Samantha Aktug

Workers' Compensation Attorney at DeMayo Law Offices, LLP
Charlotte, NC20 years experience

About Samantha Aktug

Samantha Clark Aktug, Esq. is a Workers' Compensation Attorney at DeMayo Law Offices, LLP, with more than 20 years of experience representing thousands of clients and settling multi-million-dollar cases. She is passionate about helping others and focuses her career in workers' compensation and Social Security disability law.

Aktug is a member of North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the North Carolina Bar Association (where she previously served as a Workers' Compensation Committee Pro-Bono Co-Chair).

She earned her Juris Doctor from Catholic University Columbus School of Law in 1997 and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993. She is admitted to the State Bars of North Carolina and South Carolina, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina.

Proven verdicts and settlements at DeMayo Law Offices, LLP

These results are credited to DeMayo Law Offices, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$12 millionSettlementTop 20 in North Carolina · #7

Behzad "Al" Abedi was killed when stacked marble slabs fell on him at a Charlotte stone warehouse in 2019, and DeMayo Law Offices resolved his family's premises- and products-liability claims for $12 million.

Mecklenburg County, NC · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$3 millionSettlementTop 10 in West Virginia · #9

DeMayo Law attorneys Elizabeth G. Grimes and Michael A. DeMayo won a $3 million settlement for an elderly North Carolina man who was run over by another vehicle while standing beside his disabled car on a West Virginia roadside.

Kanawha County, WV · 2013Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$2.5 millionSettlement

A 53-year-old pedestrian hit from behind by a box truck at about 35 mph and thrown more than 34 feet, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures, settled his claim for $2.5 million.

Rural North Carolina highway (county withheld) · 2020Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$1.6 millionSettlementTop 10 of 2003 · #10

A 30-year-old passenger was left tetraplegic after a speeding driver hit his stalled car on a South Carolina road, and Michael A. DeMayo stacked two liability policies and an umbrella policy to reach a $1.6 million settlement.

Mecklenburg County, NC (crash occurred in South Carolina) · 2003Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$1.5 millionSettlement

The estate of an Army paratrooper killed when a pickup truck turned left into his motorcycle near Fayetteville settled its wrongful-death claim for $1.5 million.

Cumberland County Superior Court, NC · 2015Motorcycle AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Catholic University Columbus School of Law
B.A., 1997
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Undergraduate, 1993

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of North Carolina
State Bar of South Carolina
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina
North Carolina Advocates for Justice
North Carolina Bar Association (former Workers' Compensation Committee Pro-Bono Co-Chair)

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$500,000 Settlement for Taxi Passenger With Broken Femurs and Brain Injury After Hit-and-Run Cab
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$3 Million Settlement After Garbage Truck Runs Red Light, Kills Charlotte Driver

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.