Resources

The Law Offices of Robert G. Schock represents California clients in a range of legal matters, including serious personal injury, wrongful death, medical and attorney malpractice, products liability, insurance bad faith, employment litigation, civil rights, and catastrophic injuries, such as spinal cord injury and birth injuries like cerebral palsy and Erb's palsy.  We provide the following links as resources for our clients and others seeking general information about consumer safety and personal injury in California.  Of course, nothing compares to the advice of an experienced attorney.  In Oakland, San Francisco, the Bay Area, and throughout California, schedule your free consultation by contacting the Law Offices of Robert G. Schock today.

• YouTube Video:  Robert G. Schock discusses the Sarmiento case, in which he obtained a $3 million verdict for a child whose mother was killed by a tree that fell on Highway 1.

• YouTube Video:  Robert G. Schock discusses Daniels v. Townsend, a medical malpractice case involving a child who was improperly treated at the hospital after falling off the jungle bars.
• YouTube Video: Trailer for medical malpractice attorney Susan Saladoff's documentary feature film - "Hot Coffee." This documentary film analyzes and discuses the impact of tort reform on the United States judicial system.

• The mission of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes; through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement activity.

• NHTSA maintains a searchable database of automobile safety recalls.

• The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent, nonprofit, scientific, and educational organization dedicated to reducing the losses - deaths, injuries, and property damage - from crashes on the nation's highways.

• American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) members manage, supervise and consult on safety, health, and environmental issues in industry, insurance, government and education

• The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) is an international not-for-profit organization comprised of local, state, provincial, territorial, and federal motor carrier safety officials and industry representatives from the United States, Canada, and Mexico.  Its mission is to promote commercial motor vehicle safety and security by providing leadership to enforcement, industry, and policy makers.

• The Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) is a professional multidisciplinary organization dedicated entirely to motor vehicle crash injury prevention and control.

• The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) advocates transportation-related policies and provides technical services to support states in their efforts to efficiently and safely move people and goods.

• The Truck Safety Coalition is a partnership between the Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (CRASH) Foundation, and Parents Against Tired Truckers (P.A.T.T.).  The Truck Safety Coalition is dedicated to reducing the number of deaths and injuries caused by truck-related crashes, providing compassionate support to truck crash survivors and families of truck crash victims, and educating the public, policy-makers and media about truck safety issues.

• The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the country's largest cross-disability membership organization, organizes the disability community to be a powerful voice for change - politically, economically, and socially.

• The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public.

• The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children

• The Amputee Network is an organization dedicated to educating all amputees and their families and friends.  Its primary objective is to help in prosthetic rehabilitation.  

• The mission of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) is to provide multidisciplinary scientific education for health professionals and promote excellence in research and services for the benefit of people with cerebral palsy and childhood-onset disabilities.

• The mission of the American Medical Association is to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.

• The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) is the leading national organization serving and representing individuals, families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering, often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI).

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website provides health and safety information to individuals interested in health issues, public health professionals, healthcare providers, researchers and scientists, policy makers, media, businesses, students, and educators.

• The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation's medical research agency - making important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives.

• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which can be viewed on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) website, makes it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.

• The U.S. Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements.

• Disability.gov is a federal government website that provides quick and easy access to comprehensive information about disability-related programs, services, laws and benefits. Through the site, people with disabilities, their families, veterans, educators, employers, service providers and others are connected to thousands of resources, updated daily, from federal, state and local governments, educational institutions and non-profit organizations.