Investigations are ongoing to find out why the boom of an American crawler crane collapsed onto a passing pickup truck killing both occupants this past Thursday near Smith Road in Beaumont. “The truck was traveling westbound on I-10 just southwest of Beaumont when the crane experienced ‘some type of malfunction’ and collapsed on the vehicle around 4:30 p.m. Thursday,” Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Stephanie Davis said in a statement. Construction crews in the area were working on the...

Texas linemen involved in industrial accident leaving one dead and another critically injured outside Mount Belvieu after crane basket dropped over 100 feet to the ground

CHARLESTON, South Carolina – The family of a man who died from severe burns he suffered in 2015 while working at a paper plant in North Charleston has settled the wrongful death suit filed in his case after jury selection in the United States District Court in South Carolina. Terms of the settlement, filed in U.S. District Court Judge David C. Norton’s court, are confidential.Brian Allen, 43, of Summerville, was on a lift at the plant performing welding work above several tanks of solution. The...

​On July 26, 2017 KFDM’s Angel San Juan aired his investigative story about the Nederland Clinic, Optimum Medical Weight Control and Family Wellness. San Juan’s story featured an interview with Provost Umphrey’s Christopher Kirchmer, the attorney representing two families hoping to sue Optimum.

​Provost Umphrey's Zona Jones, along with Steve Harrison of Waco's Harrison Davis Steakley Morrison represent many families pursuing civil claims related to the 2013 West fertilizer explosion.

​Provost Umphrey Law Firm represents family members of two workers who died, six other injured victims

​Approximately 33,000 tire-related crashes occur each and every year, resulting in about 19,000 injuries and hundreds of deaths. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (“NTSB”), the majority of these injuries and deaths are preventable.