About Michael Eddington

Michael Eddington represents clients in a wide variety of personal injury and commercial litigation cases, with a primary focus on maritime personal injury including Jones Act claims across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. He grew up in Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University before moving to New Orleans to attend law school at Tulane University. During law school, he gained experience clerking for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, worked in the Tulane Civil Litigation Clinic, and interned with the New Orleans City Attorney's Office and Southeast Louisiana Legal Services. Before joining The Buzbee Law Firm, Eddington practiced at a Houston law firm specializing in real estate and commercial litigation.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Buzbee Law Firm

These results are credited to The Buzbee Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Dallas jury awarded $1.1 billion against a trust fund heir who beat a 2-year-old into a permanent vegetative state in 2021, a verdict the firm calls the largest child-assault award in U.S. history.

134th District Court, Dallas County · 2026Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$640 millionVerdict

A Harris County jury awarded $640 million to the family of David Lester Loree II, a journeyman pipefitter fatally crushed when a top-heavy HVAC unit being lifted by TNT Crane and Rigging overturned in high winds at a Texas A&M University-San Antonio construction site in September 2021.

Harris County District Court (Case No. 2021-68047), Judge Erica R. Hughes · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$198.2 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2026 · #8

A San Patricio County jury awarded $198.2 million to Kristene Chapa, who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and shot in the head at a public park in 2012, with the verdict holding her convicted attacker, his father, and their family pharmacy jointly liable.

San Patricio County District Court (Case No. S-17-5294CV-C), Judge Janna K. Whatley · 2026Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$159 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2015 · #4

A Houston jury awarded $159 million to five oilfield workers burned, and the family of one man killed, in a 2012 liquid-fire explosion at Valero Energy's Memphis, Tennessee refinery.

Harris County District Court, Houston · 2015Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$100 millionVerdict

A Galveston federal jury awarded $100 million to ten contract workers exposed to carbon disulfide at BP's Texas City refinery in April 2007. The judge set aside the punitive damages, seven workers later settled on undisclosed terms, and the Fifth Circuit vacated the verdict for the remaining three in 2011.

U.S. District Court, Galveston, Texas (Judge Kenneth Hoyt) · 2009Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Tulane University School of Law
J.D.
Louisiana State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.