Texas Personal Injury

Jul 22, 2026

UT Austin Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — Sawyer Updike, 18, Driven to Suicide After Months of a Fishhook Through His Leg, Cigarette Burns, a Staple Gun to the Hip, Beatings and Forced Cocaine at the Sigma Chi Alpha Nu House on Nueces Street in Austin, Travis County, Texas — Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the House Corporation Behind the Hazing Culture, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Phone Evidence, Hazing Photos and UT Disciplinary Files Before Members Scatter and Devices Are Wiped, the Wrongful-Death Clock Running from January 16, 2024, Texas Anti-Hazing Law Makes Consent No Defense, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Hazing Death Nobody Stopped — and the Law That Says It Was Never Your Child’s Choice If you are reading this page, you already know the worst. A young man you love went away to college — in this case, to the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest and most respected universities in the country — and he came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive a child. Or you are reading this because you saw what happened to someone else’s son and you are terrified it could happen to yours. Either way, you are in the right place, and the first thing we need you to hear is this: what happened was not your child’s fault, and Texas law says so in writing. An 18-year-old freshman from Pearland, Texas, accepted a bid to pledge a fraternity’s Alpha Nu Chapter at UT Austin in August 2023. What followed, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his parents, was months of what can only be called torture — a fishhook speared through his leg, repeated cigarette burns, a staple gun driven into his hip, physical whippings and beatings, coerced use of cocaine,…

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Jul 21, 2026

Train Derailment & FELA Wrongful Death in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: A Union Pacific Freight Train Struck a Tractor-Trailer Stuck on the Oak Street Grade Crossing, Killing Two Railroad Workers and Injuring Three After the Derailed Train Hit the Chamber of Commerce Building — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Sunset Corridor, We Pursue Union Pacific Under FELA’s Railroad-Negligence Standard and the Trucking Company Behind the Stuck Trailer, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Locomotive Event Recorder, the Grade Crossing Signal Records Under 49 CFR Part 234, and the Downtown Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment Kills Two Union Pacific Workers: FELA Claims, Evidence, and Legal Rights for Railroad Families If you are reading this page, someone you love may be one of the two Union Pacific railroad workers who did not come home from the Sunset Corridor on December 16, 2024. Or you may be one of the three people injured when the train left the tracks in downtown Pecos and struck the Chamber of Commerce building. Either way, you are in the first hours and days of something that will not get easier on its own — and there is one thing you need to hear before anything else: the law that governs what happened to your family is not the law that governs most workplace deaths. It is better. It is a federal statute called FELA, and it gives railroad workers and their families rights that ordinary workers’ compensation never provides — the right to sue the railroad directly, the right to full damages including pain and suffering, and the right to have a jury in Reeves County decide what a railroad worker’s life was worth. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm — and this page is written…

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Jul 21, 2026

Construction-Zone Tractor-Trailer Fatality on I-20 in Reeves County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Motor Carrier Behind the 2005 Freightliner Columbia That Struck 24-Year-Old Worker Patrick Daniel Purdon in an Active Work Zone and Kept Driving Until a Construction Supervisor Stopped the Rig, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice on the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, the Driver Qualification File and Post-Accident Drug-Test Results on the FMCSA’s 32-Hour Clock, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Exemplary Damages for Failure to Stop and Render Aid as Conscious Disregard, 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

Reeves County, Texas: A Construction Worker Killed on I-20 — and the Evidence That Is Already Dying If you are reading this page, someone you love was working on Interstate 20 in Reeves County on April 3, 2025, and a tractor-trailer came through that construction zone and did not stop. The driver has been charged with failure to stop and render aid in a collision involving death. The trucking company that put that driver and that 20-year-old Freightliner on the road has not been named in the news. And every hour that passes without a preservation letter on file is an hour the evidence is erasing itself — the engine data, the driver’s qualification file, the construction-zone configuration, the drug test that federal law required within 32 hours and that window has already closed. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened, what the law allows your family to pursue, what the trucking company is already doing to protect itself, and what evidence has to be frozen before it disappears. This is not a sales pitch. This is the education a family needs at 2 a.m. when the funeral is being planned and the adjuster has…

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Jul 21, 2026

Tanker Truck Rollover & Fire on the I-20 Corridor Near Midland: Attorney911 Pursues the Oilfield Carriers and Contractor Shells Behind Permian Basin Crude and Produced-Water Haulers, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Telematics Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Burn and Crush Injuries, MCS-90 Financial-Responsibility Coverage and 49 CFR Tanker-Endorsement Compliance, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death, Texas Comparative Fault and the Stowers Duty That Creates Excess Exposure for the Insurer — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Spring Tanker Truck Rollover and Fire: What Happened on I-20 and What It Means for Your Family You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to be awake. A tanker truck rolled over and caught fire on the Interstate 20 corridor near Big Spring, and someone you love was either in that truck or in a vehicle caught in its path when it burned. The smell of the fuel and the sound of the flames are still in your head. You are sitting with hospital bills, or a death notification, or a phone full of missed calls from an insurance adjuster who sounds friendly and is not. What happened on that stretch of highway was not an accident in the sense that most people use that word. It was a failure — of a driver, a company, a piece of equipment, or all three — and the law has specific tools built for exactly this situation. Big Spring sits at the junction of Interstate 20 and US Highway 87 in Howard County, the heart of the southern Permian Basin. The oil and gas boom turned this corridor into one of the heaviest commercial-truck-traffic routes in the…

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Jul 21, 2026

West Texas Bus-Tractor-Trailer Head-On Crash: 8 Cheerleaders Injured, 2 Critical — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Remote Freight Corridor Where Oil-Field Truck Traffic Meets Undivided Highways, We Pursue the Trucking Carrier and the Bus Operator for Common-Carrier Duty Owed to Student Passengers, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, FMCSA Hours-of-Service and Driver-Qualification Compliance, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Truck-Crash ($2.5M+) Results, Texas Modified Comparative Negligence Governs Multi-Victim Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

West Texas Bus-Tractor Trailer Crash: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and How to Protect Your Family If you are reading this page, you or someone you love was on that bus — or you are a parent sitting in a hospital room in West Texas, staring at a phone, trying to understand what comes next. Eight people were hurt. Two of them are fighting for their lives. The bus was carrying high school cheerleaders when it collided head-on with a tractor-trailer on a West Texas highway. That sentence contains your whole world right now, and it is not enough. You need to know what your rights are, what the insurance company is already doing, what evidence is already disappearing, and what the next 72 hours demand from you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial vehicle crash cases across Texas, and this page is the education we wish every family had in the first hours after a crash like this one. Everything here is free to read. The call is free. We do not get paid unless we win your case. But the information on this page is the thing the trucking company’s insurance adjuster hopes…

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Jul 21, 2026

Storm Chasers Killed in Rural Crossroads Collision Near Spur, Texas: Three Dead When a Chevrolet Suburban Ran a Stop Sign and Slammed Into a Jeep During Severe West Texas Storms — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Wrongful-Death Claims for the Families of Randall Yarnall and Corbin Jaeger, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Liability Insurer, Umbrella Coverage and Any Commercial or Employer Dimension Behind the Storm-Chasing Activity, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Multi-Fatality Crashes, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data, Dashcam Footage, GPS Records and NWS Storm Archive Before the Vehicles Are Scrapped, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Claims Under the Modified Comparative-Fault 51% 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

The Spur Crossroads: Three Lives Lost at a Rural West Texas Intersection During Severe Storms If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. Three people who spent their lives chasing storms across the open country of West Texas died at a rural crossroads near Spur, in Dickens County, when one vehicle ran a stop sign and struck another. The storms that day spawned funnel clouds across the Rolling Plains — but the crash that killed your family member was not an act of weather. It was a decision. A driver ran a stop sign. The Texas Department of Public Safety documented that fact, and it is the foundation of everything that follows. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases across Texas, and we built this page for one purpose: to give you, at whatever hour you are reading, a clear and honest picture of what happened legally, what your family’s rights are under Texas law, what the insurance companies are already doing, and what the next steps look like. You do not have to call us tonight. But everything on this page is designed to protect you…

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Jul 21, 2026

Texas DPS Trooper Hospitalized When an 18-Wheeler Barreled Into a Foggy Accident Scene Near Lubbock and Crushed an F-150 Cab on Camera — Attorney911 Pursues the Carrier Behind the Semi, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data and ELD Logs Before the Overwrite, 49 CFR 392.14 Extreme-Caution Duty in Fog and the Move Over Law as Negligence Per Se, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Lubbock, Texas 18-Wheeler Crash at a DPS Accident Scene: The Move Over Law, FMCSA Fog Duty, and the Evidence That Disappears in Days You were doing your job. The trooper was working a routine crash on a foggy west Texas highway — lights activated, scene marked, the kind of roadside work that happens every single day on the corridors around Lubbock. And then an 18-wheeler came out of the fog at highway speed and turned that scene into a catastrophe. The video shows the trooper running for his life as the truck’s trailer crushed the cab of an F-150 pickup. Both the trooper and the person in that pickup were taken to the hospital. Both are expected to survive. If you are reading this because you or someone you love was that trooper, or that person in the F-150, or because you are a first responder who works these scenes and wants to know what your rights are if the same thing happens to you — here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened on that highway was not an accident in the sense the word is usually used. It was a collision of a commercial vehicle…

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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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