Defective & Dangerous Products

• Older Jeep Grand Cherokees May Be Fire Prone

  Greg Webb | October 18, 2009 10:34 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The Center for Auto Safety has sent a petition to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, calling for the recall of over three million Jeep Grand Cherokees, claiming that the vehicles...

• Ford Recalls Another 4.5 Million Automobiles for Fire Hazard - 16 MILLION TOTAL

  Greg Webb | October 13, 2009 6:52 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Ford Motor Company (Ford), in the continuing saga of the defective cruise control deactivation switches on its, issued the single largest recall in the history of the United States Tuesday, October...

• Congressmen, feds tour Chinese drywall homes in Chesapeake, Virginia Beach

  Jim Lewis | October 13, 2009 12:22 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Just last week, Hampton Roads victims of Chinese drywall trekked to Washington, D.C. to make their case to lawmakers and regulators, as I wrote about last week. My colleague John Cooper has also...

• FDA Pulls the Plug on Flavored Cigarettes

  Greg Webb | October 04, 2009 9:46 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The FDA has banned flavored cigarettes from the market as its first act since being given the authority to monitor and regulate the marketing and manufacturing of tobacco products. It is widely...

• The Dangers of Yaz and Yasmin Prescription Drugs

  Rick Shapiro | October 01, 2009 9:33 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Yaz and Yasmin, the two most popular birth control pills in the United States, are not perfect prescription drugs. In fact, the side effects they inflict on young women can be horrendous, even life...

• Judge Rules Toyota Suit Remain Unsealed

  Greg Webb | September 30, 2009 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A federal judge in Los Angeles has refused to seal a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by Dimitrios Biller, a former in-house attorney for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. Biller claims Toyota hid...

• Supplements - More Dangerous Than They Appear (Or Advertised)?

  Greg Webb | September 25, 2009 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In its September 7th article “What’s Really in Supplements?” The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)discusses the harmful side effects of a growing trend in the American dietary and strength...

• New Legislation May Aid Consumers Harmed By Foreign Manufacturers

  Greg Webb | September 14, 2009 2:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Many products consumed these days, from children’s toys to medicines, are made in countries where, often, manufacturing standards are almost nonexistent. Therefore, when products have defects,...

• Toyota May Be Forced To Reopen Rollover Crash Cases

  Greg Webb | September 13, 2009 5:22 PM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA

  Toyota Motor Company is already facing demands that roll-over crash cases it settled or won be reopened, after a former company attorney, Dimitrios Biller, accused the automaker of hiding records...

• Toyota Issues Recall in Nineteen States - Corollas and Scions

  Greg Webb | September 07, 2009 7:32 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., is launching a voluntary Safety Recall on nearly 96,000 Toyota and Scion vehicles. Per the press release from Toyota: “On certain 2009 and 2010 model year...