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About David Christensen
The effects of negligence, injury or medical malpractice can be devastating, leaving both patients and families overwhelmed and confused. When that happens, you need an experienced legal team to simplify complex medical and legal matters while aggressively pursuing the compensation you deserve. You need the attorneys at Sommers Schwartz. David Christensen is one of the most respected litigators in Michigan, a reputation he has earned over a 40-year legal career in which he has tried more than 100 cases to conclusion before judges and juries.
He focuses his practice on medical malpractice, motor vehicle negligence, products liability, premises liability, and other forms of personal injury. David is responsible for successful outcomes in many notable lawsuits that recovered substantial compensation for his clients and their families. He represented children harmed during improper obstetrical deliveries and was one of the lead attorneys in the landmark child sexual abuse lawsuit against the Christian Science Church.
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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