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About Michael Thornton
Michael P. Thornton is the founder and chairman of Thornton Law Firm LLP. A nationally recognized expert on toxic tort litigation, he graduated from Dartmouth College and Vanderbilt Law School. In the 1970s he successfully represented shipyard and construction workers who had developed asbestos-related diseases, and the firm has since grown into the largest practice in the Northeast representing victims of asbestos and other toxic materials. The firm has recovered multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for workers who contracted cancer from chemical exposure, children harmed by lead poisoning and pesticide-related birth defects, and states pursuing tobacco companies. Thornton is a member of the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine bars and has lectured at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Yale Law School. He is a recipient of the American Association for Justice's Howard Twiggs Award and has been named U.S. News - Best Lawyers 'Lawyer of the Year' for Class Actions/Plaintiffs in Boston.
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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