Beyond Lawyering

Sometimes our quest for justice has not ended merely with the successful resolution of the lawsuit but has continued long afterwards in an attempt to prevent similar harm to others. Our attorneys have spearheaded, and participated in, campaigns that have led to safety improvements, several involving commercial transportation.

In an effort to improve truck safety, one our attorneys testified at a special State Senate Transportation Committee Hearing whose purpose was to probe events leading up to the fatal accident which killed our clients' son. A California state senator invited our firm to testify at a hearing investigating the Caltrans Transportation Permits Office, which issues about 180,000 permits a year for oversized loads. Caltrans granted a permit to a trucking company carrying a load 15 feet high on a freeway with an overpass only 14 feet, 10 inches high. When the truck traveled under the overpass its large tank was ripped from the truck by the overpass and crushed the car traveling behind the truck, killing our clients' son.

Truck Accident Trial Lawyer Ronald Goldman works alongside accident reconstruction experts on a truck accident case.

Our proactive attorneys have also:

• Testified before state legislators in a train crash investigation in order to improve train safety
• Testified before a state seismic safety commission in order to improve earthquake proofing for building facades
• Testified before the U.S. FDA on two different occasions in order to get proper safety labels on certain drugs
• Testified before a foreign government to warn them of contaminated blood products being used in their country by hemophiliacs
• Met with members of the United States House and Senate regarding the risk of suicide in antidepressant drugs
• Assisted congressional investigators from two separate committee investigations which resulted in two congressional hearings at which pharmaceutical executives and FDA officials were interrogated and chastised for failing to protect the public health
• Helped obtain U.S. legislation to provide humanitarian aid to thousands of families affected by HIV-contaminated hemophilia medication
• Helped in a recall campaign of defective drain covers in spas and hot tubs so long-haired people would not drown by being caught in them
• Helped advance the amendment of an outdated 80-year-old federal aviation law called "The Death on the High Seas Act" which limited the amount of recovery available to victims of airline crashes, but now provides equitable treatment of those families
• Organized and funded a national campaign in all 50 states and Canada urging school bus owners, operators and purchasers to relocate gas tanks positioned next to the front doors, to an unexposed position inside the frame thus reducing the chance of, and allow for more exit routes in case of, a fire.