Alexis Robinson

Boehringer Ingelheim agreed to pay $650 million in May 2014 to resolve approximately 4,000 federal lawsuits claiming the blood thinner Pradaxa caused life-threatening bleeding injuries without adequate warnings, in an MDL presided over by Judge David Herndon in the Southern District of Illinois where the court appointed TorHoerman Law's Tor Hoerman as one of five plaintiffs' co-lead counsel.

A St. Louis jury awarded $495 million against Abbott Laboratories after finding the company failed to warn that its Similac cow's milk formula could cause necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants.

A federal jury in St. Louis awarded $25 million to the parents of a two-year-old girl who drowned after climbing into a Bestway above-ground pool using an exterior nylon strap the manufacturer had built into the design.

A Los Angeles jury unanimously held Conagra Brands fully liable and awarded $25 million to Roland Esparza, who developed severe bronchiolitis obliterans after years of daily exposure to butter-flavored PAM cooking spray fumes.

A St. Louis jury found diacetyl distributor Elan Chemical Company liable for the debilitating lung disease suffered by two food-flavoring plant workers, returning a $1 million verdict for each man in March 2023.