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July 14, 2022 Texas leads nation in defective, recalled airbags

According to the National Safety Council’s Check to Protect campaign, more than 50 million vehicles on U.S roadways have unresolved safety recalls, including 1.24 million vehicles in Texas with recalled airbags. According to a recent press release, Texas leads the nation with the most recalled airbags that have gone unrepaired. It’s no secret that airbags…

March 16, 2022 Jennifer Gorgas killed during collision with Amazon truck in Roxbury

MORRIS COUNTY, N.J.—Jennifer Gorgas, a 25-year-old woman from Netcong, New Jersey, tragically died March 16 when her SUV hit an Amazon tractor-trailer on Route 46 in Roxbury. Local authorities said the victim’s Subaru Outback collided with the left side of the trailer, shearing the roof of the Subaru from the front windshield to the middle passenger…

February 22, 2022 Baylor Law Team Takes First Place at the 2022 Hunton Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Invitational Championship

HOUSTON, Texas—Baylor Law students took first place at the 2022 Hunton Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Invitational Championship hosted by the University of Houston Law Center from Jan. 27-29. Students Lexie Ammons, Michael Tagliabue, and brief writer Sarah Megan Erb competed against the top 16 advocacy programs in the nation for the top honor. Lexie…

February 7, 2022 Federal judge issues more than $230M verdict against US government for Sutherland Springs shooting

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, February 7, 2022 — U.S. Federal District Court Judge Xavier Rodriguez issued a more than $230 million verdict today against the United States government for its role in causing the shooting at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church on Nov. 5, 2017. Having claimed the lives of 26 people and seriously injured 22…

September 24, 2021 The Ammons Law Firm files suit against U.S. Postal Service on behalf of Texas driver hit by post office employee

HOUSTON, Texas — The Ammons Law Firm has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service on behalf of a Texas man who suffered a traumatic brain injury and life-altering orthopedic injury in a crash. The collision happened when a post office employee disregarded a red light at a Houston intersection. The postal employee ran…

September 23, 2021 Ammons Law Firm attorneys selected to 2021 Texas Super Lawyers

HOUSTON, Texas (Sept. 23, 2021) – The Ammons Law Firm is proud to announce that Rob Ammons, John Gsanger, April Strahan and Justin Burrow were named to the 2021 list of Texas Super Lawyers for their experience and commitment to representing injured consumers in products personal injury litigation. Owned by Thomson Reuters, Super Lawyers annually recognizes…

September 21, 2021 The Ammons Law Firm files suit against Instant Brands after pressure cooker explodes, burns Oklahoma woman

TULSA, Okla. — The Ammons Law Firm has filed a lawsuit against Instant Brands on behalf of an Oklahoma woman who was scalded and scarred by extremely hot contents of an Instant Pot pressure cooker as she opened the device in her home.Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, the…

September 9, 2021 Ammons wins $5.49M verdict for children of Killeen man killed in Bell County accident

Bell County, Texas – The Ammons Law Firm won a verdict in a wrongful death case on behalf of six children and their 47-year-old father who was tragically killed in a 2016 accident on Interstate 35 in Troy, Texas. After reviewing all of the evidence, a Bell County jury found that the negligence of the Texas…

July 26, 2021 Ammons Law Firm and Collmer Law Group win emergency court order to preserve evidence at site of fatal rig incident in Humble

On Friday, a Harris County district judge signed an order requiring Crisco Operating to preserve evidence at the scene of a Humble, Texas, drilling site where a worker died on July 21. The incident happened Wednesday when Crisco Operating, an Austin-based oil and gas developer, allowed the floor of a derrick to fall on—and kill—a…

July 7, 2021 U.S. District Court Finds U.S. Government Liable for Negligently Allowing Sutherland Springs Gunman to Purchase Firearms

Today the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Texas ruled in favor of survivors and families of victims involved in the Sutherland Springs church shooting in a trial against the United States Government. Judge Xavier Rodriguez found the U.S. Air Force liable for failing to provide the shooter’s domestic violence convictions to the…