Bicyclists in Northern California and around the country are panning a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed authored by law professor Frank H. Buckley. The George Mason University School of Law professor lives in Alexandra, Virginia, and penned an article that was highly critical of that city’s installation of bike lanes. Tanya Snyder, of the San…
A number of unsubstantiuated report s have recently appeared in the mass media regarding settlement of the DePuy/Johnson and Jonson ASR hip litigation. No settlement has been confirmed by the court or lead counsel in the litigation but ASR patients continue to suffer the consequences of the faulty device. Walkup, Melodia, Kelly and Schoenberger has…
Many San Francisco motorcycle accidents are attributable to inattentive car drivers. Motorists often fail to notice motorcycles and engage in driving behaviors which greatly increase the likelihood of a crash. One San Francisco police motorcycle officer was recently injured in the South of Market neighborhood. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the officer was driving…
More than 700 Stryker hip lawsuits stemming from last year’s recall of Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular-Neck Hip Stems are now pending in courts throughout the country with than 400 Stryker hip lawsuits filed in Bergen County New Jersey Superior Court. (In Re Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Stem and the ABG II Modular Hip Stem Litigation,…
Walkup Melodia’s medical device attorneys handle cases across the country relating to government approved devices. Recently attorneys at the firm have been made aware of the FDA’s emergency recall of a potentially defective medical tool kit. H&H Medical Corporation is recalling its H&H Emergency Cricothyrotomy Kit. Some of these kits could have a defective endotracheal…
Lawsuits against Stryker Orthopaedics continue to advance across the country. The medical device maker faces hundreds of lawsuits in connection with its Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular-Neck Hip Stems. Walkup Melodia attorneys, who tried the first successful ASR metal on metal hip case in Los Angeles, are seeing a steady stream of new clients interested…
The Walkup Melodia law firm in San Francisco specializes in prosecuting cases on behalf of injured bicyclists, both on urban streets and rural roadways. The firm is a supporter of the San Francisco bicycle coalition, and endorses the bicycle coalition’s concerns about the safety of cyclists on San Francisco’s city streets. The SF Bicycle Coalition…
(Reuters) – A federal judge in California said a plaintiff’s fraud claims against Medtronic over its Infuse bone graft device were not pre-empted by federal law, in a ruling that could bolster plaintiffs in hundreds of similar lawsuits. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District of California on Thursday rejected Medtronic’s argument that…
The law firms of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger (San Francisco) and Panish, Shea & Boyle (Los Angeles) today reached a resolution of what was scheduled to be the first California “bellwether” trial of a failed DePuy ASR XL hip lawsuit. The trial in the case which settled today, Ottman v. DePuy, was slated to…
Metal-on-metal hip implant devices were once touted as a medical breakthrough. Now thousands of lawsuits are piling up against medical device manufacturers who once made billions from all-metal hip implants. The first federal case against Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics division was recently postponed due to the unavailability of experts. These experts are in high…
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