Texas Personal Injury

Jul 24, 2026

Fatal Hit-and-Run on University Boulevard: Kristofer and Jessica Goodrum Killed When a Pickup Turned Left Without Yielding Then Fled the Scene in Ector County, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Hit-and-Run Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Registered Owner, and Automakers Like General Motors When Vehicle Design Factors Compound the Harm, We Pull the DPS Crash Report and Silverado EDR Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases It, the Mass-Ratio Physics of a Full-Size Pickup Against an Unprotected Motorcycle at Intersection Speed, Texas Wrongful-Death Act, the 51% Comparative-Fault Rule, and the Helmet Non-Use Defense the Insurance Side Will Raise, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, UM/UIM Recovery When the Hit-and-Run Driver Is Never Identified, 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, Texas: Five Lives Lost in One Week on Permian Basin Roads — What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love is not coming home — because a truck turned left without looking, because a driver ran and left them on the pavement, because someone fled a wreck at full speed and found your family member in the intersection — you are in the hardest hours of your life, and you are also in the hours that decide whether the truth survives long enough to become a case. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened on these roads, what the law gives your family, what the insurance company is already doing, and what to do in the next 72 hours. You do not have to absorb all of it tonight. But the evidence clock is already running, and some of what you need to know can only help you if you hear it before the proof disappears. Five people died in three separate crashes across the Permian Basin in the first week of April 2023. A hit-and-run on University Boulevard in Ector…

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Jul 24, 2026

Head-On Collision Wrongful Death Near Andrews, Texas: Nine Killed When a Pickup Truck Crossed the Centerline Into a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van on a Permian Basin Two-Lane Highway, Coach Tyler James and Six Students Dead, Two Survivors Airlifted to Lubbock — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Multi-Fatality Centerline-Crossing Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate, Vehicle Owners, Employers, and National Retail Operators Like Ross Stores Inc. Whose Fleet Vehicles Travel These Same Rural Corridors, We Secure EDR Black-Box Data, Toxicology, Cell-Phone Records on Their 30-to-90-Day Overwrite Cycle, and DPS Crash Reconstruction Before Evidence Is Lost, the NHTSA 12-Passenger Van Safety Profile and Fuel-System Integrity in Fiery Head-On Collisions, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar and No Cap on Non-Economic Damages in Motor-Vehicle Wrongful Death, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Multi-Fatality Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews, Texas: Nine Lives Lost on a Two-Lane Road in the Permian Basin You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from a road in West Texas. Maybe it was a child on a golf team van, heading to a match they would never tee off for. Maybe it was a friend, a teammate, a coach in his first season. Maybe you are the family of someone who survived and was flown to a hospital in Lubbock, and you are sitting in a waiting room trying to understand what happens now. We are going to tell you what the law actually says, what the insurance company is already doing, and what your family’s rights are — in plain language, with the specificity that comes from decades of handling catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Texas. On the evening of March 15, 2022, a 12-passenger van carrying the University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf teams collided head-on with a pickup truck on a two-lane road approximately nine miles from Andrews, Texas, in Andrews County. The pickup truck crossed the centerline. Seven occupants of the van — head golf coach Tyler James and six students…

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Jul 24, 2026

Fatal Stop-Sign Crash at Treva & Greenlee in Ector County, Texas, Wrongful Death Attorneys — Adrian Andres Arzate Alvidrez, 33, and Alfredo Acosta Bejarano, 62, of Odessa Killed When a Driver Disregarded a Stop Sign, Attorney911 Brings 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 These Deaths, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data and Cell Phone Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Purges Them, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Doctrine with Negligence Per Se for the Stop-Sign Violation, 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 Wrongful Death After a Disregarded Stop Sign: Two Lives Lost at Treva and Greenlee in Odessa The call came on a Wednesday evening in April. Someone in your family was driving west on Treva Avenue in Odessa, doing what people here do every day — moving through the roads that connect this city, running an errand, heading home. They had the right of way. A stop sign on Greenlee Avenue was supposed to stop the traffic crossing their path. It did not. By the time Texas Department of Public Safety troopers reached the intersection, two men from Odessa were gone — pronounced dead at the scene. The driver who ran the stop sign walked away with minor injuries and a ride to Medical Center Hospital. If you are reading this page, you are probably one of the people that call reached. You may be sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa, or maybe Midland, at an hour when the rest of the Permian Basin is asleep, trying to understand what just happened to your family and what comes next. We wrote this page for you. Not to sell you anything — to arm you. Because the decisions made…

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Jul 24, 2026

Two Workers Critically Injured on a Well Site Work Platform Off FM 1472 in Northern Webb County Near Laredo — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Eagle Ford Shale Corridor, We Pursue the Well Site Operators, Drilling and Well-Service Contractors and the Multi-Employer Stack on Well Pads Where Platform Failures and Pressure Events Cause Catastrophic Harm, Under Texas Non-Subscriber Law an Employer Who Opted Out of Workers’ Comp Loses Nearly Every Common-Law Defense in a Direct Negligence Suit, We Move to Preserve the Platform, the OSHA Investigation File and the Surveillance Footage Before the Scene Is Altered Within 72 Hours, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Oilfield Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims Including TBI ($5M+ Recovered) — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If Your Loved One Was on That Work Platform, You Are Inside the Hours That Decide Everything If someone you love was on that work platform when it happened, you are living the worst hours of your life. One minute they were doing their job on a well pad off Mines Road, north of Laredo, and the next a sheriff’s deputy was escorting a private vehicle carrying an injured person to a hospital while a helicopter lifted someone else toward San Antonio. You do not have the full story yet. The Webb County Sheriff’s Office does not have the full story yet. Nobody has said how it happened or what exactly went wrong on that platform. Here is what we can tell you with certainty: the clock on the evidence has already started running, and it runs faster than almost any family in your position realizes. Well site operators routinely repair, remediate, or dismantle damaged equipment and platforms to resume operations. The scene can be altered within 24 to 72 hours. The workers who witnessed what happened are transient — they rotate between sites and companies, and they may be unavailable within days. The surveillance cameras that may have captured…

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Jul 23, 2026

Fatal Oil Well Blowout in Burleson County, Texas: Three Contractors Killed in a Wellhead Maintenance Blowout at the Chesapeake Energy-Operated Wendl and Daniel H 1 H Well When Natural Gas Entered and Ignited, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Shale Basin, We Pursue the Well Operators and Pressure-Control Contractors Behind Barrier-Management Failures, We Secure the Wellhead Components, SCADA Pressure Data and Gas-Detection Logs Before the Overwrite Cycle Purges Them, CSB Investigates Under the Clean Air Act, OSHA Well-Servicing Standards and API Recommended Practices Govern the Standard of Care, Two Workers Survived One to Five Days Before Succumbing — Texas Survival and Wrongful-Death Law Recognizes Their Conscious Pain and Suffering, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Burleson County, Texas Oil Well Blowout: Three Dead, One Injured — What the Families Need to Know Right Now If someone you love was killed or hurt in the well blowout at the Wendl and Daniel H 1 H well in Burleson County, you are reading this at the worst moment of your life — and the companies responsible are already working. Not to help you. To protect themselves. We are not going to pretend we know exactly what you are feeling. But we know what happens next in cases like this one, because we have spent years inside the machinery of industrial-death litigation — Ralph Manginello has been trying cases in Texas courtrooms, including federal court, for 27-plus years, and Lupe Peña spent years on the other side of the table, inside a national insurance-defense firm, learning exactly how claims like yours get valued, delayed, and devalued before a single deposition is taken. Everything we tell you here is what we would tell you if you were sitting across from us right now. Here is the first thing you need to hear: workers’ compensation is not your only option. Three contractors died at that well site on January 29,…

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Jul 23, 2026

Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Exposure & Wrongful Death in the Permian Basin: Attorney911 Holds the Oilfield Operators Behind Nonfunctioning H2S Alarms and Absent Lockout/Tagout at West Texas Waterflood Stations — Jacob and Natalee Dean Overcome by Toxic Gas at the Aghorn Operating Site in Odessa, 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 Industrial Fatality Cases, We Secure the Pump Components, H2S Sensor Data and SCADA Alarm Logs Before They Are Lost, OSHA Cited the Operator for Willful Violations, Texas Preserves Gross Negligence Claims Even When Workers’ Compensation Applies and Non-Subscriber Employers Lose Their Common-Law Defenses, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Oilfield H2S Deaths: Seven Safety Failures That Killed a Worker and the Wife Who Went Looking for Him If you are reading this because someone you love went to work in the oilfield and did not come home — or because a husband did not return and his wife went to find him and neither of them came back — you are in the worst moment of your life, and you are also in a moment where the law is already moving against you. We are going to tell you what happened in Odessa on October 26, 2019, at an Aghorn Operating waterflood station, what two federal agencies found, and what it means for a family in your position. Everything we write here is written to one person: you, at a kitchen table in West Texas, trying to understand how a man can go check a pump and a woman can go check on him and neither of them ever walk out. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle toxic exposure claims, wrongful death cases, and oilfield and industrial fatality cases across Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe…

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Jul 23, 2026

7-Year-Old Boy Killed When a Driver Made a U-Turn into Oncoming Traffic on SH 349 in Martin County, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Rural Highway Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate and Liability Insurer, Any Employer or Vehicle Owner, and the UM/UIM Carriers When Coverage Falls Short, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data and the DPS CR-3 Crash Report Before the Overwrite Window Closes on This 70-MPH Undivided Corridor, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves and Denies Child Wrongful-Death Claims, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Martin County, Texas Wrongful Death Lawyer — A Child Killed on SH 349 by a U-Turn Into Oncoming Traffic If you are reading this because a child you love was killed on State Highway 349 on the night of February 19, 2026 — or because someone in your family was hurt in that same crash — we want you to hear one thing before anything else: nothing about what happened was your child’s fault. A driver made a U-turn into oncoming traffic on a rural West Texas highway where the speed limit is 70 to 75 miles per hour. Your child was a passenger. He had no opportunity to avoid what happened, no warning, and no chance. The person who caused this is gone, but that does not mean accountability is gone with him. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and Lupe Peña sat in the rooms where insurance companies decide how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you — because he used to work for the other side. We know what the insurance…

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Jul 23, 2026

Refinery Explosion & Full-Body Burn Attorneys: The ExxonMobil Baytown Naphthalene Blast That Engulfed Two Contract Workers in Flames — Attorney911 Pursues the Plant Operator and Contractor Behind the Hot-Work Permit Failure, We Secure the Process-Safety Management Records and Fire-Marshal Investigation Files Before They Disappear, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Self-Insured Corporate Claims Team Values and Denies Burn Cases, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) Plus Spinal and Full-Body Burn Injuries from a 20-Foot Escape Fall, OSHA Process Safety Management and Hot-Work Permit Requirements, Texas Gross-Negligence Doctrine Opens Exemplary Damages When a Refinery Authorizes Work on a Live Flammable Line Without Precautions, Surveillance Footage on a 30-Day Overwrite Loop and Physical Evidence at Risk — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baytown Refinery Explosion: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and What Your Rights Are Under Texas Law If you or someone you love was hurt in a refinery explosion in Baytown or anywhere along the Houston Ship Channel, you are reading this at a moment when everything has changed. The burns, the spinal damage, the head injury — those are real, and they are yours now. The question is whether the companies that sent you or your loved one into a situation where a spark could ignite a flammable gas and engulf four human beings in flames will answer for what they authorized. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle refinery and industrial catastrophe cases in Texas, and this page is written for the person sitting in a hospital room or at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand what just happened to their family and what comes next. Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911. The consultation is free, we are available 24 hours a day, and we do not get paid unless we win your case. What happened at the ExxonMobil Baytown refinery in December 2021 is a case study in how a refinery permit system —…

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Jul 23, 2026

Fatal Four-Vehicle I-20 Crash in Martin County, Texas — Attorney911 Wrongful Death Attorneys Bringing Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Midland Permian Basin, We Pursue the At-Fault Drivers and the Commercial Carriers That Run I-20 Through the Oilfield Corridor, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Crashes, We Secure EDR Black-Box Data, Dashcam Footage and the DPS Crash Report Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases the Evidence, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the Modified Comparative-Fault Rule Across Four Vehicles Where Every Defendant Points at the Other, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened on I-20 in Martin County — and What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now A four-vehicle crash on Interstate 20 in Martin County killed someone. That is the bare fact that brought you here — and behind that fact is a family that just lost a person they cannot replace, sitting in a house that went quiet, trying to understand what happens next while a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper is still writing a report they have not seen yet. We are going to tell you everything we know about what a case like this is, what it is worth, how it is built, and what the insurance company is already doing — because the same clock that is giving you time to grieve is the clock that is erasing the evidence of what happened. Both run at the same speed. Only one of them gets your attention. You are in the Permian Basin. Interstate 20 through Martin County is not a quiet rural highway — it is one of the most heavily trucked east-west corridors in Texas, carrying long-haul freight and oilfield service traffic between Midland, Abilene, and beyond. Stanton is the county seat. The…

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Jul 23, 2026

Fatal Construction Accident at Odessa College in Odessa, Ector County, Texas: Subcontractor Killed on the Campus Job Site June 23, Attorney911 Pursues the General Contractor, the Subcontracting Employer and Every Liable Party Behind the Hazard, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Construction Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, We Secure the Site-Safety Plans, Toolbox-Talk Records, OSHA 300 Logs and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Non-Subscriber Doctrine Strips Employer Defenses When Workers’ Comp Coverage Is Absent, the Texas Tort Claims Act Notice Clock Is Already Running Against the College, Permian Basin Construction Wages Drive the Lost-Earning-Capacity Claim, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Subcontractor Died Building Something at Odessa College — and Texas Law Gives the Family Rights Most People Never Hear About If you are reading this because someone you love went to work at a construction site on the Odessa College campus and did not come home, the first thing you need to hear is this: you do not have to make any decisions today. Not about a lawyer. Not about a lawsuit. Not about signing anything. The only thing that needs to happen right now is the protection of evidence — because on a construction site, proof disappears in days, not years, and there are people who may already be working to make sure it does. What happened on June 23, 2026, at that Odessa campus construction project is still under investigation. Federal safety regulators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are on the site. The college has issued a statement expressing sympathies. Work in the affected area has been suspended. Beyond that, almost nothing is publicly known — not the mechanism of the accident, not the identity of the subcontractor’s employer, not the name of the general contractor running the project, and not the specific safety failure…

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