Adam Henderson Law Firm, PLLC

A practice built around Texas workers' compensation

Injured workers in Texas make up the client base here. The home page frames the firm around workers' compensation, and each matter it names is part of that field. Work injuries head the list, followed by construction accidents, oil rig accidents, industrial accidents and truck accidents.

The site also names the injuries themselves: back and neck injuries, and head injuries or brain trauma. Those categories track the heavy industry that employs much of the Gulf Coast workforce. Construction sites, refineries and offshore rigs produce exactly these kinds of harm, and they feed a steady share of the state's comp claims. These are physically demanding jobs, and an on-site injury can keep a worker off the payroll for weeks.

In my opinion, a single-subject focus like this one is worth noting. Texas workers' compensation has a statute of its own. The filing deadlines and the hearing venues belong to that system, and a firm that works in it every day stays close to those rules.

The two attorneys the site names

Adam Henderson and Lora L. Eddinger are the lawyers listed on the attorney page. Both have education and work histories published there, which gives a reader something concrete to weigh before making contact. Read together, the two profiles show a founder who opened the firm in 1996 and a colleague who joined in 2004.

Adam Henderson

Henderson earned a business degree from Baylor University in 1991 and graduated from Baylor Law School in 1994. Texas licensed him to practice law that same year. He worked for a workers' compensation attorney for about a year, then opened his own firm in March 1996.

That sequence matters for a claimant weighing experience. He came into the comp field at the start of his career and built the firm around it, and the March 1996 founding date on the site marks how long that has run.

Lora L. Eddinger

Eddinger reached law after a first career in a different field. She spent more than ten years in health care before completing her law degree at the University of Tulsa College of Law. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University.

She joined the firm in December 2004. Her profile says she represents injured workers at Benefit Review Conferences and Contested Case Hearings before the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers' Compensation. A health care background carries weight in this area, because medical evidence decides many comp disputes, and a lawyer who reads records closely has a practical advantage at a hearing.

What the site says about volume and history

The firm places its start in March 1996, which puts it close to three decades of operation. The home page states that it has represented more than 10,000 workers' compensation cases over 20 years.

As a reviewer, I treat a figure like that as a claim the firm makes about itself, and I pass it along on those terms. It points to a high-volume comp practice, and it fits both the founding date and the two long-tenured attorneys named on the site. Volume at that scale usually points to a settled routine for the filings and hearings these claims require. VerifiedLawFirms does not independently audit case counts, so the number remains the firm's own statement of its record.

How a Texas workers' compensation claim moves

The venues named on this firm's site will read as unfamiliar to many injured workers, so some general context helps. Texas workers' compensation runs through the Division of Workers' Compensation, an arm of the Texas Department of Insurance, and it is separate from the civil courts where ordinary injury lawsuits proceed.

The steps in a disputed claim

Timing shapes these cases from the outset. A worker in Texas generally must report a job injury to the employer within thirty days and file a claim with the Division within one year of the injury. Missing those windows can jeopardize benefits, which is one reason injured workers often bring in a lawyer early.

The claim then enters the Division's system. When the insurance carrier disputes benefits, the claim usually reaches a Benefit Review Conference first. That conference is an informal meeting where a benefit review officer helps the two sides try to resolve the points at issue.

A claim that stays in dispute goes to a Contested Case Hearing. That hearing is a formal proceeding where each side presents evidence and testimony and a hearing officer issues a written decision. A party who disagrees with the outcome can ask the Division's Appeals Panel to review it, and judicial review in state court can follow after that.

What the case turns on

The benefits at issue fall into set categories under Texas law. They include medical benefits for treatment and income benefits that replace part of lost wages, with the income figure tied to an impairment rating a doctor assigns. Much of a comp dispute turns on that rating and on which treatment the carrier will pay for. The carrier and the worker often read the same medical file differently, and the hearing resolves that gap.

Medical records, wage records and witness testimony carry the case through these stages. Those are the exact forums Eddinger's profile names, so the work the firm describes lines up with where Texas comp disputes are decided.

Where the firm operates and how to reach it

Two offices anchor the firm, one in Houston and one in Dallas. The firm says it handles cases throughout Texas and names Houston, Dallas and San Antonio among the areas it covers. The Dallas office gives the firm a base in North Texas alongside its Gulf Coast home. That statewide reach fits a comp practice, because DWC hearings take place at field offices across the state, and a claimant's case is heard in the region where the injury happened.

In my opinion, the clearest signal for someone comparing firms is the record on the page: a Houston practice running since March 1996, two named attorneys with published education and work histories, and a single focus on Texas workers' compensation. The site also publishes phone numbers, an email address and social profiles, so a prospective client has direct ways to get in touch.