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The late SafetyForum co-founder, Ralph Hoar, made significant contributions to product safety efforts for more than three decades.  His commentaries express his unique, irreverant, perspective on industry, hazardous products and government's halting efforts to ensure safe products.  He is a champion of the American jury system and its power to assert pressure for safer products.  Featured here are some of his observations.

Chemical 'Trade Secrets': The Triumph and The Tragedy (On Litigation and Journalistic Courage) (3/27/01)

Now We Know Who Dubya Was Winking At, And Why (On Legal Reform) (3/14/01)

National Child Passenger Safety Week: A National Disgrace (On Child Safety Seats)(2/16/01) 

Automotive News Publisher Says End Litigation Secrecy (On Protective Orders on Product Litigation) (11/1/00)

Playing With Fire (On Ford Fires) (9/27/99)

What Happened to Three Strikes and You're Out? (On Sanctioning Automakers) (4/1/99)

Chrysler Deserves Something to Really Whine About (On Applying The Tobacco Solution to Automakers) (2/24/99)

Truth or Trough: This is the Question (On Former NHTSA Officials Working for the Auto Industry) (11/30/98)

Airbags and the Threshold for Profits (On Airbags) (9/24/98)

It's Enough to Make Your Blood Boil! (On Emergency Trunk Releases and Former NHTSA Officials) (8/13/98) 

Neither Kids Nor Sex Inherently Safe in the Back Seat (On Rear Seat Hazards) (6/19/98)

Survey Provides Another Piece of the Inertial Release Puzzle (On Seat Belt Buckle Failure) (5/31/98)

Shooting Starr is Only Part of the Story (On Kenneth Starr's Defense of GM Fuel Tanks) (3/17/98)

NHTSA Officials Flock to Industry (On Former NHTSA Officials Working for the Auto Industry) (11/30/97)

With Litigation the Truth Will Out? (On the Value of Litigation) (10/31/97)

Is GM Bagging Airbags? (On GM and Airbags) (8/31/97)

It's A Wonderful Life--If You Don't Die Laughing (On Former NHTSA Officials)(5/31/97)

Blaming Claybrook (On Automaker Finger Pointing) (1/17/97)

NHTSA's Half-Great Idea (On Children in the Rear Seat) (12/10/96)

Airbag Blah, Blah, Blah (On Depowering Airbags) (12/10/96)

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