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Sort by relevance 826 pages found matching toyota recalls- Boston Scientific Corp. Guidant Defibrillators Liability Settlement
Boston, MA: (Aug-30-07) Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers's Office led a multistate probe against Boston Scientific Corp. over flawed heart defibrillators sold by Guidant Corp. Boston Scientific inherited substantial legal liability when it bought the firm last year for $27 billion. Myers claimed investigators found Guidant continued to sell devices it k... - Oxycontin: A Recovering Addict Speaks Out
Aug-26-07 Vancouver, BC "At first it just made me feel better, painwise," says Richard Dorn (not his real name). "but after a while I had to have it." Lawsuits across the country are alleging that OxyContin's maker knew or ought to have known that ingesting Oxycontin leads to drug dependency and addiction. "If that's the case, it's a shame," says Richard, who k... - Car Crashworthiness: Auto Manufacturers must be held Responsible
Aug-20-07 Crewe, VA William Foster's son survived a collision but his passenger did not. Neither of their airbags deployed--yet another tragic example of auto defects and lack of car crashworthiness. "In November, 2004 my son, William Jr., was driving my 2004 Ford pick-up to work--he had a contract to haul mail for the post office and my vehicle was part of the... - Defective Tires from China: Where the Rubber Hits the Road, it's Buyer Beware
Aug-14-07 Union, NJ When it comes to crashworthiness , the single most compelling feature of your car that could mean the difference between getting home safely, and winding up in a hospital is the footprint of your car on the road; the tires. Defective tires from China could potentially put the crashworthiness of your vehicle to the ultimate test, should the tir... - Defective Tires: We must send a message to China
Aug-14-07 Philadelphia, PA As the parade of tainted products continues to roll past the eyes of angry customers and wary politicians, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: consumers no longer trust any product that comes out of China, including defective tires . With tainted toothpaste and lead paint-covered toys once again in the news, word about the latest... - Crashworthiness: When Ideals and the Real World Collide on the Road
Aug-13-07 Washington, DC Given the importance that automotive consumers place on the crashworthiness of their cars, it's little wonder that manufacturers heavily promote their crashworthiness tests, and their NHTSA ratings, in product advertising. Images of vehicles slamming head-on into cement walls, glass and metal flying everywhere, are common on our TV scr... - Medtronic Shareholders Meeting: A Year of Lawsuits and Controversy
Aug-6-07 Minneapolis, MN The board of directors of Medtronic , Inc. will hold its annual meeting of shareholders on August 23 at Medtronic World Headquarters. Given the rough year that the company has had, there should be some interesting debate among the shareholders. It has been two years since Medtronic recalled more than 87,000 of its implantable cardiovert... - Beef E.coli: From Farm to Table?
Aug-1-07 Washington, DC What do we know about E coli and its relationship to beef? By all accounts, not enough to stop beef ecoli recalls. Yet another outbreak of the E coli O157:H7 strain has shown up, this time in Canada. On July 7, 2007 the CBC news reported that officials warned people not to eat certain fresh and frozen ground beef products sold at Canad... - Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. Plastic Parts Settlement
Washington, DC: (Jul-23-07) Collins & Aikman Corp. brought a lawsuit against Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., over money owed for parts made by Collins & Aikman's plastics and soft-trim divisions. Collins & Aikman claimed Toyota owed more than $9 million for parts made by its plastics and fabrics division and $437,285 for carpet... - Beef ecoli: a Growing Concern
Jun-30-07 Washington, DC On its website, the US Food Safety and Inspection Service reports that, for the last three years, it found 0.17 percent of overall raw ground beef samples tested positive for E. coli O157:H7. That report was updated February 9, 2007, three months before the latest beef ecoli recall that now includes more than six million pounds of ground m... - Toyota Motor Corporation Pollution Settlement
Tokyo, Japan: (Jun-24-07) An environmental pollution lawsuit was filed about eleven years ago by asthma sufferers in Tokyo against the automobile industry, including Toyota Motor Corporation. In a settlement reached by the Tokyo High Court, the seven carmakers, including Toyota, were ordered by the court to payout 1.2 billion yen (US$10 million) to resolve... - Health Advocates Concerned as FDA Approves New Dosage Strength of Fosamax
Jun-4-07 Washington, DC The FDA has approved a new dosage strength of Fosamax Plus D, despite an avalanche of lawsuits related to Fosamax and concerns among health advocates. Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed related to Fosamax, Merck & Co.'s best-selling drug and one of the most prescribed drugs to increase bone density in patients with osteoporosis. "Th... - Consumer Product Safety Commission Keeps the Recalls Coming
Jun-4-07 Washington, DC A common thread ran through all five products subjected to voluntary recalls on May 31 by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). While the products ranged from candles to cribs, all of them were made in Asia—primarily, China. Founded in 1972, the CPSC is the federal government's leading watchdog group for defective and... - Leadership Shake-ups fail to deter Consumer Product Safety Commission from its Mission
Jun-1-07 Washington, DC It has been a hectic spring for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the leading government organization tasked with rooting out defective products . The CPSC endured a tumultuous leadership hunt but still managed to remain focused on product safety issues. Founded in 1972, the CPSC's self-proclaimed mission is to "protect... - Overworked and Underpaid: Portrait of a California IT Worker
May-23-07 Sacramento, CA For Claudia, Christmas Eve 2003 was a night to remember, for all the wrong reasons. At the time, Claudia, an Information Technology (IT) sector worker , was working for CUDL (CU Direct Corporation), a financial services firm specializing in car loans, headquartered in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. "The company closed at 2 pm, so the employees co... - Doctors Weigh in on Permax Recall
May-17-07 Chapel Hill, NC On March 29, 2007, the FDA withdrew Permax (pergolide) from the market because it increases the risk of valvular heart disease. It was the right thing to do, according to leading research physicians. In a New England Journal of Medicine report, Permax, used to treat Parkinson's disease, can seriously damage heart valves. Some medical... - Dan's Story: Routine Surgery Gone Wrong
May-16-07 Baton Rouge, LA "It hurts to lie down and it hurts to stand up," says Dan Johnson. "I just want my life back" Dan had hernia surgery that used a type of Bard Composix Kugel Mesh Patch now recalled by the FDA. Lawsuits have been filed across the country by patients and their families, claiming injury and, in some cases, even death. A Sudden Infection... - More Trouble in Medtronic Heartland
May-16-07 Mineapolis, MN Minnesota based Medtronic is one of the world's largest suppliers of defibrillators through its Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management division and its top selling products are pacemakers and defibrillators. CRDM net sales for the 3 and 9 months ended January 26, 2007 were $1.291 billion and $3.904 billion, according to the firm's latest SEC fili... - Ethicon's Sutures: Post-Operative Nightmare
May-9-07 Kenner, LA It has been a hell of a year for Lisa Johnston. In May of 2006, she went into the hospital for what she believed would be routine surgery, requiring 5 weeks of recovery. One year and two major surgeries later, she is in chronic pain and just beginning to pick up the pieces of her life. "I feel lucky to be alive," Lisa Johnston (not her real n... - Ketek Linked to Liver Damage, Approval Process Flawed
May-9-07 Bridgewater, NJ An antibiotic linked to severe liver damage was twice turned down by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before it was finally approved, and has since undergone several label updates as reports of side effects roll in, and concern mounts. As recently as February 12th of this year, the FDA reduced by two the approved uses for Ketek...