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About Judith Susskind
I work hard to win. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than helping a client overcome obstacles, and making his or her life better. Our jury trial system allows me to do this by successfully seeking justice and obtaining compensation for injured people that have been wronged. I spend time with my clients so I understand what they have been through, and are going through.
This helps to motivate me to help. I serve the law because I love to help people who deserve justice, and fighting for that justice brings tremendous satisfaction. Practicing medical malpractice law allows me to continue being a student, and learning to perfect my craft for the rest of my career. Judith (Judy) Susskind, a partner in the firm's Southfield office, is one of Michigan's foremost medical malpractice trial attorneys.
For more than 35 years, Judy has successfully handled medical malpractice cases. During her many years of going to trial in medical malpractice cases, she won a record-breaking three medical malpractice trials in a row in less than 11 weeks. In 2004, Michigan Lawyers Weekly named Judy "Lawyer of the Year," an honor based on peer recognition of her trial success. In 2019, she was one of the recipients of the Michigan Lawyers Weekly's "Women in the Law" honor.
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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