Smith Law Firm

$8M

Workplace Accident

Harris County refinery worker received fatal third degree burns over 80% of his body and died one month later after an explosion from a gas leak resulting in $8 million settlement

$1.7M

Nursing Home Neglect

Southeast Texas nursing home resident suffered multiple head injuries and massive brain damage when a fellow resident let him/her out of the front door in a wheelchair; the alarm system was not working and no doctors were notified about the fall; resulted in a $1.7 million settlement

$6M

Workplace Accident

Orange, Texas resident was killed at a local port after being fatally struck by steel falling from a man lift basket resulting in $6 million settlement with the man lift operator's employer and additional confidential settlements against the general contractor, the employer, the entity that commissioned the project and the company that rented the man lift to the operators

$3.4M

Product Liability

Baytown, Texas veterinarian killed in head-on collision with a trailer that jumped off of an oncoming pickup truck resulting in $3.4 million settlement with coupler manufacturer

$1.4M

Maritime Accident

Orange, Texas, tugboat crewman suffered serious head injury in fall while stepping from his vessel to an improperly maintained dock resulting in $1.4 million settlement

$1.4M

Civil Litigation

Orange, Texas, workover rig owner received $1.4 million settlement for damages to workover oil rig which was heavily damaged when one of its legs collapsed off the coast of Nigeria