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Product Liability Cases
A product liability lawsuit arises where someone suffers personal injuries or death because of a defectively designed, marketed or manufactured product.
Unlike other tort claims, you are not required to prove negligence nor gross negligence in order to prevail in a product liability case, though such evidence may be helpful to enable you to recover punitive damages.
I have handled product liability cases, such as defectively designed firearms, defectively designed equipment in chemical plants, pharmaceutical drugs and certain other chemicals. I have also handled one case where the plant used the wrong piece of equipment on a job during a turn-around, in order to save money, but that was a negligence case and not a product liability case.
Other design defects occur in tires, motor vehicles and a host of industrial equipment and sometimes in instruments.
Call me if you or someone you know was injured by a piece of equipment and I will help you determine whether or not you have a viable product liability case. It is important that you contact me as soon as possible after your injuries in order that I can make arrangements to observe, inspect and analyze the potentially defective product.
Gross Negligence-Wrongful Death-Worker's Compensation Cases
In Texas, an employee cannot sue his employer for negligence resulting in personal injuries if the employer has worker’s compensation insurance, even if the employer was grossly negligent.
Texas law does allow the family of a deceased employee to sue the employer where the death of the employee's death was a result of the employer's gross negligence.
Families of former employees may also sue for gross negligence, wrongful death under the law. These lawsuits are referred to as gross negligence, wrongful death, worker’s compensation cases.
I have handled numerous gross negligence, wrongful death, worker's compensation lawsuits where the former employees' deaths were caused by benzene related diseases.
Click my BENZENE button to read more about gross, negligence, wrongful death worker's compensation lawsuits.
I have handled numerous gross negligence, wrongful death, worker’s compensation lawsuits where benzene related diseases caused the deaths of former employees of chemical plants and/or refineries.
Click my BENZENE button to learn what diseases are caused by benzene exposure.
In order to maximize your recovery in a gross negligence, wrongful death, worker’s compensation lawsuit, I must take the deposition of the former employee before his or her death.
Typically, depositions are taken after a lawsuit is filed, but the family cannot even file a gross negligence, wrongful death, worker's compensation lawsuit until after the death of the former employee. Click my BENZENE button to learn how I preserve evidence and maximize your recovery of damages.
Let my experience, qualifications and trial skills recover the monetary damages that you deserve.
Premises Liability Cases
A premises liability case requires proof of negligence and/or gross negligence. There are a number of elements to a premises liability lawsuit that do not exist in other negligence cases, making premises liability lawsuits difficult to win at trial.
In the only premises liability case I ever tried, a jury awarded my client $2.4 million after she slipped and fell on a ramp going into a commercial building and broke her ankle.
Other lawyers are amazed at this verdict. My clients receive verdicts like this because I know how to argue for damages to a jury!
That jury argument was published nationally in "Million Dollar Arguments."
Class Action Cases
A typical class action lawsuit is a lawsuit in which each of many clients' individual damages are not significant, but when put together they amount to a significant sum of money.
In some cases, like a mass exposure case, one clients' potential damages may be much greater than the damages of the other class members. For this reason I typically file cases with significant potential damages as individual lawsuits, because it is usually in the best interest of the client to do so. That way the clients with greater damages are able to recover for their own significant damages and they are not required to share their recoveries
with clients whose damages are not as significant.
Benzene Birth Defects - Spina Bifida
Environmental Health Perspectives recently published a scientific study confirming that
/the benzene causes a birth defect, spina bifida, unborn children of pregnant women who
were exposed to benzene during their earliest stage of pregnancy.
CLICK HERE to go to the published study in Environmental Health Perspectives then,
when that screen comes up, click PDF.
If you are not interested in reading the entire study, but you want to read the Discussion
and Conclusion sections, you can CLICK HERE.
The results of the EHP study gives rise to lawsuits that may have arisen under two sets of facts.
First and most recently, there are the women who were pregnant and exposed to benzene during the 40 day BP chemical release that occurred in April and May.
Second, there are children in Texas City who were already born with spina bifida, who's mothers were exposed to benzene during their pregnancies.
I am investigating cases where I can prove that the mother of a child with spina bifida was exposed to benzene during the early stages of her pregnancy.
The statute of limitations does not apply until two years after the child reaches majority, so your child with spina bifida could be a teenager now and still be able to sue the entity that caused your exposure to benzene.
I urge you to Click my BENZENE button to read about the legal damages I can recover for you and your child. I am highly skilled and qualified to recover significant damages for you and your family.
If you know someone whose child has spina bifida or who was pregnant and exposed to benzene during the 40 day BP release, call me immediately, so I can recover damages for her and her child.
Go to my BENZENE page and CLIENT ALERTS page to read more about the multi-million dollar damages recovery that you and your child may be entitled to receive.
Environmental Health Perspectives recently published a scientific study confirming that the benzene causes a birth defect, spina bifida, in unborn children of pregnant women who were exposed to benzene in their earliest stage of pregnancy.
The results of the EHP study gives rise to lawsuits that may have arisen under two sets of facts.
First and most recently, there are the women who were pregnant and exposed to benzene during the 40 day BP chemical release that occurred in April and May of 2010.
Second, there are children in Texas City who were already born with spina bifida, who's mothers were exposed to benzene during their pregnancies.
I am investigating cases where I can prove that the mother of a child with spina bifida was exposed to benzene during the early stages of her pregnancy.
The statute of limitations does not apply until two years after the child reaches majority, so your child with spina bifida could be a teenager now and still be able to sue the entity that caused your exposure to benzene.
I urge you to Click my BENZENE button to read about the legal damages I can recover for you and your child. I am highly skilled and qualified to recover significant damages for you and your family.
If you know someone whose child has spina bifida or who was pregnant and exposed to benzene during the 40 day BP release, call me immediately, so I can recover damages for her and her child.
Go to my BENZENE page and CLIENT ALERTS page to read more about the multi-million dollar damages recovery that you and your child may be entitled to receive.
I have successfully handled significant and complex benzene exposure cases that arose out
of occupational exposures in Texas City.
I have the qualifications, experience,knowledge and skills to represent you or anyone you
know who has been diagnosed with a benzene related disease.
You can find a list of benzene related diseases on my BENZENE page.
It is very important that a benzene exposure victim be represented by a lawyer as soon as he or she learns of his or her diagnosis. This is because death follows soon after the diagnosis of some of the benzene related diseases.
Immediate legal representation is imperative because I will want to file a special proceeding, discussed under the BENZENE section of my website, which will enable me to
take the deposition of the exposure victim and thereby preserve his or her
testimony to present to at trial.
Mass Chemical Exposure Cases
A mass exposure case is typically brought by individuals from a neighborhood who were exposed to chemicals that were released from chemical plants and/or refineries, even though they were never inside the plant or refinery.
I handled one of the largest mass exposure lawsuits in Texas City for 3,164
Texas City residents.
18 Wheeler Cases
I have handled and tried 18 wheeler cases, winning my clients millions of dollars. In one case an 18 wheeler caused my client's broken leg. A Fort Worth jury awarded my client $5.7 million. That's because I know how set up and argue damages to a jury.
Board Certified - Personal Injury Trial Law
Board Certified - Civil Trial Law
Texas Board of Legal Specialization
I am a Board Certified Legal Specialist in Personal Injury Trial Law. I have been a Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer since 1994. I have been a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer since 1989. I have been a personally injury and wrongful death Trial Lawyer for over 30 years.
My main office is in Houston, but I have an office in Texas City for the convenience of my Texas City clients.
According to the State Bar of Texas, only 10 percent of all Texas attorneys are Board Certified in just one area of the law. As you can see, I am Board Certified in two important areas of the law, when it comes to representing you in personal injury and wrongful death cases.
Law firms that defend against your personal injury lawsuit will have highly experienced, Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyers. Don’t you think that you should have one too?
My Philosophy - Be Aggressive - Know Your Enemy
I have handled all sorts of personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits, including benzene exposure cases, mass chemical exposure cases, 18 wheeler and other serious car wreck lawsuits, lawsuits arising from negligence and/or gross negligence inside and outside of chemical plants, product liability lawsuits and premises liability lawsuits.
In my 30 years of handling personal injury and wrongful death lawsuit, I have derived philosophies that have won trials and cause lawsuits to settle for large sums of money.
First of all, I have always been guided by my philosophy that "knowledge is power."
It is my practice to learn everything possible about my opposition in every lawsuit.
My philosophy includes researching obscure laws and facts that may prove to be
valuable at some point during or before trial.
One major component of my philosophy is being highly aggressive during the development of your lawsuit and in pre-trial discovery. I will devote a greater amount of time to your serious personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit than any other lawyer will. When I sign up a case, I go to war with the defendants and I am always focused on trying your lawsuit.
I pride myself on being able to convince juries to award my clients much more monetary damages than any other lawyer would dream of. My ability to make bold and aggressive decisions during trials has made that happen time and again.
Let my winning strategies and hard work maximize your recovery in your personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit.
OSHA
J. Michael (Mike) Black
2102 8th Avenue N.
Texas City, Texas 77590
(409) 945-4241
The Law Offices of
Publications
I have had extensive experience representing clients in lawsuits involving exposures to benzene and other toxic and hazardous substances. In response to a publisher's request, I applied my expertise with
respect to OSHA and hazardous chemicals by writing a Chapter in a book, "Civil Trial Practice:
Winning Techniques of Successful Trial Attorneys," about OSHA, CFR 1910.1200 for other
lawyers to learn by.
In response to another publisher's request, I also recorded a jury argument that I made in a
lawsuit that resulted in a multimillion dollar jury verdict. The argument was published in a
nationwide audio tape publication, the "Million Dollar Arguments" series of audio tapes, that
is published for attorneys to learn by.
This was the slip and fall - broken ankle case.
Let my winning experience, qualifications and strategies maximize your recovery in your personal injury and wrongful death lawsuit.
If you are a client or a potential client, you can add my number to your cell phone numbers now:
409-945-4241.
Law Offices of J. Michael (Mike) Black
My main office is in Houston, but I have a Texas City office for your convenience. It is located at:
2102 8th Avenue North
Texas City, Texas 77590
Now, it is very important that an injury victim retain me immediately after a major vehicular
collision in which he or she was seriously injured.
I need immediate access to the motor vehicles involved in the collision in order that they
can be photographed and inspected. More importantly, the vehicle’s “black box,” also
known as a Electrical Control Unit, may hold the key to your lawsuit. I have the experts
who can download that data and prove who caused the wreck. Click my COLLISION page button to read more about 18 wheeler and other truck wrecks.
Occupational Exposure to Benzene
