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About Payton Klatt
Payton Klatt joined Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers as a law clerk in 2020 and became a full-time attorney in 2021 after passing the bar exam. Born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, to parents in the legal field, Payton earned a degree in Public Policy and Leadership with a minor in Spanish from the University of Mississippi, then received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. While at UofL he competed on the Mock Trial Arbitration Team and received a CALI Award for Academic Excellence in Criminal Procedure.
His practice focuses on commercial trucking cases, motor vehicle collisions, and slip-and-fall incidents. He is admitted in Kentucky state courts and the federal courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky. He has been selected for the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 and Super Lawyers Rising Stars.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers
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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.
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