Car Wreck With Broken Bones

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OUTCOME: $100,000 settlement

Mother and her two children were hit while on the side of a road by a sun-blinded driver and suffered several broken bones. They were life-flighted to nearby hospitals. Unfortunately, the driver only c ... arried $100,000 in insurance, limiting the potential recovery.

Car Wreck With Broken Collar Bone

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OUTCOME: $30,000 settlement with driver; $47,000 settlement with underinsured motorist coverage company

A distracted driver took an illegal left turn in front of a mother and her daughter, causing a head-on collision at approximately thirty miles per hour. The mother's collar bone was broken and required ... surgery. The driver only had the Texas minimum insurance policy of $30,000, but fortunately the mother had underinsured motorist coverage that paid $47,000.

Daughter Stole Father's Money

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OUTCOME: Trial victory awarding $49,999.99 in cashier's checks upheld on appeal

The father had recovered $100,000 in an unrelated personal injury case. Because he did not have his own bank account, he deposited the money into his daughter's bank account. After he broke up with his ... daughter's mother, the daughter took approximately $65,000 dollars and used it to buy cashier's checks for $9,999.99 a piece in an attempt to hide the money. We sued her and physically recovered possession of the cashier's checks remaining after she spent a month of lavish spending.

Disability Discrimination

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OUTCOME: $50,000 settlement

Discrimination by an employer against a severely disabled employee resulting in him leaving his job.

Poor Work by Mechanic

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OUTCOME: $38,000 settlement

Mechanic shop did poor work on two vehicles, causing extensive problems which had to be repaired.

Wrongful Dishonor of Check

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OUTCOME: $45,000 settlement

Defended ball bearing manufacturer accused of manufacturing defective bearings; proved they were counterfeit

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OUTCOME: Client recovered $85,882.55 in damages, plus $16,173.60 in attorneys' fees, from the company selling counterfeit bearings

The counterfeit ball bearings were installed in a pool pump which started a fire in some leaves and burned a house down. The homeowner's insurance company, State Farm, determined that the root cause of ... the fire were the bearings installed in the pool pump. They sued the repair men who installed the bearings, the company that sold the repair men the bearings, and my client, the manufacturer of the bearings. Their case was dismissed by the judge without a trial after we proved the bearings were counterfeits. We then sued the company that sold the counterfeit bearings for causing the bearing manufacturer to be embroiled in an expensive, time-consuming lawsuit and won a total of $102,056.15

Claim by widow to recover a retirement account her husband had given away to his brother before his death

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OUTCOME: $238,117.57 recovered by settlement

The widow's husband had taken his income during his life (which is community property, jointly owned by the spouses) and gave all of it to his brother right before he died. That is a fraud on the estat ... e, meaning that the wife's 50% interest has essentially been stolen by her husband's brother. Even though the husband has a right to give away his 50%, he cannot give away 100% of their community property.