Walkup Personal Injury Lawyers

A Dallas federal jury awarded $1.04 billion to six California patients harmed by Johnson and Johnson's metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants, with W. Mark Lanier leading an eight-week trial that produced one of the largest product-liability verdicts of 2016.

Walkup shareholder Michael A. Kelly served on the plaintiffs' leadership team that secured a $117 million settlement from former PG&E officers and directors over wildfires that ranked among the deadliest in California history.

Conor Kelly and Melinda Derish proved that a Bakersfield hospitalist never examined Kody Myrick or ordered a neurology consult, letting a treatable basilar-artery stroke destroy his brain stem, and a San Francisco jury fixed his damages at $38.6 million.

An Orange County jury found Yamaha's YXZ1000R side-by-side defectively designed and awarded $26.3 million to Justin Van Tussenbrook, a Utah man paralyzed when the vehicle's rollover protection structure collapsed at low speed.

A Kandiyohi County jury awarded $23.2 million on February 9, 2010, to a Paynesville family whose daughter was born without breathing after a labor induction and a delayed cesarean at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar. She has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, seizures and cortical impairment. The jury put 80 percent of the fault on Affiliated Community Medical Centers and 20 percent on the hospital. It was described at the time as the largest medical malpractice award in Minnesota state history.

Walkup attorney Matthew Davis represented the families of five Irish students killed and seven survivors injured when a Berkeley apartment balcony sheared off in 2015, reaching a partial settlement of more than $20 million on confidential terms.

Michael Kelly and his Walkup partners co-tried the first DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip case to reach a jury, winning an $8.3 million Los Angeles verdict for retiree Loren Kransky that the California Court of Appeal later affirmed in full.

San Francisco Unified School District's case was the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria; after the plaintiffs rested, Altria agreed to pay $235 million to resolve roughly 6,000 pending e-vapor claims nationwide.

A San Mateo County jury in 2010 awarded $12.2 million to the family of a 17-year-old girl struck in an unsignalized marked crosswalk on El Camino Real in Millbrae in March 2006. She was left in a coma with severe brain damage. The jury put 50 percent of fault on Caltrans, 30 percent on the driver and 20 percent on the girl. Caltrans was ordered to pay $8 million.

A college student in his twenties arrived at the UC Davis Medical Center emergency department unresponsive, and the stroke protocol was not activated. His stroke was diagnosed about 26 hours later, and he was left with major neurocognitive injuries and restrictions in his right hand. In December 2023 a Sacramento jury found negligence and awarded $15,308,604. California's pre-2023 MICRA cap cut the non-economic damages to $250,000, leaving $7,558,604, and the Regents filed a notice of appeal in May 2024.