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About Joseph Bourgon
My undergraduate degree was in business, but my ultimate goal was always to bring business analytics and the practice of law together and apply them in the world of complex business transactions and responsible corporate management. Interacting with the amazing lawyers and staff that make Sommers Schwartz such a great place to work on a daily basis, and providing them with the support they need to achieve life-altering results for our clients is one of my greatest sources of satisfaction. Joe Bourgon began his career in commercial banking before becoming a lawyer.
Currently, Joe serves as the firm's Chief Executive Officer, overseeing the firm's operations and ensuring its continued growth and profitability. Joe grew up in a family of lawyers, which imbued a strong respect for the law and the power that it can have to right many of society's wrongs. With a strong background in business, from an early age Joe's goal was to bring business analytics and the practice of law together and apply them in the world of complex business transactions and responsible corporate management.
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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