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Restraint Could Fail RECARO North America, Inc. is recalling 5,444 Signo child restraint assemblies manufactured from Februay through September 2008. The central front adjuster strap on some seats may slip within the metal adjuster (A-Lock) that controls tightness of the harness, thereby preventing the harness from being properly tightened. If this... - J&J Subpoenaed over Recalled Drugs
Jul-22-10 Fort Washington, PA On a day that it was sharing its quarterly results, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) revealed Tuesday that it has received a grand jury subpoena from the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with regard to multiple recalls of some of its most popular non-prescription drugs. On 7/20/10 CNN Money re... - SSRI Pushers under Fire: Part 2: America's Most Wanted
Jan-12-09 Washington, DC Most doctors who attended conferences, medical seminars and other events throughout the 1990s were not aware that the so-called "key opinion leaders" encouraging them to prescribe the new generation of antidepressants for everything under the sun, including to children as young as infants, were nothing more than highly paid drug pushers fo... - Tainted Heparin Investigation Continues, Lawsuits Keep Coming…
May-15-08 Philadelphia, PA: As the tainted heparin issue continues to reverberate around the globe, lawsuits continue to mount as those harmed by contaminated heparin, or the families of those who have died, seek compensation in the face of a complex and convoluted environment. In a word, whom do you blame? The manufacturer, for sourcing the tainted heparin fro... - Legal Issues Imminent for Makers of Duragesic/Fentanyl Patches
Feb-23-08 Raritan, NJ Duragesic/Fentanyl patches have been the object of recall on two separate occasions in less than one week. The first recall was from PriCara and Sandoza, recalling all patches of 25 microgram/hour. The patches were produced by Alza. Less than one week after the PriCara and Sandoza recall, fourteen lots of the Duragesic patches were recall... - Rochester Meat Recall: Interview with E. Coli Wars Veteran
Feb-19-08 Seattle, WA Bill Marler is the managing partner of Marler Clark LLP, a Seattle law firm specializing in food safety law. He has been in the thick of food safety litigation since the 1993 Jack in the Box incident--when E. coli contaminated hamburgers sold by the restaurant chain sickened hundreds and cost the lives of four children. More recently, Marler an... - California Car Crash Kills Woman
Jan-4-11 San Ramon, CA A California car crash recently claimed the life of a San Ramon woman and injured another after authorities say her vehicle was pulled into the path of a pickup truck, the Contra Costa Times reports. The accident reportedly took place around 3:40 pm on westbound Highway 12. The 64-year-old woman and her son were driving east toward N... - Software Short-Changed Truckers Suit Alleges
Nov-14-10 Phoenix, AZ A class-action suit filed on behalf of truckers alleges that Swift Transportation drivers were underpaid by as much as 10 percent for more than a decade. "What I am told is that there are almost 30,000 drivers employed by Swift at any one time," says attorney Robert Carey from the firm of Hagens Berman. "This class extends back to 1998, and... - Police Investigating Toyota's Responsibility in Massachusetts Car Crash
Mar-16-10 Yarmouth, MA Police are investigating a car crash in which a 2010 Toyota Rav4 crashed into a plastic surgeon's office in Yarmouth. The driver, Ann Wilkins, 70, struck the outside wall of the Cape Cod Plastic and Hand Surgery office on Tuesday afternoon. Investigators found that the Wilkins had struck an adjacent wall before driving approximately 10... - Guidant Settles Three Lawsuits - 549 To Go
Oct-2-06 Corpus Christi, TX Attorneys for the plaintiffs in lawsuits against Guidant and its new owner, Boston Scientific, view the settlement of a Texas case days before a jury trial as a sign that the company is dodging the courtroom. Guidant settled the case for an undisclosed amount with two plaintiffs avoiding a public trial set to begin on September 18, 20... - Toyota Faces Product Liability Lawyers over Acceleration Problems
Nov-22-09 Riverside, CA Already facing troubling economic times, the Toyota Corporation is now the subject of new arbitration with product liability lawyers alleging that cars manufactured by the automotive giant over the past eight years contain faulty electrical systems that could lead to sudden acceleration. The suit, currently seeking class action statu... - Was There More to Fatal Defective Automotive Crash Than Floor Mats?
Nov-4-09 San Diego, CA An allegedly defective automobile that killed four people—including a highly trained police officer—is still under investigation. And while the San Diego crash triggered the largest auto defect recall in Toyota's history, there is much more to this automobile defect story than improperly installed floor mats. The August 28t... - Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline Help Send Kids To Prison
May-29-06 In 2003, the pharmaceutical industry passed out $16.4 billion worth of free drug samples to doctors. These so-called free samples are literally killing people. Two young lads who were lucky enough to get free samples of Zoloft are now sitting in prison. After visits to their family doctors, Christopher Pittman and Zachary Schmidkunz were both sent home wi... - Zantac Associated with Breast Cancer
May-20-20 Santa Clara, CA Several Zantac breast cancer lawsuits have been filed against the drug manufacturers, 12 years after a peer-reviewed study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center linked Zantac with breast cancer. The Zantac Breast Cancer Study The study , authored by the American Association for Cancer Research and American Society of Prev... - New Research: Brief Heat Exposure Increases Zantac Cancer Odds
Jan-14-20 Washington, DC Emery Pharma, a California-based testing laboratory has reported that Zantac appears to produce unacceptably high levels of cancer-causing N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) when exposed to heat for as little as five days. Brief periods of modestly inadequate temperature control can easily occur during transport, storage or even in consumer&rsq... - T Marzetti Dips Recalled due to Possible Salmonella Contamination
Columbus, Ohio: T. Marzetti Company has announced that it is voluntarily recalling certain production codes of T. Marzetti Veggie Dips, Oak Lake Chip Dips and Great Value Chip Dips because an ingredient used in the product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. There have been no reports of illnesses associated with the identified p... - Exactech Defective Hip Implant MDL Takes Shape
Mar-25-24 Brooklyn, NY As of March 2024, 1,244 defective, ankle, knee and hip implant lawsuits were pending in multidistrict litigation in the Eastern District of New York. Although no trials or settlements have yet occurred, some speculate that individual hip plaintiffs may ultimately expect to recover as much as $300,000. None of this is imminent, however, be... - Zimmer Biomet Shoulder Lawsuit News and Legal Information
The Zimmer Biomet Shoulder replacement device has been recalled for allegedly fracturing at a higher rate than stated in the shoulder replacement label. The FDA issued the Biomet Comprehensive Reverse Shoulder recall as a Class I, the most serious type of recall because this allegedly defective product can cause severe injury and even death. Produc... - Valsartan Recall Lawsuits Filed over Alleged Carcinogenic Contaminants
Sep-17-18 Washington, DC On August 27, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration published updated press information that expands its original July 17 valsartan recall notice. Sixteen companies have now announced voluntary recalls of blood pressure and heart medications. Valsartan is an off-patent component of several commonly prescribed drugs used to treat hig... - Medtronic SynchroMed Infusion Pump: a History of Problems
Oct-15-17 Harrisburg, PA: The dog-eared adage suggesting ‘there is a place for everything, and everything in its place’ certainly applies to marketing undertaken by the pharmaceutical and medical device communities: witness television commercials expounding upon the virtues of a drug, only to have a litany of potentially serious side effects narrated by...