Verdicts & Settlements

Billions of Dollars in Verdicts and Settlements

Hurricane Litigation – Disaster Claims

Thornhill Law Firm, A PLC, has recovered tens of millions ($10,000,000s), while successfully representing hundreds of clients in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi against insurance companies. Experienced like few others in representing individuals and businesses, Thornhill Law Firm is poised to represent the victims of recent storms by prosecuting the claims to recover under insurance policies covering disaster events, including business package policies providing wind coverage in hurricane disasters . With offices in Louisiana and Texas, and having lost residences and commercial buildings in Louisiana and Mississippi over the last forty-one years, Thornhill Law Firm has “experienced first-hand the impacts on your life and businesses requiring you to bring a Disaster Claim” arising from the recent storms impacting Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. Following one Hurricane after another, e.g., Katrina, Rita, Ike, Laura, Cristobal, Marco, Sally and Zeta, Thornhill Law Firm, has stood in the gap for Business Claimants and Personal Claimants to advocate on a contingency fee basis the damages claims of Claimants against their big insurance companies. Over and over again, overly aggressive, complex adjustment practices are encountered and defeated to prevent the insurance company from denying or limiting claims which should be paid in full. Don’t allow your property insurance or business insurer to add to your damages when it plays “the insurance game – to deny or limit your disaster claims.” Call or email Thornhill Law Firm for a free review of your information in your claims.

BP Litigation – MDL 2179

Thornhill Law Firm, A PLC, was a member of the trial team assigned by the federal court in the BP Litigation representation of three hundred thousand plus businesses and individuals, the five states along the Gulf of Mexico and the United States of America. After successfully trying over three-and-one-half years the liability case against BP, Trans Ocean and Halliburton, the total recoveries in settlements and verdicts exceeded sixty billion ($60,000,000,000) dollars. In addition being on the trial team, Thornhill Law Firm represented privately hundreds of public, commercial businesses for economic losses, property damages, medical injury claims, coastal property damages, wetlands erosion and subsistence losses, recovering tens of millions ($10,000,000s) of dollars after the April 20, 2010 explosion of Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon Macondo well which was leased by BP. As indicated in public press releases for public entities alone, the recoveries exceeded ten million ($10,000,000) of dollars as shown in the United States Department of Justice at https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-and-five-gulf-states-reach-historic-settlement-bp-resolve-civil-lawsuit-over-deepwater and BP.com at https://www.bp.com/en_us/united-states/home/community/gulf-commitment.html. E.g., Thornhill Law Firm recovered over$16.8 million for St. Tammany Parish, over$3 million for the City of Slidell, over$1.4 million for the City of Covington and over $ 2.1 million for the City of Mandeville, in addition to millions more for several different St. Tammany Parish public entities.

Chinese Drywall Litigation – MDL 2047

Thornhill Law Firm, A PLC, participated in a multi-district litigation which helped restore hundreds of homes possessing defective manufactured Chinese drywall and allowed thousands of families to have their homes remediated and returned to their original home free of defect. Total recoveries exceeded three hundred fifty million ($350,000,000) dollars. The role of Thornhill Law Firm included handling some of the insurance issues for the initial class action and representation of individuals, businesses, home and buildings for personal and property losses in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.

Temple-Inland Pearl River Paper Mill Spill

Thornhill Law Firm, A PLC, was appointed liaison lead counsel representing thousands of residents along the Pearl River following the August 9, 2011 Bogalusa paper mill overflow of toxic chemicals from a retention treatment pond owned by Temple-Inland into the Pearl River, along the Louisiana and Mississippi border, causing the immediate death of fish, wildlife, a huge negative impact on the surrounding environment, businesses and individuals. In addition to penalties paid to each state, Thornhill Law Firm efforts resulted in recovery in verdicts and settlements of thirteen and one half million ($13,500,000) dollars to remediate the lives and homes of claimants.

Individual claims for Serious Personal Injury

Thornhill Law Firm, A PLC, has represented thousands of serious personal injury clients since the inception of the law firm in 1978 – over 42 years – outside of the class actions it has handled. Individuals have benefited from Thornhill Law Firm achieving recoveries and settlements of over million dollars for many of its clients over the years. Thornhill Law Firm has developed over the years a highly qualified group of experts, including but not limited to accident reconstructionist, medical experts, investigators and other key professionals to support the success of each claim. From as unusual as a falling elevator, where the verdict was one million, two hundred thousand ($1,200,000) dollars; to the simple t-bone motor vehicle accident where our client was awarded a one million, four hundred thousand ($1,400,000) dollars, Thornhill Law Firm has successfully advocated for each individual to recover not a penny less than all that the law and facts of each case demands – which is what justice demands of its advocates. These premises considered, Thornhill Law Firm offers the proven track record to fully and completely represent your individual serious personal injury claim.