Richard Fox

Richard Fox

Of Counsel at Sommers Schwartz PC
Southfield, MI
Medical Malpractice

About Richard Fox

After graduating cum laude from the Detroit College of Law, I chose the area of personal injury law because because it involves working directly with people. The experience of meeting, helping and working directly with new people all the time is one of the things I enjoy most about being a lawyer. Each client is different and brings new experiences to my practice. Richard Fox handles personal injury cases, including birth trauma, medical malpractice, and motor vehicle negligence. Throughout his career, which has spanned nearly 50 years, Rick has successfully represented clients in medical negligence and other personal injury claims. Because of the unique skills and knowledge Rick possesses in the area of birth trauma cases, many of his clients are the parents of newborn babies who suffered tragic - and preventable - injuries shortly before, during or after labor and delivery. For example, one of the cases that Rick is most proud of involved a $4.75 million settlement for the parents of a newborn baby who suffered severe brain damage after a resident failed to properly interpret a fetal non-stress test. This oversight meant that the attending physician was not put on notice that the newborn was in need of continued observation and, perhaps, a hastened delivery. Rick has represented hundreds of families over the years, each with their own story that Rick has helped to tell.

Notable case results

$4.75 millionSettlement

An infant with brain damage due to a family practice resident's failure to properly interpret a fetal non-stress test and failure to recognize the need for continued observat

$3.7 millionSettlement

An infant with brain-damage resulting from the obstetrician being notified too late to come to the hospital for labor and delivery

$3.25 millionSettlement

A four-year-old boy sustained brain damage while undergoing a diagnostic MRI under conscious sedation, due to anesthesia personnel's failure to closely monitor the child

$3 millionSettlement

A one-year-old infant suffered brain damage and cortical blindness as the result of obstetric residents' failure to timely perform an emergency C-section

$2.5 millionSettlement

A five-year-old child sustained a hypoxic ischemic brain injury due to delay in delivery and failure to timely recognize and act upon fetal monitor tracings demonstrating feta

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Medical Malpractice

Education

Detroit College of Law
J.D., 1976
Central Michigan University
Undergraduate, 1973

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Michigan

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