts that are still sitting at the bottom of a river, in a sheriff’s report that is not finished yet, and in the memories of witnesses who are already starting to forget. What we can tell you right now — before any report is filed, before any adjuster calls, before you make a single decision — is what the law allows, what the evidence requires, and what the insurance company is already doing while you grieve. That is what this page is for. Nothing here is pressure. Everything here is protection. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful…

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Jul 21, 2026

Lake Boehmer Toxic Contamination & Environmental Litigation Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues the Legacy Oilfield Operators Behind the 2,600-Foot Abandoned Well Gushing 200 Gallons a Minute of Hydrogen-Sulfide-Laden Water Causing Headaches and Nausea in Residents Near Imperial, Pecos County, Texas, We Trace the Corporate Successors to the 1940s Drillers Who Left Unplugged Wells and a 1951 Plugging Pledge Unfulfilled, We Secure the Water-Quality Data, Satellite Time-Lapse and Agency Correspondence Before Records Age and Entities Dissolve, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Texas Nuisance, Trespass and Toxic-Tort Doctrine With the Continuing-Nuisance Rule That Resets the Clock on Each Day the Discharge Persists — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Imperial, Pecos County, Texas Toxic Contamination: Who Is Legally Liable for Lake Boehmer’s Poisoned Water, Hydrogen Sulfide Gas, and Aquifer Damage? You live near Imperial, or you ranch land in Pecos County, and a toxic lake that did not exist twenty years ago is now sixty acres wide and growing. The water is three times saltier than the ocean. The air smells like rotten eggs. Your groundwater — the water you, your livestock, and your neighbors depend on — is being poisoned by something the state of Texas says is nobody’s problem. Four agencies have been passing this case to each other since 2003. The Railroad Commission says it is a water well, not an oil well, so its hands are tied. The environmental commission says it does not have active jurisdiction over abandoned water wells. The licensing department says it can notify landowners but cannot enforce anything. The water development board does not even have the lake in its database. Meanwhile, the well keeps gushing two hundred gallons a minute of hypersaline, hydrogen-sulfide-laden water into the shallow aquifer fifty feet below the surface, and nobody has plugged it. What you may not know is that someone — decades ago…

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