Richard Fass
I formed The Fass Law Firm in 2019 to represent people who need compassionate, zealous representation. For almost two decades, I primarily represented defendants and insurance companies. In 2011, I made the decision to represent real people – those who are harmed by others and need a lawyer whose only goal is to do the right thing for his clients. Sometimes the right thing is to settle a case for a value that fairly compensates my clients. Other times, the right thing is to try the case to a jury. No cases are identical. I try to determine what is in each client’s best interests and develop a strategy that will maximize his or her recovery in the most efficient way.
I find great personal and professional satisfaction in holding others accountable for harming my clients and providing funding for future medical and economic needs as a result of that harm. I have represented hundreds of people in my career and successfully obtained verdicts and settlements on behalf of my clients. My practice focuses on personal injury cases, primarily workplace and industrial accidents, transportation (trucking, automobile and motorcycle collisions), medical malpractice and victims of clergy sexual abuse. I represent clients throughout Texas and New Mexico.
Representative Cases:
Workplace Injuries
- Successfully arbitrated a non-subscriber case for a client who was injured in a Central Texas plant. The plant did not subscribe to worker’s compensation insurance. The workplace injury plan required our client to try the case in an arbitration proceeded. Obtained a substantial award for the client following a three-day arbitration.
- Successfully arbitrated a non-subscriber case for a client who was injured in a Houston hospital. The hospital did not subscribe to worker’s compensation insurance. The workplace injury plan required our client to try the case in an arbitration proceeding. Obtained a substantial award on behalf of the injured employee following a week-long arbitration.
- Obtained a confidential settlement for the family of a man who was killed while working for an excavation company
- Obtained a confidential settlement for the family of a man who was killed while working in a plant in Harris County, Texas
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who was injured while working at a large retail store
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who was injured in a Texas Panhandle commercial tire facility
- Represented and achieved confidential settlements for clients injured in manufacturing facilities and machine shops
- Obtained a confidential settlement on behalf of a client who was injured while working on a vessel in navigable waters of the coast of Texas
Transportation
- Represented and obtained settlements on behalf of many clients in motor vehicle collisions throughout Texas. My clients’ injuries have included Traumatic Brain Injuries, orthopedic and neurologic spine injuries, broken bones, facial trauma, and damage to vital organs.
- Obtained a verdict on behalf of a teenager injured in a rear-end collision in Harris County, Texas
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle collision
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who, along with her children, were injured in a collision Harris County, Texas
- Obtained a confidential settlement on behalf of a client who was riding a bicycle when he was struck by a motor vehicle
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who was injured when the car in which he was a passenger collided with a cow in the roadway
- Obtained confidential settlements on behalf of pedestrians struck by motor vehicles
Clergy Abuse
- Represented many victims of clergy abuse in several religious diocese throughout the country and obtained confidential settlements on their behalf.
Medical Malpractice
- Obtained a medical malpractice verdict in Jefferson County, Texas, that was ranked in the Top 10 in the State of Texas in 2012
- Obtained a confidential settlement for the family of a child who suffered brain damage during childbirth at a Central Texas hospital
- Obtained a confidential settlement for the family of a child who suffered brain damage during surgery at a South Texas hospital
- Obtained a confidential settlement for the family of a child who suffered brain damage during childbirth at a Houston, Texas, hospital
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who suffered Wernicke’s Encephalopathy following bariatric surgery
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who suffered nerve damage following cervical injections
- Obtained confidential settlements for several families of mothers who died during childbirth
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who suffered permanent damage from failure to timely diagnose a stroke
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who was harmed by a retained surgical sponge
- Represented a woman who was sexually assaulted by a medic
- Obtained a confidential settlement on behalf of a client from a doctor who operated on the wrong body part
- Obtained a confidential settlement for the parent of a child who aspirated during surgery and died.
- Obtained a confidential settlement on behalf of the family of a woman who died during surgery
Other Cases
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who was injured when an elevator failed and crashed to the lower level of a structure
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who was assaulted in the parking lot of a retail shopping center
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a child who was mauled by a dog
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who was injured in a go-cart wreck
- Obtained a confidential settlement for a client who was injured at a swimming pool in his living complex
