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About Samuel Meklir
I always work hard to obtain the maximum recovery for my clients, whether that means negotiating a settlement or going to trial. My knowledge of medicine is crucial not only for physician and hospital malpractice matters, but also for educating juries on the severity, extent, and impact of each plaintiff's injuries and damages. For over 35 years, Sam Meklir has focused on representing plaintiffs seriously harmed as the result of defective products, auto accidents, birth trauma, fire and property loss, trucking accidents, wrongful death, medical malpractice, construction accidents, and automobile negligence. He relies on his extensive knowledge of medicine to not only educate juries about the injuries a plaintiff has sustained, and what damages the plaintiff may be entitled to, but to discuss hospital and physician medical negligence.
As a personal injury attorney who often works on auto and truck accident cases, Sam works closely with experts to investigate the data contained in vehicle black boxes, track down phone records, and build a personal history of all involved defendant drivers. This allows him to determine who the at-fault driver is and to piece together what happened prior to the actual accident. Attorney Meklir has appeared on television numerous times.
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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