Defective & Dangerous Products

• Shopping On-line This Holiday Season: Be Careful; Buyer Beware

  Mark Bello | November 20, 2009 4:55 PM | 0 CommentsVoices

  This holiday season, as many of 2/3 of all Americans will do their shopping on-line. As an unfortunate result, there will be more cybercriminals prowling the web for potential victims. According to...

• Nashville Hit-and-Run Leaves 26 Year old Dead on I-24

  George Fusner | November 20, 2009 2:13 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  On November 9th at 1:20 a.m. a 26-year-old Nashville woman was traveling west on I-24 in a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer. The driver veered off onto the right shoulder and onto the rumble strips. She...

• Big Tobacco Caught in the Back Draft of its Scorched Earth Litigation Strategy

  Cal Warriner | November 20, 2009 9:20 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Big Tobacco's pants are aflame today after suffering a 300 million dollar verdict in yet another defeat in its Florida litigation war. You see, knowing it has imposed more death and suffering than...

• Maclaren Failed to Report Finger-Chopping Danger

  Paul Thomson | November 20, 2009 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Maclaren recently recalled strollers made as far back as 1999 because the stroller hinge can cause a child's finger to be amputated when placed in the hinge upon opening or closing the stroller....

• Maclaren Stroller Defect Went Unfixed for Five Years

  Paul Kiesel | November 19, 2009 7:15 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  From the New York Post: Maclaren knew for at least five years that its strollers could lop off a child's finger, but did nothing about the dangerous defect until federal regulators all but forced...

• Tobacco Held Responsible for Placing Profits Ahead of...Everything

  Brenda Fulmer | November 19, 2009 5:16 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Philip Morris suffered yet another blow in the latest post-Engle tobacco trial. A Fort Lauderdale jury rendered a verdict on November 19, 2009, for $300 million against the tobacco manufacturers...

• Great American Smokeout: Many Reasons to Kick the Habit

  David Mittleman | November 19, 2009 3:35 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Maybe we can blame the bad economy, but no matter whatever or whoever is at fault, the fact is that more Americans are smoking cigarettes. In fact, a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control...

• Chain saws present another post-nor'easter danger

  Rick Shapiro | November 18, 2009 11:41 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  With the skies clear after last week’s nor’easter, attention is turning to cleanup – especially the hundreds of trees and thousands of large limbs that were felled throughout...

• Validity of Pfizer Neurontin Drug Study Questioned

  Paul Thomson | November 18, 2009 12:01 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Studies on the Pfizer Inc. drug Neurontin may have been skewed in order to have favorable results, reports Bloomberg. The drug is intended to treat epilepsy, however the studies focused on uses...

• Recent Michigan Taser Incidents Cause Concern for Safety, Use of Force

  David Mittleman | November 17, 2009 5:11 PM | 1 CommentLansing, MI

  Two recent incidents involving the use of Tasers have grabbed headlines throughout Michigan and around the country, again raising doubts about the safety of the product and its use by law...