• Case
    A Sense of Empathy: Noted Personal Injury Attorney is Representing Harris County in its Case Against Volkswagen

    Richard Mithoff Has Championed the Causes of Consumers, Workers

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff.

    Year

    August 7, 2016

  • Case
    Family of Americans killed in Air France Air Bus crash sue

    The families of two Americans killed in the crash of an Air France air bus flight off the coast of South America in June filed a lawsuit claiming the airline and the plane’s various manufacturers knew the aircraft had defective parts that could have caused the accident.

    PublicationThe Seattle Times
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    September 30, 2009

  • Case
    Rita bus fire families settle for millions

    Victims’ kin hope award brings ‘closure’ and changes in safety

    Nearly four years after 23 Bellaire nursing home residents died in a fiery bus while evacuating from Hurricane Rita, their families have reached a settlement.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Result

    $80 Million

    Year

    June 5, 2009

  • Case
    Suit blames copter crash on windshield, speed

    The latest lawsuit filed after a January oilfield helicopter crash in a Terrebonne marsh killed eight people alleges that a replacement windshield and the negligence of the aircraft’s owner and manufacturer are to blame.

    PublicationHouma Today
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    May 9, 2009

  • Case
    Family: Side airbags in son’s car failed

    In December, emergency crews arrived in Simonton to find Charles Tovar’s 2005 Toyota Prius in a ditch. Family claims the airbags designed to keep their son safe failed. He was only 19 years old.

    PublicationKHOU11 NEWS
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff.

    Year

    December 18, 2008

  • Case
    Families, nursing home reach settlement in 2005 bus fire

    The families of 23 elderly residents of a Bellaire nursing home who died in a bus fire near Dallas while evacuating from Hurricane Rita two years ago have reached a settlement with the owners of the nursing home, attorneys in Houston confirmed.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Year

    September 25, 2007

  • Case
    Lawsuits over faulty hips settled

    Ohio company to pay recipients of artificial joints

    The medical manufacturer that recalled 40,000 faulty artificial hips in December 2000 — thousands of them already implanted in patients — has agreed to pay damages to settle law suits, attorneys announced.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle - Metropolitan
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    February 5, 2002