The East Texas Oil Field Is Still Producing In Paying Quanities According to East-Texas.com, the East Texas Oil Field is still alive and well, with numerous East Texas cities like Tyler, Longview, Marshall and Gladewater all still seeing high levels of oil and gas and other natural resource employment. While…
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Application of Res Ipsa Loquitur in Medical Malpractice Cases in Texas
Res Ispa Loquitur is one of those cool old latin legal terms that has made its place in modern law and is here to stay. It is one of the more useful ones, as well, especially in medical malpractice claims. The term Res Ipsa Loquitur literally translated means “the thing itself…
Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Domesticated Animals
In Texas, a person can find themselves liable for the actions of an animal considered to be “abnormally dangerous”. An animal will be considered “abnormally dangerous” if its dangerous propensities that are abnormal to its class. That means that if the animals breed is typically known for being calm and…
Kaufman and Rockwall County Catastrophic Injury Lawyers
In the field of catastrophic injury law, we are often confronted with the question, “What makes an injury catastrophic?” This seems like a reasonable thing to ask, especially since the term “catastrophic injury” can occur in a variety of contexts, from truck and auto accidents, to work place injuries, to…
Kaufman and Rockwall County Truck Accident Lawyers
Guest and Gray, P.C. has represented countless Rockwall and Kaufman county residents and their families after devastating 18-wheeler and commercial vehicle accidents in our area. When residents of Kaufman and Rockwall counties are injured in a truck or commercial vehicle accident, they know that Guest and Gray law firm will…
Law That Bites: The Texas “One Bite Rule”
According to Centers for Disease Control, there are approximately 4.5 million dog bites in America each year. Texas leads the nation in dog related fatalities, according to the most recent study of fatalities from 2005 to 2017, there have been 52 fatalities linked to vicious dog attacks, ranging in ages…
Kaufman County Personal Injury: Growth, Congestion and Traffic Accidents
Kaufman County is in a weird transitional phase from being a historically rural county with numerous small tightly knit communities to a more commercialized suburban sprawl where the ends of one city meet another. When many of us originally moved to the area, we did so to “get away” from…
Higher Liability Coverage or Uninsured/Underinsured: Which Should I Buy?
Which should I buy: higher liability coverage or Uninsured/Uninsured Coverage? During conversations with clients, this is a question that comes up quite often. This especially when the client has significant medical damages that exceed the minimum policy requirements in Texas and we are trying to figure out how to get…
Are You a Real Estate Professional? Then Know a Good Lawyer
Sell real estate? Own a title company? Are you an Investor? Well here are two realities to long term real estate work: taxes and lawsuits. So, get to know the two kinds of people who deal with those issues. At Guest and Gray, P.C. we can help you with the…
Contract Damages in Business Litigation in Texas
After businesses enter into a contract, those entities have certain responsibilities to one another until such a time that the contract has been completed. If one of the parties materially breaches the contract and the other party is harmed by that breach, then the other party is entitled to damages.…