News tagged with 'Product Liability'

Victims of defective GM and Chrysler vehicles will have no remedy through the courts under the new company, owned by Fiat.  The deal was orchestrated to help the company emerge from bankruptcy through the U.S. Treasury Department and involves 40 million vehicles currently on the road and thousands of pending claims.  

Dominick Tenuto, a New York man stricken with polio won a multi million-dollar lawsuit against Lederle Laboratories claiming he contracted the disease 30 years ago from the polio vaccine given to his infant daughter.

Two U.S. senators have filed new legislation aimed at initiating a recall and imposing an immediate ban on importing “tainted building products from China." The tainted Chinese-made drywall has been creating problems in homes from Florida to Louisiana.

The Medical Device Safety Act introduced into Congress, would allow consumers to hold manufacturers of defective medical devices accountable, even if the device has been approved by the FDA. 

Emory University is being investigated by the federal government to determine if the school misled the National Institutes of Health (NIH) when it failed to disclose an Emory psychiatrist’s financial relationship to GlaxoSmithKline.

Just how many homes are built with foul-smelling wallboard from China? Many residents of coastal Florida have been reporting problems and now reports come from the inland Florida town of Sebring.

Public perception and a failure of state and federal regulators has shaken up the lucrative peanut industry at a time when sales should be soaring. The nationwide salmonella outbreak continues but with a moderate decline. Meanwhile the source of the outbreak, PCA has filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

A federal judge, dismissed several lawsuits on behalf of thousands of patients with Medtronic heart-defibrillator wires citing a February decision that federal law “preempts” product-liability lawsuits under state law, effectively precluding such cases.

Emory University psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Nemeroff, has agreed to step down as chairman of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, following an investigation of conflicts of interest. He will, however, remain a professor in the psychiatry department, focusing on clinical care and teaching.

The first of thousands of lawsuits against Big Tobacco is being heard in Florida following the dismantling of the $145 billion Engle case. Plaintiffs will not have to prove that the companies put out a defective product and committed fraud and that cigarettes cause at least 16 diseases. They will have to prove they were addicted to smoking. Plan on Big Tobacco to discredit the plaintiffs.

Return frozen packages of Lean Cuisine to the grocery store if you have any doubt whether it is included in a recall after plastic was found in seven dinners. The USDA is overseeing the Nestle product recall of 900,000 pounds.

Three decades ago, as Diana Levine's career as a children's music producer and performer was just starting to take off, ultraconservatives and drug companies had their sights set on a different kind of breakthrough...

The FDA is looking out for any candy with milk chocolate from China after melamine contamination was uncovered last month in milk products. Canada has found melamine in chocolate gold pirate coins, the U.S. has not, but urges consumers to watch out for specific foods and candies from China.

Should corporations be given complete immunity from liability for dangerous and defective products? 

Emory University psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Nemeroff has been accused of breaking federal research rules by taking in $2.8 million from a drug company and not reporting half of the income. Sen. Charles Grassley is shaking up the rampant conflict-of-interest relationships between doctors and pharmaceutical makers.  Two drug companies say they will voluntarily disclose payments to doctors online next year.