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The coronavirus pandemic has affected virtually every business in America, but none more so than restaurants. Restaurants and other food businesses, like bars, coffee shops, and bakeries, typically carry significant debt and need steady cash flow to stay afloat.
It was bad enough when these...

Bedsores are the completely unnecessary yet shockingly common problem that plagues Texas nursing homes. Studies have shown that at any given time, eight to 10 percent of residents at a nursing home have one or more bed sores.
In truth, that percentage should be almost zero. Even in cases...

Here’s a discouraging fact for any Texas resident with an elderly loved one: The Lone Star State consistently ranks dead last in the quality of its nursing home facilities. That ranking comes courtesy of Families for Better Care, a nonprofit watchdog group that issues annual nursing home...

When you place a loved one in a nursing home, you have the right to expect the highest quality care. Unfortunately, too many nursing homes are poorly, negligently or corruptly run, so patients and residents are put at great risk of preventable injuries, neglect, and abuse.
To protect your...

If you have a loved one in a nursing home, you have every right to be concerned about their health and safety. Nursing home abuse and neglect are real problems that impact far too many of our vulnerable seniors. What’s worse is that many nursing home residents are intimidated and silenced, so...

A third worker has now died from injuries caused in a Chesapeake Energy Inc. oil well explosion that occurred around 3:30 pm, Wednesday, January 29 just south of Caldwell, Texas. According to Chesapeake, one worker died on-site and a second worker died from severe injuries the next...

Texas holds the dubious distinction of leading the nation in the number of commercial truck accidents. Many of these accidents and subsequent fatalities were preventable had the trucks received proper maintenance and the drivers adhered to federal transportation safety regulations.
Each...

On American roads today, more and more innocent victims are being injured and killed in accidents involving distracted driving, and Texas is not an exception. In 2017, a staggering 100,000 crashes were caused by distracted driving in our state. According to Texas’ Department of...

A Wisconsin family survived, but the house was a total loss. Then, to add insult to injury, Tony and Angie Plourde learned that “a $30 natural gas detector could have prevented” the explosion that destroyed their home and could easily have killed them.
February 23 had just been an...

NiSource, whose Massachusetts subsidiary Columbia has been blamed for catastrophic explosions in September 2018 in Andover, Lawrence and North Andover, recently issued a report touting the company’s safety improvements. According to UtilityDive.com, Joe Hamrock, NiSource President and CEO...