Patrick Danner

San Antonio

Business Writer at MYSA

Business Writer at The San Antonio Express-News

San Antonio Express-News business writer, covering banking and civil courts. Former Miami Herald reporter.

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Another San Antonio bank linked to Chris Pettit scandal gets lawsuit tossed

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

Another San Antonio bank accused of aiding one-time lawyer Chris Pettit in defrauding his clients out of millions of dollars has gotten the case tossed. Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Craig Gargotta on Wednesday dismissed the lawsuit against Texas Partners Bank, doing business as the Bank of San Antonio, that had been filed by the bankruptcy trustee. Gargotta's ruling comes almost six months after he dismissed a similar lawsuit against San Antonio's Frost Bank.
CPS Energy, city hit with lawsuit over house explosion that injured man

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

A Northwest Side man injured in a Saturday house explosion has filed a negligence lawsuit against CPS Energy and the city of San Antonio seeking more than $1 million in damages. Fabian Xavier Garcia-Wells is represented in the litigation by the same legal team that nearly four months ago won a $109.5 million jury verdict against CPS Energy over a 2021 East Side house explosion that injured a woman and her son. The parties agreed to cap the damages at $60 million, however.
San Antonio claims company that works with USAA faces overtime pay lawsuit

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

A San Antonio insurance claims adjustment firm that works with USAA and other insurers faces a potential class-action lawsuit over overtime pay. Allcat Claims Service LLC and another firm that appears to be related, Prestige Claims Service LLC, allegedly failed to pay overtime wages to claims adjusters in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to the complaint. Mary Heath, who lives in Suwanee, Ga., filed the action last week in federal court in San Antonio.
Buc-ee's files San Antonio federal lawsuit over beaver logo

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

Buc-ee's has brought its dogged campaign to protect its prominent beaver logo to San Antonio. Last week, the Lake Jackson-based operator of gigantic convenience stores filed a federal lawsuit against a San Antonio individual it alleges has been selling stickers, flags and bandannas featuring Texas' most famous furry-faced rodent - Buc-ee's beaver. Buc-ee's Ltd.
Buc-ee's files San Antonio federal lawsuit over beaver logo

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

Buc-ee's has brought its dogged campaign to protect its prominent beaver logo to San Antonio. Last week, the Lake Jackson-based operator of gigantic convenience stores filed a federal lawsuit against a San Antonio individual it alleges has been selling stickers, flags and bandannas featuring Texas' most famous furry-faced rodent - Buc-ee's beaver. Buc-ee's Ltd.
Bill Miller Bar-B-Q hit with yet another law over 'dangerously hot' sauce

3 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

On Thursday, Rose Roque of Bexar County sued the San Antonio restaurant chain alleging "dangerously hot barbecue sauce" spilled on her 4-year-old son, including on his face, causing second-degree burns and other undisclosed injuries. She's seeking more than $1 million in damages. It comes more than four months after a jury awarded $2.8 million to San Antonio teen Genesis Monita after she sustained second-degree burns from barbecue sauce she spilled on her thigh while in her car at a Bill Miller.
San Marcos couple wins $831M jury verdict, but it's no cause for celebration

4 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

It's the largest verdict ever awarded by a jury in San Antonio, but the winners aren't celebrating. "It doesn't change anything," lamented Letty Mendez, whose husband, Blas Mendez Jr., was left incapacitated after a 2021 crash caused by a drunken driver. She knows it won't bring back the man she fell in love with more than three decades ago or undo the damage that has permanently altered the San Marcos couple's lives and those of their three children.
Judge Mary Lou Alvarez receives public reprimand from state commission

1 month ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

In a nine-page public reprimand, the commission rebuked Alvarez for "failing to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law," engaging in conduct that "cast discredit upon the judiciary or the administration of justice" and for "failing to perform her judicial duties without bias or prejudice," among other findings.
Wall Street firm sued over death of San Antonio-area child mauled by pit bulls

1 month ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

A Wall Street firm has been hit with a wrongful-death lawsuit over a dog mauling that killed a 16-month-old boy in October in Converse. The parents of Jiryiah Johnson have sued New York asset management firm Blackstone Inc. and related companies for more than $1 million over the gruesome attack.
Family feud over vast empire heats up with David Herrmann's countersuit

1 month ago | expressnews.com | Patrick Danner

San Antonio businessman David Herrmann is defending his stewardship of his family's vast real estate and investment empire. After his stepmother and half-siblings filed a lawsuit accusing him of "unlawful conduct and self-dealing" in managing the family's assets worth "tens of millions of dollars," David Herrmann has fired back with a countersuit.