News tagged with 'defective products'

The top five product-defect verdicts in 2009 rose to $620 million, an increase of 52 percent in total value. Jurors may be in the mood to give it back to corporate America.

Homeowners must sign up by Dec. 2 to participate in a class-action lawsuit against Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin, a manufacturer believed to be a source of defective Chinese drywall.

A group of people who were injured or lost loved ones due to unsafe and defective Chrysler vehicles rallied together and held a protest outside the company's Auburn Hills headquarters yesterday.

General Motors passed another hurdle as it heads toward a sale free and clear of product liability claims by some 300 individuals. The judge says the sale is in the best interest of creditors and GM and is a better alternative to liquidation. 

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is voluntarily recalling four million baby floats and 400,000 Simplicity Baby Cribs that are considered a safety risk to small children.

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.  

Environmental Protection Agency tests of drywall made in China confirm it contains sulfur, not found in U.S.- made drywall, in addition to the metallic element, strontium, at ten times the level of domestic drywall. 

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.

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.

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.

People are injured on metro Atlanta escalators several times a week. While only a handful of cases involve disfiguring entrapments, several escalator riders suffer serious injuries when their luggage or clothing becomes entangled or they fall on the machinery.

The strangulation death of a 1-year-old child and the near strangulation of another has prompted the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to announce voluntary recalls of two types of window shades sold nationwide by IKEA and Green Mountain Vista.

A new plan released this week by the National Working Group for ACTTION says by 2020, all cigarette smokers will have access to smoking cessation treatments. But for now, start by joining Smokeout 08 and quit for a day, then quit for life, urges the American Cancer Society.

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.

The number of Americans who smoke cigarettes has fallen below 20 percent, for the first time since the mid-1960s, according to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While this is good news, deaths related to cigarette smoking are still on the rise.