Richard Sandman
Richard has been the co-owner and Managing Partner of Rodman, Rodman & Sandman, P.C., and a practicing attorney for over 40 years.
Richard is nationally recognized in the areas of asbestos litigation, toxic torts, water contamination, and complex product liability claims. He has been involved extensively in tobacco-related litigation and worked with other personal injury attorneys throughout the country to achieve the national multibillion-dollar settlement with the tobacco industry. He has represented thousands of asbestos claimants nationwide in state and federal courts, earning hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients. Mr. Sandman has played significant roles in litigations involving defective prescription drugs and other products.
Richard has represented government entities in the areas of water, soil, and building contamination and the losses due to the opioid epidemic. He represented ninety Massachusetts municipalities whose public water supplies were contaminated by the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). After several years of litigation, these cases settled, resulting in approximately $100 million dollars to his clients. He presently represents government entities and individuals whose public and private water wells have been contaminated by the PFAS chemicals PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) and PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonic acid). Furthermore, Richard represents 125 municipalities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to help stem the national opioid crisis.
Richard has successfully litigated and resolved individual claims involving catastrophic motor vehicle accidents, head injuries, burns, construction site injuries, and claims against major automobile manufacturers for automotive defects, including crashworthiness claims involving Jeep CJs and Wranglers.
Richard graduated from Boston College Law School in 1977, where he served as Executive Editor of the American Journal of Law and Medicine. He began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he litigated high-exposure sex crimes and abuse. He then returned to Massachusetts and became a personal injury attorney in 1985. Richard is a member of the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania bars.
Richard lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife, Susan, and has two children. Rich is an avid dog lover.