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About Richard Fox
After graduating cum laude from the Detroit College of Law, I chose the area of personal injury law because because it involves working directly with people. The experience of meeting, helping and working directly with new people all the time is one of the things I enjoy most about being a lawyer. Each client is different and brings new experiences to my practice. Richard Fox handles personal injury cases, including birth trauma, medical malpractice, and motor vehicle negligence. Throughout his career, which has spanned nearly 50 years, Rick has successfully represented clients in medical negligence and other personal injury claims.
Because of the unique skills and knowledge Rick possesses in the area of birth trauma cases, many of his clients are the parents of newborn babies who suffered tragic - and preventable - injuries shortly before, during or after labor and delivery. For example, one of the cases that Rick is most proud of involved a $4.75 million settlement for the parents of a newborn baby who suffered severe brain damage after a resident failed to properly interpret a fetal non-stress test. This oversight meant that the attending physician was not put on notice that the newborn was in need of continued observation and, perhaps, a hastened delivery. Rick has represented hundreds of families over the years, each with their own story that Rick has helped to tell.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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