Odessa Dram Shop

Dram Shop Liability & Catastrophic Drunk-Driving Injury: A Drunk Driver Served 19 Drinks at an Odessa Golf-Course Bar, So Intoxicated He Could Not Distinguish Red From Green, Loses Control of His Pickup on Andrews Highway and Leaves Isaac Sanchez, a 32-Year-Old Motorcyclist, Quadriplegic — Attorney911 Pursues the Establishments and Their Insurers Under Texas Dram Shop Law in Ector County, Where the Safe-Harbor Defense Collapses Without TABC-Certified Servers, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the Point-of-Sale Drink Records, TABC Certification Histories and Bar Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Destroys Them, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Jury Awards $262.5 Million — When a Bar Chooses Profit Over Safety, Texas Law Holds Both the Drunk Driver and the Bar That Overserved Him Accountable If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt by a drunk driver in Odessa — or anywhere in the Permian Basin — you already know the feeling. The anger. The confusion. The questions that come at 2 a.m. when the hospital room is quiet and the bills are starting to pile up and nobody from the insurance company has called you back yet. You know the drunk driver is responsible. What you may not know is that under Texas law, the bar that kept pouring drinks into a person who could barely stand can be held responsible too — for a significant share of what your family has lost. An Ector County jury just told this community exactly that. On June 3, 2021, a 32-year-old Odessa man named Isaac Sanchez was stopped on his Harley-Davidson at the red light where Andrews Highway meets Yukon Road, waiting his turn like every other person on that road. Behind him was a drunk driver who had been served approximately 19 alcoholic drinks over…

Texas Dram Shop & Bar Overservice Injury Attorneys: An Odessa Jury Found a TABC-Licensed Bar 40% Responsible and Awarded $262.5 Million After Day-Long Overservice Left Isaac Sanchez Quadriplegic in a Rear-End Collision at Yukon and Andrews Highway — In the Permian Basin’s Documented Drunk-Driving Epidemic, Attorney911 Pursues Liquor-Liability Carriers and Bar Corporate Ownership for the Training Failures That Break the Safe Harbor Defense, We Secure POS Tab Records, Surveillance Footage and BAC Toxicology Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Overservice Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Bar Overserves: What Odessa’s $262.5 Million Verdict Means for Your Family You are sitting in a kitchen in Odessa, or maybe in a hospital room in Midland, and the question that brought you here is not really about a verdict someone else won. It is about what happened to your family — a drunk driver, a bar that kept pouring, a crash that changed everything — and whether anyone will ever be held accountable for the part you cannot see on the police report. The part where the bar kept serving drinks to someone who was already falling down, and then handed them the keys to a two-ton weapon. In September 2024, a jury in the 70th District Court of Ector County answered that question with $262.5 million. A 32-year-old Odessa man was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Yukon and Andrews Highway when a drunk driver rear-ended him from behind. The impact shattered his spine. He is now a quadriplegic — paralyzed from the neck down, dependent on his parents for every basic human function. The drunk driver had been drinking for most of the day at a bar in Odessa. The jury found…