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GHW hopes to encourage young high school students at St. Augustine in New Orleans to follow in the footsteps of Charles R. Jones, the first African-American male to ascend to Chief Judge of the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal. GHW funded the "2012 Chief Judge Charles R. Jones Scholarship" to be awarded to a deserving St. Augustine student.
The late Wendell Gauthier’s fight to expose Big Tobacco’s coverup of the addictive properties of nicotine is a significant part of the story of Addiction Incorporated, a docudrama about Victor DeNoble a whistleblower and research scientist at a major tobacco company, who revealed a fact that the industry had been denying for years: that cigarettes were addictive.
GHW attorneys John Houghtaling, James Williams and Celeste Gauthier were inducted into Loyola University’s Society of St. Ignatius.
Attorneys Sean Greenwood and Pat McGinnis were named to H Texas Magazine's list of Top Professionals in Houston.
GHW partner James Williams participated in a roundtable discussion entitled, "Closing the Wealth Gap: Utilizing Minority Owned Businesses as Vehicles for Job Creation and Economic Recovery," on Capitol Hill on September 22, 2011.

Hurricane Ike Claims

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Publisher: GHW
Published On: 7/3/2009

Insurance companies are underpaying and denying claims in Houston at a record rate. In many cases insureds are being offered only 10% of the real damage value of their claims. Deductibles are being misapplied to residential and commercial properties and insurers are denying legitimate evacuation expenses and loss of business income.

GHW has collected over $160 Million for hurricane victims. Managing partner John Houghtaling acts as an expert TV commentator on Hurricane Insurance topics, and teaches seminars to businessmen and other attorneys facing hurricane insurance claims.

GHW, with offices in New Orleans and Houston, has been sought out nationally by high-profile clients for their experience. Younan Properties, a company with $5 billion dollars of real estate holdings and the second largest real estate company in Texas, recently held a national search for the best insurance counsel to represent them on IKE claims. In the end, GHW was selected by Younan Properties for their claims on 11 damaged high-rises in the Houston area.

  • "...this is an outstanding law firm that has enjoyed an impeccable reputation both across the state and across the nation . . . my office retained Gauthier, Houghtaling & Williams to represent the State of Louisiana in the multi-billion dollar subrogation claim for the Road Home Program."

    -Charles Foti, former attorney general for the State of Louisiana

  • "....in the end, we recovered nearly $25 million . . . Hiring the Gauthier guys goes down as one of the better business moves that we made last year."

    -CEO, Stewart Properties

Currently GHW's Houston branch is working full-time to protect Hurricane IKE property owners. GHW's success and expertise allows them to handle such claims on contingency fees starting as low as 10%.

For more information on Hurricane IKE claims call the Houston office: 713-343-1614