Personal Injury & Wrongful Death

Overview

Personal injury and wrongful death cases demand attorneys who can evaluate medical evidence, quantify the full extent of harm, and aggressively pursue maximum compensation at trial or in settlement. Many firms settle cases early, accepting offers that fall short of what clients truly deserve. Barnes & Associates takes a different approach — building every case as if it will go to trial, because that preparation is what produces the best outcomes.

Dr. Stephen A. Barnes, MD, JD, FACLM brings an unmatched combination of medical and legal experience to personal injury and wrongful death claims. As a board-certified surgeon with decades of clinical practice, Dr. Barnes understands how injuries affect the human body — how they heal, how they don’t, and what the long-term medical and economic consequences of serious harm truly look like. As a trial attorney licensed in Texas, New Mexico, and Montana, he has the courtroom experience and legal strategy to fight for every dollar his clients deserve.

Barnes & Associates has represented clients in personal injury matters beyond medical malpractice, including cases involving drug and medical device litigation, fraud, deceptive trade practices, and deceptive insurance practices. The firm has secured multi-million-dollar recoveries for clients who suffered catastrophic injuries, and has pursued innovative remedies — including injunctions to stop ongoing dangerous conduct — that other firms never consider.

What We Handle

• Catastrophic personal injury resulting from accidents, negligence, or defective products
• Wrongful death claims arising from any cause of negligence, medical or otherwise
• Drug and medical device litigation, including mass tort and individual claims
• Insurance bad faith and deceptive insurance practices
• Fraud and deceptive trade practices causing personal or financial harm
• Premises liability, including injuries caused by unsafe conditions
• Traumatic injury cases requiring complex medical expert testimony
• Real property disputes and other personal legal matters

Why Choose a Physician-Attorney?

The value of a personal injury or wrongful death claim depends heavily on the quality of the medical analysis supporting it. How severe is the injury? What future medical care will be required? How has the victim’s life been permanently altered? These questions require a physician to answer with credibility and precision.

Dr. Barnes does not hire a physician to answer these questions after the fact. He evaluates them himself, drawing on his clinical training at Duke, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins to assess injury severity with the same rigor he brought to the operating room. This allows Barnes & Associates to build stronger damages arguments, respond more effectively to defense challenges, and present juries with a clear and credible account of what the negligence actually cost — in human and financial terms. That is how clients get the justice they deserve.