Getting Dick
You’ve seen his commercials, his billboards. Eric Dick sues insurance companies. He wants you to hire a dick. But are his clients paying the price?
GET DICK
No one likes insurance companies, until you need them after a hurricane or a flood. There’s a lawyer in town, an attorney, Eric Dick, who makes a pretty darn good living suing insurance companies!
Unfortunately for Mr. Dick, there’s a growing list of people who are accusing the Houston lawyer of misconduct. And that’s why we’re getting Dick!
“Nothing quite like putting my name in your home insurance company’s mouth,” a direct quote from Houston’s attorney Eric Dick.
When your last name is Dick, you might as well run with it.
“Getting the shaft from your home insurance company? I’ll take them to Pound Town, baby,” Mr. Dick says in his commercial.
“I’ve decided in my life to lean into it, to accept it. Not to be ashamed of my last name, because it’s my last name,” explains Eric. “Because they can’t lick this Dick.”
Wayne interviews Mr. Eric Dick in office.
“Here’s the reason I raise it {a question}. A lot of people think you’re a dick,” proclaims Wayne Dolcefino.
“Well I am a dick, that’s my last name. I was always born with it,” explains Eric.
“You know what I mean. It was a serious question,” replies Wayne.
The Get Dick lawyer admits he’s been the target of dozens of complaints to the State Bar of Texas. And he seems to be kind of proud of it.
“There’s been dozens of complaints. Over the practice of 20 years, there’s been dozens,” proclaims Eric.
You wouldn’t know it by looking at the State Bar website. Eric Dick is a lawyer in good standing. You would never know there were any complaints. Under Texas law, complaints to the State bar are confidential, and even if the State bar decides to punish a lawyer, they can do it privately, which means you’ll never find out. That’s a stupid rule, and it ought to be changed.
State Bar Employee tells us, “I wish there was more transparency myself.”
We are protecting the identity of this state bar employee.
“But it’s not. It’s not, and it’s unfair that way because you mentioned that legislators are made up of who? Most of them are lawyers,” says the employee.
Linda and Waymond Haywood got Dick.
“We saw all his posters and signs, so we thought, ‘Okay, this guy’s really good,’” explains the Haywood family.
They were victims of Hurricane Beryl.
“We had roof damage, we had leaks in the house, and we lost all our food,” said Linda Haywood.
The estimate to fix that, $20,000. Their insurance company said, “tough luck.” So, they got Dick. Eventually the insurance company offered $29,000 for the repairs.
“We hadn’t heard from him for about probably a year. And then, all of a sudden, we get a call and saying, ‘Well, come and get your check,’” The Haywoods remark.
That’s when the Haywoods would say, Dick got them.
“So, they hand us an envelope, and we open it up, and we were like, ‘$11,900 something dollars… how are we going to get a roof?’ So, I called him to say, ‘Hey, we don’t have enough to get a roof with $11,000.’ (And Mr. Dick said) ‘Well, that’s it.’ So, I’m like, ‘Wow…’” recalls the Haywood family.
The Dick law firm took almost 60% of the settlement. The 45% contingency fee, the highest allowed in Texas, plus $4,100 in extra fees, like to set up files, estimates, and appraisals.
“We never cashed it because he’s got our name, the roof company, and the mortgage company’s names on there. So, we just never cashed it. Because we were like, ‘How are we going to get the roof? Because, this is not enough money,’” explains the Haywood family.
Years later, the Haywoods’ roof still leaks. They showed us. And you know what that means? They’ve now got mold.
Wayne proceeds to ask attorney Eric Dick in his interview about the previous client’s case.
“You know the Haywood family? They’re suing you,” proclaims Wayne.
To which Eric Dick responds, “Okay. And we get sued.”
Wayne then asks, “How does the lawyer get 60% of a claim?
“That’s super common in P.I. cases,” replies Eric Dick.
P.I. is personal injury, but that’s not the kind of lawyer that Eric Dick is.
“It’s been a nightmare,” says the Haywoods. “It’s just wrong the way you do people.”
“They were sitting in their car crying. I just had seen the hopelessness like they were defeated,” recalls Cassy Hayes.
Cassie Hayes is suing Dick too.
“He was going to give me $6,000 out of $17,000,” she says.
Her invoice shows Dick was taking 65% of Cassie’s insurance proceeds. That money was meant to fix damage from a pipe that burst in the winter storm Yuri nightmare. Dick even built an hourly rate for work on top of the 45% contingency fee. Hayes filed a criminal complaint in Manvel, claiming Dick’s office forged her name on to check and cashed it. After she fired him. The police report shows Dick never even responded. The cops considered it a civil matter.
“I don’t think we did sign her name in the back of the check. I think she came into my office, and I think she actually signed the check, and then we ended up getting that one resolved. This is what I think, I think this happened,” a direct quote from Eric Dick about the Cassy Hayes case.
“We’ve got the check. It wasn’t endorsed by Cassy. Look here,” says Wayne. It was endorsed with a POA notation. That’s power of attorney. Thuan Pham, he claimed Dick forged his name too on one of those fat contingency deals.
“The agreement is written in print, and Mr. Pham said he never signs anything in print he only signs in cursive,” said Brian Humphrey.
The judge sided with Dick. The insurance payout though, didn’t even cover the legal fee.
In another interview with attorney Brian Humphrey, he explains what had happened with his client vs Eric Dick.
“They said his claim was worth $50,000. At the end of the day, he was awarded $4,000 in the appraisal. That invoice was for more than the recovery, so my client got zero. He wasn’t told about any of this at the time. The case settled,” says Mr. Humphrey.
“I have had plenty of cases where they got nothing,” proclaims Dick.
“How could any lawyer charge 45% knowing that they’re not going to have to do very much work, because the matter is going to most likely be resolved through the appraisal process?” asks Mr. Stephen Badger.
Stephen Badger is a Dallas lawyer who represents insurance companies, and he has sued Dick before too.
Badger states, “What it results in, is a process where the insured never has sufficient money to repair their damage.”
Wayne asks Dick in his continuing interview, “Have you ever looked at your Yelp reviews?”
Dick responds, “Uh, I have not looked at my Yelp Reviews.”
The Dick Law Firm has a 1.8-star rating on Yelp with 27 reviews. We didn’t know Dick hadn’t seen them.
Wayne continues reading reviews from Yelp directly to Mr. Dick. One review stating, “Four years and no contact. Despicable law firm.” Another by Jeff S. exclaiming “I was dicked by Dick’s law firm.”
Eric’s only response to them both: “Okay.”
“Those are pretty ugly reviews.”
“People give different reviews. I understand that people get upset. When you have a free country where people can say whatever they want to say. I’m sorry they had a bad experience, but I will tell you as a lawyer handling it, they are not particularly easy cases,” replies Dick.
But clients are not the only ones who are complaining about what Eric Dick to us. Lawyers, judges, they’re not happy with him either.
“We represented an individual who was really- his name was taken through the mud about saying that he was a fraud,” Dean Blumrosen proclaims.
Dean Blumrosen represents Ronald Caress, an insurance agent named in a lawsuit filed by Eric Dick. He alleged that the insurance agent lied to his client when selling him a homeowner’s insurance policy.
“And none of that turned out to be true. Never even recalled meeting or speaking with our client,” explains Blumrosen.
But when Dick refused to withdraw the false claims, Blumrosen filed a motion for sanctions. Judge Tamika Kraft said, “you’re right.” Ordered Dick to pay a nearly $94,000 sanction, accusing the lawyer of making groundless allegations against the defendant in bad faith, or to harass after counsel knew they lacked factual support.
Eric Dick claims, “It’s a scam! It’s 100% a scam.”
It’s not the first time a judge has gotten Dick. He’s been financially sanctioned in at least six cases for a total of $450,000; and Dick fights them all. No matter how long it takes or how much money is spent, all the judges should listen to Eric Dick.
Wayne asks Eric, “Did you pay the sanctions?”
Eric Dick responds, “I paid nothing for sanctions. I’m not going to pay those sanctions. They’re fake. They’re false.”
And Dick went after Judge Kraft.
“She is a crook, that one is a 100% crook.” Dick says the judge doesn’t like him because she’s a Republican, that she’s illegally collected campaign donations. And then there’s judge LaShawn Williams, who sanctioned Dick $137,000 for misrepresenting who his experts were. Dick says it’s really punishment for not donating to the judge’s campaign.
“She hit me up. She literally called me right before the sanctions, and asked for money,” proclaims Eric.
He’s appealing those sanctions, and the judges aren’t talking.
Some sanctions are not about money. We found one case where Eric Dick got like a death penalty. He wasn’t going to be allowed to refile his lawsuit.
Another case Dick represented:
“Michael Mitchell,” says Wayne.
“Who?”
Wayne repeats, “Michael Mitchell.”
“I don’t know who that is. I don’t know that I know who that (Mitchell) is,” says Dick.
“Michael Mitchell was a client.”
“Okay?” says Dick.
Michael Mitchell was a Navy veteran living in Nederland, Texas. The TPC plant exploded years back, just a couple of miles from his house. Residents were told to evacuate, and when they came home two days later, a lot of homes were damaged. Michael Mitchell hired Dick to sue USAA in 2021 because he felt their $3,300 insurance offer… it just wasn’t enough.
“Is it still- is- am I-? You sure I got sanctioned for that? You sure that’s me?” asks Eric Dick.
The insurance company was having trouble getting Mitchell to let inspectors into his house. But Eric Dick told the judge in open court there was an explanation. Mitchell wasn’t calling back because he was dead. He had passed away suddenly… but it wasn’t true.
Eric Dick recalls, “I’m not sure why we did it. I’m just going to be candid, I’m sure if I knew, I’d tell you, but I’m guessing.”
Wayne responds, “Yeah, because he was dead.”
Eric, “We must’ve thought he was dead.”
Wayne, “Then he was alive…”
Eric, “Well, then we’re happy he’s alive.”
Wayne, “And then he was dead again.”
Eric, “Maybe he was dead, and maybe we weren’t sure.”
Wayne asks, “Do you know if Michael Mitchell is alive today?
Eric replies, “I don’t recall that case. I just don’t recall it.”
In February the following year, Eric Dick delivered new news to the court. A private investigator had found his client very much so alive. But that wasn’t possible either because Mitchell, he was actually really dead now. We found the obituary November 5th, 2022. He had died three months before Eric Dick told the judge he was alive again.
Stephen Badger recalls, “For just the past three months, the number one lawsuit filer in Harris County for district court lawsuits was Mr. Dick, with 58 lawsuits.”
The Dick Law Firm has grown to 50 employees, with five lawyers.
“People are being led to believe, ‘Hey, just let us file a claim. We’ll find a data loss. We’ll allege a bunch of damage, and then we’ll get you something,” explains Badger.
The litigation is bad for insurance rates, he says.
“This is an underserved area and I like helping people. I feel like I’m helping people. Some of them are mad at me, I’m sorry. I’m just going to continue to put my head down, and do a good job,” says Dick.
They also know Eric Dick in Hawaii. He solicited work after the devastating fires in Maui. He’s not licensed to practice there. Oops. Hawaiian prosecutors charged Dick with barratry.
“They didn’t like it that I advertised in Hawaii. It literally said Texas lawyer,” explains Eric.
The fine, just a couple hundred bucks.
He was also criminally charged with domestic violence against his wife in March of 2025. That case was dismissed but listen to Dick when we ask him what happened.
“I don’t want to do anything that could potentially put her in trouble. So, I’m careful with those questions, because what I don’t want to say is stuff that could potentially get her in trouble. I’m not saying she was dishonest or honest,” replies Dick.
Dick’s been elected twice to the Harris County’s Department of Education. The Ethics Commission has fined him for campaign finance violations, not reporting contributions. $40,000 in fines. For the Ethics Commission, that’s a pretty big deal.
“We’ll see about that. That’s still- we’re still fighting on that. There’s still a lawsuit pending,” explains Dick.
In the continuing interview, Wayne proclaims, “What sort of troubles me, is that I hear in your voice almost a disdain for the people, that you were their lawyer.”
Eric Dick responds, “I did a good job.”
“They don’t think so.”
“People can disagree,” says Dick.
Back to the Haywood family, they announce, “This guy- he’ll steal from you. Sign your name and go with it.”
“I feel bad they had a bad experience. I can’t make everybody happy. I understand that. I wish I could. I’m married. My wife can tell you that,” explains Dick.
Cassie Hayes also announces, “He preys on people who are not going to actually fight back.”
Cassie and the Haywoods are fighting back.
The Haywoods warn, “I want to spread the word. I don’t want to see someone else get screwed like we did with the roof. So, let me tell y’all something, please don’t go to Dick!”
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