Posts tagged Product Liability

• Treestands Recalled By Gander Mountain

  Mike Bryant | November 16, 2009 8:39 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The second week of November, The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Gander Mountain Company, of St. Paul, Minn,recalled 13,000 Hang-On Fixed Position Treestands. The clasp may open...

• One Million Baby Strollers Recalled By Maclaren

  Mike Bryant | November 10, 2009 7:47 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The first week of November, The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Maclaren USA, Inc., of South Norwalk, Conn., recalled 1,000,000 Maclaren Strollers. The stroller’s hinge mechanism...

• 3.8 million Toyotas Equal 6th Largest American Recall:Too Late For Four Killed

  Mike Bryant | November 03, 2009 11:32 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Apparently two years ago there were five complaints from owners of the 2007 Lexus ES 350 about unintended acceleration. It took them a little while, but after an apparent thorough investigation...

• Target Halloween Flashlights Recalled

  Mike Bryant | October 29, 2009 6:33 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The last week of October, The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Target, of Minneapolis, Minn., recalled 610,000 Halloween Flashlights. The flashlights can overheat and melt, posing a burn...

• North Carolina’s Extended Statue of Repose for Product Liability

  Gary Shipman | October 28, 2009 4:18 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  North Carolina’s extended Statue of Repose has been in effect since October 1, 2009. The House Commerce Committee unanimously voted to extend the statue of repose. The amendment states that...

• Runaway Toyota Vehicles Take Lives

  Paul Thomson | October 23, 2009 2:35 PM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Recent reports of fatal crashes involving Toyota and Toyota-made Lexus vehicles are frightening! The crashes involve the cars accelerating uncontrollably, reaching speeds of 120 MPH, and leaving...

• Avandia Increases Risk of Heart Failure and Death

  Alan Ripka | September 11, 2009 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Have you, a loved one, or friend taken Avandia and been injured? Avandia has been associated with heart failure, and in some cases, death. Avandia, which is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, is an...

• Pharmaceutical Company Writing Good Stuff About Their Product

  Mike Bryant | September 06, 2009 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Usually when pharmaceutical companies are writing good stuff about themselves they are called advertisements. But, when they write it about themselves, except do so in ghostwritten scientific...

• Toyota Sued for Concealing Incriminating Evidence in Product Liability Suits

  Mike Ferrara | September 04, 2009 9:57 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A former company lawyer for Toyota Motor Corp., Dimitrios Biller, who managed the company’s document discovery program, sued the company in July, claiming that while he worked...

• Mini Strollers Recalled By Baby Jogger

  Mike Bryant | September 02, 2009 8:36 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The last week of August, The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Baby Jogger,LLC, of Richmond, Va., recalled 41,000 Baby Jogger City Mini Strollers. The stroller’s restraint buckle...