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About Benjamin Wilensky
After graduating from Michigan State University, I served as a U.S. Senate staff member in Washington, D.C. There, I assisted in drafting amendments to the Federal Railroad Safety Act that continue to protect railroaders today. I'm extremely fortunate to work at a firm that is dedicated to helping those in need. Ben Wilensky focuses his practice on representing railroad workers seeking compensation under the Federal Employers' Liability Act for injuries sustained on-the-job. Ben and Sommers Schwartz colleague Arvin J. Pearlman are the only two attorneys in Michigan who belong to the Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys (ARLA), the preeminent association of attorneys representing injured railroad employees, and they serve as designated counsel for the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen and the Transportation Communications Union.
Ben has also represented clients in a variety of other types of litigation, including professional malpractice, civil rights, product liability, governmental liability, corporate fraud, RICO, contract disputes, and employment matters. His hard work and dedication have earned him recognition on the list of Super Lawyers Rising Stars every year since 2015. Ben is a member of ARLA, the Michigan Association for Justice, and the American Association for Justice (Railroad Law Section).
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sommers Schwartz PC
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A class settlement with Michigan Pain Specialists resolved claims of 311 patients and survivors of the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak traced to contaminated steroid injections. It was reached in Livingston County Circuit Court in March 2016. The $10.5 million is a single class figure that the sources do not itemise by patient. Robert B. Sickels of Sommers Schwartz PC sat on the three-attorney plaintiffs' steering committee for Michigan.
After two federal jury verdicts found that Frankenmuth violated the Loesel family's equal-protection rights by passing a zoning ordinance designed to block a Walmart land sale, the city settled for $3.7 million in November 2014.
On April 25, 2014, a Saginaw County jury returned a $1,612,269 verdict for Debra Cameron and her husband, Hugh, against family physician James V. Bodrie, M.D. The jury found he failed to pursue a cardiac workup despite months of symptoms and a chest X-ray showing an enlarged heart, and that Ms. Cameron suffered a major heart attack days later. The award included $262,268.86 in medical expenses, with the rest for non-economic damages, and the vote was 6-2. Michigan's 2014 cap on non-economic damages in malpractice cases limits that portion to $440,200, so the most that could stand was about $702,469, and no appeal was filed.
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