Kevin Quinn
About Kevin Quinn
Kevin F. Quinn is a partner at Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire known for taking tough cases other lawyers avoid and winning them. A defensive back on the West Point football team, Quinn was honorably discharged after a serious shoulder injury and enrolled at San Diego State University, graduating with honors as a political science major. He then attended California Western School of Law, graduating magna cum laude and serving on Law Review in 1982. He later attended Hastings College of Advocacy to sharpen his trial skills. In 1993, Quinn's client won the first settlement against Shiley heart valves. In 1987, he settled the case of Antonio Rivera, a roofer severely burned when a tar boiler exploded, for over $350,000; Rivera later donated $10,000 to restore the Emilio Zapata School and Orphanage near Rosarito Beach, Mexico. Following September 11, 2001, Quinn served pro bono for families of victims and obtained over $5,000,000 from the 9/11 Victim's Fund for the family of David Berray. In 2010, he obtained what was the largest single-plaintiff verdict in California that year and an eight-figure confidential settlement for 62 plaintiffs against a major healthcare organization. In 2016, he won over $5,000,000 for a client whose cancer spread undetected due to a negligent dermatology procedure. In 2017, he successfully argued before the California Supreme Court to hold drug manufacturers liable for failing to warn about dangers of generic versions, a ruling the legal community considers one of the most significant California Supreme Court decisions in recent times. The Wall Street Journal named him 2018 Southern California Lawyer of the Year.
Notable case results
A federal jury awarded roughly $18.3 million to musician Dax Pierson after a defective seat restraint in a 2005 Ford passenger van separated during a rollover, driving his head into the roof and leaving him paralyzed from the chest down.
In a December 2017 ruling, California's highest court held that Novartis owed a duty to warn consumers who took a generic bioequivalent of its drug Brethine, allowing twin children injured in utero by generic terbutaline to pursue negligence claims against the brand-name manufacturer.
First Shiley heart valve settlement in the United States (1993)
From the 9/11 Victim's Fund for the family of David Berray (2004)
Largest single-plaintiff verdict in California for 2010, paralysis case involving a touring musician
Eight-figure confidential settlement for 62 plaintiffs against a national healthcare organization (2010)
Over $5,000,000 jury verdict in Opel v. Scripps Clinic cancer misdiagnosis case (2016)
California Supreme Court victory holding drug manufacturers liable for generic product warnings (2017)
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
