Austin Flores died April 8 after being injured in a forklift accident at an H-E-B distribution center in San Antonio.
The next day, on what would have been his 28th birthday, his parents hired attorney Mark Braswell to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against H-E-B.
In short order, the Flores family was inundated with phone calls, emails and social media messages offering to connect them with lawyers, even though they already had one. Since then, some of San Antonio’s best-known personal injury law firms, a local charity and former Mayor Julián Castro have been drawn into a controversy over who contacted the Flores family and why…