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    Family Law

    Contrasting the Perverse Incentive of Family Law and Collaborative Divorce

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours December 30, 2016March 28, 2025

    The Conflict Incentive There is a dirty secret in some family law cases, one that clients only learn about long after they’ve retained counsel, and sometimes only after they look back at the pain, stress, and expense of their divorce.  The secret is that some family lawyers have a perverse…

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  • What’s Title Insurance and Why Are We Required to Have It?
    Real Estate

    What’s Title Insurance and Why Are We Required to Have It?

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours July 29, 2015March 28, 2025

    Title insurance operates to protect a person’s loss of their interest in real estate because of defects in the title. So what is a defect in a title? It is a problem with title to your property that could be caused by a lien, mortgage or judgment. It can also…

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    Texas Supreme Court Ends Bad Faith Claims for Workers

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours June 25, 2012March 28, 2025

    Texas Workers Compensation claimants took a big hit Friday when the Texas Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. Timothy J. Ruttiger.   The Court held that Workers Comp claimants cannot seek damages for bad faith denials of claims outside the administrative Workers Comp regulatory…

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  • Medical Cases

    Injured by a Doctor? You’ll likely deal with the secretive Medical Board instead of open court

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours May 14, 2012March 28, 2025

    Fox 4 in Dallas did a great story on the Texas Medical Board and their contribution to physician discipline since tort reform in 2003.  According to the report serious disciplinary actions are down and the time taken to conduct investigations has risen.  Further, Doctor confidentiality and secrecy is maintained until…

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  • Vehicle Accidents

    American Trucking Associations Support Congressional Mandate for Electronic Logging Devices in 18-Wheelers

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours May 7, 2012March 28, 2025

    Many 18-wheeler accidents become more difficult to investigate due to missing or incomplete information concerning hours-of-service compliance. Electronic Logging Devices could assist in safety and compliance with federal laws by more closely tracking hours 0f service and other important metrics. The American Trucking Associations, along with other law enforcement and…

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  • Family Law

    We Should All be Grateful for No-Fault Divorce

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours April 8, 2012March 28, 2025

    Here in Texas, when we go before the court to prove up a divorce I merely ask my clients, “Has your marriage become insupportable because of discord or conflict that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship?”  My client answers “Yes.”  Then I ask, “Is there any reasonable expectation…

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  • The New “Loser Pays”
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    The New “Loser Pays”

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours February 14, 2012March 28, 2025

    A lot of my friends have asked me about the new “loser pays” law and how I expect it to affect litigation in Texas.  For years, Texas and most other states followed the so-called, “American Rule” whereby litigants pay their own attorneys’ fees.  There were exceptions, such as certain statutory…

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  • Cancer Risk linked to Diabetes Treatment
    Medical Cases

    Cancer Risk linked to Diabetes Treatment

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours November 14, 2011March 28, 2025

    By Frank Lyle “Actos” is the brand name for a drug (pioglitazone) used to treat adult onset, Type-II diabetes. In June of 2011, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed the public that this drug may increase the risk of bladder cancer. The FDA required new warnings to be placed…

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  • No Better Care, Thanks to Tort Reform
    Articles of Interest

    No Better Care, Thanks to Tort Reform

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours October 27, 2011March 28, 2025

    Published in The Texas Tribune by guest columnist, Charles M. Silver In 2006, Dr. Howard Marcus wrote that Texas’ 2003 tort reform statute sparked an “amazing turnaround” in which doctors came to Texas in droves, instead of leaving the state as they had before. He was doubly wrong. Texas neither…

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  • Tragedy Brought on by Tainted Fruit
    Medical Cases

    Tragedy Brought on by Tainted Fruit

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours October 3, 2011March 28, 2025

    By Moni Basu, CNN William Beach was one of those people who fixated on certain foods. He would eat the same thing voraciously for a few days, and then, when he tired of the same tastes, he moved onto something else. In August, when summer’s heat seemed unending in Mustang,…

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