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The O’Hara Law Firm filed a lawsuit against Peter Nygard on behalf of a young woman that he slept with while she was a minor. The woman was under the age of eighteen and not old enough to consent to sexual intercourse with a man in his sixties under California law. Peter Nygard, a multimillionaire that Canadian Business Magazine estimated ...

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted millions of Americans, including many Texans. Many have lost wages and work. The number of citizens infected by the Coronavirus continues to grow every day. Sadly, some people never recover and pass away as a result of infection. Spouses and minor children are left without a parent and provider. Victims of the Coronavirus who were ...

Do you know there are federal and state laws protecting your rights at your workplace? These rights, taken together mean that you have a right not to be harassed or discriminated against at your workplace, not to be retaliated against for taking part in a protected activity and to work in a safe environment. It is important to note that ...

Texas likely has the second highest tiger population after India. However, most of the tigers in Texas are illegally undocumented. The New York Times estimates that there are more tigers in captivity in Texas than in the wild globally.

Patrick O’Hara recently settled a lawsuit on behalf of a client who was injured by another driver insured with PURE Insurance. A man was rear-ended on a highway 249 feeder road when a driver took her eyes of the road approaching an intersection. The man received conservative medical treatment and eventually underwent a laminectomy when conservative treatment failed to reduce ...

HEB is no stranger to lawsuits with over three hundred stores across Texas. However, despite hundreds of injury claims, if not more each year, HEB continues to execute unsafe practices in its stores. An O’Hara Law Firm client recently sued HEB for injuries she received when falling over an empty pallet in an aisle. The empty pallet never should have ...

Every year there is a city or county in Texas that proposes new local legislation regarding dogs or dangerous dogs. Corpus Christi proposed legislation that would prohibit a person from keeping a dog in the city limits after it seriously injured or killed another animal. Opponents attacked the proposed legislation because a dog could be banned from the city for ...

The O’Hara Law Firm is accepting claims for personal injury and property damages from the explosion at the Port Neches plant which produces chemical and petroleum-based products. The explosion was strong enough to blow out windows miles away from the plant...

The O’Hara Law Firm resolved a case on behalf of a woman who fell at a car wash and was injured. The woman was a passenger in a car as her daughter approached the conveyor belt near the entrance of the car wash. The daughter, an inexperienced driver, had difficulty lining the wheel of the car up with the conveyor. ...

Unless you want a lowball offer for your insurance claim or you want to increase the likelihood of being sued as a defendant in a lawsuit, do not buy insurance from Allstate. Allstate’s slogan, “You’re in good hands,” is anything but the truth. Allstate has catchy commercials with celebrity actors, but it is all puffery. When it comes time to ...