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About Slack Davis Sanger

Slack Davis is an Austin-based personal injury and wrongful death firm founded in 1993, with more than three decades of experience in aviation crashes, truck and car accidents, workplace injuries, medical malpractice, class actions, and other complex catastrophic-injury litigation. The firm's attorneys have tried or litigated cases in 47 states and have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for clients.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Slack Davis Sanger

$52 millionSettlement

Roughly 700,000 Texas auto insurance policyholders shared a $52 million class settlement after a federal lawsuit showed Farmers Group charged long-term customers higher premiums than new customers for coverage that was functionally identical.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (Austin Division) · 2020Read the full story →
$12.1 millionVerdict

A Harris County probate jury found Raymond James and Associates liable for a 2019 fuel-starvation crash near Kerrville that killed six people, awarding $12.1 million to the families of three passengers after five hours of deliberation.

Harris County Probate Court No. 2, Houston, TX · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$10 millionSettlement

Fore Aero agreed to pay $10 million to the family of a Bell 212 pilot killed in Alberta after investigators found the company manufactured a critical rotor-hub pin from steel weaker than specifications required.

Alberta, Canada / Federal (settled) · 2023Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$5 millionSettlement

The estates of two men killed when a Superior Air Parts XP-400 crankshaft failed during a 2016 Florida flight settled for $5 million, prompting the company to buy back all XP-400 and XP-382 engines it had sold.

Dallas County District Court, TX · 2020Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$3.35 millionVerdict

A mother and her two toddler daughters, each diagnosed with PTSD after surviving the American Airlines Flight 1420 runway crash in Little Rock, won a $3.35 million jury verdict that the Eighth Circuit affirmed in full.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas (affirmed 8th Cir. 2003) · 2000Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
Settlement

Michael Slack and Ladd Sanger of Slack and Davis secured a confidential settlement in March 2014 for the family of Stuart Robertson, one of five people killed when a Blue Hawaiian Helicopters tour flight crashed into a mountain ridge on Molokai, Hawaii, on November 10, 2011.

U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii (Honolulu) · 2014Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
Settlement

Michael Slack secured a confidential settlement against Robinson Helicopter after defective aluminum fuel tanks on an R-44 ruptured in a 2006 Fredericksburg, Texas crash and fire that killed the pilot and two passengers, with the deal requiring Robinson to retrofit its entire fleet with crash-resistant bladder tanks.

Texas (settled pre-trial) · 2009Product LiabilityRead the full story →
Verdict

After two jury trials and years of appeals, the family of a New Mexico State Police officer killed in a 2001 air-ambulance helicopter crash won a wrongful-death verdict against the hospital that hired the operator without adequately vetting its fitness.

New Mexico District Court (affirmed NM Court of Appeals 2008) · 2008Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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$4,507,000 · Travis County Jury Awards $4.5 Million After Construction Worker Is Struck by Falling Logs at Highway Project
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$2 million · Broken Jaw, $2 Million: Anthony Evans Settles Civil-Rights Claim Against City of Austin Over 2020 BLM Protest Shooting
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$8 million · $8 Million Settlement for NMSU Basketball Players Sexually Assaulted by Teammates

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