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About Jacob Rusch
and the law by failing to pay workers what they've earned and are owed. My goal is to hold such businesses accountable and alleviate the hardships they cause hard-working people. Following the law and paying you for your hard work and dedication is the least you should expect from your employer, but Jacob Rusch knows that all too often, companies fail or refuse to fulfill even these fundamental obligations. When they do, Jacob leverages his fierce determination and skilled advocacy to hold them accountable, getting his clients the compensation, justice, and other relief they deserve in unpaid FLSA wage and overtime claims.
Jacob understands that workers who are being taken advantage of by their employers are at a significant disadvantage when trying to vindicate their rights and obtain wages they have earned and are entitled to under the law. He has seen how companies try to skirt their responsibilities and the devastating impact such misconduct can have on workers and their families. That is why he has focused his career on balancing the playing field and making things right for workers in Michigan, Minnesota, and throughout the country.
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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