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About Robert Sickels
We were always encouraged to excel, but to do so without cutting corners. Honesty and integrity came first. The ends never justified the means. Effectively handling a complex medical malpractice or medical device matter is incredibly hard work, if done right.
But there is no greater satisfaction, after a lengthy trial, than hearing a jury say: "We find in favor of the Plaintiff and award damages..." The key to winning complex malpractice claims is finding the best and most believable experts. I love it when I am able to convince a highly qualified, and often skeptical, expert to testify on behalf of my clients.
Although you would have to ask my opponents, I believe my biggest asset as a trial attorney is that I bring credibility to table. Defense attorneys know I only file cases that I regard as highly meritorious. For more than 35 years, Robert Sickels has successfully represented hundreds of individuals involved in complex personal injury, medical negligence, and products liability matters.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sommers Schwartz PC
These results are credited to Sommers Schwartz PC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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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