Windle Turley

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.

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.

Windle Turley obtained what legal scholars credit as the first jury verdict applying the crashworthiness doctrine to an aircraft, holding Cessna liable for a fuel-system design that allowed occupants, including children, to burn to death in a post-crash fire following a Texas runway departure.