Media Coverage and Awards
The careless and greedy hate to be exposed. By drawing attention to dangerous products, we can often force them off the market. We forced a malicious Taiwanese company to withdraw a fatally sticky gel candy, and our pioneering efforts for tire safety lead to an industry-wide change in installation procedures. When auto manufacturers fail to issue recalls of dangerous parts, we make them. When airlines cut corners, we fight back.
Toyota fixed steering rods for over a decade before recall
Toyota paid a record fine recently for dragging its feet on disclosing a safety defect blamed for potentially fatal unintended acceleration
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Not quite like taking candy from a baby
Terry O’Reilly can spend year on a case, but when he wins he can save lives. If Terry O’Reilly is not a household name to you, perhaps his work is.
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Aviation ace, grounded on Mexican roads, tries a Lincoln
Terry O’Reilly has a need for speed. Or rather, a need to wrestle a vintage, 4,200 pound automobile with no power steering
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85-Year-Old Wins $23.9M in Ambulance Crash
A California jury has awarded $23.9 million to an 85-year- old farmer who was severely injured when a speeding ambulance crashed into his car.
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Recent Media Coverage
- Press Release: Only buying two new tires? - June 15, 2011
- Progress Made In the Investigation of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409
- Toyota Pays Record Penalty for Failing to Notify Regulators of Potential Safety Defects
- Toyota Motor Corp will Pay $32.425 Million in Civil Penalties as the Result of Two Department of Transportation Investigations
- Improper Insulin Monitoring Can Lead to Fatal Accidents
- Toyota Defect Problems Nothing New
- Subpoena for Toyota Over Defects in Steering - NY Times, July 21, 2010
- Toyota fixed steering rods for over a decade before recall - USA Today, June 14, 2010
- Toyota State Cases Consolidated - Daily Journal, May 27, 2010
- NHTSA Opens Investigation into Timeliness of 2005 Toyota Steering Relay Rod Recall - Press Release May 10, 2010
- Request for Timeliness Query - Ex A
- Request for Timeliness Query of Safety Recall 05V389 Lahood
- Toyota is sued over faulty steering (Automotive News, Aug. 3, 2009)
- Jurors Deal Personal Injury Firm a Pair of Eight-Figure Verdicts (San Francisco Daily Journal, Nov. 10, 2008, PDF, 446KB)
- 85-Year-Old Wins $23.9M in Ambulance Crash (Lawyers Weekly USA, Oct. 20, 2008; login required)
- Firm Creates Niche from Helicopter Crashes (San Francisco Daily Journal, May 15, 2007, PDF, 517KB)
- Aviation Ace, Grounded on Mexican roads, Tries a Lincoln (The Recorder, Oct. 23, 2006, PDF, 112KB)
- Ford warns drivers about danger of older tires (Detroit News, May 20, 2005)
- Forbes Radio's Marc Holland Hosts: A discussion with Terry O'Reilly on Tort Reform (Apr. 22, 2005, MP3, 3.82MB, WMA, 801KB)
- Forbes Radio's Marc Holland Hosts: A discussion with Terry O'Reilly on Product Liability (Aug. 10, 2005, MP3, 3.82MB, WMA, 801KB)
- Not Quite Like Taking Candy from a Baby (about Terry O'Reilly, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, Aug. 23, 2002, PDF, 83KB)
- Jelly Candy Pulled From Stores (Honolulu Advertiser, Aug. 17, 2001)
- Gel Candies 'Like Rubber Stoppers' Linked to Deaths (USA Today, Aug. 16, 2001)
- Man-Handled and Travel Worn, Passengers Plot Revenge (San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 1999)
- "$31 million injury verdict" (Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Oct. 16, 1990)
- "Pilot is awarded $31 million in '87 California plane crash" (New York Times, Oct. 16, 1990)
- "Teledyne Unit Agrees to Injury Settlement for 1987 Plane Crash" (The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 15, 1990)
- "Record $31 Million settlement won by man injured in '87 plane crash" (Bakersfield Californian, Oct. 14, 1990)
- "Pilot wins $31 million in crash case" (Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Oct. 14, 1990)
- "Huge settlement in air crash suit" (San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 13, 1990)
