Representative Verdicts & Settlements

​$1,875,000.00 Settlement-Libel, 2025
$450,000.00 Settlement-automobile personal injury, 2025
$4,000,000.00 Judgment-Sexual Assault by EMT, 2025
$950,000.00 Settlement-Hip injury-commercial trucking accident, 2024
Settlement cancelling attorney $120,000.00 contingent fee interest, 2024.
Settlement cancelling attorney $500,000.00 contingent fee interest 2024.
$400,000.00 settlement-Legal Malpractice (New Mexico) 2024
$1,200,000.00 Settlement-Legal Malpractice 2024
$450,000.00 Settlement-Unoperated shoulder injury-commercial trucking accident, 2024
$252,000.00 Settlement-Legal Malpractice 2023.
Settlement cancelling attorney $3,000,000.00 contingent fee interest-Legal Malpractice, 2022.
$150,000.00 Settlement-Legal Malpractice 2022
$295,000.00 Settlement-Legal Malpractice 2022
$400,000.00 Settlement-Burn injury due to improper installation of gas grill, 2022.
$225,000.00 Settlement-Burn injury due to leaking gas line, 2022.
$300,000.00 Settlement-Legal Malpractice 2022.
$335,000.00 Settlement-Legal Malpractice 2020.
$1,200,000.00 settlement of motorcycle-commercial vehicle injury claim, 2020.
Dismissal of legal malpractice claims against lawyers/CJKPC clients, with attorneys’ fees awarded, 2019
Dismissal of contingent fee contract claim against personal injury victim, $405,000.00 fee claim, 2018
$210,000.00 Settlement-Legal Malpractice, 2018
$410,000.00 verdict in libel action for health care professional, Texas Top Verdict™ in defamation, 2017
Dismissal of three legal malpractice plaintiffs’ claims in suit against lawyer/CJKPC client, 2017
$225,000.00 settlement of First Party Insurance Claim on behalf of Federal Credit Union, 2017
Zero verdict for CJKPC client in suit by attorney for contingent fee, counterclaim award $121,834.42, 2017
$1,700,000.00, premises liability/negligent entrustment of weapon 2017
Dismissal of legal malpractice claim against lawyer/CJKPC client, 2016
$1,840,000.00, settlement, Legal Malpractice, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, 2015
$775,000.00 Settlement, Legal Malpractice, 2015
$1,200,000.00 Jury Verdict, Legal Malpractice/DTPA, “Texas Top Verdict™” in legal malpractice, 2012
$1,200,000 Settlement, Premises Liability, 2011
$10,800,000.00 Jury Verdict, DTPA/Insurance Code/Fraud, 2010
$5,500,000.00 Class Settlement, DTPA/Breach of Contract, 2010
$350,000.00 Settlement during trial, Legal Malpractice, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, 2009
$2,200,000.00 Settlement, Legal Malpractice, 2007
$390,000.00 Settlement, Legal Malpractice, 2006
$700,000.00 Jury Verdict, Legal Malpractice, 2005
Declaratory Judgment declaring legitimacy of insurgent Native American government, 2004
$550,000.00 Settlement During Trial, Breach of Commercial Contract, 2003
$150,000.00 Jury Verdict, Breach of Commercial Contract, 2002
$2,200,000.00 Settlement, Defamation, 2002
$570,000.00 Settlement during trial, Defamation, Malicious Prosecution, 2000
$1,300,000.00 Jury Verdict for Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff, Theft Liability, 1999
$220,000.00 Jury Verdict, Residential Construction Defect, 1999
$408,000.00 Jury Verdict, Legal Malpractice, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, 1996
Take-Nothing Judgment for attorney/CJK PC client, legal malpractice & Abuse of Process, favorable verdict over against Third Party Defendant Process Server, 1995
$603,000.00 Settlement during trial, Defamation, additional $200,000.000 settlement with co-defendant 1993
$200,000.00 Jury Verdict, Breach of Partnership Agreement, 1992
$860,000 Jury Verdict, Breach of Fiduciary Duty/Bad Faith, 1990
Numerous Texas District Court Dismissals for Want of Jurisdiction of suits against Native American Tribes
​Numerous Dismissals of Disciplinary Complaints against Attorneys.
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                   $5.5 Million Settlement Class Action DTPA & Contract 2010

A national homebuilder was improperly charging its subcontractors with false insurance premiums for policies that did not exist. Carl J. Kolb was the lead plaintiff's counsel. The client class received, after payment of attorneys' fees, approximately $3.9 Million.  These class members' recoveries represented their actual loss, plus interest, even after attorneys' fees were paid.

​                       $10.8 Million Verdict--DTPA, Contract, & Fraud- 2010

On October 22, 2005, Hector Viesca was killed on the job while working for Business Staffing, Inc. ("BSI"), a staff leasing company,  and Wiley, an oilfield operator.  Viesca's wrongful death beneficiaries filed suit against BSI and Wiley for wrongful death.  It was determined, to Wiley's surprise, that Wiley was not covered by a statutory workers' compensation policy as was required in the staff leasing agreement between Wiley and BSI.  Wiley settled with Viesca for $100,000.00 plus an assignment of 2/3 of any money recovered by Wiley against BSI.  Wiley and Viesca then became co-plaintiffs against BSI.  Carl J. Kolb was brought into the case to represent Wiley, and presented most of the evidence that proved both Wiley's and Viesca's case against BSI.

                       $2.2 Million Settlement Legal Malpractice - 2007​

This case alleged that a major San Antonio law firm had concealed the conflict of interest from the Plaintiff, and estate.  The decedent had sold a parcel of land to a municipality for a municipal water supply some 26 years before the suit was filed, and had since died.  It was discovered after the decedent's death that the municipality had not actually paid the purchase price for the land, and had been using the land to supply the city with water for 25-plus years...