Sommers Schwartz

$2.7B

Class Action & Mass Tort

A consortium of lawyers and law firms, including Sommers Schwartz attorney Jason Thompson, secured a $2.67 billion settlement for Blue Cross Blue Shield customers in a landmark antitrust lawsuit.

$89M

Class Action & Mass Tort

A national class action settlement was approved for purchasers of Bextra and Celebrex totaling $89 million. Sommers Schwartz attorney Jason Thompson was among the plaintiff lawyers who represented three payors.

$4.9M

Medical Malpractice

Wrongful Death Verdict for Failure to Obtain Informed Consent for Heart Surgery. The patient, then 68 years old, presented to William Beaumont Hospital on February 17, 2020, for an elective open-heart surgery. The plaintiff argued that the surgeon failed to inform the patient of the alternative TAVR procedure. The jury found the defendants’ medical negligence was a cause of the decedent’s untimely death.

$3.6M

Personal Injury

Sommers Schwartz attorneys Michael J. Cunningham and Matthew C. Curtis negotiated a $3.6 million pre-suit settlement for the family of a tractor-trailer operator killed in a fatal crash in Indiana.

$46M

Class Action & Mass Tort

Sommers Schwartz attorneys Andrew Kochanowski and Lance Young were co-class counsel securing a settlement for more than 170,000 sales distributors across the U.S. in a RICO class action that claimed the plaintiffs were victims of a pyramid scheme.

$7.5M

Medical Malpractice

Sommers Schwartz attorneys Matthew Turner and Robert Sickels obtained a medical malpractice settlement on behalf of an infant who suffered extensive neurological damage following a metabolic stroke while in the defendants’ care.