Craig M. Sico is board certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and a member of The American Board of Trial Advocates. Before practicing law, Mr. Sico earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas in 1985, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration after three years of study. Following his undergraduate studies, Mr. Sico was employed by Exxon Company, U.S.A., for three years in an advanced management training program. He graduated from the University of Houston School of Law in 1991.
Mr. Sico has been recognized as a Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly magazine each year since 2006. The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory awarded Mr. Sico an “AV” rating, which means “very high to pre- eminent legal ability” and “very high ethical standards.” Quoting from Martindale-Hubbell, the “AV Peer Review Rating shows that a lawyer has reached the height of professional excellence ... and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity.” He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates’ Forum, the State Bar of Texas, and the American Bar Association (ABA).
Mr. Sico is a nationally recognized litigator who has been admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Texas. He has handled many complex product liability, work place injury, trucking, class action and commercial disputes arising in many states including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia. Mr. Sico has successfully litigated commercial disputes for corporations, partnerships and individuals regarding insurance bad faith, breach of contract, oil and gas claims and anti-trust litigation.
Mr. Sico was chronicled in The National Law Journal for his verdict against Coastal Corporation wherein three men were awarded $122,000,000 for being horribly burned in a refinery explosion. Great resources were expended in order to immediately stop the activities of Coastal Corporation so that Plaintiffs’ experts could investigate the scene while evidence remained unchanged.
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In Ibarra v. LG Electronics a jury awarded $34,000,000 to a family who experienced a home fire caused by a defective window air conditioning unit lead to tragedy in South Texas. The Korean manufacturer made decisions to eliminate trace elements of metal in order to cut costs in their U.S. bound products. Mr. Sico was able to establish that this vital change lead to catastrophic failure of the air conditioning unit and the death of nine year old, Adan Ibarra.
On December 3, 2010 a jury in El Paso, Texas rendered a record-breaking verdict of $124,500,000.00 for Plaintiffs who were injured and killed in a transportation tragedy. Mr. Sico tried Albino Gaytan Pina, et al. v. Los Pasianos Autobuses, Inc, et al explaining to the jury that not only the driver, but the bus company itself is responsible for the negligent decisions leading to the fifteen passenger van losing control and rolling on the roadway.
On April 4, 2011 a case tried by Mr. Sico achieved a verdict of over $10,500,000.00 for the families of three undocumented workers killed when a movable scaffold collapsed. In Maria Sanchez, et al. v. American Mast Climbers, et al., a judge in Austin, Texas found the defendant responsible for negligence regarding the assembly and maintenance of this important workplace equipment.
Mr. Sico’s $9,235,000.00 verdict against Highway Technologies, Inc. involved a negligence claim against Isaias Gutierrez Ramirez while in the course and scope of his employment for Highway Technologies, Inc. was driving a 2005 Ford F-550 pick-up truck owned by Highway Technologies, Inc.
In Garcia v. Y Propane, the jury returned a verdict of $5,400,000 involving improper propane distribution has been chronicled statewide, focusing on the importance of compliance with Texas Railroad Commission Regulations.
Special Prosecutor
In the State of Texas v. Gomez prosecuted in Nueces County, Texas, Mr. Sico was sworn in as a special prosecutor to lead in the development of a complex embezzlement case. Mr. Sico developed all the evidence against the accused including the assembly of testamentary evidence, physical evidence, and accounting analysis of the transactions in question, identifying more than $200,000 of embezzled funds by an employee of Metro Ministries. Mr. Sico accepted this role pro bono using his firm’s resources to assemble the evidence, which lead to the accused’s plea of guilty and a ten year jail sentence.
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