The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a federal mandate to keep the public safe from dangerous and defective products, including faulty medical devices. The FDA carries out this important work by “helping to speed innovations that make medical products more effective, safer, and more affordable and by helping the public get the accurate, science-based [...]
Automobile manufacturer Mazda has recalled some 270,000 vehicles fitted with defective Takata airbags that are at risk of exploding during deployment. Mazda previously recalled these vehicles in response to the same potentially dangerous issue. However, at that time, the automaker replaced the defective airbags with new airbags that had the identical problem, due to a [...]
What kinds of products liabilities cases are there? They're really divided into three major categories. The first is, Is the the product itself defective? Is there something wrong with it that causes the product to injure or hurt somebody or sometimes even kill them? Those are product defects claims. Then there are other kinds of [...]
What kinds of product liability claims are there out there? A lot of people immediately think of defective automobiles because they're in the news all the time and they have been for years, but there are a number of products that you find all over the household that are also, unfortunately, defective. There're pharmaceutical [...]
What many people don't recognize is that product liability cases can also be criminal cases. A lot of times there will be a number of products that are sold, that start to injure people. Because of the expense of fixing that problem, then a lot of manufactures cover it up: they hide the evidence, [...]
With the benefit of making lots of money selling products, comes the burden of making products that aren't dangerous. Product liability law is just that. If a manufacturer makes a product that's dangerous and puts that product out into the public arena, lets people buy it, and it starts to hurt folks, then the product [...]
Rangers from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources discovered the bodies of Gainesville residents Andrew Maronge and Julie Wright on a boat on Lake Lanier. The investigation is still pending, and an autopsy has not yet been completed, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that carbon monoxide (“CO”) poisoning appears to be the reason. The [...]
A lot of times what we look for in a product liability claim is when you have what we would call an unexpected injury. If for instance there's an auto collision where four people are in the vehicle and three people are relatively uninjured, but one person is severely injured, because maybe their seat back [...]
The reason why it's important to have the right lawyer for a product liability case is because product liability cases are different from those personal injury cases. They are more complex. Usually, the companies that are the defendants in the case have hired very experienced lawyers and teams of lawyers, and they will put a [...]
In 2016, the car industry was the subject of a record number of vehicle recalls – with some 53 million vehicles affected in total. The recall numbers for 2014 and 2015 were 51 million and 51.2 million, respectively. The large volume in recent years was in significant part due to the far-reaching Takata airbag issue [...]
