Defective & Dangerous Products

• Toy recalls put parents on edge

  Staff Writer | August 20, 2007 1:07 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  From Thomas the Tank Engine to Sesame Street, it seems that many of those classic toys that have been a part of generations of children's lives are now seen in a different light as the toy recalls continue.Many parents are scouring the Web for lists of recalled products and then scouring their children's toy chests to weed out the bad apples. Some parents are even testing toys for lead paint,...

• First Lawsuit Over Mattel Toy Recall

  Shannon Weidemann | August 20, 2007 12:45 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A lawsuit has been filed against Mattel over the toys they sold in stores that had lead based paint. Lead is a hazard to children and adults if ingested. Mattel recalled over 9 million toys last week due to lead paint and magnets that may pose a health hazard if swallowed. Last week Mattel recalled millions of toys, including 436,000 die-cast toy cars from its "Cars" line because they may...

• A Nation in Pain or Addiction?

  Steve Klearman | August 20, 2007 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Injury attorneys have long been aware of America's increasing problem with prescription pain medicines and the article below, pulled off Yahoo News this morning, confirms that a new national dialogue on this subject is in order. Legal addiction has become a major problem for the United States:MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - People in the United States are living in a world of pain and they are popping...

• Lawsuits Say Laxative Causes Kidney Damage

  Paul Jacquart | August 20, 2007 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  More than 50 lawsuits have been filed across the country claiming that Fleet Phospho-soda, a laxative made by C.B. Fleet Co. Inc. of Lynchburg, Va.,caused serious kidney damage, sometimes leading to death, reports the Associated Press. According to the lawyers that filed the suits, the Food and Drug Administration lists Phospho-soda as safe when used as a single-dose laxative, but in the early...

• Mold Problems Plague Town Center Condo

  Eddie Farah | August 19, 2007 11:02 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The story appearing in the August 14-20 issue of Folio Weekly puts into perspective having a bad day.Karen Donges, a 35-year old communications instructor at UNF, moved into the Esplanade at Town Center earlier this year. While the renter liked the grainite counter tops and stainless steel appliances, she didnt like the black mold spores climbing up her bedroom wall.She began feeling flu-like...

• FDA Warning About Children and OTC Cold Medicines

  Jamie Sheller | August 19, 2007 9:40 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Parents are warned about the risks of giving OTC cough and cold medications to young children. The FDA says that parents should not give such medicines to children younger than two years old. According to the FDA's Public Health Advisory, there are serious questions about whether the risks of these products outweigh the benefits in young children. Earlier this year, a group of pediatricians...

• Kugel Mesh Class Action Update

  Joe Saunders | August 19, 2007 8:43 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  The Judicial Panel has granted the plaintiff's request to pretrial coordination of 13 cases concerning the Kugel Mesh hernia patch. Thirteen (13) lawsuits were filed in 13 different courts located in 11 different states against various defendants, including C.R. Bard and its wholly-owned subsidiary Davol (common defendants in all class actions) and Surgical Sense and WCO Medical Products...

• Peanut Butter Class Action Lawsuits

  Staff Writer | August 19, 2007 6:03 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  The Judicial Panel on MultiDistrict Litigation has granted the motion to centralize peanut butter cases and has selected the Northern District of Georgia as the transferee court. The Judicial Panel granted the motion to centralize the cases and selected the Northern District of Georgia because three class actions (and two tag-along actions) are pending there, because common defendant ConAgra...

• Avandia Heart Risk Warning

  David Rowell | August 19, 2007 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  For some time now the FDA has been investigating problems with the popular diabetes drug Avandia, including heart attacks, fluid build up and heart failure. Despite these concerns the FDA decided not to remove Avandia from the market, However, on Friday the FDA announced that GlaxoSmithKline Plc, maker of Avandia, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., which makes the drug Actos, have agreed to...

• Mattel Recalls Toys

  Rick Patterson | August 18, 2007 7:36 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Mattel recalled nine million toys on Tuesday. It appears that the concern is a magnet that could be ingested by children. Of particular concern, according to Dr. Robert J. Geller, associate professor of pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and director of the Georgia Poison Center, is the fact that if more than one magnet is swallowed it may cause severe intestinal...