We Handle Complex Cases

Carabin Shaw has built its practice on complex damage cases handled with commitment, precision, and effectiveness. The firm represents plaintiffs in cases involving serious injuries to individuals and families, consumers who are victims of fraud or unfair business practices, substantial business disputes, and environmental damage matters. The breadth of that practice reflects the full range of situations in which negligence, misconduct, and wrongdoing cause real harm — and the diverse legal expertise required to address them. More on this website.

Personal Injury and Professional Liability Practice Areas

Automobile and truck accidents account for many of the most serious personal injury and wrongful death cases handled throughout Texas. Motor vehicle accidents may involve negligence by another driver, a trucking company, or a government entity responsible for unsafe road conditions. Commercial truck cases require specialized knowledge of federal motor carrier regulations, electronic logging device data, and multi-party liability structures that go beyond standard car accident claims. Injured victims and their families deserve fair and complete compensation for injuries, lost wages, medical expenses, and all other documented damages.

Medical, hospital, and professional negligence claims represent another core area of the firm’s practice. Experienced trial lawyers handle professional malpractice law across multiple disciplines. In the medical malpractice field, legal and medical professionals work together to help clients determine whether an injury or the death of a loved one resulted from negligence or misconduct by hospitals, nursing homes, surgeons, physicians, or other healthcare providers. The firm also handles professional malpractice in other fields, including accounting malpractice and liability claims against builders, contractors, and architects whose professional failures caused financial or physical harm.

Product Liability and Aviation Accidents

Product liability litigation involves serious injury, death, or economic loss caused by defective products — industrial and farm equipment, motor vehicles, machinery and tools, medical devices, pharmaceutical products, recreational equipment, herbicides, and tobacco products among them. For decades, the firm has successfully litigated against some of the world’s largest manufacturers of automobiles, machinery, equipment, and drugs. These cases require extensive expert testimony, thorough investigation of product design and manufacturing processes, and legal strategy capable of matching the resources that major corporate defendants bring to their defense.

Aviation accident cases involve a unique combination of technical complexity and catastrophic consequences. The firm utilizes the experience of an in-house instrument-rated pilot alongside expert consultants in handling cases involving injuries and death resulting from aircraft crashes. This specialized expertise allows aviation accident cases to be investigated and litigated with the precision the technical subject matter demands.

FELA, Jones Act, and Maritime Workers

Railroad employees and their families have been a part of the firm’s practice since its founding. Under the Federal Employers Liability Act, injured railroad workers have legal remedies that differ substantially from standard workers’ compensation — including the right to sue the railroad directly for negligence. The firm has represented railroad employees in injury, disability, and wrongful death cases arising from employment, and has litigated matters involving railroad crossing accidents and train derailments. FELA cases are complex federal litigation that requires attorneys who understand both the statute and the operational realities of the railroad industry.

Jones Act representation extends similar federal protections to seamen and river workers injured during the course of employment. This federal statute authorizes the recovery of damages for maritime workers hurt on the job and provides remedies for the families of those killed. The firm’s experience with maritime law and its intersection with state personal injury law ensures that these workers and their families pursue every available category of recovery.

Complex Business Disputes and Consumer Litigation

The firm’s commercial litigation practice is as extensive as its personal injury work. The firm’s principals have been named among the Best Lawyers in the area of commercial litigation. The firm has represented shareholders in securities and derivative actions; banks in insurance coverage litigation and commercial disputes; individuals in claims against banks and financial institutions; farmers in actions against manufacturers of defective seeds and herbicides and against the federal government in farm program disputes; small and large businesses in complex commercial matters; cities, school districts, and public entities in actions against product and service providers; and businesses and consumers in antitrust actions.

Consumer litigation represents another significant practice area. The firm represents consumers — including classes of consumers — damaged by deceptive or unfair trade practices, violations of state or federal statutes, fraud, and other wrongful acts that cause economic harm. Specialty litigation rounds out the commercial side, covering select matters involving unique complex issues with substantial damages at stake.

Additional Practice Areas

Beyond the primary areas above, the firm handles pedestrian accidents, recreational accidents, dog bite and animal attack injuries, environmental injuries including asbestos and mesothelioma exposure to toxic substances, damage to property and businesses, and insurance bad faith and fraud claims. The common thread across all of these practice areas is the firm’s commitment to representing people and entities who have been harmed by others’ negligence, misconduct, or willful wrongdoing — and pursuing full accountability through the legal system. Complex cases require lawyers with the experience, resources, and determination to see them through, and Carabin Shaw brings all three to every matter it accepts.