About Jonathan Hollan
Jonathan Hollan is a Lexington-based trial lawyer and Managing Partner of the firm's Lexington office. He has spent his career representing injury victims in Kentucky and beyond, with a focus on complex litigation against large commercial entities. In 2019, he became one of the youngest attorneys in Kentucky to secure a seven-figure jury verdict.
He is recognized nationally as a leading authority on cases involving contractor delivery models, including Amazon and FedEx Ground crashes, and attorneys across the country seek his guidance on trucking matters. His work has produced some of the largest known pre-trial trucking settlements in the region. He holds the National Trial Lawyers' Top Ten Trucking Lawyers designation and is a regular contributor on WKYT's Everyday Kentucky, where his 'Truck Talk' segments cover commercial vehicle safety topics for Kentucky drivers.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers
These results are credited to Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Ben Crump, alongside Louisville co-counsel Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker, settled the wrongful-death lawsuit brought by Breonna Taylor's mother against the City of Louisville for $12 million, the largest police-misconduct payout in the city's history, paired with a package of policing reforms the family made a non-negotiable condition of the deal.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
