Law Firms Provost Umphrey and Williams Hart successful in reaching agreement for Houston-area man in negligence lawsuit CenterPoint Energy has reached a confidential settlement with an electrical contractor who suffered life-changing injuries from an electrocution at a company substation.                                               Provost Umphrey Equity Partners Joe Fisher,...

Provost Umphrey attorneys represent electrical tower climber in workplace injury lawsuit HOUSTON – District Court Judge Cory Sepolio entered a $16 million final judgment Monday in a lawsuit on behalf of Garett Wilder, an IBEW Local 66 member and former tower climber who suffered life-altering injuries after falling 50 feet from a CenterPoint Energy electrical pole. In August, a Harris County jury found CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC, joint and severally liable, for injuries that the...

A jury in Houston awarded IBEW Local 66 member and Provost Umphrey client Garett Wilder $15.4 million for life-altering injuries he suffered after falling 50 feet from a CenterPoint electrical pole.

Texas linemen involved in industrial accident leaving one dead and another critically injured outside Mount Belvieu after crane basket dropped over 100 feet to the ground

By Joe Fisher If you’ve taken a major highway in Texas such as I-10 or I-35 anytime within the last 50 years, you know there’s a good amount of construction taking place. With that in mind, let’s consider a hypothetical situation. A group of workers is building an on-ramp, and the construction site is crowded with all the vehicles and equipment you would expect to see in a project like this. One worker, operating a front loader, puts the vehicle in park and gets out to take a short break. For...

Jurors have returned a $4.8 million verdict against Greenville, Pennsylvania-based Werner Co., finding the ladder company liable for the faulty design and marketing of an aluminum ladder that collapsed, permanently injuring a Lewisville man.The jury in Denton County District Court determined that the company knew of problems with the Werner Model 354 Type II ladder and was negligent in not warning consumers of the risks when using it. The jury deliberated for a day and a half before reaching...

A jury in Washington state awarded a Texas resident $19.19 million for life-altering injuries he suffered after falling 25 feet in an attempt to escape the basket of a defectively designed Genie boom lift. Jurors found Genie Industries Inc., owned by Terex (NYSE: TEX), liable for faulty design and defective operating mechanisms of the trailer-mounted boom lift used by Jason McNeal, 43, of Silsbee, Texas, who was injured. The jury deliberated for a day and a half before returning its verdict in...

​On July 26, 2017 KFDM’s Angel San Juan aired his investigative story about the Nederland Clinic, Optimum Medical Weight Control and Family Wellness. San Juan’s story featured an interview with Provost Umphrey’s Christopher Kirchmer, the attorney representing two families hoping to sue Optimum.