• 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

  • Case
    Pump failure implicated in plane crashes

    Vacuum pumps, which power cockpit instruments in small airplanes, have contributed to at least 82 deaths in 36 crashes since 1980, including a 1998 crash in New Orleans that killed three Denton County residents, safety reports indicate.

    PublicationStar-Telegram
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    March 2, 2001

  • Case
    Liability of Silence

    A Houston attorney leading the charge against Ford and Firestone knew there was a problem, but couldn’t talk

    Beating big corporations with big verdicts made Richard Mithoff one of the country’s best known product liability attorneys.

    PublicationDetroit Free Press
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    November 7, 2000

  • Case
    Files on tires’ recall must be disclosed in suit, judge rules

    Data between Ford, Firestone included

    Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. has to publicly disclose documents related to its recall of some tires that have been blamed for vehicle crashes, a judge in Houston ruled.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle Metropolitan
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    October 3, 2000

  • Case
    Texas Lawyer: the ticker

    Public Citizen Inc. wants the court to turn down a request from Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone-Firestone Inc. for a protective order that would keep documents in a tire-tread suit private. Public Citizen, a nonprofit public interest group founded by Ralph Nader, filed the amicus curiae brief in a suit filed in state court by a Crosby woman who was injured in an accident in 1999 in a Ford Explorer equipped with Firestone tires.

    PublicationTexas Lawyer
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    September 25, 2000

  • Case
    Group fights Firestone motion

    Crosby litigant gets help in effort to publicize tire problems

    A consumer watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader has gotten behind a Crosby woman’s fight to disclose publicly any information that she gains on Firestone’s tread-separation problems.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle Metropolitan
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    September 19, 2000