Aldous Law
About the firm
Aldous Law is a Dallas plaintiffs' trial firm founded by Charla G. Aldous that handles personal injury, medical malpractice, birth injury, product liability, and wrongful death cases throughout Texas. The firm has secured verdicts and settlements totaling hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of injured clients and their families.
Notable results
A Dallas County jury returned one of the largest medical-malpractice verdicts in the country after a teenager with cerebral palsy died at Medical City Dallas when hospital staff administered multiple times the appropriate dose of the anesthetic propofol following a routine airway procedure.
A Dallas jury awarded $71.95 million to the widow and four children of electrician Hernan Murillo, killed at an Irving Frito-Lay warehouse in 2019 when a boom lift struck his elevated scissor lift.
A Dallas jury awarded $37.6 million in February 2019 to Sarah Milburn, left quadriplegic after a 2015 Uber crash, after finding Honda's two-part third-row seat belt design so counterintuitive that fewer than one in ten unfamiliar users could operate it correctly; the Texas Supreme Court reversed the judgment in 2024 on statutory presumption grounds.
A Denton County jury awarded $32 million in February 2019 to a woman who was sexually assaulted at age 14 after two Hebron High School football players spiked her drink at a 2012 party, neither of whom had ever faced criminal charges.
Barbara Dalby, an Odessa proposal specialist and mother of three, secured a $30 million settlement against Hunt Oil after one of the company's intoxicated employees struck her head-on in 2019, leaving her with permanent spinal injuries and unable to work.
A Dallas County jury awarded $25 million to the mother of Jerry Brown Jr., a Dallas Cowboys practice-squad player killed when his teammate Josh Brent drove drunk at more than twice the legal limit, after finding that Beamers nightclub had over-served Brent alcohol before the fatal crash.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.




