Sam Aguiar
About Sam Aguiar
Sam Aguiar is the founder of Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers in Louisville, Kentucky. He built the firm around three principles: client service, strong case results, and community involvement. Over his career, he has secured dozens of seven- and eight-figure recoveries for injury victims across Kentucky. Sam is one of only two personal injury attorneys in Kentucky selected as a Forbes Best-In-State Top Lawyer and one of just 16 nationwide. He has received Super Lawyers recognition every year from 2017 through 2026, earned National Trial Lawyers Top 100 and Trucking Trial Lawyers Association Top 10 designations, and was named Louisville's Top Personal Injury Lawyer by the Courier Journal. A published best-selling author and national speaker on trial strategy, civil rights, and insurance bad faith, his work on high-profile cases has been covered by Hulu, ABC's 20/20, the New York Times, Time Magazine, CNN, NBC, BBC, NPR, and the Washington Post. His cases have produced significant police reforms and changes to claims handling policies at one of the country's largest property and casualty insurers.
Notable case results
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.
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.
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.
Sam Aguiar served as class counsel in Davis v. State Farm, a certified federal class action on behalf of Kentucky policyholders who were denied uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage after State Farm agents allegedly forged their signatures on coverage-rejection waivers; the court approved a class settlement on October 28, 2020, and awarded class counsel $3.4 million in fees and expenses.
Insurance bad faith verdict
Wrongful death settlement
Truck accident settlement
Truck accident settlement
Car accident settlement
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
