$95M

Sexual Assault of Minor

Our trial lawyer team was able to secure this judgment against a convicted child molester who repeatedly sexually assaulted a 5-year-old special needs child on a school bus.  The child molester was employed as a school bus driver at the time of the incident and a lawsuit was brought against the bus driver and the school district.  One of the incidents was captured on video before it was recorded over by the school district’s automated systems.  The claims arose under federal law called section 1983 and Title IX against the school district.  Although there was a history of sexual assaults on special needs school buses and cameras were installed to prevent more incidents, the school district implemented a deliberately indifferent policy to not monitor the camera feeds or review footage until (or if) the special needs victim cried out at some point, hopefully before their automated systems recorded over the evidence.  The case against the school district is on appeal. 

$18M

Wrongful Death

A major automobile manufacturer put profit before safety when it allowed known dangerous components to be used in its vehicles. Our clients were killed due to unsafe conditions and the failure of the safety components in their vehicles. The major automobile manufacturer tried everything possible to avoid responsibility for its decisions but ultimately failed. Our legal team settled our clients’ claims after years of litigation.

$17M

Wrongful Death

Our clients were three young boys when their father was tragically killed in a botched robbery at a tattoo parlor in Houston, Texas. The boys were left to the care of their grandmother, the decedent’s mother. Due to the tattoo parlor owner’s lack of responsibility in providing any training to its employees, an intoxicated man was allowed to remain in the tattoo parlor loitering for nearly 30 minutes until he suddenly decided to rob everyone at gunpoint. Also due to lack of training, another employee at the tattoo parlor chose to put his life and the lives of his co-workers at risk when he attempted to tackle the man with the gun in his hand. The gun went off in the ensuing altercation and a bullet struck and killed our clients’ father who was standing nearby. The police were finally called and appeared within 5 minutes. After trial which occurred nearly 7 years after the incident and after the shooter was sentenced to 50 years in prison, the Court entered a final judgment against Defendants in favor of our clients, the three sons and mother of decedent. 

$10M

Wrongful Death

A custom home builder in the Lakes of Windcrest neighborhood of Magnolia, Texas, hired subcontractors who re-subcontracted the work to a third company. None of the builders or subcontracting companies ensured OSHA rules were followed, and no competent person was assigned to supervise the work pursuant to the OSHA rules. Not only were workers denied access to appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), no fall protection was available to the laborers working on the roof. Our roofer client suffered fatal head injuries when he fell onto the concrete driveway below. Our trial lawyers took this case to court and resolved it for $10 million.

$9.06M

Wrongful Death

Due to lack of training and supervision, a young company driver blew through a stop sign while distracted with his cell phone and killed a young boy who was riding as a passenger in the backseat of his family vehicle.  According to eyewitnesses our team located, the driver was seen before the wreck with the cell phone in his hand while driving.  In litigation, we discovered the company had a written policy that prohibited the use of cell phones, even hands free, while driving company vehicles.  However, the driver had no idea this policy even existed and was never trained on it.  Fortunately, our clients hired us soon after the incident. The company hung up on the father when he called the company in panic to ask what happened while his son was still in the hospital, suffering from a fatal brain injury.  We were able to quickly inspect the scene and secure video from a corner store before it was overwritten. The footage clearly showed the driver blowing the stop sign.  Later, we learned later that the negligent driver lied to his insurance company and to police in recorded statements, claiming he stopped at the stop sign and was not on his cell phone.  Our trial lawyers prepared this commercial motor vehicle crash case for trial multiple times and the case resolved shortly before trial was to start.

$8.45M

Wrongful Death

This $0 offer case was overflowing with lies and cover-ups. Six law firms from across the state were actively trying to avoid taking responsibility for taking the life of a young boy’s father in a senseless and careless display of greed over safety. A multi-billion-dollar telecommunications company hired the cheapest subcontractors to dig trenches and move underground telecommunication lines that were in the right-of-way. These contractors did not meet the minimum written qualifications of the billion-dollar company, nor did they did not follow basic OSHA rules in trench work. Trench work involves confined spaces, and the risks and dangers of the work are well-known to contractors who dig trenches. Proper shoring, benching, and sloping techniques were not implemented despite the trench being over 8 feet deep. When followed, OSHA regulations protect workers from cave-ins. In this instance, no competent person was designated pursuant to OSHA, and no shoring was provided before the walls caved in on our client. He suffered fatal head injuries and did not survive, leaving behind a young boy. Making matters worse, the contractors lied, saying the workers were told not to enter the trench until shoring arrived. In litigation, our legal team proved that none of this was true. The case settled right before the trial began.

$4.55M

Wrongful Death

Our trial lawyers obtained this judgment after a three-day trial in Harris County, Texas.  A father of three adult children was killed when he was struck by a mechanic who suddenly backed out of a vehicle bay without any warning.  The company policy required that chains be put over the sidewalk and that the employees honk when backing out.  This employee did neither.  To make matters worse, the company deleted the video from their DVR system.  Our data forensics expert was able to prove that the DVR system was recording and that action was taken to delete the video by showing data fragments (i.e., screenshots) from that day of where the incident occurred.  Our clients’ father and husband suffered for days in the hospital from a serve brain injury before passing. 

$4M

Traumatic Brain Injury

We fought this $0 offer case for 4 years through Covid court delays to get a young boy the peace and security he deserved for his future. A Section 8 housing apartment complex put money before safety by failing to upgrade basic safety features on its property to include speed limit signs and speed bumps. The property had many negative reviews online about management and safety, and residents often complained about speeding vehicles. Management knew more effective speed controls were needed, but the $18,000 estimate was not worth it. Due to this negligence, a speeding resident ran down a young boy head-on. The young boy suffered severe orthopedic injuries, internal injuries, permanent scarring, and brain damage, all validated by the neuroradiology department of the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Fortunately, his brain damage did not cause permanent physical deficits and disabilities. However, he will require a lifetime of medical care for the cognitive effects of his brain damage.

$3.8M

Wrongful Death

This $0 offer case took many years of litigation against influential national powerhouse law firms protecting a big box retailer with billions of dollars in sales each year. Our client’s elderly mother was missing for days, and he learned later that she was killed in the parking lot of this major retailer. The deadly incident occurred in an area of the parking lot that contained no crosswalks, speedbumps, sidewalks, or other basic safety measures to protect pedestrians despite being heavily trafficked. To make matters worse, the store did nothing to run off trespassers who set up shop in the back of the store to sell “burner phones.” The trespassing business was using an area of the parking lot, unauthorized for parking, to sell the burner phones. The salespeople of this business and its customers used this area of the premises as if they owned it. The cheap security company, hired by the big box retailer, claimed they had an “observe and report” function but had no power to ask the trespassers to leave the premises. Security personnel was caught on video driving by but doing nothing. Through our investigation, we located ex-employees of the big box retailer. The former employees stated that the security company did have the authority to ask trespassers to leave, but security failed to do their job. Our legal team ensured that safety features were added and that trespasser businesses were forever banned in this area.

$3.5M

Motor Vehicle Crash

This $0 offer case started as a blame game on an “independent contractor,” which we proved was a farce. A multi-billion dollar car dealership dynasty put money before safety when it hired a dangerous subcontractor to test drive its customer’s vehicles. The car dealership attempted to shield itself from liability with an “independent contractor” scheme in which it still retained control of the porters who test-drove cars at their request when needed. It was discovered in litigation that no vetting or screening was conducted to ensure only safe drivers would safely drive customer cars around Houston. Unfortunately, our client was injured by one of their drivers who tried to beat a train and ran a red light. The car dealership’s customer’s vehicle was broadsided by the train and spun into our client, who was innocently standing on his bicycle waiting at the red light. He suffered severe orthopedic injuries, which required months of intense medical care, multiple surgeries, and caused a lifetime of PTSD.

$2.8M

Motor Vehicle Accident

Our client was hit head-on by surprise on a windy east Texas road by a car dealership driver who veered into her lane. The defendant driver was an independent contractor hired to do “dealer trade” drives by a major car dealership. The car dealership put money before safety and had no job qualifications besides a driver’s license. There were no background checks or driving history checks, and they often hired elderly drivers looking for extra income to supplement their social security benefits. In this case, the driver assigned to drive the route, which would have taken over 10 hours to complete, was over 70 years old. Our client suffered severe orthopedic injuries to her lower extremities, requiring an extended hospital stay and months of physical rehabilitation.

To make matters worse, she had lost consciousness and suffered a concussion. The defense hired typical insurance company experts to refute the extent of her brain injuries. The court rightfully excluded these “experts,” and our legal team was able to negotiate a fair and reasonable sum shortly after the court made its pre-trial rulings to resolve this case shortly before trial.

$2.4M

Motor Vehicle Accident

Our client was an innocent passenger in a vehicle at a red light when a company van blew a red light on the opposite side of a busy intersection near Kemah, Texas. After the company van ran the stop sign and collided with other vehicles in the intersection, he slammed into our client’s vehicle, which was stopped at the red light. The impact was 100% on the passenger side of the vehicle. Both of our client’s legs were severely fractured, and she was Life-Flighted from the scene after being extracted from the Honda civic she was sitting in at the time of impact. Our client underwent months of painful physical therapy in a nursing home facility in Clear Lake. Making her home accessible required massive renovations. Front and back door ramps were installed to support wheelchair access. Bathroom and shower modifications were also needed to accommodate her mobility needs. The litigation process discovered that the national corporation responsible for hiring this driver had failed to check his driving history in his previous state of residency, which would have revealed a long history of traffic violations. The driver was in a distracted rush on the morning of the wreck because he was late for a job, and it was apparent that the driver was using his phone. Poor management led to hiring a driver who should never have been allowed to operate a company van on the public road. After nearly two years of litigation and significant discovery, our legal team achieved a fair and reasonable settlement for our client for the available insurance policy limits.

$2.25M

Wrongful Death

After years of litigation and trial preparation, our team turned a $0 offer into a fair and reasonable settlement for the family of a man killed in a poorly managed parking lot on the north side of Houston. The shopping center’s management allowed its parking lot to be used as a dispatch center for tow trucks waiting on calls from the nearby highway and large nightclubs. Although loitering was not allowed, the management company did not enforce its own policies. To make matters worse, the parking lot did not have crosswalks or safe pedestrian access to enter and exit the property. Pedestrians were forced to brave the dark parking lot from the public sidewalk. Also, the parking lot was due to upgrade its lighting system, but the management company had not yet paid for the proposal to upgrade to LED lights. Unfortunately, our client was a victim on his way to the store to buy bread. He was hit and killed in the dark parking lot by a tow truck driver loitering in the shopping center who had no purpose in being there.

$1.95M

Work injury

This work injury case started with an adamant $0 offer and total blame on our client, which we proved unfounded. Our client was a hardworking, college-educated family man who worked in the oil and gas business. One afternoon, he was inspecting a Shreveport, Louisiana facility for his Texas-based employer to determine what was needed to close down a service-side warehouse location. He used a cherry picker to inspect an area of the aluminum roof. However, the roof was not made of aluminum. The cheap landlord had painted over translucent fiberglass skylight panels to make them look like aluminum roof panels. Essentially, each panel was a trap door with no warnings, barriers, or screens, as required by OSHA. Our client fell over 10 feet through the fiberglass. He suffered severe orthopedic injuries, which required multiple surgeries and years of physical rehabilitation. The defendant’s insurance companies failed to resolve the case for the policy limits of $1M when they had the chance. After years of litigation, amplified by covid delays in the court system, we settled the case for nearly double the policy limits.

$1.375M

Wrongful Death

In this tragic case, our legal team was able to help a family from out of town who lost a husband and father in a dangerous and poorly managed parking lot. The management company of the strip mall allowed a tenant running a mechanic shop to alter the sidewalk to the strip center in front of their store to create a sidewalk. Then, the tenant created two vehicle bays in the strip mall space and used the sidewalk as its waiting room. There were no protections or warnings to prevent people from walking in front of the vehicle bays.

The lease prohibited using “common space” such as the sidewalk. But the owner and its management company did nothing to enforce the rules since the tenant paid rent on time. Unfortunately, our client was a customer of this business waiting to get his car inspected. A vehicle backing out of the vehicle bay without any warning or protection to the public struck our client. He suffered fatal blunt-force head trauma. After the incident, our legal team discovered that the owner of the mechanic shop deleted the video on the security system and moved our client’s vehicle to Kroger’s area of the shopping center’s parking lot. When our client’s family came looking for him, they lied about what happened. However, our legal team proved the truth. Unfortunately, the tenant did not have insurance as required by the lease, and only the management company was held responsible.