If a Drunk Driver Hit You This Labor Day
A drunk driving crash leaves two things behind: injuries to treat and a claim to sort out. What matters in the first week, how the criminal case and your own claim run on separate tracks, and how the Louisiana and Texas rules actually work, in plain words.
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Happy Labor Day From All of Us
A short thank-you on the first Monday in September to the people who do the work in Shreveport, Bossier City, Minden, Ruston, Covington, Lake Charles, and everywhere in between.
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Labor Day Weekend Is Here. Get Home.
Labor Day is Monday, September 7. Here are the numbers on drunk driving over the holiday, when the risk peaks, and a handful of plain habits that get everyone home, from six offices across Louisiana.
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Find Trey Morris Injury Lawyers at Geek'd Con 2026
Trey Morris Injury Lawyers has a booth at Geek'd Con 2026, August 14-16 at the Shreveport Convention Center. Stop by for a free shirt and a chance to win a prize.
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One Year in Ruston
This month marks one year since Trey Morris Injury Lawyers opened its Ruston office, putting injury lawyers in Lincoln Parish instead of an hour down I-20 in Shreveport.
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Celebrating Freedom, One Step at a Time
What sets the Firecracker apart from your average holiday fun run is right there in the name: it's a Race for Research.
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Injured by Fireworks on the Fourth? Who's Actually Liable — the Product or the Party Host
A fireworks injury can fall on the maker or seller of a defective device, on the host or property owner whose negligence caused it, or on both, with the injured person's own fault reducing what they collect. Here is how Louisiana and Texas law decide who pays.
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Voted Best Personal Injury Law Firm and Best Law Firm in St. Tammany Parish, 2026
Trey Morris Injury Lawyers won Best Personal Injury Law Firm and Best Law Firm in the 2026 Best of St. Tammany Choice Awards, decided by the public vote of St. Tammany Parish residents in the firm's first year on the ballot.
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Trey Morris Injury Lawyers 2025 Case Results Submitted to TopVerdict
Trey Morris Injury Lawyers submitted its 2025 case results to TopVerdict for independent ranking — 54 closed matters, 21 of them in the $1 million to $10 million tier, anonymized and verified.
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An AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell
Martindale-Hubbell awarded Trey Morris Injury Lawyers its AV Preeminent rating — the highest peer rating for legal ability and ethical standards, drawn from confidential reviews by other attorneys and judges.
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Voted Shreveport-Bossier's Best Personal Injury Law Firm
Trey Morris Injury Lawyers was voted Best Personal Injury Law Firm in the Shreveport-Bossier Choice Awards for 2024 and 2025.
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Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in America – 2023
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 5,283 U.S. workers died from work-related injuries in 2023, roughly one death every 99 minutes. Logging workers had the highest fatal injury rate at 98.9 deaths per 100,000 workers. The overall fatal work injury rate was 3.5 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers, down from 3.7 in 2022, though risk varies sharply by occupation.
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Truck Accident Statistics: Key Facts and Trends in the United States
This page compiles U.S. truck-accident data: over 14 million large trucks share the roads, weighing 20 to 30 times more than passenger vehicles, and 89% of those killed in large-truck collisions are not in the truck. It reports 184,058 truck crashes in 2023, notes more crashes on weekdays than weekends, and tracks fatality and injury trends across recent years.
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What are the Legal Definitions of Slander and Defamation?
Words matter — and that is never more true than in cases of slander or defamation, when one party’s negative, untrue words about another cause serious harm to their reputation or business. Cases of…
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Senate Bill 98: Fighting Distracted Driving in Louisiana
Louisiana Senate Bill 98 was a 2024 proposal to ban handheld phone use while driving; it failed in the House, but Louisiana enacted a hands-free law the next session — House Bill 519 of 2025 (Act No. 288), effective August 1, 2025. This article covers the SB 98 debate, Louisiana distracted driving statistics, and the hands-free standard now in force.
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Beasley v. O’Reilly Auto Parts: Case Decision
In a recent case called Beasley v. O’Reilly Auto Parts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit declared that to file a lawsuit for failure to accommodate under the Americans with…
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