Charles Thronson is the senior active shareholder and senior litigator with 48 years of experience at Parsons Behle & Latimer. His practice centers around representing seriously injured or deceased individuals in birth injury, medical malpractice and defective products cases. He also routinely handles auto/semi truck collisions and whistleblower/corporate fraud cases.
Charles Thronson is the senior active shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer and head of the medical malpractice and personal injury practice. He has over 48 years of experience and practices throughout the United States in the areas of medical malpractice (especially birth injury cases), whistleblower (Qui Tam), personal injury, sexual assault and products liability cases. Mr. Thronson has been involved in a number of cases for personal injury and medical malpractice clients that have generated some of the largest verdicts and settlements in the region.
Major verdicts include the largest personal injury/medical malpractice verdict in the state’s history (2015 – $11,268,178) in a medical malpractice brain injury case.
He has been an adjunct professor of law at the S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah, an adjunct professor at Westminster College, a long-time member of the Utah Association for Justice (president, 2009-2010) and a frequent lecturer. He is listed in the Top 100 Lawyers in Utah, Mountain States Super Lawyers and he has been recognized since 1995 in Best Lawyers in America (2012, 2016, 2024 Plaintiffs’ Lawyer of the Year – Medical Malpractice (Salt Lake City); 2019 Lawyer of the Year – Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs (Salt Lake City)). He was named 2020 Best Lawyers in America “Best of the Best” and 2021 National Alliance of Attorneys – Attorney of the Year – Personal Injury.