Legal Expertise and Experience You Can Rely On

Mark Holbrook is a seasoned litigator with over 30 years of experience Board Certified in Personal Injury and Civil Trial Law and a Certified Mediator.

Legal Expertise and Experience You Can Rely On

Mark Holbrook is a seasoned litigator with over 30 years of experience Board Certified in Personal Injury and Civil Trial Law and a Certified Mediator.

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Mark Holbrook has been a trial lawyer for more than 30 years. He has handled and settled thousands of individual cases and has coordinated the resolution of thousands of other cases consolidated in different courts around the country.

Mark is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by National Board of Trial Advocates. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, an invitation only national organization of experienced trial lawyers. He is also a Certified Mediator.

With his expertise and experience in litigation, he is able to expertly evaluate each case to maximize the amount of recovery available for his clients. In addition, because of his litigation experience he can bring a unique perspective to dispute resolution and bring together parties seeking an alternative to litigation.

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Mark Holbrook Experience-Dispute Resolution

Hurricane Ike Cases

Thousands of cases were filed in Harris and Galveston counties following Hurricane Ike. Mark served as one of the lead counsels coordinating the litigation and was also liaison and settlement counsel for cases filed against the Texas Windstorm Insurance Agency. Mark coordinated meditations with different law firms on both sides of the docket and personally settled more than 2000 Hurricane Ike cases on various dockets.

FEMA and Hurricane Sandy Cases

Mark was settlement counsel for the consolidated cases filed against FEMA following Hurricane Sandy in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. These were flood cases in which homeowners and businesses alleged the National Flood Insurance Program improperly denied or underpaid their claims. Working with FEMA representatives, Mark developed a program to resolve more than 1200 Hurricane Sandy cases in approximately one year

Transvaginal Mesh Cases

Mark was involved in the negotiation and settlement of more than 14,000 transvaginal mesh cases brought by women against various product manufacturers. These cases were consolidated in Multi-District Litigation in the Southern District of West Virginia. Mark was responsible for overseeing the evaluation of each case to insure it qualified for the litigation. He was directly involved in the negotiations for settlement with each Defendant and negotiated and prepared the terms and settlement agreements with each of the defendant manufacturers. Thereafter, he worked with the Settlement Court to complete the resolution of the cases and disburse the proceeds of the settlements to each claimant as efficiently and expediently as possible.

Other Settlements

Mark coordinated the settlement of more than 600 transvaginal mesh cases with 15 different law firms against Coloplast Corporation in the Multi-District Transvaginal Mesh Litigation in West Virginia. He was also responsible for negotiating and settling more than 1000 Risperdal and Invega product liability cases consolidated in JCCP No. 4775, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. With over 30 years of litigation experience, Mark has also handled and settled thousands of individual personal injury claims involving a wide variety of causes of action from car wrecks to product liability cases.

Certifications

Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Certified in Civil Trial Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy

Certified Mediator

Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates-invitation only National organization of experienced trial lawyers.

Certifications

Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Certified in Civil Trial Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy

Certified Mediator

Practice Areas-Litigation

Defective Product Cases

Many lawsuits have been filed against manufacturers of defective products, such as Roundup herbicides and the 3M Combat Arms Earplugs. If you or someone you know has been harmed by a defective product, we can help you. The three types of product liability claims that may apply to these cases are:

1 Manufacturing Defects – These are errors that were made during the assembly of the product.
2 Design Defects – These are defects that occur during the creation of the product’s design.
3 Marketing Defects – This applies when the manufacturer fails to provide adequate warnings or instructions regarding the proper use of the product.

An injured person should know the basics of these three product liability claims. This way, it will be easier to determine if they have a valid case.

Litigation Involving Drugs and Medical Devices

There have been cases where medical devices, such as IVC filters and transvaginal and hernia meshes, have resulted in complications for users. If you have experienced any harm caused by pharmaceutical drugs or medical products, our team can help you with your case.

Dispute Resolution

If you need help with matters related to dispute resolution, we have you covered. Mark has served as a dispute resolution specialist in many cases. You can rely on him to provide superior mediation and settlement consulting services.

3M Combat Earplugs

From 2003 until 2015 the U.S. military provided its service members defective 3M combat earplugs that were designed and manufactured to protect the hearing of our nation’s service members. However, the earplugs did very little in filtering out harmful noise. As a result, anyone in active duty with the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard was susceptible to partial or total hearing loss, as well as tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

3M sold their Combat Arms Earplugs Version 2 (CAEv2) to each branch of the military between 2003 and 2015. 3M’s CAEv2 earplugs were standard equipment during that time, and the only available option to military personnel for attenuation earplugs.

In July 2018, the Department of Justice announced that 3M had agreed to pay $9.1 million to settle a whistleblower suit accusing 3M of knowingly selling defective earplugs to the U.S. military. The settlement was driven by allegations that 3M, and its predecessor Aearo Technologies Inc., sold the CAEv2 Earplugs to the Defense Logistics Agency knowing they were too short to be properly inserted into a user’s ears.

Approximately 60% of all military personnel report hearing loss after leaving the military. Many cases against 3M for defective earplugs are now being filed by present and former service members. The cases are consolidated in one Multi-District Litigation in the Northern District of Florida.

Serious Side Effects Associated With Defective 3M Combat Earplugs

The side effects reported with the use of 3M Combat Earplugs are:

Partial hearing loss

Total hearing loss

Tinnitus (ringing in the ears – seemingly innocuous but often debilitating and life‑altering)

Contact Us

Did you serve in the military between 2003 – 2015? Did you wear these earplugs? Were you diagnosed by the military as having hearing loss and/or tinnitus? If so, we want to talk to you. Please contact us to see if you have a qualifying case.

What Is Hernia Mesh?

Hernias typically occur when an abdominal organ or intestine bulges through a weakened area in the surrounding tissue or muscle. Most hernias are in the abdominal area but they can also occur in the upper thigh and groin area. Doctors use a screen-like mesh material to repair and reinforce the weakened tissue or muscle that causes the hernia. This material is hernia mesh.
More than 1 million hernia surgeries are performed in the U.S. each year. Many of those patients receive hernia mesh implants. Thousands of people are reporting various complications related to hernia mesh material.

Hernia mesh implants can cause a number of dangerous complications, including:

Chronic pain

Septic shock

Mesh erosion or migration

Hernia recurrence

Infection

Bowel problems

Urinary problems

Neurological problems

Organ perforation

Please Contact Us

If you or someone you love is suffering from complications due to a hernia mesh implant, then we urge you to contact us as soon as possible to investigate your claim. Depending on the circumstances, you may have a legal claim for compensation. Thousands of claims have been filed over complications from hernia mesh implants.

Talcum Powder and Potential Links to Cancer

For decades, researchers have been studying the potential link between ovarian cancer and talcum powder. For years, women have commonly applied talc-based powders to their genital area or “private parts” to keep the area dry and prevent odors.

It is believed that talc powder, when used near the genitals, can travel to the ovaries and become embedded in the ovarian tissue. While talc is a natural mineral, it is extremely difficult for the body to remove the particles and, as a result, inflammation may occur which results in the development of cancer.

The first publication to suggest that talc may cause ovarian cancer was published in 1971. In the study, researchers discovered that a majority of ovarian tumors had talc particles “deeply embedded” in them. In 1982, researchers found that women using talcum powder during ovulation were at a 92 percent increased risk of developing ovarian cancer. Over the next three decades, additional studies were performed which concluded that women using these products near their genitals were at an increased risk for developing ovarian cancer.

To date, both the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society consider talc use near the genitals as a “risk factor” for ovarian cancer. Despite this possible link, Johnson & Johnson and other talc powder manufacturers have not placed warnings about this risk on their products.

Ongoing Litigation

Currently, Johnson & Johnson is facing a number of lawsuits alleging that they failed to warn women about the risk of developing ovarian cancer when using these products near the genitals.

In 2013 a jury found that Johnson & Johnson should have warned women about the risk of developing ovarian cancer when using its talcum and baby powders near the genitals. In that case, the plaintiff alleged that she developed ovarian cancer after using Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower products for nearly 30 years. According to the lawsuit, Johnson & Johnson knew about the link between talc powder and cancer since as early as 1982, when a landmark study found that women using these products were in their genital area were at a 92 percent increased risk of developing ovarian cancer. To date, Johnson & Johnson does not include a waring on it’s talc powders about the risk of developing cancer.

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and you believe it may be due to the use of talcum-based products, call us today to investigate your claim.

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