• Case
    Lawsuit features all-star cast

    Failed entertainment venture pits New York financial firm against Houston power players

    A group of high-profile Houston business leaders are locked in a legal dispute with a major New York-based investment firm over a failed venture to develop entertainment venues.

    PublicationHouston Business Journal
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff.

    Year

    November 14, 2003

  • 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
    State safety mandate little-known and less enforced

    Texas has had a law on the books since 1989 requiring cranes to have insulators that prevent deaths from contact with power lines.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff.

    Year

    September 12, 2003

  • Case
    Bus Company Settles Over Tragic Wreck

    The company that operated a Metropolitan Transit Authority bus involved in a 2001 wreck that caused a 9-year-old girl to burn to death in front of her family has agreed to a settlement, the parents’ attorney said.

    PublicationTyler Morning Telegraph
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    April 5, 2003

  • Case
    NLJ Verdicts 100

    Largest Verdicts of the Year

    A Texas jury awarded damages to the family of a man who died in a rollover accident when his Chevrolet Blazer went out of control after the tread separated on a Bridgestone/Firestone tire.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Year

    February 3, 2003

  • Case
    Families sue doctor, weight loss program / 1 dead, 3 ailing after stomach stapling

    The families of four women, one who died and three who were hospitalized in critical condition, are suing a weight loss program and a Houston doctor for allegedly botched stomach-stapling surgeries.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Year

    August 15, 2002

  • Case
    Families of victims file lawsuit over fallout from bariatric surgery

    The families of four women who suffered complications from bariatric surgery have filed suit against the doctor and two health organizations associated with the surgery, including Highland Medical Center.

    PublicationLubbock Avalanche - Journal
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Year

    August 14, 2002