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Sort by relevance 826 pages found matching toyota recalls- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky Employee Work Wage Settlement
Scott County, KY: (May-07-07) The Department of Labor filed charges against Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky in 2006, alleging that TMMK had violated labor laws by not paying employees according to stipulated wage/hour norms. The suit involved an issue which debated as to whether workers should be paid for the time they take to put on and take off prote... - Boston Scientific: Oops, They Did It Again
May-8-07 Los Angeles, CA: "Oops I did it again" is the name of a song by pop star Britney Spears. It could also be the motto of medical device manufacturers Guidant (now part of Boston Scientific) who recently issued yet another recall for defective defibrillators/pacemakers. The latest recall was announced April 5, 2007, and concerns some 73,000 Implantable... - Private Insurers Suing Medtronic
May-7-07 Minneapolis, MN A U.S. District Judge has said that U.S. health care plans can bring Medtronic to a civil trial to recover the costs of removing recalled Medtronic implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). In 2005, Medtronic recalled more than 87,000 ICDs. Since then, more than 34,000 patients have had surgery to remove the devices. Each surgery... - Guidant News: More Recalled Defibrillators
May-3-07 Indianapolis, IN Boston Scientific and the FDA have announced a new Guidant recall for specific Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (ICDs) and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillators (CRT-Ds). The new recall includes about 73,000 implantable cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators and cardiac defibrillators. All of the recalled defibr... - Goodyear RV tires - Another Recall?
Apr-29-07 Scottsdale, AZ "My motor home only has 19,000 miles on it and the Goodyear tires are already showing signs of wearing," says Paul Barns. "What will it take for Goodyear to issue a nationwide recall - a serious injury or even death?" "I think I only have another 5,000 miles left before these tires need to be replaced," says Barns (not his real name pe... - FDA Knew of Contamination Problems at Peanut Butter Plant for Years
Apr-26-07 Sylvester, GA: The Washington Post has reported that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew for years about contamination at the Georgia ConAgra plant which produced peanut butter that has sickened more than 400 people across the US. In 2005, FDA inspectors were at the Sylvester-based plant to investigate complaints of an alleged episode of salmo... - Composix Kugel Mesh: Imagine if it Breaks Inside of You
Apr-25-07 Cranston, RI: A phobia many people who've ever had surgery - or are about to, is the fear of a foreign object left behind. What happens if they leave something inside? A sponge, or a set of retractors? In the case of hernia surgery, leaving something inside is what's SUPPOSED to happen. A medical patch is inserted inside the abdomen during surgery to re... - Goodyear Tires should not be on RVs
Apr-20-07 Akron, OH: Goodyear RV tires , Model number G159 275/70 22.5 were not designed for use on Class A RVs but they were used on such RVs from the mid-1990s to 2004. The tires have a history of de-treading and failures leading to accidents. Some of the accidents caused by tire failure have led to serious injury and death. The tires were initially designed f... - Interview with Permax lawyers Paul R. Dahlberg and Anthony J. Nemo
Apr-17-07 Rochester, MN Over 500,000 people have taken Permax and lawyers Paul R. Dahlberg and Anthony Nemo of Meshbesher & Spence estimate that tens of thousands of those people are likely affected with heart damage, particularly moderate to severe valve regurgitation, because of this drug. Dahlberg and Nemo are currently representing people injured after usin... - Kugel Mesh: Davol Underreported Severity of Injuries
Apr-16-07 Cranston, RI Even though the recall of Kugel Mesh patches began well over a year ago, there are still questions about how Davol, makers of the patches, carried out its recall and whether or not the company properly reported incidents to the Food and Drug Administration. Problems with the patches were identified shortly after the extra large Kugel Mesh... - Medical Devices - April 2007 Litigation Update (Part II)
Apr-9-07 ( Part I ) Washington, DC: By the fall of 2006, sitings of a whole new batch of litigants were looming on the horizon for both Boston and Johnson & Johnson. October 23, 2006, the Boston Globe, reported, "as more evidence emerges that suggests drug-coated stents have caused higher rates of blood clots than the older generation of bare-metal stents, doc... - Medical Devices - April 2007 Litigation Update (Part I)
Apr-5-07 Washington, DC: There is certainly no shortage of lawsuits against medical device makers in the US these days and the future's not looking too bright as far as that situation changing anytime soon. The majority of lawsuits allege that the pharmaceutical companies promoted the devices off-label meaning they implanted the products in patients for uses no... - Kugel Mesh Patch: Keeping Track of the Recalls
Feb-14-07 Belgium, WI: With so many recalls in the past 14 months, keeping track of Kugel Mesh Patches can be difficult. People who were relieved that their patches were not initially recalled are now learning that the recalls have been expanded to include new lots and product codes. Other people who had their patch fail are left wondering if their replacement... - Ethicon's Panacryl Lawsuits
Jan-28-07 New York, NY: Just like history repeating itself, Ethicon now faces liability lawsuits similar to its Vicryl sutures lawsuits more than a decade ago. This time the product is Panacryl sutures. Ethicon was sued after a recall of 3.5 million packages of its Vicryl brand of sutures in 1994 -- the sutures were contaminated due to a faulty sterilizer. Now,... - Kugel Mesh Recalls - A Timeline
Jan-25-07 Cranston, RI: Over the past 13 months, Davol, Inc., makers of Kugel Mesh Hernia Patches , issued a recall and then expanded it twice. Here is a timeline of the Kugel Mesh Patch recalls. December 27, 2005: C.R. Bard notifies US customers of a voluntary Class I recall of the Bard Composix Kugel Mesh X-Large Patch by letter delivered via Federal Express... - Kugel Mesh Patches: More Units Recalled
Jan-19-07 Fort Worth, TX: On January 10, 2007 Davol, Inc., makers of the Composix Kugel Mesh Patch, announced they were expanding their earlier recalls of the Kugel Mesh Patches based on reports of further memory ring breakage. The affected patches are: Product Code: 0010202, Bard Composix Kugel Large Oval, 5.4" X 7.0" Product Code: 0010204, Bard Composix Ku... - Court Allows Eli Lilly to Bury Zyprexa Documents
Dec-21-06 New York, NY Alaskan attorney, Jim Gottstein, says that after being served with a mandatory injunction, he has returned the internal Eli Lilly documents that he obtained in litigation and provided to the New York Times to the court. Information from the documents related to Lilly's antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa , was highlighted two days in a row in fr... - Defective Products In Your Body
Dec-18-06 Sacramento, CA In May 2000, Virginia was injured in a car accident and required a hip replacement. A sulzer hip was implanted in March but shortly afterward Sulzer Orthopedics recalled its Inter-Op acetabular shell for hip implants on December 8, 2000. Some of these implants had an unacceptable level of mineral oil-based lubricant on the product and it... - Washington State Department of Transportation and Juliann Odom Car Crash Wrongful Death Settlement
Seattle, WA: On December 15, 2004, Juliann Odom's southbound Ford Explorer went onto the shoulder, veered across three lanes of traffic, broke through a cable barrier in the median and slammed into a Chevrolet Suburban and a Toyota Tundra pickup truck in the northbound lanes. Eighteen year old Marijke Holschen died in the fiery pileup; her mother, young... - 20,000+ Segway Personal Transporters Recalled for Fall Hazard. Ask a lawyer.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission in cooperation with Segway Inc. has recalled 23,500 Segway Personal Transporters due to fall hazard. The personal transporter can unexpectedly apply reverse torque to the wheels, which can cause a rider to fall. This can occur when the device is tilted back by the Speed Limiter and the rider comes off and...