When it hired outside lawyers to represent it in lawsuits against the opioid industry, Harris County agreed to pay a contingency fee of 35%, more than double the rate in Dallas County and equal to the highest in the state.
The family of a man who was killed in a collision with an Amtrak train is suing Houston law firm Arnold & Itkin, L.L.P., alleging the defendant secured $240,000 through “illegal and unethical” barratry. Plaintiffs Judy Gauthier, the widow of the late Larry Gauthier; Lucretta Nickerson, his daughter; and his grandchildren Jermaine and Yolanda Gauthier filed a lawsuit against Arnold & Itkin and its principals, attorneys Kurt B.
The Houston law firm Arnold & Itkin recently secured two verdicts rendered against W&T Offshore, reaping $3.5 million in total from the company in a single day.
Only days after a deadly gas leak took the lives of four workers at the DuPont facility in LaPorte, several Beaumont attorneys have filed lawsuits against the company on behalf of victims’ families.
A Harris County man is suing after allegedly suffering a spine injury at work. Fabrice Sitan filed suit July 18 in the Galveston Division of the Southern District of Texas against Epic Diving & Marine Services LLC. According to the complaint, on March 30 Sitan was working for the defendant when he suffered injuries to his spine and body because a boat crew member unexpectedly cut a rope attached
