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About Rene M. Sigman
Rene M. Sigman is Of Counsel at Williams Hart & Boundas, overseeing its insurance practice and widely recognized as one of the pioneers of first-party policyholder representation in Texas. She began her career in 2002 after earning her J.D. from South Texas College of Law and has personally handled thousands of first-party litigation cases against insurance carriers over more than 20 years. At age thirty-one, she was appointed as Plaintiffs' Liaison on Hurricane Ike property damage claims in multiple Texas counties, and she was lead attorney in a two-day deposition of the top wind expert for the Texas Windstorm Association that resulted in TWIA paying hundreds of millions to resolve Bolivar Island Hurricane Ike claims. She is licensed in Texas, Colorado, and New York and has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list since 2016.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Williams Hart & Boundas
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John Eddie Williams, Jr. served as one of five private attorneys retained by the State of Texas to sue the major tobacco companies, producing a $15.3 billion settlement in January 1998, the largest single-case settlement in U.S. history at the time.
A St. Louis jury awarded $46.5 million to three plaintiffs who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after PCB exposure, delivering the first plaintiff verdict of its kind against Monsanto in the city.
A St. Louis jury returned a $38 million verdict against Abbott Laboratories for failing to adequately warn patients and physicians that Depakote, taken during pregnancy to control epilepsy, could cause severe birth defects including spina bifida.
A federal jury in East St. Louis found in June 2017 that Abbott Laboratories failed to warn a prescribing doctor about the risk of severe birth defects from Depakote. It awarded $15 million in compensatory damages to a 10-year-old boy born with spina bifida after his mother took the drug during pregnancy. The jury declined to award punitive damages.
Jim Hart won a $12.45 million jury verdict for a Houston couple severely injured when a New Prime tractor-trailer rear-ended their sedan on I-45, though the Texas Supreme Court later reversed on procedural grounds and remanded for a new trial.
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