Thomas & Wan, LLP has recovered more than $150M+ for clients in Houston and across Texas. Below are representative results in medical malpractice, birth injury, surgical error, and related cases.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, therapy, supportive services, lost earning capacity, and long-term financial security.
Just days after delivering her baby, our client returned to the hospital complaining of the “worst headache of her life,” severe neck pain, and dangerously elevated blood pressure—classic red flags for a neurological emergency. Despite these symptoms and her diagnosis of severe preeclampsia, physicians failed to order brain or vascular imaging before discharging her home.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for lifelong care, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term financial security for the child and his family.
The evidence showed the fetal monitoring strips demonstrated repeated late decelerations, prolonged decelerations, absent variability, and other classic warning signs of oxygen deprivation for hours before delivery. Despite these alarming findings, the nursing staff failed to timely notify the obstetrician or intervene to deliver the baby.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for lifelong medical care, therapy, nursing support, adaptive equipment, home modifications, and long-term financial security.
The evidence showed prolonged decelerations, minimal variability, and other clear signs of fetal distress were repeatedly missed or ignored, delaying the emergency delivery that could have prevented permanent brain injury. As a result of the delayed C-section, our client suffered severe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), cerebral palsy, profound neurological injury, developmental impairment, feeding difficulties, and lifelong disability.
✓ Through settlement, we secured compensation designed to provide financial support, medical care, therapy, adaptive equipment, and long-term resources for the rest of our client's life. While no result can undo what happened, the resolution helps ensure our client will have the support and care she needs for the future.
The evidence showed missed warning signs of fetal distress and delays in recognizing and responding to a baby in need of urgent intervention, leading to severe neurological injury. Through settlement, we secured compensation designed to provide financial support, medical care, therapy, adaptive equipment, and long-term resources for the rest of our client's life.
✓ Resolved in our client’s favor
Our clients went to the hospital expecting a healthy delivery. During labor, warning signs on the fetal heart monitor showed their baby was not getting enough oxygen.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, pain management, household assistance, rehabilitation, and long-term financial support.
What began as a small puncture wound after a motorcycle accident developed into a severe, life-threatening infection over the course of several weeks. Despite worsening redness, swelling, drainage, tissue destruction, elevated infection markers, and obvious signs of a serious infection, providers repeatedly misdiagnosed the condition and failed to admit our client for emergency treatment with IV antibiotics and surgical intervention.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, cardiac treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term financial support.
Our client arrived at the hospital with chest pain and rising cardiac troponin levels indicating ongoing heart muscle damage. Cardiology providers recognized he likely needed an urgent cardiac catheterization and recommended he remain NPO for the procedure.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, rehabilitation, supportive services, lost earning capacity, and long-term financial security.
Our client arrived at the hospital with classic stroke symptoms, including confusion, slurred speech, weakness, and difficulty walking. Although his symptoms briefly improved, they quickly returned while he remained in the hospital under medical observation.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation for the surviving family members and held the healthcare providers accountable for this preventable death.
The evidence showed the patient was placed on continuous telemetry and pulse oximetry monitoring while admitted to a specialty hospital for rehabilitation. However, the telemetry system malfunctioned, leaving him unmonitored for an extended period of time.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for medical care, rehabilitation, pain management, and long-term financial support.
After undergoing a successful femoral-popliteal bypass surgery, our client's large leg incisions were transferred from the ICU to a hospital floor where the protective surgical dressings were removed and not replaced. While bedridden and suffering from severe diarrhea, her open wounds became contaminated after repeated episodes of stooling in bed.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for lifelong care, rehabilitation, medical treatment, and long-term financial security for the child and his family.
The evidence showed the child arrived at the emergency department alive but critically ill with dangerously low oxygen levels and inadequate breathing. Despite the obvious airway emergency, providers delayed intubation and failed to properly oxygenate him while his condition rapidly deteriorated.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, rehabilitation, lost earning capacity, and long-term financial support.
The evidence showed the patient initially sought treatment for what was believed to be a severe ankle sprain. Instead of conservative treatment, the podiatrist performed an aggressive surgical procedure that involved cutting through major weight-bearing bones in the ankle.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical treatment, therapy, home assistance, lost earning capacity, and long-term financial security.
The evidence showed the physician performed cervical injections under sedation, preventing the patient from warning him of spinal cord pain during the procedure. The physician also failed to properly use fluoroscopy and failed to use contrast dye to confirm safe needle placement before injecting medication into the spinal cord.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, advanced prosthetics, rehabilitation, home modifications, and long-term financial security.
The evidence showed the physician failed to use ultrasound guidance—the accepted standard of care—and inserted the catheter using anatomical landmarks despite the patient being critically ill, morbidly obese, and in shock. After placement, the physician failed to properly verify that the catheter was in the vein before powerful vasopressor medications were infused.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for lifelong medical care, rehabilitation, mobility equipment, lost earning capacity, and long-term financial support.
Our client initially sought medical care after a work injury causing arm pain and numbness. Over time, his symptoms rapidly worsened and progressed to numbness across his chest, pain and numbness in his foot and hand, and neurological symptoms consistent with spinal cord compression.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, treatment, pain management, and long-term financial support.
The evidence showed the physician used the VenaSeal Closure System to seal a vein that was not diseased, allowing the medical adhesive to migrate into the deep venous system and completely block major veins in the leg. Shortly after the procedure, our client developed severe swelling, discoloration, pain, and extensive deep vein thrombosis (DVT) involving the femoral and popliteal veins.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation for the surviving spouse and children and held the responsible healthcare providers accountable for a preventable death.
The evidence showed our client was at extremely high risk for developing dangerous blood clots after surgery and physicians ordered sequential compression devices (SCDs) to prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT). However, hospital staff repeatedly allowed the devices to remain off for extended periods of time without notifying physicians or ensuring alternative blood clot prevention measures were used.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, treatment, pain management, and long-term financial support.
During what should have been a routine pain management procedure, the physician advanced the needle into the spinal cord and injected medication directly into the cord itself, causing devastating neurological injury. The evidence showed our client experienced immediate, severe pain during the injection and rapidly developed numbness, weakness, and neurological deficits.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation for the family and held the responsible healthcare providers accountable for a preventable death.
Our client's mother was admitted to a rehabilitation hospital after routine gallbladder surgery. Despite multiple risk factors for developing dangerous blood clots—including recent surgery, immobility, obesity, and advanced age—she was never properly assessed for venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk and was not provided adequate blood clot prevention measures.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, rehabilitation, adaptive equipment, attendant care, and long-term financial security.
Our client arrived at the hospital with classic red-flag symptoms, including severe low back pain, inability to walk, worsening numbness, and progressive urinary retention. Despite clear signs of spinal cord compression, hospital providers failed to obtain an urgent MRI, delayed neurosurgical treatment, and allowed the condition to worsen over several days.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, rehabilitation, adaptive equipment, attendant care, and long-term financial security.
What began as a routine hospitalization for diabetes turned into a life-changing spinal cord injury after nurses and physicians failed to recognize and properly treat a serious MRSA infection. The evidence showed hospital staff failed to properly monitor and report signs of an infected IV site, delaying critical treatment with the antibiotics necessary to stop the infection from spreading.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical treatment, supportive care, rehabilitation, and long-term financial security.
The evidence showed the patient developed a sudden, severe 10/10 headache while hospitalized on a Heparin drip after suffering a fall and head injury. Despite clear warning signs of an intracranial hemorrhage, nurses delayed notifying the physician and the treating doctor failed to come to bedside, order a repeat CT scan, or stop the blood thinner.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, pain management, rehabilitation, lost earning capacity, and long-term financial support.
During the procedure, the surgeon intended to harvest a tendon graft but instead harvested a significant portion of the median nerve, causing devastating and permanent nerve damage. The injury was not recognized during surgery and remained undiagnosed for months, delaying any opportunity for timely repair.
✓ Through litigation, we held the responsible healthcare providers accountable and secured a successful resolution for the family.
Following an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), our client developed severe difficulty swallowing, choking, coughing, hoarseness, and an inability to eat or drink—classic warning signs of an esophageal injury. Although physicians suspected an esophageal perforation and ordered swallow studies to rule it out, the tests were never successfully completed, and no additional imaging was performed before our client was discharged to a rehabilitation facility.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical treatment, prosthetics, rehabilitation, lost earning capacity, and long-term financial security.
The evidence showed our client repeatedly reported worsening pain, numbness, weakness, and loss of motor function while imaging confirmed multiple arterial blockages cutting off circulation to his leg. Despite these emergency findings, treatment to restore blood flow was significantly delayed.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for lifelong medical care, rehabilitation, nursing support, and long-term financial security.
The evidence showed hospital providers failed to properly monitor and replace essential nutrients while our client was receiving parenteral nutrition, causing a severe thiamine deficiency that led to Wernicke's encephalopathy, a preventable neurological condition that can cause irreversible brain injury if not promptly recognized and treated. Despite obvious warning signs—including abnormal eye movements, confusion, weakness, and coordination problems—the condition went unrecognized until our client suffered devastating neurological damage.
✓ Through the settlement, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, pain management, rehabilitation, and long-term financial support.
During the procedure, the surgeon severed the median nerve, causing chronic pain, numbness, weakness, loss of hand function, and permanent impairment. The evidence showed the nerve injury was not recognized during surgery, delaying critical treatment and repair.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, treatment, lost earning capacity, and long-term financial support.
During what should have been a routine multi-vessel bypass procedure, all of the bypass grafts failed within 24 hours of surgery, causing devastating and irreversible damage to our client's heart. The evidence showed the surgeon used a high-risk “off-pump” bypass technique on a beating heart despite severe and diffuse coronary artery disease, resulting in poor grafting and clotting of the vessels.
✓ Through litigation, we secured compensation on behalf of her children and family for the devastating loss of their mother and sole caregiver.
While hospitalized, our client was identified as being at high risk for developing a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism. Despite multiple risk factors and warning signs, appropriate blood clot prevention measures were not properly implemented, monitored, or enforced.
✓ Through settlement, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, pain management, rehabilitation, and long-term financial support.
During what should have been a routine procedure before foot surgery, the anesthesiologist injected anesthetic directly into the nerve instead of near the nerve, causing severe and permanent neurological injury. The evidence showed the injection caused direct trauma to the sciatic and tibial nerves, resulting in chronic burning pain, weakness, drop foot, hypersensitivity, swelling, and long-term functional impairment.
✓ Through settlement, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, pain management, lost earning capacity, and long-term financial support.
During what should have been a routine cochlear implant procedure, the surgeon disconnected and tied off a functioning VP shunt without first confirming whether the shunt was working or obtaining informed consent for the procedure. As a result, our client developed acute hydrocephalus requiring emergency brain surgery, multiple shunt revisions, prolonged hospitalization, infection, severe chronic pain, and significant vision loss.
✓ Through litigation, we held the responsible parties accountable and obtained a successful resolution for our client.
Based on that diagnosis, he was referred to hospice care, placed on powerful narcotic medications, and lived for years believing he was dying. Despite clear signs that his condition was not progressing as expected, additional testing and follow-up imaging were not performed.
✓ Through settlement, we secured compensation for our client's additional medical treatment, pain and suffering, physical impairment, and recovery from an injury that should never have happened.
Following what should have been a routine procedure, the patient developed ongoing pain, bleeding, drainage, and a serious infection that continued for months before the true cause was discovered. A second surgery revealed that a surgical sponge had been left behind during the original operation despite documentation stating sponge counts were correct.
✓ Through settlement, we secured compensation to help provide lifelong financial support, future medical care, therapy, specialized services, and long-term security for our client and her family. While no result can reverse the harm, the resolution helps ensure she has resources available for the future.
Despite multiple warning signs and opportunities to perform additional testing and treatment, the child's condition went unrecognized until she suffered catastrophic complications. The delayed diagnosis led to severe medical deterioration, including cardiac arrest and permanent brain injury requiring extensive treatment, rehabilitation, and ongoing medical care.
✓ As a result of the injury, our client suffered permanent weakness, chronic pain, loss of function, and long-term neurological impairment. Through settlement, we secured compensation to help provide for future medical care, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term financial support.
During what should have been a routine pain management procedure, medication was injected directly into our client's spinal cord, causing devastating and permanent neurological injuries. The evidence showed that the procedure was performed while our client was under deeper sedation than safety standards allow for this type of injection, preventing her from responding when the needle entered the spinal cord.
✓ Secured financial compensation designed to help provide for our client's future medical care
During what should have been a routine treatment, the wrong medication solution was prepared and administered, resulting in permanent spinal cord injury, paralysis, severe nerve damage, and lifelong medical needs. Through the settlement, we secured financial compensation designed to help provide for our client's future medical care, rehabilitation, adaptive needs, and long-term financial security for the rest of his life.
✓ The jury returned a verdict in favor of our client
Our client, a hardworking real estate appraiser, suffered a horrific arm injury after falling through a rotten wooden deck during a routine property inspection. He arrived at the hospital with extensive skin loss, contaminated soft tissue injury, and a large expanding hematoma after being exposed to dirt, debris, and rotting wood.
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