Thomas J. Henry

In February 2022, a federal judge ordered the United States to pay $230 million to survivors and families of the 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting after finding the Air Force 60 percent liable for failing to report the gunman's criminal history to the federal background check system.

A Bexar County jury returned a $59.8 million verdict, later converted to a $60.09 million judgment, for 23-year-old Armando Guerrero III after a drunk driver ran a red light at nearly twice the posted speed limit on Southwest Military Drive.

A Bexar County jury in November 2017 returned a verdict reported at $43.5 million for Jenny Hennes of Lytle, who was rear-ended on I-35 in San Antonio in 2015 by an SUV that belonged to oilfield services company JC Fodale Energy Services and was driven by its employee Mickey Hunt. Jurors heard that Hunt had texted more than 2,000 times while driving in the five months before the crash. The award included $30 million in punitive damages against the company and $2.5 million against Hunt. While the defendants' appeal was pending, the parties settled on undisclosed terms that released the judgment, and the appeal was dismissed in January 2019.

A Nueces County jury awarded Vanice Chatman-Wilson $24 million, including $10 million in punitive damages, after a Coca-Cola employee on a hands-free business call turned left into oncoming traffic and crushed Chatman-Wilson's car at a downtown Corpus Christi intersection.

On December 10, 2021, a federal jury in Pensacola awarded Army veteran Theodore Finley $22.5 million against 3M and its Aearo subsidiaries. Finley developed bilateral tinnitus and noise-induced hearing loss while wearing the Combat Arms Earplug Version 2 during service from 2006 to 2014. The jury found the earplugs defective and awarded $7.5 million in compensatory damages and $15 million in punitive damages. It was the largest verdict to that point in the bellwether series.

A federal jury in Corpus Christi returned $11.27 million for Alexandro Puga, a pickup truck driver left with spinal, pelvic, and leg fractures after a tractor-trailer hauling an RCX Solutions trailer crossed the center median on a rain-soaked Highway 77 and hit him head-on.

A federal jury in San Antonio awarded $10.37 million to the family of Gilbert Flores, a 41-year-old father killed by two Bexar County sheriff's deputies in August 2015 after video evidence showed he had his hands raised when the fatal shots were fired.

A Nueces County jury awarded $67.47 million to Christopher Arnold, paralyzed from the waist down after a Weatherford US oilfield employee rear-ended the vehicle he was riding in on FM 624 near Calallen; a pre-agreed high-low cap limited actual recovery to $9 million.