Thornton Law Firm is no longer accepting new Xarelto cases. By Marilyn McGoldrick Posted on Dec 30, 2014 Patients taking the blood thinning medication Xarelto to prevent blood clots and strokes in patients with irregular heart rhythms have continued to...
Posted by Marilyn T. McGoldrick, Esq. on Dec 17, 2014 9:42:39 AM 1. Chrysler is expanding its recall of cars containing Takata exploding airbags. Chrysler is recalling an additional 200,000 cars in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana,...
Posted by Michael A. Lesser, Esq. on Dec 11, 2014 12:38:00 PM Left to right: Joan Silvio, Sandi Goodwin, Dodie Rodrigues and Pat Krippendorf We are proud to support Heading Home, Inc., the charitable organization that has been working to end homelessness in the...
By Michael A. Lesser, Esq. Posted on December 9, 2014 The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has just released interim rules to regulate the conduct of lawyers and judges in conducting voir dire under the new voir dire law which takes effect on February 15, 2015....
Posted by Marilyn McGoldrick on Dec 3, 2014 12:29:42 PM The FDA has issued a warning that power morcellators can spread cancer, and now recommends against the tool's use in most hysterectomies (removal of the uterus) or myomectomy (fibroid...
Posted by Marilyn McGoldrick on Dec 1, 2014 12:32:05 PM A jury in West Virginia has awarded $18.5 million to four women who suffered painful complications after receiving Boston Scientific’s Obtryx vaginal mesh slings. The verdict included an award of $4 million...
Posted by Michael Lesser on Nov 26, 2014 10:20:06 AM Patrick O’Brian’s The Fortune of War finds its heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and naval surgeon Stephen Maturin, aboard the H.M.S. Java as passengers, thrust into a ferocious, bloody, and ultimately decisive...
By Michael A. Lesser, Esq. Posted on Nov 21, 2014 The first class actions have been filed against airbag maker Takata Corporation after consumers learned that the propellants used in Takata airbags caused the airbags to explode and spew shrapnel inside cars rather...
Posted by Marilyn McGoldrick on Nov 17, 2014 12:37:28 PM Four women were awarded $26.7 million in compensatory damages in the first federal bellwether trial over Boston Scientific Corp.'s Pinnacle transvaginal mesh implants. The jury ruled that the mesh implants were...
By Marilyn T. McGoldrick, Esq. Posted on Nov 3, 2014 A global settlement valued at over $1 billion dollars with the manufacturer of the Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implants, Homedica Osteonics Corp. (also known as Stryker Orthopaedics), has been announced...
Thornton Law Firm is no longer accepting new Xarelto cases. By Marilyn T. McGoldrick, Esq. Posted on Oct 30, 2014 The Judicial Panel on MultiDistrict Litigation has been asked to certify a new MultiDistrict Litigation for the plaintiffs alleging injuries and...
Posted by Marilyn McGoldrick on Oct 9, 2014 8:46:00 AM Transvaginal mesh manufacturer C.R. Bard reportedly will settle over 500 of its pending vaginal mesh lawsuits for over $21 million dollars, according to Bloomberg News, which cited anonymous sources "familiar with...