Defective & Dangerous Products

• Crash Testing

  Paul Kiesel | September 17, 2006 8:30 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Car Crash testing is critical to selecting a new car to purchase or lease. The moto "big car walks away" is often times true but an educated consumer can avoid serious personal injuries in a car crash.I have always been a fan of the moto, "Big cars walks away." As a personal injury attorney I see all to often smaller cars taking the "short" end of most car crashes. While there is certainly no...

• E. Coli Outbreak Linked to California Spinach Grower

  Michael Eyerly | September 16, 2006 1:36 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Natural Selection Foods of San Juan Bautista, California issued a voluntary recall of all its packaged products containing fresh greens. The company, which also operates under the name Earthbound Farm issued the recall just one day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended against eating any fresh bagged spinach due to an E. coli outbreak that has so far caused one death and...

• Big Auto to Include Anti-Rollover Technology in Upcoming Models

  Patrick DeBlase | September 14, 2006 4:49 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Today, the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that beginning with the 2009 model year, all vehicles must be equipped with "electronic stability control" (ESC). This feature drastically reduces the potential for vehicle rollovers. Auto makers typically do not chomp at the bit to introduce safety features in the vehicles they sell to consumers. Rather, it is governmental...

• Merck Releases Self-Serving Report about Vioxx

  Elaine Mandel | September 12, 2006 11:59 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  In response to the 30,000 lawsuits filed against Merck by people injured after taking Vioxx, drug maker Merck spent $21 million dollars to hire a law firm to do an "investigation" that found Merck did nothing wrong in connection with its testing, distributing and marketing of Vioxx. In 2004 drug maker Merck took its hugely popular anti-inflammatory medicine Vioxx off the market after clinical...

• Product Recall Issued for Children's Toy - The Learn-Around Playground

  Michael Eyerly | September 08, 2006 3:15 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls children's toy that poses risk of injury. A voluntary recall issued for the Learn-Around Playground Activity Center. Yesterday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall for the Learn-Around Playground Activity Center. The Learn-Around Playground is a multi-colored, plastic musical activity center geared to...

• Synthetic Vest Fails to Protect Law Enforcement Officers

  Patrick DeBlase | September 08, 2006 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Protective vest manufacturer Second Chance Armor is found liable for defective vests using Zylon synthetic fibers which it knew would degrade over time.Yesterday, a San Diego jury found the manufacturer and fiber supplier of protective vests liable for the death of a police officer who had been fatally shot in the chest by an ex-con. Second Chance Armor, Inc. manufactures these protective vests...

• Tobacco Industry Just Can't Quit

  Patrick DeBlase | August 31, 2006 4:20 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Nicotine levels in cigarettes are up by about 10% from 1998 to 2004 according to the Massachusetts Department of Health.Well into their national feel-good campaign to "educate" the public on smoking, a new study released on Tuesday shows conduct within the Tobacco Industry is business as usual. A Massechusetts Department of Health study released today shows that the amount of nicotine delivered...

• California Attorney Personal Injury -- Bausch & Lomb

  Paul Kiesel | August 23, 2006 7:17 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  In a finding consistent with the Journal of American Medical Association Bausch & Lomb inc.'s recall of a popular contact lens solution in May appears to have stopped the spread of a serious eye infection. Researchers at the US Center for disease control and prevention were unable to find any infectious agent in the Bausch & Lomb solution but research is continuing. As of June 30, the...

• Bausch & Lomb Lens Solution Causes Eye Infections

  Paul Kiesel | August 22, 2006 1:55 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Bausch & Lomb ReNu with Mostiure Loc was, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, responsible for a recent outbreak of fungal eye infections. The company had suggested purchasers poor eye hygiene was the probable cause of the infections but the researchers writing for the American Medical Association formally concluded the link between Bausch & Lomb and eye infections. ...

• Zyprexa California Cases

  Paul Kiesel | August 18, 2006 8:07 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  I am presently counsel for over 160 individual consumers who have used and been injured by the "anti-depression" drug Zyprexa. The Court has been asked and all parties have agreed to have Kiesel Boucher & Larson LLP designated as Lead Counsel on these cases. Being Lead Counsel allows Kiesel Boucher & Larson LLP to speak, in court, on behalf of all firms who have brought such cases.