SAN FRANCISCO — Terence O’Reilly, a longtime Bay Area plaintiffs lawyer who specialized in aviation cases, died of pancreatic cancer on Oct. 16. He was 70.
In his long and colorful career, O’Reilly won the largest-ever single-injury aviation settlement and spurred the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban a candy linked to numerous choking deaths. Born in Farnborough, England, O’Reilly moved to the United States at age 16. He graduated from Loyola University of Los Angeles with a degree in mass communications and received his law degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was moot court champion.
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