About Us

Silicosis Laywers

Seeking Justice for Silicosis Victims

Welcome to Silicosis Injury Lawyer, a compassionate and dedicated legal team of lawyers representing clients who have suffered silicosis injuries due to accidents caused by other persons or parties. We understand the profound impact that silicosis injuries can have on your life, and we are here to guide you through the complex legal processes required to gain payments for you for your injury losses. We can also provide the support and advocacy you deserve for your case.

If you or a loved one is facing the financial, physical, and emotional challenges of a silicosis injury, we are committed to helping you seek justice and compensation to ease your burdens.

Over $1 Billion in Past Settlements

Recovered for our Clients over last 40 years

No Fees or Expenses Charged, Unless You Recover

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Meet Our Team

Robert E. Ammons is the founding partner of The Ammons Law Firm. Rob received his B.A. from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. After receiving an academic scholarship, Rob continued his education at Baylor University School of Law, where he was Editor of the Baylor Law Review, a member of the Order of the Barristers, and a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity. He received his J.D. cum laude in 1988 and was selected to serve as a Briefing Attorney for the Texas Supreme Court.

Rob has represented seriously injured consumers in product liability litigation since 1991. He is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Rob is also Board Certified in Civil Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is individually rated AV®, the highest peer-review rating offered by Martindale-Hubbell®. In addition, Rob is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).

$82.50 Million Verdict in natural gas processing plant explosion in Mineral Wells, Texas. Ammon’s client died in the heater explosion. The Petrie v. Hanover case is included in the Texas Verdict Hall of Fame.

$50.65 Million Verdict– Mass Shooting & Wrongful Death in the Sutherland Springs Church Shooting Lawsuit. After 27 days in trial, a landmark verdict was obtained and was the first case in history to find the United States Government civilly liable in a mass shooting.

For over three decades Rob has concentrated his practice on tire and automotive defect litigation. Rob represents consumers exclusively. He has successfully prosecuted numerous catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases against refineries, chemical plants, maritime and offshore entities, various product manufacturers, tire manufacturers, automakers, tire retailers, and tire service centers, including Michelin, BF Goodrich, Uniroyal, Cooper Tire, Goodyear, Dunlop, Kumho Tire Bridgestone/Firestone, Continental/General Tire, , Yokohama, General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Honda, Toyota, Isuzu, Hyundai, Nissan, Mitsubishi, BMW, Mazda, Discount Tire, Pep Boys, Les Schwab, and Walmart.

  • Bachelor of Arts, 1985, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
  • Juris Doctor, 1988, Baylor University School of Law, Waco, Texas
  • State Bar of Texas, 1988
  • State Bar of Florida, 1990
  • State Bar of New York, 2006
  • State Bar of Arizona, 2010
  • State Bar of New Mexico, 2019
  • State Bar of Oklahoma, 2022
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • Texas Super Lawyers® Inclusion, 2003-2023
  • Texas Super Lawyers Top 100, 2008 – 2023
  • Best Lawyers® Personal Injury Litigation & Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2018 – 2023
  • U.S. News & World Report as Best Law Firm, 2023
  • AV® Rated by Martindale Hubbell
  • Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyer
  • Houston’s Top Attorneys, Houstonia Magazine
  • Million & Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum Member
  • Best Civil Attorney in 2010 by Houston Press
  • National Board of Trial Advocacy, Board Certified
  • Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Board Certified
  • Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Director
  • Southern Trial Lawyers Association, Director
  • American Board of Trial Advocates
  • Houston Bar Association
  • Houston Trial Lawyers Association
  • American Association of Justice
  • American Bar Association
  • Attorney Information Exchange Group, Board Member
  • TIRE DEFECT LITIGATION (Robert E. Ammons ed., 2016)
  • Tire Defects, Trial Magazine
  • Tires That Kill – Tread Defects, Trial Magazine
  • Rollovers: The Making of an Epidemic, Trial Magazine
  • Spinal Cord Injuries – What you Need to Know, Trial Magazine
  • A Silent Epidemic — Opioids, Trial Magazine, Feb 2017
  • The Deadly Impact of Exploding Air Bags, Trial Magazine, Feb 2015
  • Danger on the Road, Trial Magazine, Feb 2009
  • Unmasking Defects in Auto Safety, Trial Magazine, Nov 2013
  • Taking on Toyota, Trial Magazine, Nov 2010
  • Is the All-American Amusement Park Safe, Trial Magazine, June 2005
  • The Invisible Danger of Aging Tires, Trial Magazine, April 2005
  • The Risky Ride of the 15-Passenger Van. Trial Magazine, Feb 2003
  • Representing the Forgotten Child. Trial Magazine, Nov 2002

David P. Willis is the founder and head of the Willis Law Firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. Willis grew up in Waco, Texas where he received his B.A. from Baylor University in 1978 and his legal education at the South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas in 1983.

His educational, career and legal background includes:

  • Baylor University (BA 1978)
  • South Texas College of Law (JD 1982)
  • State Bar of Texas (Since 1983)
  • State Bar of New York (Since 2005)
  • Supreme Court of Texas – Attorney (1983-1984)
  • VP of Harris County Bar Association (1984-1985)
  • Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer (Since 1988)
  • American Association for Justice formerly ATLA (Since 1988)
  • Texas Bar Foundation (Since 1996)
  • College of the State Bar of Texas (Since 2006)
  • “AV” Rating (Highest Peer Review Rating) by Martindale Hubbell
  • United States Patent Holder
  • Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Autism.   Baylor Autism Resource Center (2013)
  • National Trial Lawyer-Top 100 Lawyers (2018 -> 2023)


After law school, Willis was selected as one of only eighteen to be briefing attorneys for the Supreme Court of Texas. While working on the Supreme Court of Texas for Justice Robert M. Campbell, Willis quickly found personal injury and product liability law as an area of law that intrigued him. Willis quickly learned from studying the appellate records, court evidence and trial briefs in these massive catastrophic injury cases on appeal, the simple fact is that big corporations and manufacturers often hide evidence and intentionally produce products that they know to be dangerous, to ultimately make a bigger profit.

Many of those corporations in fact looked at a potential problem and do what is called a “cost base analysis”, in which they decide it is cheaper to pay injured consumers in lawsuits, than to fix the problem and make a safer product or not make the product at all.

The Willis Law Firm, a Texas-based law firm with a strong national presence and recognition. Willis has gained a national reputation as a leading personal injury lawyer, product liability and automotive defect attorney. He specializes in the prosecution of serious injury cases, involving burns, paralysis, traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and wrongful death suits against automobile, SUV and tire manufacturers, chemical plants, refineries, pharmaceutical companies, and other corporate entities. For over 40 years Mr. Willis has been personally compelled to force manufacturers to be accountable for their negligent acts, poor designs and for the sale of dangerous products that kill and maim the consumers in the United States and ultimately recall their products and make them safe.

After his briefing attorney commitment was over, Willis was hired by a personal injury law firm in Houston, Texas. It was there in 1986 that Willis handled his first spinal cord injury case as a “baby” lawyer. The case involved a Ford passenger vehicle rollover with a Firestone Tire in the mountains of western Arkansas. The driver sustained multiple cervical spine fractures when the roof crushed down on him while belted in the rolled over vehicle. After the initial investigation, a lawsuit was filed and later the case was settled out of court against the tire maker and auto maker.

In 1989, Willis was hired to represent a young teenager that was rendered traumatically brain damaged in a car-train collision. The family of a teenage daughter suffered traumatic brain damage when a speeding Southern Pacific Freight Train failed to blow its required horn, broad-sided the vehicle our client and her friends were traveling. The other back seat occupant died from her brain injuries.  The family hired Willis to represent their daughter. After almost a three-week trial, a record verdict was awarded in the trial court for over $25,500,000 and later settled for $15,000,000.  At the time of the trial court’s final verdict, it was the nation’s largest single car-train accidents in US History.  

 

In 1989, Attorney Mark McDonald, the two-time president of the prestigious National Bar Association, asked Willis to take over a tragic waterpark accident case involving his client’s daughter, a young African American girl that was suffered anoxic brain damage in a wave pool in Texas. She was found unresponsive at the bottom of the wave pool by another swimmer and was pulled out and revived, but sadly suffered permanent anoxic brain injuries due to the lack of oxygen while on the bottom of the pool for over five to six minutes.

Willis immediately filed a negligence lawsuit against the water park for negligent lifeguarding, but after a few months the defendant tendered their full policy of insurance limits. Willis realized the amount was not enough to take care of this young girl, as her future medical care were predicted to be millions more that what had been recovered from the waterpark, so Willis turned the litigation into a products liability lawsuit against the wave pool designers, wave generating equipment maker, the pool designers and others. After two years in litigation, Willis obtained at the time, what was the largest wave pool settlement in US history. In fact, due to this lawsuit, many new wave pools in waterparks and notable theme parks across the United States are now equipped the underwater cameras and audible alarms exactly like Willis alleged would have prevented her near drowning and brain injuries.

 

In 1997, in one of the first of many big cases, Willis and Ammons would be involved in, was also one of the nation’s first Firestone ATX Radial Tread / Belt Separation and Ford Explorer rollover cases. Sadly, one passenger died, another lost both of her legs and a child was left with a life-changing spinal cord injury. A products liability lawsuit was filed in 1998 against Ford and Firestone due to the Ford Explorer going out of control and rolling over after the back left Firestone ATX radial tire de-treaded. After a long battle with Ford and Firestone a very significant confidential settlement was reached by all parties.

Years later, on July 17, 2001, Mr. Willis and Mr. Ammons were recognized as part of a very select group of products liability attorneys in the nation and were awarded the prestigious Steven J. Sharp Public Service Award for their contributions in investigating and gathering evidence pertaining to tire belt separation and vehicle rollovers and pursing justice for their clients against Firestone Tire and Ford Motor Company. The efforts by them helped lead to one of the largest recalls in U.S. history. This national award was presented to Ammons and Willis by the President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA).

In 2005, Ammons and Willis again got national attention after they were hired by the members of an Iowa family when the family’s Ford F-150 pickup truck erupting into flames in the middle of the night trapping their 70-year-old mother / wife in their burning house on family’s Iowa farm.

The family had interviewed numerous law firms across the United States but chose Ammons and Willis to represent them and make sure that Ford Motor Company “got what is coming to them.” After extensive fire engineering and accident scene investigation and by some of the top fire experts in the world, it was determined that the Ford truck’s cruise control switch was defective in its design and manufacturer had caught fire in the middle of the night, killing Mrs. Mohlis. It was later discovered that a safer design would have cost Ford less than $5.00 to install.

The pain-staking evidence preservation and scene documentation and aggressive discovery in this lawsuit by Ammons and Willis helped to provide the needed “ammo” for Mr. Bruce York at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to force Ford to “voluntarily” recall over 8 MILLION vehicles with a similar defective condition, ultimately saving many lives in the future.

 

In 2005, Ammons and Willis again got national attention after they was hired by the surviving members of Iowa family due to the family’s Ford F-150 pickup truck erupting into flames in the middle of the night trapping the 70-year-old woman in their burning house on family’s Iowa farm.

The family had interviewed numerous law firms across the United States but chose Ammons and Willis to represent them and make sure that Ford Motor Company “got what is coming to them.” After extensive fire engineering and accident scene investigation and by some of the top fire experts in the world, it was determined that the Ford truck’s cruise control switch was defective in its design and manufacturer and caught fire in the middle of the night, killing Mrs. Mohlis. It was later discovered that a safer design would have cost Ford less than $5.00 to install.

The pain-staking evidence preservation and documentation and discovery in this lawsuit by Ammons and Willis helped to provide the needed “ammo” for Mr. Bruce York at NHTSA to force Ford to “voluntarily” recall over 8 MILLION vehicles with a similar defective condition.

Other Silicosis Attorney on the Team

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Cases Accepted

In most instances, the new client enters into a contingency fee contract with Willis & Associates. This means that only upon successfully securing an award or settlement for our client does Willis & Associates receive its fee and expenses. In essence, “There is no fee or expenses charged for our services if there is no recovery to you.” In some cases, Mr. Willis will involve additional Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyers and others as co-counsel to assist in specific cases, especially in cases where other firms’ expertise in a particular matter strengthens and accelerates the case through the legal system. This assembling of a team of lawyers for our client does not increase fees to the client “one red cent.” With this team effort, the client’s case is often resolved in a shorter period of time and with more substantial settlements and trial verdicts for the client.

Our Commitment

“My firm is committed to representing individuals and families who have been the victims of a wrongful death or serious personal injury. Although monetary compensation cannot heal the emotional and physical scars left as the result of a serious accident, it can help in many cases to relieve much of the economic stress and hardship associated with the injury or loss of a loved one. Many times it is the only means of support and future security for the injured individual and their family. Litigation may not bring back a loved one, or heal a serious injury, but it may serve to help prevent others from having to endure the same loss.”

David P.Willis

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