Posts tagged defect

• Electronic Cigarette Explodes in Man’s Mouth

  Council Wooten | February 27, 2012 9:02 AM | 5 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  An exploding “electronic cigarette” severely injured a Florida man recently when it blew up in his mouth, according to sources. Electronic cigarettes are tobacco-free devices designed...

• Profit Over Safety in a World of Rapid Research and Development: A Few Comments about Guidant and Medtronic

  Armand Rossetti | October 10, 2008 3:22 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Profit Over Safety in a World of Rapid Research and Development: A Few Comments about Guidant and Medtronic There is always an ounce of concern among manufacturers about consumer safety, and a...

• Peanut Butter Danger Speads To 491 Infected Persons

  Ed Normand | January 25, 2009 8:44 AM | 2 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The food poisoning outbreak related to Salmonella keeps getting larger and larger. According to the the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) there are now 491 reported cases of people...

• Laxative Deemed Dangerous By FDA

  Brian W. Smith | January 08, 2009 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsTallahassee, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Unico Holdings in Lake Worth, Florida is recalling almost 200,000 boxes of its ginger-lemon flavored laxative mix sold nationwide. Federal health officials say they could pose health risks. The...

• Publix Settles Consumer Lawsuit over Lemon-Lime Soda with Benzene

  Courtney Mills | 2008-01-11T15:04:09 | 0 Comments Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Publix Supermarkets announced this week that the Lakeland-based grocery chain had settled a consumer lawsuit over problems relating to the content of the chemical benzene in the company's private label soda pop. Consumer groups had brought the suit, alleging that ingredients in Publix diet lemon-lime soda compound to form trace amounts of benzene once the beverage has heated during shipping. ...

• Kugel Mesh Class Action Update

  Joe Saunders | 2007-08-19T20:43:07 | 0 Comments Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Something Doesn’t Mesh

  Armand Rossetti | 2008-08-26T10:18:38 | 2 Comments Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  We live in an age of medical miracles where chemistry, physics, engineering, hi tech manufacturing, and medicine blend together, allowing manufacturers to create cutting edge medical devices....

• An Alternative to the Defective and Deadly Taser

  saunders saunders | 2005-11-21T21:46:41 | 0 Comments Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Arizona Sheriff Announces Test of Alternative to Taser Stun GunDate Published: November 21, 2005By Steven DiJoseph Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, has announced that his deputies will begin testing 30 new stun guns as an alternative to Tasers. The new electric stun guns are being donated by Stinger Systems Inc., and will be evaluated for safety, price, and risk factors.According to Arpaio:...

• Florida Fire Marshall Suspects Chinese Drywall Could Be Flammable

  Eddie Farah | 2009-07-26T22:17:13 | 1 Comment Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As if the problems with the foul smell coming from Chinese drywall in some Florida homes is not problem enough - now we learn that the state Fire Marshal’s Office and the Consumer Product...

• Curling Iron Made in China Electrocutes Hairdresser

  Patricia Doherty | 2007-10-20T10:42:43 | 0 Comments Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Another product manufactured in China has caused severe personal injury. We have heard about toys manufactured in China that are dangerous and now a curling iron made in China has permanently injured a hairdresser. The hairstylist filed a lawsuit against a Chinese curling iron company alleging she was electrocuted when the cord on her Helen of Troy commercial quality curling iron dislodged...