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A previous voluntary recalls of defective peripheral infusion systems manfactured by Covidien, a company recently aquired by Medtronic, has now been classified as a class I recall by the FDA

In December, Covidien announced a voluntary recall of  its Trellis-6™ and Trellis-8™ peripheral infusion systems  after customers reported a manufacturing error where the proximal and distal balloon inflation ports were labeled incorrectly resulting in the potential for incorrect sequence of balloon deflation. An incorrect sequence of balloon deflation  could potentially create blood clots that could travel downstream…

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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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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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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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