TX Personal Injury

Jul 21, 2026

West Texas City Employee Shooting: Attorney911 Pursues the Property Owners, Management Companies and Security Contractors Behind Foreseeable Firearm Violence, 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 Shooting Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage, Crime-History Reports and Calls-for-Service Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Third-Party Claims Beyond Workers’ Comp When a Public Employee Is Shot on the Job, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Negligent-Security Doctrine and the 51-Percent Comparative-Fault Rule, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

West Texas City Employee Shooting — Your Legal Rights After a Shooting on the Job in Texas If you are reading this page, someone you love may be the city employee who was shot in West Texas — or you may be that employee, reading from a hospital bed while the rest of the family stands in a hallway trying to understand what happens next. Either way, you are in a moment you never planned for, and the questions hitting you are not the kind that wait for business hours. Who is responsible? Does it matter that the victim worked for the city? Is there money to recover, and from whom? What should you do right now, and what should you refuse to do? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases across Texas, including the regions of West Texas where this shooting occurred. We are writing this page because the details of this specific incident are still developing, and the families who need answers right now should not have to wait for the full picture to emerge before understanding their rights. What follows is not speculation about what happened. It is the legal…

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Jul 21, 2026

Big Rig Accident in Midland County, TX — Two People Transported After an 80,000-Pound Commercial Tractor-Trailer Collision on a Permian Basin Highway: Attorney911 Pursues the Motor Carriers and Oilfield Trucking Companies Behind These Crashes, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data and Paper Driver Logs Before the Overwrite, 49 CFR Hours-of-Service Compliance and the Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Trucking Cases, Texas Comparative-Negligence Rule, 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

Big Rig Accident in Midland County: What Happens When an 80,000-Pound Truck Changes Everything If you are reading this page, you or someone you love was on a Midland County road when a big rig crossed the line — literally. Two people were transported from the scene, which means emergency medical crews decided the injuries were serious enough that they could not be treated where they lay. You may be sitting in a hospital room right now, or you may be the family member who got the call. Either way, you are in the first hours or days of something that will take months to understand and years to resolve — and the decisions you make right now will shape whether the truth of what happened is preserved or disappears before anyone asks for it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial trucking cases across Texas, and we built this page because a big rig accident in Midland County is not an ordinary car crash. It is a collision between a 4,000-pound passenger vehicle and a commercial tractor-trailer that can weigh 80,000 pounds loaded — a 20-to-1 weight disparity that turns a survivable impact into…

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Jul 21, 2026

Fatal Crash in Ector County, TX: Wrongful Death on Permian Basin Roads Where Oilfield Truck Traffic Runs Around the Clock — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and Any Commercial Carrier Behind the Wheel, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Cases, We Move to Secure the CR-3 Crash Report, EDR Black-Box Data and Scene Evidence Before the Overwrite, Texas Wrongful Death Act Rights for Surviving Spouses, Children and Parents Under the State’s Modified Comparative-Fault Rule, the Wrongful-Death Filing Deadline Is Running, 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, TX Fatal Crash: Legal Rights After a Wrongful Death on Permian Basin Roads Someone you love is gone. A crash on an Ector County road took them, and now you are sitting with a grief that has no bottom, a phone that will not stop ringing, and a feeling that the world has moved on while you are still in the moment it happened. We are writing this for you — the spouse, the child, the parent — who is reading at an hour when no one should have to be awake, trying to understand what comes next. You are in the right place. Everything below is written to protect you, to tell you the truth about what the law allows and what the insurance company is already doing, and to give you a path forward that does not require you to figure this out alone. The call is free. The consultation is free. We do not get paid unless we win your case. And the first thing we do — the day you call — is start freezing the evidence that is already disappearing. What We Know About This Ector County Crash One person was killed in…

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Jul 21, 2026

Odessa Resident Killed in Ector County Crash — Attorney911 Fights for Surviving Families Under Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Law, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner, and Any Commercial Carrier Behind Permian Basin Oilfield Traffic Where Highway-Speed Collisions Create Lethal Force, We Secure the DPS Crash Report, EDR Black-Box Data and Scene Evidence Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal-Crash Cases, Texas Modified Comparative-Negligence Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions 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

Ector County Fatal Crash: Your Family’s Legal Rights After an Odessa Death If you are reading this page, someone you love was killed in a crash in Ector County, and you are sitting with a grief that no legal process can undo. We know that. Nothing we write here brings anyone back. What we can do — and what this page exists for — is give you the straight truth about what happens next in the legal system, what the insurance company is already doing, what evidence is disappearing while you read this, and what your family’s rights actually are under Texas law. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in Texas courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you — and now sits on your side of the table, in English or in Spanish. We do not get paid unless we win your case. The call is free. The number is 1-888-ATTY-911, answered 24 hours…

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Jul 21, 2026

Fatal Crash on East Loop 338 in Ector County, TX: Attorney911 & Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice for Permian Basin Wrongful Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and the Oilfield Carriers Behind the Water-Haulers and Frac-Sand Trucks on Loop 338, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull the DPS CR-3 Report, the EDR Black-Box Data and the ELD Logs Before the 30-Day Overwrite Window Closes, Texas Wrongful Death Act and the Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases & $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When Someone You Love Is Killed on Loop 338: What Your Family Needs to Know Now The phone call came and everything stopped. Someone told you there was a crash on East Loop 338 and your loved one did not survive it. You are reading this at an hour when most people are asleep, because sleep left with that phone call. What we want you to know first is this: the grief you are sitting in right now is the only thing that matters tonight. Everything else — the law, the evidence, the insurance company, the case — can wait until you have taken a breath and called someone who can stand between you and the machinery that is already moving. Because the machinery is already moving. Within hours of a fatal crash on a Permian Basin highway, an insurance adjuster has opened a file. If a commercial truck was involved, a carrier’s risk management team is already on the phone, preserving evidence that protects them — not you. The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating, and their crash report will become the foundational document for everything that follows. And the physical evidence of what happened — the skid…

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Jul 21, 2026

Fatal Motor Vehicle Crash & Wrongful Death in Odessa, Ector County, TX: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, Where 80,000-Pound Oilfield Rigs on US 385 and I-20 Share the Road With Passenger Vehicles and the Mass Differential Decides Who Survives, We Pursue the At-Fault Drivers and the Commercial Carriers Behind the Contractor Shells, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Cases, We Move to Secure the Texas DPS CR-3 Report, the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data, the Dashcam Footage and Cell Phone Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Wrongful Death Act and the Modified Comparative-Fault Rule, 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 Fatal Crash: Your Family’s Rights After a Death on a Permian Basin Road If you are reading this at a kitchen table in Odessa, or in a hospital hallway, or on your phone at 2 a.m. because someone you love is not coming home from a crash on one of these roads — we are talking to you. Not to a general audience. To you. The phone call has already come. The worst thing that can happen has already happened. What follows now is a fight you did not ask for, and the decisions you make in the next few days will shape whether the truth of what happened survives or disappears. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin. We are writing this for the family of the Odessa resident who lost their life in an Ector County crash, and for every family who will face the same road, the same corridor, the same oilfield traffic, and the same silence from whoever caused it. This page is not a news article. It is a roadmap — built from the law, the evidence, and…

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Jul 20, 2026

Triple-Fatal Shooting in Midland, TX Claims Jeff Waugh Among Three Dead: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Negligent-Security and Wrongful-Death Claims in the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Property Owners and Management Companies Behind Inadequate Lighting, Access Control and Surveillance Where Oil-Boom Growth Has Strained Crime-Response Resources, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Surveillance Footage and Police Calls-for-Service Records Before the DVR Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Actions Turn on Foreseeability Through Prior-Crime Notice, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Three Lives Lost in Midland: What the Law Allows Families to Do Next You are reading this because someone you love is gone — taken by gun violence in Midland, and the world has not yet caught up to what that means for your family. Three people died in this shooting. One has been publicly identified. The other two are still names waiting to be confirmed, families waiting to be notified, grief that has not yet found its full shape. We are not going to pretend we know exactly what happened, because the full story has not been released. What we know is this: when three people die by gunfire on or near property that someone owns, controls, and profits from, the law does not stop at the criminal investigation. There is a second system of accountability — civil — and it asks a different question: not just who pulled the trigger, but whether the property where this happened had ignored warning signs that this violence was coming, and whether reasonable security measures would have stopped it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims in Texas, and we are writing…

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Jul 18, 2026

Nine Killed in Fiery Head-On Crash When a 13-Year-Old Driving a 2007 Dodge 2500 With a Blown Spare Tire Veered Into a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van on FM 1788 Near Andrews, TX — Attorney911 Pursues Stellantis and the Negligent Entrustors Behind This Fatal Collision, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve the Failed Tire and Black-Box Data Before They Degrade, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With Negligent Entrustment and Products-Liability Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews, TX: When a Child Behind the Wheel and a Failed Spare Tire Take Nine Lives You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from a golf tournament. A van carrying a coach and eight young athletes back to Hobbs, New Mexico, met a pickup truck on FM 1788 near Andrews, Texas, and nine people are gone. The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed two facts that make this crash different from any other you have read about: the pickup was driven by a 13-year-old — a child who, under Texas law, cannot hold any license at all — and the truck’s left front tire, which was a spare, blew out before impact. Both vehicles caught fire. Everyone in that van, and the child driving the truck, died. We are not going to pretend we can give you back what was taken. What we can do is tell you, plainly and completely, what the law allows families to do when nine people are killed because a child was put behind the wheel of a 3/4-ton pickup on a rural West Texas highway with a spare tire on the front axle. We can tell you who can…

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Jul 18, 2026

Custodial Death at Ector County Jail: Douglas Walter Hassell, 55, Found Dead in His Cell October 21, 2022, While the Sheriff Sought Overtime to Cover Understaffed Floors — Attorney911 Holds Counties, Sheriff’s Offices and Jail Medical Contractors Accountable for Missed Cell Checks and Untreated Medical Needs Under Section 1983 Deliberate-Indifference Law, We Preserve the CCTV Footage, Cell-Check Logs and Intake Screening Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them and the Texas Tort Claims Act Notice Deadline Expires, Texas Rangers Investigating Under the State’s Custodial-Death Protocol and Texas Commission on Jail Standards Observation Rules, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, 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

When Your Family Member Dies in the Ector County Jail, the Answers Are Not Going to Come to You You received a phone call that no family should ever get. A 55-year-old man was found dead in his cell at the Ector County Law Enforcement Center in Odessa, Texas, on a Friday afternoon in October 2022. Maybe you were told he was discovered at 5:40 p.m. Maybe you were not told anything else — not what happened in the hours before, not whether anyone checked on him, not whether he asked for help that never came. Maybe the next of kin could not even be located at first, and days passed before anyone in your family even knew he was gone. We are going to tell you what we tell every family that calls us in this moment: the jail is not going to explain itself. The Sheriff’s Office will release a brief statement. The Texas Rangers will open an investigation that may take six months or more. And the evidence — the video, the cell-check logs, the intake medical screening — is already on a clock, erasing itself in some cases within weeks. The answers you are owed are…

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Jul 18, 2026

Hit-and-Run Semi-Truck on Eastbound I-20 at East Loop 338 in Odessa: Attorney911 Pursues the Unidentified Carrier Behind the 80,000-Pound Rig That Fled a Permian Basin Freight Corridor, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Move to Preserve TxDOT Traffic-Camera Footage Before the 72-Hour Overwrite and Pull ELD, GPS and Telematics Records to Identify the Truck, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hit-and-Run Cases, Texas Stop-and-Render-Aid Violations as Negligence Per Se, UM/UIM Phantom-Vehicle Recovery When the Carrier Cannot Be Found, Gross Negligence for Fleeing an Interstate Crash, 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

Odessa Hit-and-Run Semi-Truck on I-20 at East Loop 338: What to Do When the Truck That Hit You Disappeared You were driving on I-20 through Odessa, and a semi-truck hit you — and then it was gone. The Odessa Police Department is searching for it. You are sitting in a hospital room, or standing on the shoulder of an interstate staring at a wrecked vehicle, or lying awake at 2 a.m. wondering what happens now that the truck that caused this has vanished into the Permian Basin freight traffic. This is the moment everything gets harder — and the moment it gets most important to understand what the law can do for you, even when the at-fault driver has not been found. We are Attorney911, and we handle commercial truck accident cases across Texas. This page is not a news summary. It is the full legal and practical roadmap for someone in your position: hit by a semi-truck on I-20 in Odessa, the truck fled the scene, and the police are still looking. What you need to know right now, before anything else: the truck’s disappearance does not end your case. Texas law provides multiple paths to recovery when a…

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