Grand Rapids, MI
Medical malpractice Lawyer at Grand Rapids, MI
Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death ... +2 more
OUTCOME: 7-0 victory in the Michigan Supreme Court ending 10 years of legal uncertainty.
Issue of first impression regarding the effect of a prematurely filed medical malpractice complaint on the tolling of the statute of limitations.
OUTCOME: Michigan Supreme Court summarily remanded to the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Legally complex alleging multiple tort claims and involving unsettled areas of law.
OUTCOME: Trial Win
In our debut as attorneys for patients (i.e., after we switched sides from defending hospitals and healthcare providers) we worked with attorney Steve Grimm to win this trial for the patient. The jury ... awarded ten times the amount of economic damages for non-economic damages.
OUTCOME: Win
We achieved a judgment in this legal malpractice case for $979,000 and set in motion the defendant-attorney being disbarred.
OUTCOME: Trial Win
Hoffer & Sheremet won this medical malpractice trial in Grand Traverse County in 2019. It was the first medical malpractice patient victory in that county since 1997. We filed (and won) numerous motion ... s in limine that forced the defense to narrow their theory and prevent juror confusion. We also developed a streamlined infographic titled "Pathways to Verdict" that we used throughout the trial to help guide the jury through the theory of our case.
OUTCOME: Win
This legal malpractice case helped bring to light numerous victims of the defendant-attorney, who was later disbarred.
OUTCOME: Legal Victory
In this wrongful death case, brought on behalf of an unborn baby, we won a legal battle that allowed us to see lost future economic damages in the form of loss of earning capacity on behalf of the baby ... . To our knowledge, this is the first order in Michigan allowing those damages. We crafted this damages theory and outlined our legal argument before the lawsuit was even filed. This allowed us to have the appropriate expert witnesses lined up and legal arguments well-developed.
OUTCOME: Legal Victory
In this case, we alleged that our client's claim was one for ordinary negligence instead of medical malpractice. This meant that there was no cap on non-economic damages. We won the argument at the tri ... al court level. That decision was affirmed in a published Court of Appeals opinion.
OUTCOME:
In this appeal, we were able to reverse a dismissal against a child-patient and his family. The case involved the failure of the hospital to have an interpreter available, so the parents were unable to ... communicate with healthcare providers.
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