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About Brittany Mackie
Every person deserves grace, dignity, and an opportunity to be heard, no matter their resources, their backgrounds, or the circumstances that lead them to seek an attorney's help. Combining knowledge of the law, a proficiency for multitasking, and an ability to connect with and understand the challenges of the people she is committed to helping, Brittany Mackie is well-suited to her work as an Intake Associate Attorney in Sommers Schwartz's FLSA Practice Group. The foundation of Brittany's effectiveness in her role is a product of both her natural empathy and the experience and insights she gained at Lakeshore Legal Aid.
As a legal assistant while in law school and a staff attorney thereafter, Brittany worked closely with clients from underserved communities on a range of landlord-tenant matters and other cases. With patience and demonstrable concern for the challenges they faced, Brittany evaluated their circumstances and cases for eligibility and advocated for the individuals she served and represented with clarity and compassion. A graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Brittany obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of Cincinnati before earning her law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.
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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