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About Tad Rice
Daniel (Tad) Rice was born in Mercedes, Texas. He earned his B.A. from Sam Houston State University and his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 2000, where he competed in advocacy competitions and was a finalist in the Hofheinz Tournament of Champions. Tad began his career at a defense firm on catastrophic personal injury cases, later became a partner at a plaintiff's boutique litigation firm, then opened his own firm in 2014 and represented thousands of plaintiffs in products liability and catastrophic personal injury cases.
He has achieved numerous multi-million dollar settlements, several exceeding $10 million, in cases involving defective vehicles, airbags, seatbelts, tires, medical devices, gas and chemical storage, chemical explosions, electrocutions, and medical malpractice. He is licensed in Texas and all federal jurisdictions in Texas. Tad joined Abraham Watkins in 2026.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Abraham Watkins
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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.
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.
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.
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