Slack Davis Sanger
About the firm
Slack Davis is an Austin-based personal injury and wrongful death firm founded in 1993, with more than three decades of experience in aviation crashes, truck and car accidents, workplace injuries, medical malpractice, class actions, and other complex catastrophic-injury litigation. The firm's attorneys have tried or litigated cases in 47 states and have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for clients.
Notable results
Roughly 700,000 Texas auto insurance policyholders shared a $52 million class settlement after a federal lawsuit showed Farmers Group charged long-term customers higher premiums than new customers for coverage that was functionally identical.
A Harris County probate jury found Raymond James and Associates liable for a 2019 fuel-starvation crash near Kerrville that killed six people, awarding $12.1 million to the families of three passengers after five hours of deliberation.
Fore Aero agreed to pay $10 million to the family of a Bell 212 pilot killed in Alberta after investigators found the company manufactured a critical rotor-hub pin from steel weaker than specifications required.
The estates of two men killed when a Superior Air Parts XP-400 crankshaft failed during a 2016 Florida flight settled for $5 million, prompting the company to buy back all XP-400 and XP-382 engines it had sold.
A mother and her two toddler daughters, each diagnosed with PTSD after surviving the American Airlines Flight 1420 runway crash in Little Rock, won a $3.35 million jury verdict that the Eighth Circuit affirmed in full.
Michael Slack and Ladd Sanger of Slack and Davis secured a confidential settlement in March 2014 for the family of Stuart Robertson, one of five people killed when a Blue Hawaiian Helicopters tour flight crashed into a mountain ridge on Molokai, Hawaii, on November 10, 2011.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
