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About Justin Warner
Justin Warner is a trial attorney at Zehl & Associates Injury & Accident Lawyers in Houston, Texas, focusing on maritime and offshore accidents, oilfield incidents, trucking accidents, and catastrophic workplace injuries. A native of Natchitoches, Louisiana, Justin earned his B.A. from Northwestern State University and his J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2016, where he served as Managing Editor of the Loyola Maritime Law Journal. Before joining Zehl & Associates in October 2022, he spent six years as an associate at Phelps Dunbar LLP, a prominent Louisiana defense firm, representing maritime employers, vessel owners, and insurers in complex matters involving the Jones Act, limitation actions, platform fires and explosions, and vessel collisions. Justin has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in Maritime Law and Transportation in 2022 and 2023, a distinction awarded to less than 2.5 percent of practicing lawyers, and has been named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Zehl & Associates
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Zehl & Associates secured a $35 million settlement for the family of Susana Longoria, a 31-year-old nursing student and single mother killed when a Ben E. Keith 18-wheeler struck her disabled car and the people helping her on I-35W in Fort Worth.
A Dallas County jury found Oncor's driver 84 percent at fault and awarded $37.5 million to the widow and three children of trucker Shamsher Singh, killed on I-635 when a distracted Oncor service-truck driver struck his stopped 18-wheeler.
Zehl & Associates recovered $16 million for a drillship floorhand injured in the moonpool of a Gulf of Mexico rig, ranked by TopVerdicts as the largest reported Jones Act maritime settlement in Texas for 2025.
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