Hank Stout
VerifiedAbout Hank Stout
Hank Stout (William Henry Stout) is a co-founder of Sutliff & Stout Injury & Accident Law Firm in Houston. Raised in small-town West Texas, he earned a B.B.A. from the University of Mississippi and his J.D. from South Texas College of Law in 2004, where he was a member of Law Review. He has practiced personal injury law for over two decades and is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a distinction held by fewer than 2% of Texas trial lawyers. Hank focuses on serious accident cases including 18-wheeler collisions, motorcycle crashes, and wrongful death claims. He has been named a Texas Super Lawyer every year since 2012 and is a Texas Bar Foundation Fellow.
Notable case results
After a Detmar Logistics frac sand truck fatally injured Nanasha Ra-Nee Mild in 2018, Sutliff & Stout identified six liable parties and secured a $6.09 million settlement that ranked ninth among all Texas civil settlements in 2019.
Sutliff and Stout won a $1.94 million wrongful death verdict against ExxonMobil for the family of Alfredo Pagayon, a Harris County man who died after an ExxonMobil cashier attacked him at a Houston convenience store; the Texas Supreme Court reversed the judgment in 2017, ruling that the employer owed no supervisory duty under the circumstances.
In 2015, a Texas jury awarded $568,875 to the plaintiff in a car accident case tried by Hank Stout and Graham Sutliff of Sutliff & Stout, ranking the result 77th among all Texas civil jury verdicts for the year on TopVerdict's annual list.
A Montgomery County jury found a driver 70 percent liable for striking a 16-year-old pedestrian who had crossed outside a marked crosswalk, awarding $38,124.88 that was reduced to $26,687.42 after comparative-fault apportionment.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
