About Linda Cuaderes

Linda Cuaderes is both a registered nurse and a licensed attorney, working exclusively in Miller Weisbrod Olesky's Birth Injury and Medical Malpractice section. She earned her nursing degree from the University of Oklahoma School of Nursing (1985) and her J.D. from the University of Oklahoma School of Law (1990). She joined Les Weisbrod in the Medical Malpractice section after graduating, then returned to the firm following time away to raise her family. She is admitted to practice before the Texas Supreme Court and regularly works on cases across the United States, including in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Iowa, Ohio, New York, Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, Utah, and Missouri. She is active in the American Association for Justice, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, and the Texas Bar Association.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Miller Weisbrod Olesky

These results are credited to Miller Weisbrod Olesky. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$26.5 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2017 · #20

A Dallas County jury returned a $26.5 million verdict for Fernando Canales, a construction decker left paraplegic after a two-story fall, finding that general contractor RJC Midwest bore full responsibility for failing to train subcontractors on the proper use of fall-protection equipment.

68th Judicial District Court, Dallas County, Texas · 2017Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$16.9 millionVerdict

A King County jury awarded $16.9 million to the family of David Oltman, killed when PenAir Flight 3296 overran the runway at Tom Madsen Airport in Unalaska, Alaska, after a maintenance contractor cross-wired the aircraft's antiskid brake system.

King County Superior Court, Kent, Washington (No. 20-2-14060-1) · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$9.94 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2006 · #8

In May 2006 a Dallas jury voted 11-1 that Medical Center of McKinney, an HCA hospital, was liable after a nasogastric tube perforated the esophagus of patient Tom Ivey following stomach surgery in early 2002. The jury placed the fault on the hospital's nurses and found the surgeon neither negligent nor liable. It awarded Mr. Ivey and his wife, Sandra, $9,944,406. The hospital said it would appeal, and we found no reported appellate decision.

Texas state district court, Dallas · 2006Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Oklahoma College of Law
J.D., 1990
University of Oklahoma
Undergraduate, 1985

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.