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About Abraham Watkins

Abraham Watkins (full name: Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz and Stogner) is a Houston personal injury firm established in 1951, making it the longest-standing plaintiffs' personal injury firm in Texas. The firm represents individuals and families in catastrophic injury, wrongful death, product liability, workplace accidents, and complex mass-tort cases.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Abraham Watkins

$32 millionVerdict

A federal jury awarded Kimberly Curtis $2 million in compensatory and $30 million in punitive damages after a sliding barn door fell on her at a Manhattan Hilton Garden Inn and defendants were found to have willfully destroyed evidence; a judge later cut the punitive award to $10 million.

S.D.N.Y. (Southern District of New York) · 2024Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$28.59 millionVerdict

A Harris County jury found ExxonMobil 100% responsible for a July 2019 explosion at its Baytown olefins plant caused by decades-ignored popcorn polymer buildup, awarding five injured workers $28,591,000 after three weeks of trial.

Harris County, TX · 2023Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$21 millionVerdict

A Harris County jury awarded about $21 million to Santiago Arias, a construction worker paralyzed from the chest down after falling roughly 20 feet at a Houston job site where his employer had provided no fall-protection equipment or safety training.

Harris County, TX · 2009Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$7.1 millionVerdict

A Harris County jury found Red Bluff LLC, owner of the Courtyards of Pasadena nursing home, liable for $7.1 million after a certified nursing assistant suffered a serious spinal injury when a wheelchair with faulty brakes gave way during a bariatric patient transfer.

Harris County, 55th District Court, TX · 2021Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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