Defective & Dangerous Products | InjuryBoard Charlottesville

A recent report from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stated many of the published scientific studies used to establish the effectiveness and safety of Vioxx, a painkiller...

Continue article

Due to an unfriendly Congress, the Bush administration is finding another, quieter way to make it difficult for consumers to sue businesses over faulty products. It is rewriting the bureaucratic...

Continue article

Although an artificial hip can occasionally make a variety of noises, until Stryker, a medical products company, began marketing its ceramic hip replacements, squeaking was rare. With the advent of...

Continue article

The federal government recently recalled about one million Evenflo Discovery child safety seats after it was proven that they could come apart in a side-impact crash. This decision was made...

Continue article

A new environmental report, published by Environment California, claims cribs and changing tables may be exposing babies to unhealthy levels of formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is a chemical typically...

Continue article

Eight-year-old Gabriel Mendoza, from Phoenix, Arizona, has died after a soccer goal post fell on top of him at a local YMCA. Investigators say the boy, who was playing goalie at the time, grabbed...

Continue article

Congress is seeking funding for additional federal safety inspectors and for an increase in the policing of overseas suppliers. This moves comes after the influx of contaminated drugs, pet food and...

Continue article

CBS Corp, a toy maker and several retailers were sued after an asbestos awareness group from California alleged asbestos was found in the companies’ “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” toy crime-scene...

Continue article

Washington’s governor, Christine Gregoire, is expected to sign a bill, called the Children’s Safe Products Act, that would give her state some of the toughest rules in the nation prohibiting toxic...

Continue article

Called “silent tort-reform” by plaintiffs’ attorneys, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)...

Continue article

A California state appeals court upheld an award of over $11 million to Joseph and Mary Garza. Mr. Garza contracted asbestosis, an incurable lung disease, after being exposed to asbestos in Navy...

Continue article

With the importation of many cheap goods, along with the weakness of the nation's regulatory system, millions of products were recalled last year. In the past, the Bush administration has had little motivation in trying to make regulation industries, such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), up to date, ignoring the shrinking staff and out of date technology. Now, however, with the...

Continue article

MEGA Brands America Inc. issued a recall on about 2.4 million Chinese-manufactured toys last week due to small magnetic components falling out of its toys, resulting in a choking hazard. MEGA Brands is recalling about 1.1 million Magtastik and Magnetix Jr. preschool toys, along with 1.3 million MagnaMan magnetic action figures. The toys were sold between January 2005 and December 2007 at toy...

Continue article

Charlottesville, Va. (March 17, 2008) A lawsuit was filed today in the Circuit Court of Prince William County, Virginia on behalf of the Estate of Hayden Ellias, the 10 year-old boy who died when an unsecured soccer goal fell over and killed him. The estate is represented by attorneys Shawn S. Kasserman with the Chicago, IL law firm of Corboy & Demetrio and J. Gregory Webb and Paul R. Thomson,...

Continue article

A San Francisco Superior Court jury has ordered Georgia Pacific Corp., an asbestos manufacturer, to pay over $7 million in damages, in the largest asbestos-related verdict ever. The decision came after the manufacturer exposed a onetime film actress and singer, Joan Mahoney, to fibers, causing her to contract terminal cancer, mesothelioma, while she was working in a home-remodeling business with...

Continue article