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About Ramona Howard
Along the way to becoming an attorney I had the honor of working hard in a number of part time jobs and learning a lot about people while paying my way through undergraduate and law school. This is going to sound so cliché, but when I was in the eighth grade I read To Kill a Mockingbird and later saw the movie with Gregory Peck. This book gave me my first glimpse into the awful realty that justice is not always blind and that right does not always win. However, it also showed the importance of having people, like Atticus Finch, who are willing to fight for those things. I wanted to be a person like that.
Thus, despite the fact that no one in my family was a lawyer, and I did not personally know any lawyers, my path was set. Ramona Howard focuses her practice with Sommers Schwartz on appeals. As part of her appellate work, Ramona prepares and argues cases before various State and Federal Appellate Courts. Ramona was born and raised in the Metro Detroit area.
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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