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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 the truck that put it there had failed to yield at a stop sign, and because by the time his headlights found the obstacle, the physics of speed and distance had already made the decision for him. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The semi driver was not injured.…

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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 Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software…

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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 away. It cannot. That sentence — “not our driver” — is the start of the fight, not the end of it. And the fight has a clock on it that most families never hear about until the proof is already gone. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We…

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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. Because here is the thing about Ector County: the people who sit on that jury know the oilfield. They drive FM 307. They have been stuck behind water haulers on two-lane farm roads that were poured for pickup trucks and tractors, not 80,000-pound rigs. When twelve of them looked at…

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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 driver for OPS Logistics LLC was traveling westbound on Farm-to-Market Road 307 in Ector County, Texas. The truck driver attempted a left turn onto an Interstate 20 ramp. A 2001 Chevrolet Suburban was traveling eastbound on FM 307, carrying a 29-year-old man from Midland. The Peterbilt turned directly into the…

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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 back-injury case. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decide how to deny, delay, and devalue claims exactly like yours — and now uses that knowledge for injured workers. He conducts full consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. Here is…

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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 Block 14, approximately 50 miles offshore Cabinda province, Angola, in roughly 1,300 feet of water. The platform is operated by Cabinda Gulf Oil Company — CABGOC — a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered energy giant Chevron. Seventeen people were injured. Four of them suffered serious injuries. All seventeen were evacuated to…

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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 the evidence disappearing before anyone asks for it. They are counting on time. Here is what we can tell you with certainty: the fire happened on the cellar deck during a scheduled annual shutdown. Production had been stopped since May 1. Seventeen people were hurt — four so badly that…

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Jul 15, 2026

Maritime Crew-Transfer Capsizing & Wrongful-Death Attorneys: Seven Missing After Service Boat Overturns Alongside the Scorpio-Managed Tanker Sea Quest at Beira Outer Anchorage — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to At-Sea Crew-Change Catastrophes Where Small Service Boats Meet Rolling Tankers in Exposed Anchorage Waters, We Pursue the Ship Managers, Vessel Owners, Crew Boat Operators and Manning Agents Behind Unsafe At-Anchor Transfers, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the P&I Clubs Set Reserves and Deny Claims, We Secure the VDR Data, CCTV Footage, MRCC Communication Logs and Survivor Statements Before the Overwrite — Jones Act, DOHSA and General Maritime Law Frame Crew-Transfer Fatalities, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2M+ in Maritime Injury Settlements — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Beira Crew Boat Capsizing: Your Legal Rights When a Loved One Goes Missing at Sea During a Crew Transfer You are reading this because someone you love is one of the seven. The search is still going. A phone call came from the company — maybe from Scorpio Marine Management, maybe from a manning agency — and the voice on the other end said your husband, your son, your father, your brother was on that boat. Twenty-one people boarded a small service vessel to join a tanker at anchor off the coast of Mozambique. Fourteen were pulled from the water. Seven did not come back. Five of those seven were crewmembers on their way to sign onto the ship — men and women who had not even reached the deck of the vessel they were hired to serve. Three survivors are being treated for injuries aboard the tanker right now. And the evidence of what went wrong is already starting to disappear. That is where we come in. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle maritime injury and wrongful death cases, and we know that in the hours after a crew boat overturns at an open anchorage, the most important thing a family can do is protect the proof before the company and its insurers control the story. This page is legal information, not legal advice, and contacting us is free and confidential. But it is also a roadmap — because the choices made in the first…

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Jul 15, 2026

Crew Transfer Vessel Capsize at Beira’s Outer Anchorage Leaves 7 Missing and 3 Injured in a Marshall Islands-Flagged Tanker Crew-Change Operation — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime Personal-Injury and Wrongful-Death Claims, We Pursue the Transfer Vessel Operator, the Tanker Owner and the Crew-Change Contractor Behind an Overloaded Craft in Open-Anchorage Swells, General Maritime Law Unseaworthiness, Jones Act and Maintenance-and-Cure Remedies for Injured Seafarers, We Move to Preserve VDR Data, Crew Transfer Manifests and GMDSS Radio Communications Before the 30-Day Overwrite and Before Rescued Crew Disperse to Home Countries, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Maritime Casualties, $2M+ Maritime Settlement Recovered, Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Beira Crew Transfer Capsize: Maritime Legal Rights for Seafarers and Their Families After Seven Go Missing You are reading this because someone you love is one of the seven who did not come back from the water. Maybe you got a phone call from a shipping agent, or a consulate, or a friend who heard before you did. Maybe you are sitting in a house in a country that is not Mozambique, trying to understand how a routine crew change — men and women being ferried out to a tanker sitting at anchor — turned into a search-and-rescue operation that has not found your husband, your son, your father, your sister. We are writing this for you, at whatever hour you are reading it, because what happens in the next few weeks will decide whether the truth about what happened to your loved one is preserved or lost forever. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle maritime injury and wrongful death cases. We are not on this case, and we may not be the right firm for you — but what follows is what we know, from decades of doing this work, about what your family needs to understand and what you need to do right now. None of it is guesswork. All of it is yours. What Happened at the Port of Beira — and Why It Was Not Simply an Accident On October 16, a small crew transfer vessel departed for the outer anchorage of…

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