A train/auto collision case in El Paso County resulted in a $13 million verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, who suffered a fatality and serious injuries. The trial involved a strong team effort from The León Law Firm, with successful co-counsel duties shared by Jim Hart. The jury found significant responsibility on the part of one defendant, highlighting the importance of thorough legal representation.

This case resulted from injuries caused by known premises defect/dangerous condition on a property where our client lived. Client sustained life threatening injuries and a permanent traumatic brain injury.

Our clients’ vehicle was forcefully hit by a food delivery driver who failed to yield to oncoming traffic when making a turn. The impact caused our clients’ car to flip upside down, and for them both to suffer traumatic, long-term injuries.

Without any training, supervision, or inspection to ensure his vehicle was in good working condition, our client was tasked with driving a cement mixing truck in El Paso. His vehicle became unable to brake due to faulty equipment, forcing him to enter an intersection as other vehicles were crossing. Despite his attempts to warn oncoming traffic, our client collided with a tractor-trailer passing through, causing his cement truck to roll over and impact other vehicles as well. Our client lost his life as a result of the negligent maintenance, inspection, and allowance of use of the vehicle and left his loved ones to suffer serious damages, as well.

This case resulted from injuries caused by a defective airbag that deployed expelling materials that caused severe and permanent scarring, neck, and dental injuries to our client.

In the parking lot of a high school in Austin, Texas, teenagers were performing “donuts” in their vehicles while our client was a passenger in one of the vehicles. As the driver dangerously performed these “donuts” at a high rate of speed, the passenger door to the vehicle where our client was sitting came open, ejecting her from the vehicle. After landing harshly on the pavement, another driver performing “donuts” ran over our client’s legs with their vehicle, causing her severe and incapacitating injuries from which she may never fully recover.

While exiting a cement plant at a roadside construction site, the defendant truck driver failed to yield the right of way to our client who was approaching on the intersecting roadway. The violent collision caused catastrophic and permanent injuries to our client. Initially the trucking company denied liability. After conducting thorough discovery and uncovering damage against the driver and his employer, LLF secured a $2,000,000 settlement for our client. We will not let up until we get justice for our clients.

While performing his duties as a landscaper on an esplanade near a highway, a driver suddenly lost control of his vehicle and swerved onto the esplanade. The driver struck our client at a high rate of speed, causing him to lose his life and his loved ones to suffer intense mental and emotional anguish

As our client walked down the stairs of her apartment building, one of the steps suddenly collapsed, causing her to fall forward and sustain serious injuries.

This lawsuit stemmed from fatal injuries suffered by our client’s husband in a roadside auto-pedestrian collision. Decedent was working with other members of a work crew on the south side of the highway, when the driver operating a large tanker truck negligently drove truck off of the road at a high rate of speed. As he drove off of the highway, he struck Decedent and another member of the work crew. The force of the impact was devastating and resulted in Decedent’s death.