Carter Colclasure

A Dallas jury returned a $119.6 million verdict against the Catholic Diocese of Dallas after finding it grossly negligent and fraudulent in concealing years of sexual abuse by priest Rudy Kos; eight of the eleven plaintiffs, represented by Windle Turley, later settled for $23.4 million.

A Dallas County jury awarded $17.5 million to David Fitzgerald, a former maintenance worker who lost both arms and both legs after his infectious disease physician administered eight ineffective antibiotics while never prescribing the one drug that would have stopped his MRSA infection.

Windle Turley filed a $400 million federal lawsuit in Dallas on behalf of former Hare Krishna boarding-school students who suffered rape, physical torture, and emotional abuse as children; the litigation resolved in 2005 through a California bankruptcy court settlement paying $9.5 million to hundreds of victims.

A 20-year-old passenger in a 2014 Honda CR-V suffered a crushed skull and permanent brain, face and left-eye injuries when a red-light runner struck the car and her brother's head hit hers. An Eastern District of Texas jury found the CR-V's restraint design defective and awarded her $21,180,808.74, with Honda 23 percent responsible. The judgment of $4,871,586.01 stood and the Fifth Circuit affirmed.

Windle Turley won a $10.15 million jury verdict against Freightliner after the company's lightweight aluminum saddle-tank fuel system ruptured and ignited in a 1974 Texas rollover, killing a husband and wife and leaving their children orphaned. After a decade of appeals, the punitive-damages liability was upheld but the amount was reduced to $450,000.