In Victim’s Family v. Property Owner (Bay Area Sup. Ct.) Matthew Davis and Joseph Nicholson reached a confidential multimillion-dollar mediated settlement paid by the owner and manager of an apartment complex which failed to timely repair a safety fence in a high crime area. As a result, an assailant accessed the property and gunned down…
In Senior Citizen v. Big Box Retailer (Ala. Co. Sup. Ct.) Matthew Davis and Clifton Smoot settled a claim against a national retailer and its door repair vendor after an electric door malfunctioned and closed on plaintiff, age 92, as she walked through the store’s entrance. Plaintiff fell to the ground and suffered a dislocated…
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…
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…
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…
In Dependent Adult v. Care Center (Ala. Sup. Ct.) Joseph Nicholson negotiated a major confidential settlement on behalf of the mother of a man who died of a drug overdose after being prematurely discharged from substance abuse treatment. The decedent developed an opioid addiction after being prescribed pain medication for a head injury. He successfully…
Walkup Firm’s Federal Civil Rights Wrongful Death Case Against the City of Sacramento Profiled in Sacramento Bee Reggie Payne’s family shared their emotional story with the Sacramento Bee in the wake of newly released evidence in their federal civil rights wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Sacramento. Payne died in 2020 after firefighters violated…
In Heirs v. International Manufacturer (confidential settlement), Michael A. Kelly, Doris Cheng and Andrew P. McDevitt obtained a confidential multi-million dollar settlement for the wife and newborn baby of a Northern California deliveryman who suffered fatal injuries while working. The decedent was riding in the middle position of the front bench seat of the delivery…
Losing a loved one can be incredibly difficult. This is especially true if your loved one lost their life due to the careless, negligent, or intentional actions of somebody else. When this happens, family members are often able to recover compensation by filing a wrongful death lawsuit. However, these cases can become complicated, and state…
Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger attorney Conor M. Kelly and Andje Medina from Altair Law won the 2019 SFTLA Trial Lawyer of the Year competition for a case last year that netted $3,000,000 in settlement claims. The case was called Belo v Bally Hallinan Properties and it involved a property fire caused by the owner’s…
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