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 Patricia M. Flannery, 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...
Posted by Marilyn McGoldrick on Oct 7, 2014 1:09:00 PM On Friday a state court jury awarded 79-year old Frances Wisniewski $2,050,000 in compensatory damages in her lawsuit against Takeda Pharmaceuticals for her development of bladder cancer after taking...
By David C. Strouss, Esq. Posted on Sep 26, 2014 Thornton Law Firm and co-counsel recently settled a lawsuit on behalf of a child with serious birth defects whose mother was exposed to toxic substances during pregnancy while working in the semiconductor chip...
Posted by Marilyn McGoldrick on Sep 12, 2014 4:18:00 PM Taking only one day to deliberate after hearing evidence, a Dallas jury has awarded a 42-year old woman more than $70 million ($23.5 million in compensatory and $50 million in punitive) in damages related to her...
By Andrew S. Wainwright, Esq. Posted on Sep 8, 2014 Drywall Many people are not aware that for many years, the talc they were exposed to may have contained asbestos. Asbestos-containing talc was incorporated in many commercial and home construction...
Posted by Marilyn McGoldrick on Sep 5, 2014 4:30:00 PM A federal court jury in West Virginia has awarded plaintiff Jo Huskey and her husband $3.27 million dollars from Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon unit in the second bellwether transvaginal mesh trial. In 2011,...
By Marilyn T. McGoldrick, Esq. Published on Aug 22, 2014 Boston Scientific won a defense verdict in the first transvaginal mesh (TVM) case to go to trial in Middlesex Superior Court. The jury ruled that plaintiff Diane Albright had not proved that her Pinnacle...
