Caddell & Chapman was lead counsel for the mother and father of a 23 year old man who suffocated to death when he became engulfed in grain while working at the Port Elevator grain facility in Brownsville, Texas. The employer failed to take adequate safety precautions or provide safety equipment which would have prevented Mr. Casados’ death. The family elected to try the case to a jury when Port Elevator offered only $50,000 to settle …
Caddell & Chapman was co-lead counsel in the largest consumer property damage case in history, in which over $1.2 billion (total attorneys’ fees: $42,230,000; litigation expenses: $536,000) was recovered from Shell and Celanese. Beginning in the late 1970s, Shell Oil worked with Celanese and DuPont in the development and marketing of a polybutylene plumbing (PB) system. The pipes were made of polybutylene, which is a resin by-product of a Shell oil-refining process, and the fittings …
In Edinburg, Texas, Michael Caddell and John Scofield prosecuted claims against a deceased man’s employer, after the company’s grossly negligent policies and business practices had endangered the man’s health and ultimately caused his death by electrocution. The Firm obtained a favorable settlement for the worker’s family.…
In Houston, Texas, John Scofield successfully represented the family of a man who was killed in an automobile-pedestrian accident. The 165th Judicial District Court in Harris County approved the settlement, which included recoveries for the man’s surviving minor daughters.…