Thomas Henson
VerifiedAbout Thomas Henson
Thomas Henson Jr. is a partner at Henson Fuerst, Attorneys at Law in North Carolina, where he has practiced since 1989. He is a Certified Specialist in Traumatic Brain Injury and his work focuses on catastrophic personal injury, roadway and construction defects, and nursing home abuse cases.
Henson earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 and his Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1989.
He is admitted to the North Carolina State Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Eastern Districts of North Carolina.
He is a member of the American Association for Justice (Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group), the North Carolina Bar Association, the Wake County Bar Association, the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina (current board member and former board chair), and the North Carolina Brain Injury Council.
He has been selected to North Carolina Super Lawyers in 2009 and 2012-2026, recognized in North Carolina Lawyers Weekly's Personal Injury Power List (2023-2025), and named one of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. He has received the Order of Service from the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (2007, 2011) and the American Diabetes Association Stop Diabetes Award.
Notable case results include a $9.5 million truck accident settlement, a $7.5 million truck accident settlement, and a $3 million car accident settlement.
Notable case results
A Franklin County jury returned $40 million against an intoxicated driver and the owner who let her drive, and the Court of Appeals affirmed every dollar in 2024 as the largest drunk driving verdict in state history.
A federal jury in Raleigh awarded $5.2 million for three residents who died at the Blue Ridge Health Care Center after its operators cut staffing and supplies, an award later limited to about $3 million once North Carolina's punitive cap was applied.
A North Carolina nursing home placed an 89-year-old man in a room with a resident it knew to be violent, and within three days the roommate beat him to death.
A North Carolina woman died after a series of falls during a roughly two-month nursing home stay, and her family settled wrongful-death claims against the facility's corporate operators for $4.25 million.
A 73-year-old man admitted to a North Carolina nursing home for ankle-fracture rehabilitation developed untreated Stage 4 pressure ulcers within 27 days and died, and Henson Fuerst resolved the wrongful-death claim for $4 million.
A 69-year-old North Carolina nursing home resident who needed two staff members for all care suffered a broken femur when an understaffed facility sent one aide to move her alone, and her claim settled for $3.5 million in June 2025.
Truck accident settlement
Truck accident settlement
Car accident settlement
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
