Honors and Awards:
Classes/Seminars Taught:
- Lecturer, Radiology Malpractice
- Lecturer, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association
Annual Conference, June, 1985
- Lecturer, Proving Damages in Malpractice Cases,
MAJ Seminar, 2008
- Designated as "Super Lawyer"© 2007, 2008, 2009
- Listed in Best Lawyers 2010 Accomplishments: - A $5.3 million settlement for a 3 year old boy who became brain damaged during a medical procedure to repair a bleeding blood vessel in his throat following a simple tonsillectomy. The defendants were 3 ENT surgeons who failed to repair the vessel despite three visits to an emergency room with complaints of coughing up blood and an anesthesiologist who failed Accomplishments to timely intubate the boy during the final attempt to repair the vessel and the hospital where all the doctor defendants were on staff.
- A 1.9 million dollar settlement for a man who became paralyzed from the waist down when a resident at a hospital attempted to fix a broken neck with a Halo device and traction. During the procedure, the resident applied more and more traction until the Halo device ripped off the man’s head, causing a whiplash type injury to his spinal cord. The case was settled pre-suit.
- A $1.1 million jury verdict in a Northern Michigan county that had not had a medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff in recent memory (at least 12 years). The case was for wrongful death of an obese man who had undergone a second weight loss surgery. After the surgery, a leak developed in a portion of the esophagus that the surgeon had sewn to the newly down-sized stomach. The leak had caused wide-spread infection. The defendants were the surgeon and an emergency department physician who failed to recognize and promptly treat the infection.
- A $2.9 million settlement for the family of a young woman who died due to the failure of a hospital’s nursing staff and a staff neurologist to timely detect and treat an evolving stroke that caused fatal brain damage.
- A $2.5 million settlement for a brain injured child in Pennsylvania whose doctors should have induced labor and accomplished delivery at least one week before the delivery finally occurred.
- A $2.1 million settlement in a case against a small Cleveland engineering firm in which a large steel structure collapsed, killing 2 workers at a steel manufacturing facility in Detroit. The settlement involved payment of the firm’s entire insurance coverage for the accident and an additional $100,000 of its own funds.
- A $2.5 million settlement for a 20 year-old man who presented to the emergency department of a large hospital with signs and symptoms consistent with bacterial meningitis. However, the emergency department physician misdiagnosed the condition as being a simple ear infection and released the man with a prescription for oral antibiotics. He returned 24 hours later, disoriented and unable to walk. After over 2 months in a coma, he regained most neurological functions. However, he left the hospital 8 months after his arrival with a complete loss of functional vision.
- A $1.2 million judgment against a surgeon whose post-operative orders caused his patient to suffer a moderately severe stroke, depriving the patient the enjoyment of his retirement years.
- A $1.3 million settlement for a client whose breast cancer was not timely diagnosed due to the failure of her surgeon to biopsy a palpable lump that a radiologist had called “benign” appearing in a mammogram report.
| Professional Associations and Memberships: - Michigan Bar Association - Michigan Association for Justice,
Executive Board Member - Fellow, Michigan State Bar Foundation - American Association for Justice - Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association - Wayne County, Michigan, Case Evaluator - Oakland County, Michigan, Case Evaluator - Lecturer, Michigan Association for Justice - Michigan State Bar Foundation Fellows - Member, Judicial Qualifications Committee, Michigan Association for Justice. |
