• Case
    Accident’s cost hits Texas City refineries’ bottom line

    Victims’ lawyers say funds set aside by the firm makes sense

    Four months after an explosion rocked Texas City refinery, the financial impact of the incident has finally reverberated to the energy giant’s bottom line.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Result

    Tens of Millions

    Year

    July 27, 2005

  • Case
    Texas City Refinery To Pay Millions To Families In Blast

    Settlements of claims come as allegations of mismanagement dog the oil giant

    Oil giant has agreed to pay several families of those killed in the deadly Texas City refinery explosions to settle wrongful death claims, sources familiar with the cases said.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    June 23, 2005

  • Case
    Lawsuit is settled in sugar mill blast

    A worker who was seriously burned in a sugar plant explosion five years ago and the company responsible for installing an anti-explosion system at the facility have reached a settlement.

    PublicationCity & State
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Year

    October 25, 2003

  • Case
    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.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    January 20, 1999

  • Case
    Families of blast victims sue plant for negligence

    Suit: Dangerous conditions caused deaths

    Families of three victims of a northwest Houston plant explosion sued the company for negligence, contending that dangerous conditions caused their deaths and those of five other employees.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    October 25, 1997

  • Case
    Plant blast preventable, probers say Wyman-Gordon fined $1.8 million

    A December nitrogen tank blast that killed eight men at a northwest Harris County metal-forging plant “could and should have been prevented,” a federal investigation has found.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    June 19, 1997