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About David Strouss
David C. Strouss is a Thornton Law Firm partner who has been a member of the Massachusetts bar since 1985. He is an honors graduate of Brown University and a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. He served as Special Assistant Attorney General representing the Commonwealth from 1995 through 1999 in the tobacco litigation.
Strouss heads the firm's birth defect litigation, focusing on catastrophic birth defects caused by parental occupational exposure in semiconductor manufacturing, agriculture, and related industries. He prosecuted and successfully resolved some of the country's first cases involving birth defects caused by glycol ethers and other solvents in the semiconductor industry and currently represents over 150 plaintiffs with birth defects in the United States and South America. He was named Environmental Litigation (Toxic) Lawyer of the Year in 2017 by Lawyer Monthly magazine and one of the Top 100 Civil Trial Lawyers in Massachusetts by the National Trial Lawyers.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Thornton Law Firm
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A Massachusetts jury found Johnson & Johnson liable for Paul Lovell's mesothelioma, awarding $42.6 million in what is believed to be the largest mesothelioma verdict in the state's history.
A Massachusetts jury awarded $7.55 million to Gerald Sylvestre, a former New Hampshire power plant worker who developed mesothelioma after repeated exposure to asbestos insulation installed by a Canton distributor, in what was then reported as the largest asbestos verdict in New England history.
A Middlesex County jury awarded $6.8 million to Amy Ross and her two daughters after finding New England Insulation Company liable for the mesothelioma death of her husband Timothy, who had been exposed to asbestos dust doing part-time insulator work around Boston as a teenager and young adult.
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