Monetary Award for Botched Surgery
A jury ordered Columbia Kingwood Medical Center and two doctors to pay damages for botching a relatively simple back surgery and causing a 42-year-old man severe brain damage.
Suit Names Bus Firm in Colorado Crash; Teen One of Many Hurt After Ski Retreat
A Houston family filed suit stemming from a bus crash in Colorado that killed three people and injured dozens of others traveling on a church-sponsored skiing retreat.
Texas’ Big Guns
The Best in the Southwest: these Longhorn litigators have earned national reputations
Richard Warren Mithoff represents plaintiffs in personal injury, products liability and other cases, and was named Houston’s best civil lawyer by the Houston Press
Supreme Court Backs Release of OSHA Files
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Texas lawsuit has opened the door lawyers of workers injured in industrial accidents to gain access to once-confidential federal investigation documents.
Inside Houston: Hall of Fame
Attorney Richard Mithoff stands out as a good guy in the “Land of the Fee Department.” Mithoff was due to get $20 million from the county as his price for settling a tobacco suit but asked for only half of that, suggesting the other $10 million be used for a children’s health program in Harris County.
Soundly Settled
Houston Chronicle editorial
Healthful tobacco deal a job well done in Harris County
Attorney in tobacco deal reduces fee
Harris County will pay attorney Richard Mithoff $10 million for his work in securing a settlement of Harris’ and other counties’ claims against the tobacco industry.
Tobacco accord appears nearer
Texas’ settlement with the tobacco industry has edged a step closer to completion now that a group of counties and state lawmakers have worked out an agreement that would help counties and hospital districts pay for health care costs related to smoking
New Tobacco Deal Would Would Aid Counties
The tobacco industry will pay damages to Texas’ 254 counties for health care costs associated with smoking under a tentative agreement reached between negotiators for the counties and state lawmakers.