Defective & Dangerous Products

• More Jogging Strollers Recalled, But This Time, For a Choking Hazard

  Greg Webb | October 16, 2011 6:49 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  We have to face it, babies will put anything in their mouths. Anyone who has ever been around babies knows this. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is recalling B.O.B.® Jogging...

• Friday Round Up: October 14, 2011

  Brett Emison | October 14, 2011 11:24 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Legal and safety news that caught my interest this week: U-Haul and its Lousy Customer Service (Updated x3) [Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog] Our Exceptional...

• Violent Video Game Players Show Different Brain Activity, Emotional Desensitization

  Pierce Egerton | October 12, 2011 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  After excessively violent events, shoot 'em up games regularly come under scrutiny. In Norway, several first-person shooter games actually disappeared from the market for a while after the...

• B.O.B. Recalls Jogging Strollers

  Chrissie Cole | October 12, 2011 12:40 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Single and double strollers by B.O.B have been voluntarily recalled in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in the U.S. and Canada due to a strangulation hazard...

• CPSC: A Fire Safe Home

  Chrissie Cole | October 12, 2011 11:56 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates an average of more than 386,000 unintentional residential fires (pdf) per year from 2006 through 2008. That total includes nearly 2,400...

• Coin-Sized Batteries Pose Deadly Threat to Toddlers, the Elderly

  Pierce Egerton | October 10, 2011 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  We’ve all seen those coin-sized batteries. They’re called “button batteries” and they power all sorts of devices from hearing aids to remote controls. As these little...

• California Bans Underage use of Tanning Booths

  Mike Bryant | October 09, 2011 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  I've never had much interest in tanning. Seems like it comes or it doesn't. It's probably a product of having more skin than hair on my head, so it really doesn't seem like it will improve things...

• CPSC and J.C. Penney Recall 8,000 Yu Wei Drop-Side Cribs

  Greg Webb | October 09, 2011 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Yu Wei Ltd. of Taiwan, have recalled approximately 8,000 drop-side cribs which were manufactured in Taiwan and imported to the U.S. by J.C....

• VW Recalls 168,000 Audis, Jettas and Jetta Sport Wagons Due to Fire Hazard

  Greg Webb | October 09, 2011 8:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  According to an October 7, 2011, article by Christopher Jensen in The New York Times, Volkswagen is recalling 168,000 Volkswagen Audi, Jetta and Jetta Sport Wagen model cars that contained the TDI...

• Little Tikes Recalls Toy Workshop and Tool Sets

  Mike Bryant | October 08, 2011 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  The last week of September, The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Little Tikes, of Hudson, Ohio., recalled 1.7 million additional units (about 1.6 million toy workshop sets and trucks with...