Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers

Louisville Metro Government paid $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old licensed EMT shot by LMPD officers during a no-knock drug raid on March 13, 2020, the largest police-misconduct settlement in the city's history.

Jackson County, Indiana agreed to pay $5.6 million to the family of Ta'Neasha Chappell, a 23-year-old Louisville mother who died in jail custody in July 2021 after nearly 20 hours of ignored medical pleas.

The Rowan County Board of Education agreed to a $3 million settlement in February 2026 after a coach repeatedly abused a student while administrators ignored at least eight separate reports of the conduct, in what attorneys described as the largest single-victim school sexual abuse settlement in Kentucky history.

Louisville Metro Government paid $1.25 million to the family of Darnell Wicker, a 57-year-old man shot 14 times by LMPD officers during a 2016 domestic-disturbance call in which he was holding a tree saw.

Jonathan Hollan of Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers won a $728,218 jury verdict for a plaintiff whose cargo van was struck when a tractor-trailer jackknifed during rush-hour traffic on Louisville's Gene Snyder Freeway.

Louisville agreed to pay $375,000 to resolve a federal civil rights lawsuit after a judge found that LMPD Detective Kevin Crawford unlawfully detained and searched 18-year-old Tae-Ahn Lea during a 2018 traffic stop that was captured on video and spread widely online.