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To prevent personal injury or death related to defective automated external defibrillators, the FDA just announced that manufacturers will now be required to submit premarket approval applications for their new products

When a person is injured or dies because of an automated external defibrillator failure, it is often the result of a defective design or a manufacturing flaw such as the inadequate quality control of outsourced components. Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) are usually stored in public places and ready for use…

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Honda just got fined a record amount of $70 million for not reporting 1729 death and injury claims as well as warranty claims but the fine seems modest compared to the $1.5 billion operating profit the car company recorded between July and September

Death, injury and warranty claims can serve as an early warning of defects or other problems in a car and manufacturers are required by law to submit this information to the government. For the last 11 years, Honda consistently under reported these claims and was fined $70 million for not…

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A company selling products intended for medical training purposes is recalling some of its practice IV Bags as reports came out that they were being used on patients

To administer non sterile products intended for training to patients is medical malpractice that can have very dangerous consequences. Recently Wallcur, a company that sells medical products intended for training purposes only, received reports that some of its training Sodium Chloride IV Bags had been used outside of their intended…

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A motorsports manufacturer which allegedly failed to report defective minibikes and go-carts recently agreed to pay a $4.3 million civil penalty

Baja Motorsports knowingly failed to report immediately defects and an unreasonable risk of serious injury involving 11 models of minibikes and go-carts said the Consumer Product Safety Commission in charges that were resolved by a settlement reached recently between the two parties. The defective minibikes and go-carts were sold by…

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After two children’s death from suffocating and choking, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Ace Bayou Corp. announce a voluntary recall of 2.2 million dangerous bean bag chairs

Two children died after they opened the zippers of an Ace Bayou bean bag chair , crawled inside the chair’s foam bed and got trapped. They suffocated from the lack of air and inhaled the foam beads. The voluntary standard requires non-refillable bean bag chairs to have closed and permanently…

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The Summer issue of the Impact Magazine from the Center for Justice and Democracy focuses on General Motors’ Product Liability

For over a decade, GM knowingly kept 2.6 million defective cars on the road killing and injuring an untold numbers of road users. From the civil lawsuit brought by personal injury lawyer Lance Cooper who discovered that GM hid information about the defective ignition switch to the multiple recalls of…

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General Motors recalled another 1.5 millions defective vehicles

1.18 million mid-sized crossovers are being recalled because a defective wiring harness of seat-mounted side airbags may prevent the side airbags from deploying. Another 303,000 full size vans are also being recalled to replace plastic material in the passenger instrument panel to meet federal head-impact crash standards for unbelted passengers…

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Only 10% of defective children’s products that have been subject to a recall are being returned or repaired

90% of dangerous and defective children products are not being returned or repaired according to a new report by the Children Safety Advocate Group Kids in Danger. Because it takes an average 14 reports of design complaints and two reports of personal injury related to the product for the manufacturer…

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New York Product Liability Attorney Anthony Gair: Trial of the Plaintiff’s case

Our partner Anthony Gair was invited by the New York State Bar Association to speak at their seminar LITIGATING THE PRODUCTS LIABILITY CASE: LAW AND PRACTICE in New York City on October 24th. This is a video from his presentation. If you would like to see the complete program (with…

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Product Liability – Defective Medical Device: FDA initiates Class 1 recall of some Bard LifeStent Solo Vascular Stents because they may fail to deploy

The defective stents may cause serious personal injury such as complications of bleeding, loss of limb, heart attack (myocardial infarction), stroke, vascular surgery, and/or death if they fail to deploy properly. The LifeStent Solo Vascular Stent manufactured by Bard Peripheral Vascular is an implantable self-expanding stent and delivery system used…

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