SFGate reports that two workers suffered life threatening injuries yesterday when scaffolding collapsed at a San Francisco high rise under construction. Coincidentally, just last week Walkup partner Matt Davis settled a case on the first day of trial on behalf of a woman badly injured by substandard scaffolding. He says that yesterday’s tragedy was almost…
A serious New Years’ Eve pedestrian accident is raising several complicated legal issues surrounding taxi services such as Uber Car. ABC7 News affiliate KGO-TV previously reported that a 57-year-old Uber driver struck and killed a 6-year-old child last Tuesday, in addition to injuring her brother and mother. One legal issue raised in this accident is…
A Recology garbage truck fatally struck a pedestrian in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District last Friday. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the accident happened around 7:45 a.m. at the intersection of Antonio Street and Jones Street. Video footage of this tragic accident shows that the Recology garbage truck backed over the pedestrian. Because garbage trucks…
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…
Officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are concerned by the quality controls at several compounding pharmacies. The drug injury lawyers at Walkup Melodia law firm have handled a number of cases over the last ten years where injury occurred as a result of adulterated or misbranded drugs produced at so-called “compounding pharmacies”. The…
As “Golden Wheel Sponsors” of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, the Walkup Law firm has strong ties to the San Francisco Cycling Community. San Francisco has been a leader in promoting bicycle-safe routes and has brought together various neighborhood and government groups to promote a positive cycling culture. However, recently some bicyclists have accused the…
Walkup partners Doris Cheng and Matthew Davis resolved a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Hayward and members of the Hayward Police Department on behalf of the family of an elderly man who was mauled by a police dog. The lawsuit alleged that the police officer violated the man’s rights by allowing the…
The July 7, 2013, catastrophic Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport was the first commercial passenger airline crash in the United States in more than four years. In the crash, a Boeing 777 from Seoul, South Korea, made what observers noted to be an awkward approach to Runway 28L, one of the four…
After a lengthy investigation stemming from a 2009 Center for Auto Safety petition, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ratcheted to a rare level of enforcement. According to a letter the agency sent to Chrysler June 3., 2013, the NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) reached the “tentative” conclusion that the 1993 – 2004 Jeep…
A chill ran down my spine as I read today’s account of a Recology garbage truck running over and killing a bicyclist this morning. Tragedy occurred at 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue and, according to the news story, happened when the truck turned right and into a cyclist who was riding to the…
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