 Richard D. Fox
Senior Shareholder
rfox@sommerspc.com
toll free: 1-800-967-1234
phone: (248) 746-4026
fax: (248) 936-2129
Mr. Fox has successfully completed hundreds of medical negligence cases on behalf of injured victims, and was the plaintiff attorney involved in the largest reported medical malpractice case settlement in the state of Michigan for the year 2002. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 25th anniversary edition of The Best Lawyers in America® (2008) in the specialty of Personal Injury Litigation. Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 2 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country. His areas of practice include auto negligence, birth trauma, medical malpractice, and personal injury.
Education:
- Detroit College of Law, JD
- Central Michigan University, BA
Areas of Practice:
- Medical Malpractice
- Personal Injury
- Auto negligence
- Birth trauma
Litigation Percentage:
100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions:
- State of Michigan
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan
Honors and Awards:
- The Best Lawyers in America 2012
- The Best Lawyers in America 2011
- The Best Lawyers in America 2010
- The Best Lawyers in America 2009
- The Best Lawyers in America 2008
- Michigan Super Lawyers 2011
- Michigan Super Lawyers 2010
- Michigan Super Lawyers 2009
- Michgan Super Lawyers 2008
- Michigan Super Lawyers 2007
- Michigan Super Lawyers 2006
Publications/Seminars Taught:
Co-Author, Michigan Civil Procedure Forms-Practice: Aspen Publishing Co., 1989.
Seminar Speaker:
Personal Injury Litigation Practice In Michigan, National Business Institute, March 1992.
Seminar Speaker:
Representing The Eldery Client in a Personal Injury Case Michigan Trial Lawyers Assn, Feb 2003
Accomplishments:
For more than 30 years Mr. Fox has successfully handled cases on behalf of victims of medical malpractice in Michigan and Ohio. Recent examples include:
- A $3.7 million dollar settlement in 2010 for a brain damaged infant who's OB was notified too late of the need to come to the hospital for his laboring patient.
- A $1.1 million dollar settlement in 2009 for an infant suffering injuries as the result of a pediatrician's failure to recognize severe dehydration and hypoglycemia in a breast feeding newborn.
- A $1.165 million dollar verdict in Ohio in 2008 for a man who spent five months in the hospital following the perforation of the small bowel during a laparoscopic hernia repair.
- A $2.5 million dollar settlement in 2008 - a case on behalf of a five year old child who sustained a hypoxic ischemic brain injury as the result of a delay in effectuating delivery. Fetal monitor tracings showed evidence of fetal distress which was not recognized and timely acted upon.
- A $2.375 million dollar settlement in 2007 for a 55 year old man who became paralyzed and cognitively compromised following a stroke. Nursing personnel failed to perform neuro checks as ordered by his physician once admitted to the floor and early signs of intracranial pressure were missed.
- A $3.25 million dollar settlement for a four year old boy who sustained brain damage while undergoing a diagnostic MRI under conscious sedation. Anesthesia personnel failed to closely monitor the child following the administration of Versed and Fentanyl through an I.V.
- A $3 million dollar settlement for a one year old infant who suffered brain damage and cortical blindness as the result of a failure to timely deliver the child by emergency C-section. The labor and delivery were managed by obstetric residents who did not possess the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize fetal distress and the need for emergent delivery.
Professional Associations and Memberships:
- American Association for Justice
- Michigan Association for Justice
- Oakland County Bar Association
- Detroit Bar Association
Richard D. Fox
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