Our lawyers have the EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE and RESOURCES
to litigate cases
against major corporations and businesses.
Our lawyers have the EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE and RESOURCES
to litigate cases
against major corporations and businesses.
Our lawyers have the EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE and RESOURCES
to litigate cases
against major corporations and businesses.
Our PROVEN SUCCESSFUL RESULTS for our clients are a direct reflection of the skill and experience we have as trial lawyers. Houston personal injury law firm The Ammons Law Firm has won Record Setting Verdicts and over 330 Victories of ONE MILLION DOLLARS PLUS for our clients nationwide.
“No matter how big your adversary is and no matter what the odds are against you…..YOU CAN WIN.” – Rob Ammons
$82.5 MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT — Gas Explosion
The jury found the company that constructed, engineered and installed a natural gas processing plant negligent in the death of a Mineral Wells, Texas man represented by The Ammons Law Firm. Ammons’ client was attempting to start a hot oil heater when the heater exploded. A day later the man died, leaving behind a widow and three minor children.
The company was ordered to pay $82.5 million dollars in damages to the deceased's family.
“When companies prioritize profits over responsibility, safety and respect for the environment, I think juries are going to push back in the only way they can- by awarding precedent setting verdicts for hard working claimants.” – Rob Ammons
$33 MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT — Tire Defect
A de-treading defective tire resulted in a head-on collision that led to the death of beloved community leader in 2013. A jury handed down a record-breaking $33 million verdict holding a tire manufacture directly responsible for its lax approach to safety and manufacturing that resulted in the fatal wreck.
John Gsanger, of Ammons Law Firm represented the client in trail. "The tire that de-treaded, caused a cement truck to lose control and crash into Plaintiff/ In our analysis, we found the failed tire's problems were numerous and included adhesion defects and off-center, wrong-sized steel belts. Tread separation and the loss of vehicular control is the result of shoddy manufacturing." Gsanger hopes this verdict will send a message to tire manufacturers that product safety should always be more important than profits.
$27.5 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Traumatic Brain Injury
Ammons and his team obtained a settlement for an infant and his family when their vehicle was rear ended by a pickup truck causing the vehicle to rollover.
$22.1 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Bus Collision
Ammons represented a group of clients who sustained catastrophic and fatal injuries while passengers on a charter bus. Rob Ammons and his team located every possible defendant whose actions contributed to this terrible tragedy, including the bus manufacturers. seat manufacturer, tire retreading company and the bus operator, owner, & driver.
$15 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Tire Detread & Rollover
Ammons’ clients were traveling in their vehicle on Interstate 10 when the tire mounted at the vehicle’s left rear suffered a 360-degree tread separation failure, causing the truck to leave the roadway where it then rolled over. During the rollover, the vehicle to be crashworthy which resulted in catastrophic injuries.
$13 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Wrongful Death
Ammons obtained a settlement for the family he represented when their father was killed in a head on vehicular collision.
$12 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Tire Detread & Rollover
The Ammons Law Firm obtained a settlement for their client who was fatally injured when the vehicle she was traveling in had a tread separation from a rear tire. The Ammons Law Firm represented her family in the lawsuit.
$11 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Wrongful Death
Ammons Law Firm’s clients were passengers in a van when the driver lost control. The van experienced several rolls ejecting a number of its passengers, causing the deaths of four of them and seriously injuring the other two.
$10.8 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Product Defect
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The Ammons Law Firm has a nationwide personal injury practice focusing on tire defects, truck accidents, rollovers, consumer protection and product liability, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, post-collision fires, seat belt defects, air bag defects and plant explosions.
$10.2 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Tire Detread/Rollover
April Strahan, of Ammons Law Firm, represented a client who sustained life threatening injuries and was paralyzed when his back tire blew out causing the vehicle to skid out of control.
$10 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Tire Detread/Rollover
When two teenagers sustained fatal injuries and three other teenagers sustained serious life-threatening injuries due to a rollover incident, The Ammons Law Firm obtained a settlement for their families.
$10 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Explosion
Ammons represented a mother and her three year son who sustained horrific burns when an explosion occurred in their home.
$9.3 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Tire Detread & Rollover
Ammons obtained a settlement for passengers that were traveling in a van southbound on National Highway 54 in Mexico transporting eight men from the United States back to Mexico when the tread on the left rear tire separated causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle. As a result of the accident, six people died.
$8.5 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Trucking
Ammons and his team represented a client who was traveling in his smart car when another a vehicle driven by a company’s employee crossed traffic lanes and struck client’s vehicle causing severe injuries to Ammons’ client.
In the course of the investigation of this incident by Ammons it was revealed the driver of the vehicle that struck Ammons client had been reprimanded 16 different occasions by his employer before the Incident. The employer continued to allow the employee to work despite his history.
$8.2 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Workplace Injury
Ammons’ client was replacing and relocating air conditioning units when he received a severe electrical shock causing extensive brain damage.
$8.1 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT –Tire Detread & Rollover
Plaintiffwas the belted driver of a 2005 Ford Excursion designed, manufactured and marketed by Defendant Ford Motor Company and marketed and sold by Defendant Del Rio Lincoln Mercury, Ltd., when the left rear tire designed by Michelin North America, Inc. suffered a disablement. Following the tire disablement, the Excursion rolled over. In the crash, it proved uncrashworthy. During the incident, Plaintiff sustained severe and permanent injuries.
The Ammons Law Firm has a nationwide personal injury practice focusing on tire defects, truck accidents, rollovers, consumer protection and product liability, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, post-collision fires, seat belt defects, air bag defects and plant explosions.
$8 MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT — Trucking
Ammons Law Firm represented a client who died in a trucking accident when her vehicle was violently struck from behind and ran over by a tractor-trailer. The force of the impact severed the client’s arm and leg and pushed her vehicle over 400 feet. The severity of the accident caused her vehicle to burst into flames and she was killed.
$7.7 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Product Defect
The Ammons Law Firm secured a settlement for their client who was killed in a vehicle incident involving a company vehicle driven by the company’s employee. The employee was texting and talking on his cell phone when his truck struck the Plaintiff's vehicle. The injuries that caused the death could have been prevented through a crashworthy vehicle design. Incorporation of a strong roof as well as effective occupant restraint and containment in the subject vehicle’s rollover protection system would have prevented Plaintiff’s fatal injuries.
$7.6 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Tire Defect
The Ammons Law Firm represented a client who sustained fatal injuries when the vehicle he was traveling in was struck by another vehicle. The driver of the vehicle that struck Ammons’ client had lost control of his car due to a tread separation.
$7.5 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Auto Airbag Defect
While traveling in his vehicle, Ammons Law Firm’s client sustained fatal injuries when the vehicle’s airbag inflator canister exploded. A large round piece of metal from the inflator module housing the chemicals exploded through the fabric of the airbag shooting shrapnel into his neck with an explosive force severe enough to lodge the metal into his cervical spine and shoulder. The ruptured metal severed the client’s artery, jugular vein, and fractured the cartilage of his throat. caused his death.
$6 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Auto Airbag Defect
Justin Burrow, of Ammons Law Firm, represented a client who was involved in a motor vehicle accident in which the airbag failed to deploy when the client’s vehicle was stuck by a pickup driver who disregarded a stop sign. The client sustained a traumatic head injury and was incapacitated in a vegetative/coma state. Justin won a recovery for his client from the auto manufacture.
$6 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Auto Defect
Our client was involved in a motor vehicle accident when his rear crash safety systems failed to provide reasonable occupant protection. Our client was transported to the hospital and suffered multiple injuries including, brain and spinal cord injuries that resulted in permanent quadriplegia.
$6 MILLION DOLLAR Spinal Cord Injury
Our client was approached by an unidentified male brandishing a firearm while at the ATM. Our client was struck by a bullet which left him paralyzed.
$5.9 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Product Defect
While traveling in her vehicle with her daughter, Ammon’s Law Firm’s client was struck by an oncoming tractor trailer. During the incident, her child was seated in a booster seat that lacked a pretensioner. The accident caused the child to sustain catastrophic injuries that left her quadriplegic.
$5.9 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Tire Defect
The Ammons Law Firm’s client was involved in an accident while traveling when the tire positioned on the right rear wheel of the vehicle, suffered a tread separation. Following the tread separation event, the vehicle rolled over. The vehicles’ occupants were injured in the rollover, and one client seated in the second row, died as a result of the injuries sustained
$5.6 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Tire Defect
Our client was driving with her children in the backseat when her vehicle rolled over following the disablement of a tire that was mounted on the rear axle. The restraint system in the vehicle failed to properly restrain our client in the crash, and she was seriously injured as a result.
$5.4 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Tire Defect
The Ammons Law Firm’s clients were passengers traveling in a vehicle when the vehicles left rear suffered a separation failure. Our clients sustained catastrophic injuries as a result.
$5.3 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Wrongful Death
Ammons Law Firm represented a family that was traveling when another vehicle hydroplaned and collided with their vehicle, causing it to flip on its side. All of our clients sustained serious injuries and one clients injuries resulted in death.
$5.3 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Workplace/Wrongful Death
The Ammons Law Firm’s client was working at a wellsite when he was crushed to death between a crane’s outrigger and a lowboy trailer. The severity of the injuries ultimately proved fatal.
$5.1 MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT — Wrongful Death
The Ammons Law Firm obtained a settlement for their client, a peace officer, who died when his vehicle was struck by another vehicle.
$5 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT — Auto Defect/Spinal Cord Injury
Ammons Law represented a client who was injured in a vehicle wreck. Ammons investigated the incident and proved the vehicle's seat back failed causing her to suffer a spinal cord injury.
$5.25 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Auto Defect/Spinal Cord Injury
The Ammons Law Firm’s client was driving when his vehicle collided with another in a construction zone. Our client sustained catastrophic and paralyzing injuries and has been rendered quadriplegic.
$5 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Tire Defect
Ammons Law represented a client who was traveling in her vehicle the rear tire de-treaded, causing loss of control and subsequent rollover of the vehicle. As a result of the tire failure and subsequent rollover, our client sustained a spinal cord injury, which has left her paralyzed from the chest down.
$5 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Tire Defect/Spinal Cord Injury
Ammons Law Firm represented an individual who was driving when his vehicle rolled over unexpectedly. In the rollover, the side curtain air bag of the vehicle failed to deploy. Our client sustained serious injuries that rendered him permanently quadriplegic.
$5 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Tire Defect/Spinal Cord
his vehicle suffered a rear tire tread separation and rollover. He sustained permanent, paralyzing spinal cord injuries in the incident.
$4.9 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Wrongful Death
The Ammons Law Firm’s client was a passenger in a helicopter involved in a fatal crash
$4.85 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Offshore/Maritime
Ammons obtainned a settlement for his client who was working at a wellsite when an object fell on his head and critically injured him.
$4.75 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Workplace/Wrongful Death
While he was at work, Ammons Law Firm client attempted to relieve the pressure on an exhaust pipe. The pipe line failed and parts from the line broke loose striking his head and left torso, causing his injuries and death.
$4.6 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Wrongful Death
The Ammons Law Firm’s client was driving with his wife when another driver ran a red light and struck their vehicle causing it to rollover. In the incident one of our clients was fatally injured and the other sustained serious injuries.
$4.55 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Auto Defect/Wrongful Death
Ammons represented clients who were passengers traveling in a vehicle when they were involved in a rollover event. One client suffered catastrophic injuries and the other suffered fatal injuries.
$4.5 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Auto Defect
The Ammons Law Firm’s clients were passengers in a truck when the vehicle rolled over. Our clients sustained serious injuries in the incident.
$4.45 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Tire Defect/Wrongful Death
Ammons Law Firm obtained a settlement for our client who was driving her vehicle when the rear tire on the vehicle experienced a tread separation. The incident caused the vehicle to rollover causing catastrophic injuries. Our client died a week later from her injuries.
$4.45 MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT – Tire Defect
Seat Back Defect
Ammons represented a Family and their infant who sustained severe injuries when their vehicle was rear ended while traveling along a freeway.
$2,900,000 Settlement for Park-N-Fly Bus Driver
On behalf of his clients, Rob Ammons alleged that, by contract, no construction activity was to be conducted during the Christmas holidays, which included the date of the accident. They also asserted that during the times when operations were allowed to proceed outside the construction perimeter and on public roadways, then safety regulations and requirements mandated that traffic should be stopped in the two lanes.
Tire Defect Causes Explosive Tread Separation of Tire
Ammons' client, had just finished mounting a Titan 18.4-30 heavy-duty R1 tractor tire on its rim and was putting a valve stem in the tire when a bead on the tire failed. The tire rim assembly separated explosively, striking him in the head. Our client suffered fatal head injuries. He had been a tire serviceman earning $25,000 annually and is survived by his parents, wife, adult daughter and minor son. On behalf of his client, Ammons sued the manufacturer of the tire, alleging defective design in that the tire’s bead design incorporated several side-by-side layers of .037-inch wires, requiring each wire to be terminated on top and on bottom of the bead.
Rob Ammons Successfully Concludes Wrongful Death Case – $2.2 Million for Children of Texas Factory Worker
The lawsuit alleged that the deadly incident occurred when the man was working on a pipe belling machine that the company was knowingly operating in an unsafe condition.Ammons alleged that the machine was put into service without a safety guard around its belling chamber and was further modified to remove other safety features that would have prevented the fatal incident. The modifications were made without verifying the safety of the modifications, as admitted by the company’s operation manager at deposition.
