Beyond Lawyering
We believe, at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, that being a safety advocate is very much a part of our firm’s purpose, and efforts have been made by the firm’s mass disaster attorneys to not only represent their clients in getting them full and just compensation, but our attorneys have become advocates for commercial transportation safety.

Many of our firm’s attorneys have spearheaded, and participated in, campaigns that have led to safety improvements.  Baum Hedlund attorneys have testified on at least eight occasions at state and federal levels regarding commercial transportation, building and drug safety and to a foreign government who invited a Baum Hedlund attorney to their country to testify about the risks of a certain U.S. manufactured medication which severely affected their people.




  


Ron Goldman
Baum Hedlund won the public apology from Air Midwest for the 2003 Charlotte crash

Our proactive attorneys have also:

  • Helped obtain equitable treatment for families of victims of airline crashes occurring in the deep ocean by advancing the amendment of the outdated 80-year-old federal "Death on the High Seas Act" which used to drastically limit the amount of recovery in similar crashes.

  • Testified at a special State Senate Transportation Committee Hearing whose purpose was to probe events leading up to the fatal trucking accident, which killed our clients' son. A California state senator invited our firm to testify at a hearing investigating the Caltrans Transportation Permits Office, who issued a permit to a trucking company carrying a load two inches higher than the overpasses on that freeway. 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.

  • 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 three 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.

  • Organized and funded a national campaign in all fifty 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.