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Goldman family to fight worker's comp claim
March 23, 1997
Web posted at: 1:38 p.m. EST (1838 GMT)
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The family of murder victim Ron Goldman will try to block a worker's compensation claim filed on his behalf by an Orange County lawyer.
Attorney Nick O'Malley filed the claim, using an obscure legal principle that allows private citizens to take legal action on behalf of the state. Because Goldman had no dependents, his $95,000 death benefit would go to a special state fund for injured workers. And if O'Malley is able to prove the claim, he could keep up to 15 percent of the money.
Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father, dismissed the claim as a "scam," while the family's attorney, Daniel Petrocelli called it "one of the most despicable things I've seen." They have vowed to fight O'Malley in court.
Goldman was on his way home from his job at the Mezzaluna restaurant on June 12, 1994, when he stopped at the home of Nicole Brown Simpson to return a pair of glasses she had left there. Both he and Simpson were found a short time later, stabbed to death.
Simpson's ex-husband, O.J. Simpson, was acquitted of murder in the case. But a civil jury later found him liable in a lawsuit filed by the families of both victims.
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