Brian J. McKeen
About Brian J. McKeen
Brian McKeen began practicing law in 1982. During his career, he has become a powerful advocate for his clients and one of the foremost medical malpractice attorneys in Michigan. He has tried cases throughout the United States. He currently sits on the executive boards of the Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ) and the American Association for Justice (AAJ). Mr. McKeen formerly served as chair of the AAJ Professional Negligence Section, Medical Negligence Exchange Group and Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG). Since 2001, McKeen & Associates has generated the year's top verdict in Michigan four times, including securing the state's largest medical malpractice verdict on record in 2001, when a jury rendered a verdict of $55 million in Hall v Henry Ford Health System. McKeen & Associates also topped all Michigan verdict awards in 2002 ($22.5 million, Blazo v McLaren Regional Medical Center), in 2006 ($16 million, Lowe v Henry Ford Health System), and in 2007 ($35 million, Oppenheim v Aeneas C. Guiney). Mr. McKeen was inducted to The Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only group limited to 100 lawyers who have tried at least 50 personal injury jury trials and obtained three or more seven-figure verdicts. He has been named to Michigan Super Lawyers every year since 2006 and to the Top 10 Michigan Super Lawyers since 2017.
Notable case results
An Oakland County jury awarded the Tran family $130,571,897 in 2018 after finding that Beaumont Hospital technicians failed to call a code blue or provide chest compressions when a two-month-old infant suffered a breath-hold spell during a renal scan, leaving him with permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy.
A Wayne County jury found Henry Ford Hospital negligent for a delay of over two hours in executing an ordered emergency C-section, awarding $120.9 million to a Detroit mother and her son, who was left with severe cerebral palsy and requires full-time care.
A Wayne County, Michigan jury awarded roughly $55.5 million, among the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the state at the time, against Henry Ford Health System after an emergency room physician sent home a child in respiratory distress who suffered a respiratory arrest the next morning and permanent brain damage. The trial court reduced the gross award to present value and applied Michigan's statutory cap on noneconomic damages, and the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment in 2005.
Brian McKeen of McKeen & Associates served as one of the co-lead plaintiff counsel who negotiated an $8 million civil settlement for 43 patients given medically unnecessary cancer treatment by convicted oncologist Farid Fata, approved by Oakland County Circuit Court on July 20, 2016.
A Wayne County jury awarded $3,024,000 to Mariah Martinez after finding that Dr. Yasser Awaad of Oakwood Healthcare in Dearborn had misdiagnosed her with epilepsy at age nine and put her on four years of anti-seizure medication she did not need.
A Wayne County jury awarded $2.77 million in October 2019 to Claire Linzell after finding that pediatric neurologist Dr. Yasser Awaad had misdiagnosed her with epilepsy as a young child when she actually had an autism spectrum disorder, subjecting her to years of anti-seizure medication she did not need.
Hall v Henry Ford Health System (2001), largest Michigan medical malpractice verdict on record at the time
Oppenheim v Aeneas C. Guiney (2007)
Blazo v McLaren Regional Medical Center (2002)
Lowe v Henry Ford Health System (2006)
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
