Posts tagged product liability

• Infant Suffocation Deaths result in Recall of 2.1 million Stork Craft Cribs

  Claude Wyle | November 30, 2009 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  We learned earlier this week that more than 2.1 million drop-side cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing of Canada are being recalled after reports of four infant suffocations. What troubles me is...

• GM Agrees to Accept Future Product Claims on Existing Cars, But Not Existing Claims

  Todd Slaughter | July 01, 2009 8:12 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  It was reported today in Bloomberg.com that GM has made concession in its bankruptcy proceeding to accept future injury claims arising from existing vehicles, but those already injured by the...

• Will the "New" Chrysler and GM Vehicles be Safe?

  Todd Slaughter | June 12, 2009 4:31 PM | 1 CommentRedding, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Jane Akre's excellent article, Chrysler GM Throws Consumers Under the Bus, accurately details the surmise of injury and death claims against the new Chrysler and GM companies, once they emerge from...

• Chrysler's Ticking Time Bombs

  Todd Slaughter | June 11, 2009 5:37 PM | 2 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As we posted earlier this week, Chrysler has emerged from bankruptcy freed from responsibility for all deaths and catastrophic injuries caused by their defective cars, vans and trucks. This means...

• Obama Backs Chrysler/GM Immunity for Dangerous Cars , Vans and Trucks

  Todd Slaughter | June 09, 2009 4:04 PM | 1 CommentRedding, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In an extraordinary move, it appears that the Obama Treasury Department is backing a plan that allows Chrysler and GM to emerge from bankruptcy with complete immunity for all deaths and catastrophic...

• Morphine Overdose Killed Army Soldier

  Paul Kiesel | December 04, 2008 8:30 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Earlier this year, a Fort Huachuca soldier died of a morphine overdose at the Army base's medical barracks, an investigation concluded this week, and authoritites are trying to determine who...

• PAIN PATCH LAWSUIT DECIDED BY JURY

  William Grewe | November 03, 2008 8:16 PM | 0 CommentsVentura, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A Florida jury found the maker of drug patches which release pain medication (fentanyl) responsible for the wrongful death of a mother of five who was using the Duragesic patches. The 34-year-old...

• E. Coli Forces Ground Beef Recall

  Shannon Weidemann | January 14, 2008 6:45 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Ground beef patties sold to restaurants and other food services across the country have been recalled over concerns that they may be contaminated with E. coli. The recalled ground beef may have caused several illnesses in California and Wisconsin. E. coli O157:H7 can cause dehydration and bloody diarrhea. The ground beef was produced by the Rochester Meat Co."To date no product produced at...