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About John Malone
A Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2019, John brings exceptional attention to detail, outstanding oral and writing abilities, aggressive advocacy, and a personal, more considerate, and hands-on approach to representing negligently injured clients. Prepared and well-versed in the distinct individual story and legal issues of every unique client and case, John brings a solid understanding of the facts while zealously advocating client rights in a respectful, impactful, and effective manner. Everyone around him appreciates John for speaking kindly and candidly about the strengths and weaknesses of his cases and for providing options that maximize the potential to win. John's experience ranges from pre-suit investigation, pleadings, discovery, depositions, and expert witness selection to research and writing, motions, hearings, alternative dispute resolution, and trial and appellate counsel.
He has already second-chaired four medical malpractice trials, served on the trial team for two other cases, and second-chaired a medical malpractice arbitration proceeding. John can be counted on as the go-to lawyer for complex legal research and analysis. John brings a unique background to representing plaintiffs with personal and medical malpractice injuries.
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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