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Tor Hoerman

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Owner & Injury Attorney at TorHoerman Law
Chicago, IL30 years experience

About Tor Hoerman

Tor Hoerman is the founder and owner of TorHoerman Law, a nationally recognized personal injury and mass tort firm he established in 2009. With more than 30 years of trial experience, he focuses his practice on representing injured plaintiffs against corporate defendants and manufacturers in personal injury, dangerous drugs and medical devices, toxic exposure, and product liability matters. Under his leadership, TorHoerman Law has recovered more than $4 billion in verdicts and settlements. He served as lead or national lead counsel in some of the largest mass tort matters in the country, including the Actos and Pradaxa litigations, and was the first attorney to file an OxyContin lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. Hoerman has been named to the Illinois Super Lawyers Top 100 list for 15 consecutive years.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$650 millionSettlement

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.

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois (MDL No. 2385) · 2014Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$495 millionVerdict

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.

22nd Judicial Circuit, St. Louis, Missouri (Case No. 2322-CC01251) · 2024Product LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Chicago-Kent College of Law
J.D., with honors, 1995
DePauw University
Undergraduate, 1991

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
State Bar of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
State Bar of U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
American Association for Justice
American Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
Mass Torts Trial Lawyers Association

Awards & recognition

Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
Chambers USA
Top 100 National Trial Lawyers
Illinois Super Lawyers Top 100 (15 consecutive years)
Top 25 Notable Alumni, Chicago-Kent College of Law

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