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About Jason Thompson
Jason has been appointed as class counsel and to MDL leadership positions in cases involving antitrust, overtime pay, insurance coverage, environmental pollution, and consumer protection. He has been asked to testify repeatedly before the Michigan Legislature regarding the state's pharmaceutical immunity law and amendments to qui tam provisions under Michigan's Medicaid fraud law. Mr. Thompson has one of the broadest class action and multi-district litigation (MDL) practices in the country, including cases involving contracts, insurance policies, defective pharmaceutical drugs and devices, automotive litigation, consumer rights, RICO, wage and hour violations, antitrust, constitutional violations and environmental contamination. He has represented institutional clients, such as the State of Michigan (Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation) municipalities, healthcare plans, and unions as well as thousands of individuals in personal injury and mass tort cases.
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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