Meet Your Legal Team
Houston personal injury lawyers serving clients nationwide
Partner / Attorney
Jim M. Perdue, Jr. is a partner in PERDUE & KIDD, with a...
Partner / Attorney
Donald Kidd has over 30 years of legal experience and is Board...
Attorney
Scott Frase is an experienced trial attorney, with a record of successful...
Of Counsel
Jim M. Perdue, Sr. is Of Counsel to Perdue & Kidd. Mr. Perdue...
Our CREDENTIALS
We are Experienced, Trusted, & Committed to Our Clients
Practice Areas
Trusted Personal Injury Lawyers, Here to Serve You
Commercial Motor Vehicle Accidents involving 18-wheelers or other...
Automobile Defect/Crashworthiness Automobile defect and crashworthiness...
Case Victories
We Get Our Clients The Case Results They Deserve
Premises Liability
Trial Verdict: 18 Wheeler crash in Cuero, Texas, resulting in our client suffering life threatening injuries and becoming...
Policy Limits
Medical Malpractice: Confidential Settlement–Client suffered injuries to her bladder during a cystoscopy—Settled for...
Premises Liability
Settlement: Medical Negligence: Jim Perdue, Jr. and Don Kidd represented a dentist who suffered neurologic deficits following...
Product Liability
Motor Vehicle Collision: After a T-bone collision with a commercial vehicle, our client sustained a severe neck injury requiring...
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Motorcycle Collision: We settled a claim on behalf of the family of a man who was killed when his motorcycle was struck...
Wrongful Death
Worker’s Compensation Non-Subscriber: We obtained an arbitration award on behalf of a hospital employee who was injured...
Policy Limits
Negligent Supervision: Perdue & Kidd represented the family of a teenage girl who died in a home for girls. We obtained...
Policy Limits
Pharmacy Error: Confidential Settlement – The firm settled the claim of a five-year-old boy who was rushed to the hospital...
Premises Liability
Injury on a zip line: Our client suffered a fractured femur when she was on a zip line excursion from a cruise ship in the...
Accidental Shooting
Accidental Shooting Death: Confidential Settlement – Our client was a mother whose only son was accidentally shot and...
Premises Liability
Trial verdict – Wrongful Death: Donald Kidd and Jim Perdue, Jr. represented the widow and children of an immigrant laborer...
Policy Limits
Policy limits settlement – Outpatient Medical Procedure Resulted in Massive Brain Damage: The firm reached a policy...
Sexual Assault
Trial verdict – Sexual Assault Trial: On June 11, 2008, Jim Perdue Jr. , with his co-counsel Paul D. Clote, obtained...
Premises Liability
Transvaginal Mesh Trial Against Boston Scientific: Perdue & Kidd attorney Jim Perdue, Jr. led the trial team representing...
Product Liability
Premises Liability: We represented a client who was injured by a defective condition at a swimming pool in his apartment...
Wrongful Death
GM Trailblazer rollover: The firm represented the surviving parents of a teenage boy tragically killed when the SUV manufactured...
Policy Limits
Hunting Accident: Perdue & Kidd attorneys Don Kidd successfully represented our client who was shot in the leg at...
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So, you’ve been in an accident. Your phone is ringing off the hook. The insurance adjuster is offering to put money in your pocket but it will require you to sign a release dropping all the claims you...
Social media has grown exponentially in the last decade and is a routine part of many people’s lives. It allows people to share their experiences, connect with others, and promote themselves and their...
Employees covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must receive overtime pay for time worked over forty (40) hours per workweek of at least one and a half (1.5) times their regular rates of pay....
Before 2009, no one had ever heard of Uber or Lyft. Fast forward ten years to 2019, Uber and Lyft are two of the most prominent companies worldwide. Since Uber began in March 2009, statistics show that...
If you fear that you have a defective medical device implanted in your body, you should immediately contact your physician. Defective medical devices can cause serious, life-threatening injuries, and the...
In the state of Texas, everybody should have car insurance. If you go down to get your car inspected, if you go renew your registration, or if you want to get a driver’s license. Just about anything,...
These days our lives are busy. We always seem to have some place to be and something to do — taking the kids to school, soccer practice, band practice, not to mention your commute to and from work. We...
We know that every expectant parent expects to bring home a healthy newborn child. Birth-related injuries, some of which are preventable, can cause shock and pain to the parents and family at large. When...
Perdue & Kidd welcomes Michael R. Clinton as our newest Associate Attorney. Michael will focus on mass tort litigation involving defective medical products. In addition, he will also pursue injury...
Technology is evolving every day, and because of that, the world we know is constantly changing. Since 2000, technology has made our lives easier, from shopping online to having groceries delivered to...
At Perdue & Kidd, we frequently receive calls from people who have suffered injuries on the job, asking about their rights and what they can expect from their employers and the workers’ compensation...
In Texas, medical malpractice cases are governed by a comprehensive statute called the Health Care Liability Act. This act is codified in Chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. Enacted...
We have all experienced it, driving down the freeway in Texas only to see an 18-wheeler struggling to keep its massive rig in a single lane. Thoughts fill your mind: what happens if this truck loses control?...
Distracted driving is any activity an operator of a motor vehicle is engaged in that both distracts them from their primary task of driving and increases their risk of an accident. In other words, distracted...
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a federal court’s landmark judgment against Boston Scientific for its unreasonably dangerous pelvic mesh kits. Marketed under the name Pinnacle, four women brought claims...
“Your child has cerebral palsy.” These are some of the most terrifying words a parent can hear. Questions fill your head about how this happened? What does it mean? What...
A recent NBC new story raised serious questions about the safety of Bard IVC filters. The NBC story reports on two tragic stories of Bard IVC filters fracturing and traveling into the patient’s...
A published study in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) highlights the potential public health dangers posed by medical devices that undergo limited testing to determine their...
On April 6, at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Jim M. Perdue Sr. was inducted into the Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame, an organization honoring legendary trial lawyers. Each year, remarkable trial lawyers, both...
A collision with an 18-wheeler can be a traumatic and life changing event. If you or a loved one are injured by an 18-wheeler, understand that the actions you take after that collision can be important...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported 6,283 pedestrian deaths in 2018, the most pedestrian deaths in almost thirty years. Texas is the 8th most dangerous state in the country...
Texas law provides that when you are injured as a result of a third parties’ negligence, you are entitled to seek compensation for those injuries and the damages sustained. Texas law provides for five...
Perdue & Kidd is excited to announce that named partners Jim Perdue Jr. & Donald Kidd have been named 2019 Texas Super Lawyers! Our lawyers have been named for another year to this list for their...
Perdue & Kidd is excited to announce Jim Perdue Jr. on this year’s listing of Best Lawyers ® in America. Jim is being recognized a 5th time for his work in Medical Malpractice & Personal...
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