Posts tagged Defective Products

• Bush Administration And Congress Renew Steps In Ensuring Consumer Product Safety

  Greg Webb | March 26, 2008 5:51 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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industries, such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), up to date, ignoring the shrinking staff and out of date technology.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...

• MEGA Brands Issues Giant Recall On Magtastik, Magnetix Jr., and MagnaMan Toys

  Greg Webb | March 24, 2008 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Lawsuit Filed By Family of Boy Killed by Unsecured Soccer Goal

  Greg Webb | March 24, 2008 4:07 PM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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,...

• Biggest Verdict Ever Reached In Asbestos Related Case

  Greg Webb | March 24, 2008 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• California Appellate Court Refuses to Change Its Ruling Against Ford

  Greg Webb | March 24, 2008 3:52 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A California state appellate court stood by its earlier ruling, instructing Ford Motor Co. to award $82.6 million in damages to Benetta Buell-Wilson claiming faulty design caused her wreck, even after the Supreme Court asked them to reconsider. The three appellate justices said the case used by the Supreme Court for precedent did not contain anything that warranted a change in their judgment....

• Landmark Decision Precedent Could Hinder Even More Personal Injury Lawsuits

  Greg Webb | March 20, 2008 10:38 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In late February, a landmark decision by the Supreme Court ruled patients injured by most medical devices cannot sue the manufacturers. This decision expands upon the Bush administration's policy reversal in 2004, contending that if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a product, the manufacturer of the product is therefore protected against lawsuits at the state level. The recent...

• Sears Settlement Publicized To Encourage Stricter Legislation On Product Safety

  Greg Webb | March 20, 2008 5:48 PM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Consumer groups are publicizing a recent lawsuit settlement against Sears in an effort to encourage lawmakers to toughen legislation on consumer product safety. The lawsuit against Sears occurred due to the company's installation of millions of kitchen ranges that were prone to tipping over, thus causing more than one hundred people injuries from burns caused by hot matter spilling from the...

• An Estimated 22,000 Lives Could Have Been Saved If Trasylol Removed Earlier

  Greg Webb | March 20, 2008 5:27 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In a 2006 study, Trasylol, a drug made by Bayer for use in operating rooms to control bleeding, was shown to have contributed to the deaths of thousands of patients over a fourteen-year period. The Canadian government conducted a clinical trial on the drug that had to be stopped due to the deaths of so many patients. There was concern long before the trial as well. After major studies identified...

• FDA Does Not Inspect Chinese Drug Manufacturer Due To Mix-up

  Greg Webb | March 04, 2008 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to inspect a Chinese facility that supplies the active ingredient of heparin, a widely used blood thinner, because the facility's name was confused with another just like it. The FDA says, however, that the heparin case is one of their top priorities and a team of inspectors is on its way to investigate the plant as part of an effort to deduce what...

• Vinyl Plastic Baby Products Found To Contain Large Amounts of Lead

  Greg Webb | February 22, 2008 9:44 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A handful of well-known baby products made out of vinyl plastic, such as baby bibs and lunchboxes, have recently been found to contain high levels of lead. Some other baby products were also found to contain high amounts of lead: a Medela-brand cooler used to store breast milk, a carrying case sold with the First Years breast pump made by RC2, a Playtex baby bottle cooler, and a vinyl pacifier...