• Case
    Medical verdict in Botched Back Surgery

    A Kingwood hospital and two of its doctors were ordered by a jury to pay a family harmed by the doctors in the first known verdict in the state finding a hospital malicious for retaining a physician on its staff.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    April 12, 2000

  • Case
    Hospital, doctors liable in malpractice suit

    In an unprecedented jury decision, a Kingwood hospital and two of its doctors were found guilty of malice and ordered to pay damages to a local man, following surgery which left him incapacitated.

    PublicationHumble Observer & Sun
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Result

    $40.6 Million

    Year

    April 12, 2000

  • Case
    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.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    April 8, 2000

  • 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
    Drug use scandal exposes hospitals

    One tragically misplaced epidural anesthetic shot could force a Lubbock hospital to take the lead on an issue that haunts physicians and every other American profession — drug abuse.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    July 20, 1997

  • Case
    Lubbock Hospital Will Police Doctors For Drug and Alcohol Abuse

    A Texas hospital, owned by the nation’s second largest for-profit chain, agreed to police its doctors for drug and alcohol abuse and to ask the state Legislature to review laws that keep secret the disciplinary procedures against doctors.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    July 10, 1997