Grand Rapids, MI
Birth injury Lawyer at Grand Rapids, MI
Practice Areas: Birth Injury, Brain Injury ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Verdict for Plaintiff
For the first time since 1997, a plaintiff has won a medical malpractice trial in Grand Traverse County. In Estate of Thomsen v. Nizzi, a jury awarded $836,000 when determining after a seven-day tri ... al that Dr. Michael Nizzi failed to order a sleep study before a patient’s bariatric surgery on June 1, 2015, which set off several negative effects after the operation.
OUTCOME: Plaintiff verdict
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: Default Judgment
We achieved a judgment in this legal malpractice case for $979,000 and set in motion the defendant-attorney being disbarred.
OUTCOME:
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: Appellate victory
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.