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About Ernest Cory
Ernest 'Ernie' Cory (1955-2025) was the Co-founder of Cory Watson Attorneys in Birmingham, Alabama. He practiced law for more than 40 years with a focus on dangerous drugs, defective medical devices, products liability, mass torts, and class actions.
Cory earned his Juris Doctor from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University and his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the University of Alabama. He grew up in Birmingham and graduated from Vestavia Hills High School. He was admitted to the Alabama State Bar.
Cory founded his firm more than two decades ago. Under his leadership, Cory Watson served more than 150,000 families and recovered more than $4 billion in settlements and verdicts. His honors include Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year in Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions (2018), Best Lawyers in America (2014-2026), Mid-South Super Lawyer (2008-2025), and AV Preeminent peer review rating.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cory Watson Attorneys
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Cory Watson's Jon Conlin, a co-lead lawyer on the plaintiffs' steering committee, helped drive DuPont and Chemours to a $670.7 million global settlement resolving about 3,550 C-8 water-contamination cancer and injury claims.
A federal jury in Columbus found that DuPont's C-8 contamination caused Travis Abbott's testicular cancer and awarded him and his wife $50 million. After the trial court applied Ohio's cap on his wife's loss-of-consortium damages, the enforceable judgment came to about $40.3 million, which the Sixth Circuit later affirmed.
A Los Angeles jury found a defective brake sensor in a 2004 Infiniti QX56 caused the 2012 Hollywood crash that killed a mother and her two daughters, and the $25 million verdict was later upheld on appeal.
A Columbus federal jury awarded Kenneth Vigneron Sr. $2 million in compensatory and $10.5 million in punitive damages after finding DuPont's C-8 contamination caused his testicular cancer.
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