ClickCease Wrongful Death Archives | Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger

Summer Camp Drowning

Our attorneys were retained by the parents of a child who drowned at summer camp when the camps lifeguards failed to rescue her when she was in trouble. She sustained major oxygen deprivation which caused her death.

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Preschool Playground Accident

We brought suit on behalf of the parents of  a preschool student who died when a schoolyard tire swing overturned. The child was on the swing when the newly installed play structure lost vertical stability and toppled over. Suit was filed against the manufacturer claiming violation of safe design principles. The school was also sued…

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Wrongful Death of Prisoner

In Family v. Bay Area County (U.S. Dist. Ct.) Khaldoun Baghdadi and Kelly Ganci represented the surviving spouse and children of a woman who died while a prisoner at the County’s jail. The decedent experienced a drug overdose while incarcerated and left unattended in her cell for over four hours. Khaldoun and Kelly demonstrated that the jail…

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Family v. Trucking Corp

In Family v. Trucking Corp. (confidential settlement) Michael A. Kelly, Richard H. Schoenberger and Jeffrey A. Clause negotiated an eight-figure confidential settlement on behalf of the survivors of a mother and daughter killed in a head-on crash on a rural highway. The mother and daughter were seat-belted and travelling at the speed limit when the defendant’s…

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Wrongful Death by Physician Specialty Group

In Heirs v. Physician Specialty Group (confidential venue) Doris Cheng and Clifton Smoot negotiated a $4,000,000 settlement on behalf of the family of a patient who died of cardiac dysrhythmia secondary to mitral valve prolapse. The defendant primary care provider group member diagnosed decedent’s valvular disease beginning in 2017 and created a plan to conduct follow-up transthoracic…

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Civil Rights

The City of Sacramento is paying $4.35 million to the family of an unarmed Black man who died after police officers restrained him, handcuffed and face down, in his parents’ living room with no suspicion of any crime. This matter was previously reported on in our last issue of FOCUS. Since then Walkup litigators Khaldoun Baghdadi…

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Motorcyclist Struck by Truck

In Parents v. California Trucking Group (Central Cal. Sup. Ct.) Doris Cheng and Clifton Smoot obtained a policy-limits $3,000,000 settlement, as well as changes to the defendant trucking company’s safety policies. Plaintiffs were the parents of an unmarried adult child. The decedent was studying medicine at the time of the crash and planning a career helping underserved…

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Surviving Heirs v. Utility Provider

In Surviving Heirs v. Utility Provider (confidential venue), Michael A. Kelly obtained a major 8-figure settlement on behalf of the surviving heirs of a professional who was earning in excess of $1,000,000 annually. Mike proved that the defendant utility company failed to regularly inspect and replace its deteriorating poles and mismanaged its transmission lines such…

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Propane Explosion Causing Wrongful Death & Personal Injury

The Walkup Melodia burn injury team represented a family devastated by the effects of an explosion that destroyed a motor home. A fire cause and origin investigation traced the source of the explosion to a liquid petroleum gas leak. The explosion happened when the father attempted to light a stove-top burner. The subsequent fireball completely…

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