Michael Kelly

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.

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.

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.

A hoist operator was carrying a co-worker to the roof of a San Mateo library job in December 2005 when the hoist ran out of control and he fell about 50 feet, losing his dominant right arm above the elbow. A San Francisco jury found the Swedish manufacturer, Alimak Hek AB, liable for a design defect and failure to warn, and valued his damages at $8,328,591. It assigned 57 percent of fault to Alimak, 33 percent to his employer, Sheedy Inc., and 10 percent to him. The Recorder reported he would recover $4,747,296.80 from Alimak, while Jury Verdict Alert put Alimak's share at $5,515,732.