Category: Product Liability
Chinese Tires Recalled
Posted by Jeff Downing in Auto Accidents, Car Crash Lawyer Lincoln Nebraska, Defective Products, Nebraska Recall Attorney, Product Defect Lawyer Lincoln Nebraska, Product Liability, Product Recall Lawyer Lincoln Nebraska, Safety Tuesday, 10 July 2007 09:36 No Comments
On product recalls, it’s “All China All the Time” these days.
BAKERSFIELD – A New Jersey importer of Chinese-made tires is asking the federal government for help in recalling almost half a million defective tires that may have already contributed to one death.
The tire recall follows other major recalls of Chinese-made products, including pet food, toothpaste, and toy trains, prompting widespread consumer concerns.
Now consumer groups wonder if Chinese-made products are safe, given the recalls made in recent months.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration said a New Jersey company—Foreign Tire Sales—has announced a recall of at least 450,000 tires made in China, although who is going to pay for the recall and tire replacements remains in question.
The defective tires, used on light trucks and SUV’s, have been sold under the names of Westlake, Telluride, Compass and YKS.
Lawyers are blaming the tires for a fatal accident last year near Philadelphia.
“Check your tires,†said Jeffery Killino, a lawyer for accident victims. “Make sure that you’re not riding on these tires!”
This tire recall follows several other recent recalls of Chinese-made products, including toothpaste containing a poisonous chemical, contaminated pet food, and Thomas the Train Engine toys decorated with lead paint.
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Warning: Ben Gay Can Kill You
Posted by Jeff Downing in Medication Errors, Product Liability, Safety Monday, 25 June 2007 14:19 No Comments
The Denver Post reports on this nearly unbelievable story of a death caused by a sports cream:
A medical examiner blamed a 17-year-old track star’s death on the use of too much anti- inflammatory muscle cream, the kind used to soothe aching legs after exercise.
Arielle Newman, a cross-country runner at Notre Dame Academy on Staten Island, died after her body absorbed high levels of methyl salicylate, an anti-inflammatory found in sports creams such as Bengay and Icy Hot, the New York City medical examiner said Friday.
The medical examiner’s spokeswoman, Ellen Borakove, said the teen used “topical medication to excess.” She said it was the first time that her office had reported a death from using a sports cream.
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Jury Finds Fentanyl Patch Caused Death
Posted by Jeff Downing in Medication Errors, Product Liability Monday, 25 June 2007 13:57 No Comments
From The New York Times:
A federal jury on Tuesday awarded $5.5 million to the father of a man who died while wearing a drug patch made by two Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries.
The jury in Federal District Court in West Palm Beach found that Janssen Pharmaceutica Products and the Alza Corporation, both based in New Jersey, were liable in the death of Adam Hendelson, 28, who died in 2003 while wearing the companies’ Duragesic patch.
The patch delivers controlled doses of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
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Is Nothing Safe?
Posted by Jeff Downing in Defective Products, Product Liability Monday, 18 June 2007 10:13 No Comments
Even Thomas the Tank Engine’s buddy James is having his problems.
The New York Times reports: “The toy maker RC2 Corporation pulled a number of its Thomas & Friends trains and accessory parts off the shelves yesterday after learning that the red and yellow paint used to decorate more than 1.5 million of the toys contained lead. The James Engine is . . . being recalled because the red and yellow paint used to decorate them contains lead. Lead, if ingested by children, can cause long-term neurological problems that affect learning and behavior.”
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1st Accutane Verdict: $2.62 Million
Posted by Jeff Downing in Defective Products, Product Liability Friday, 8 June 2007 14:09 No Comments
In the first of 400 suits to be tried over the acne drug Accutane’s propensity to cause inflammatory bowel disease, an Atlantic County, N.J., jury has assessed $2.62 million in damages against Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and its Swiss parent company. However, the jury of six women and four men did not award punitive damages under New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act because they found insufficient evidence the manufacturer intentionally failed to warn the drug can cause IBD.
Read more here.
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