Honors and Awards: - The Best Lawyers in America 2008 - The Best Lawyers in America 2009 - Michigan Super Lawyers 2007 - Michigan Super Lawyers 2008 - Michgan Super Lawyers 2009 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 $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.
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