Thomas W. Pirtle (Laminack, Pirtle & Martines, Houston, TX) has won a number of ground-breaking verdicts in cases involving defective medical devices and pharmaceutical products. Mr. Pirtle has served as trial counsel in a number of ground-breaking cases including some of the first jury verdicts awarding damages to women injured by silicone breast implants and a record setting historical verdict awarded to the family of a woman who died as a result of her ingestion of the "fen-phen" diet drug combination.
