Have you suffered serious injuries caused by negligence in Texas, Oklahoma, or Arkansas? If so, putting our experience on your side to help with your claim can give you the comfort in knowing you will receive maximum compensation. We handle cases involving birth injuries, injuries to the brain & spinal cord & severe burns among other serious injuries.
Legionnaires’ Disease
Legionnaires’ Disease is lung inflammation caused by an infection with legionella bacteria. It can cause severe illness and death.
Camp Lejeune Claims
Girards Law Firm is pursuing claims for those injured or who have died due to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. Those who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune for at least 30-days between August 1, 1953 through December 31, 1987 are eligible to file a claim if they meet certain criteria.
Brain & Spinal Cord Injuries
If you have suffered a Brain or Spinal Cord Injury due to the Negligence of Another, let our team Help you in Texas, Oklahoma, or Arkansas.
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Anonymous Tips
Do you have important information we should know but would like to stay anonymous? Have you witnessed something improper or illegal that was covered up but deserves to be known? Are you a trucker whose company is forcing you to drive illegally and unsafely? Are you a healthcare worker who saw something that a patient or family needs to know but you don't want to get fired? If so, then use this page to get that information to us. Please provide as much detail as you feel comfortable. If you want to correspond anonymously then include an email address that we might use for that purpose. You may want to consider setting up a temporary email address through yahoo or gmail. You also may have rights to protection under the law. Click here to send an anonymous email.
Pipelines & Refineries
Dangerous pipelines move toxic and explosive materials all over the United States. Refineries use huge volumes of extremely toxic and explosive solvents as part of the petroleum refining process. Corrosion of pipes as well as leaks and explosions are not uncommon in the industry when facilities fail to perform necessary inspections and maintenance.
If you or your loved one has been injured by a refinery or pipeline incident, let our Texas legal team help you. Call us at 214-346-9529 for a free consultation.
18-Wheeler Truck Crashes
It is important to know what you should do immediately after a truck crash, common injuries that result from such crashes, and how to recover physically and emotionally from the experience, and possible long-term complications that can arise. Seeking medical help, gathering evidence, contacting an experienced lawyer and taking care of your physical and emotional well-being are critical steps towards recovering from a truck crash.
Medical Malpractice
When you go to the doctor, you trust the medical staff to provide you with the best care possible. If errors are made, the results could cost you, your child, or your loved one a lifetime of challenges. Sometimes, the mistakes are fatal—leaving you to cope with life without the person you love. Other times, they can leave you with a lifetime of huge medical bills and rehabilitation costs. When you have been the victim of medical malpractice in Texas, Oklahoma, or Arkansas, put our experienced medical malpractice trial lawyers to work for you.
Car Crashes
When your day has suddenly taken a turn for the worse and you are hit by another car, the emotional and physical pain you experience can be unbearable. Your body hurts, you may be forced to miss work for days or weeks, and now you are forced to face the games of the insurance company. If you have been severely injured in an Arkansas, Oklahoma, or Texas auto accident, help from the Dallas car accident attorneys at the Girards Law Firm may make your life a little bit easier.
Birth Injuries
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a serious birth injury that happens when a newborn’s brain doesn’t get enough oxygen and blood flow before, during, or shortly after birth. Also called neonatal encephalopathy or birth asphyxia brain injury, HIE can cause lasting damage to the brain and other organs like the heart and lungs.
Parents of a child with HIE may notice signs such as excessive sleepiness, breathing problems, feeding difficulties, weak muscle tone, seizures, or other movement abnormalities. These hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy symptoms might not always be obvious right after birth, so close monitoring by medical professionals is crucial.
Diagnosing HIE involves tests like MRI scans, EEGs, and blood gas tests to assess the extent of brain injury. Early detection allows for timely treatment, which often includes therapeutic hypothermia for HIE. This cooling treatment, started within six hours after birth, helps slow brain damage and improve outcomes for babies with moderate or severe HIE.
The long-term effects of HIE can vary widely. Some children recover fully with little to no developmental delays, while others face challenges such as cerebral palsy from birth injury, epilepsy, and cognitive impairments. Parenting a child with HIE means managing these potential complications and seeking early intervention for HIE to support your child’s growth and development.
Caring for a baby with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy involves regular medical appointments, therapies, and sometimes specialized support to address developmental delays and other issues caused by neonatal brain injury. Understanding the diagnosis and prognosis of HIE helps families prepare for the road ahead and advocate for the best care.
If you suspect medical negligence in your child’s birth injury, it’s important to explore birth injury legal help for HIE. Compensation from legal action can provide crucial support for medical treatments and therapies needed over the child’s lifetime.
For families navigating HIE, resources about hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy symptoms, treatment newborn options, and long-term effects are vital. Empower yourself with knowledge about the signs of oxygen deprivation in newborns and how early intervention can make a difference.
This website offers comprehensive information on hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, including causes, diagnosis, treatment options like therapeutic hypothermia, and guidance for parents caring for a child with HIE. We also provide support on legal rights related to birth asphyxia brain injury to help families get the assistance they need.
If you recognize any of these terms from discussions with your child’s healthcare provider —hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), HIE birth injury, neonatal encephalopathy, therapeutic hypothermia for HIE, and cerebral palsy from birth injury—this site aims to be your trusted source for understanding, managing, and seeking legal help for HIE.
James E. Girards is a private pilot licensed to fly single- and multi-engine aircraft in both visual and instrument conditions. The Girards Law Firm specializes in severe injury and wrongful death cases, especially those that involve commercial plane crashes, birth injuries, brain damage, heart damage, spinal cord injuries or severe burns in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Contact us at www.girardslaw.com by using the chat feature for more information. Keywords: causes of plane crashes, commercial airplane accident, human error in aviation, pilot error, mechanical failure, weather-related plane crash, aviation accident lawyer, airplane crash lawsuit, victims of plane crash, aviation law firm.
Retinopathy/ROP
When your child is delivered prematurely, it is a frightening time for parents. When a baby has been born at 24 to 30 weeks gestational age, baby’s eyes need to be examined for Retinopathy of Prematurity [“ROP”]. Watch this video to learn more about the progression of this disease. If ROP is present, it must be treated properly in order to prevent blindness. When treated properly, blindness is prevented up to 98% of the time.
Compounding Pharmacy
Sometimes, compounding pharmacy cause preventable injuries and deaths by failing to take necessary standard precautions to prevent contamination of materials used in preparing pharmaceutical compounds. This page is designed in part to be a primer for the viewer related to the nationwide New England Compounding Pharmacy case, in which the firm participated. If we can assist you or your clients in any case in which injury or death is caused by contaminated pharmaceuticals, please call us toll free at 888-333-9709. If you are in Arkansas call us at 501-420-2868. If you are in Oklahoma you can reach us at 405-633-3316. In Texas, 214-346-9529.
Cardiology Malpractice
Our Cardiology Malpractice Team can Help You in Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. We also Help Lawyers in Other States Across the USA with Their Cardiology Malpractice Cases.
PostOperative Visual Loss
Girards Law Firm has been helping patients who have suffered visual loss or blindness following spine surgery for many years. This is a rare but devastating complication that is preventable when the anesthesia and surgical teams have a correct understanding of the causes and the mechanism of injury. Surgical disruption of the vertebrae during spinal surgery can result in a great deal of intraoperative bleeding. For this reason, a surgeon may sometimes pressure the anesthesia team to keep the patient's blood pressure low. High intraoperative blood loss can also result in excessive fluid replacement during the surgery resulting in blood dilution and anemia. Combine these factors with a lengthy surgery and prone positioning - especially on certain surgical bedframes used to position the patient - and the stage is set for injuries to the patient's optic nerves resulting in permanent visual loss or blindness.
What follows is a primer we put together to help patients understand this foreseeable and preventable surgical complication. If you or a loved one has suffered post operative visual loss following spine surgery, please contact us at www.girardslaw.com and use the chat feature for more information about how we might be able to help.
Plane Crashes
If Your Loved One Has Died in a Plane Crash We Can Help.
James E. Girards is a private pilot licensed to fly single- and multi-engine aircraft in both visual and instrument conditions. The Girards Law Firm specializes in severe injury and wrongful death cases, especially those that involve commercial plane crashes, birth injuries, brain damage, heart damage, spinal cord injuries or severe burns in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Contact us at www.girardslaw.com by using the chat feature for more information. Keywords: causes of plane crashes, commercial airplane accident, human error in aviation, pilot error, mechanical failure, weather-related plane crash, aviation accident lawyer, airplane crash lawsuit, victims of plane crash, aviation law firm.