Posts tagged Defective Products

• Your Holiday Guide to Toxic Toys

  Steve Klearman | December 05, 2007 6:31 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Tests on more than 1,200 children's products, most of them still on store shelves, found that 35 percent contain lead -- many with levels far above the federal recall standard used for lead paint. According to an AP article released today, a Hannah Montana card game case, a Go Diego Go! backpack and Circo brand shoes were among the items with excessive lead levels in the tests performed by a...

• Maybe Cell Phone Didn't Detonate

  Steve Klearman | December 04, 2007 4:45 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Relax: your cell phone might not be a bomb after all.A South Korean man whose death initially was blamed on an exploding cell phone battery was killed by a car accident involving his colleague, police said Friday.The International Herald Tribune reports (November 29th) that the quarry worker, only identified by his family name Seo, was found dead Wednesday with a melted phone battery in his...

• Insurance Industry Hit With $11 Million Failure

  Steve Klearman | November 23, 2007 3:36 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The insurance industry's $11 million bellyflop against Referendum 67 was an election bright spot for ruling Democrats, who otherwise took their lumps from a frugal electorate that sent establishment ideas packing. According to Curt Woodward, writing for the AP, the referendum, which allows triple damages in lawsuits alleging bad faith by insurance companies, spawned a lively campaign pitting the...

• Organ Donor Infected With HIV

  Steve Klearman | November 19, 2007 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A 30-year-old woman was one of four patients infected with HIV and hepatitis after an organ transplant.According to a Yahoo! News Article dated November 16, 2007, the woman was not informed that the donor engaged in high-risk activities and, after the transplant, she was not immediately tested for HIV. These two circumstances put the University of Chicago, where the procedure was done, and the...

• Energy Drinks May Speed Heart, Boost Blood Pressure

  Steve Klearman | November 14, 2007 12:26 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Ever wonder if a Red Bull could mess with your physiology? A better question for anyone who's ever had one might be: ever wonder how it couldn't?A new study suggests a potential correlation between energy drinks and heart and blood pressure issues. Yahoo cites a new story from Will Dunham at Reuters: The increasingly popular high-caffeine beverages called energy drinks may do more than give...

• Nike Recalls Chin Straps

  Steve Klearman | November 13, 2007 6:45 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Apparently, it's the year of the product recall.Now it's Nike, with their recall of 235,000 football helmet chin straps after receiving reports of head and facial injuries that resulted after the strap broke.Not surprisingly, the chin strap was made in China. The strap was sold between 2006 and 2007.You can see pictures of the strap here. For more information on this subject, please refer to...

• Wyeth Smacked by Reno Jury

  Steve Klearman | November 09, 2007 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As many Northern Nevadans are aware, a Reno jury recently handed down a major verdict against drug giant, Wyeth.This comes from David Parker writing for the Reno Gazette Journal:Wyeth plaintiffs Arlene Rowart, from left, of Incline Village, Jeraldine Scofield of Fallon and Pamela Forrester of Yerington listen shortly after the jury ruled in their favor in the trial against the pharmaceutical...

• Merck Agrees to $4.85 Billion Settlement

  Steve Klearman | November 09, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Merck agreed to pay more than $4 billion to settle the majority of the claims that have arisen from their popular drug Vioxx. Victims and their families claim that Vioxx causes heart attacks and strokes.Merck has won most of the Vioxx cases that have gone to trial and many observers actually believed that this was a favorable settlement for Merck.Approximately 38,000 or the 60,000 Vioxx...

• Businesses Fighting Fewer Suits

  Steve Klearman | November 07, 2007 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The following comes from the American Associaiton of Justice quoting Sheri Qualters at the National Law Journal:American businesses are filing and fighting fewer lawsuits, according to Fulbright & Jaworski's fourth annual Litigation Trends Survey. Seventeen percent of respondents have not defended a lawsuit in the past year, compared with 11% in the prior year. The rate of corporations bringing...

• Why Binding Arbitration Can Forfeit Your Rights

  Steve Klearman | November 06, 2007 12:56 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Yesterday I blogged on some of the negative aspects of binding arbitration. Here's more information on why this often misunderstood form of alternative dispute resolution can be problematic.Buried in the fine print of most consumer contracts - such as credit cards, insurance plans and car deals - is a clause, which waives the buyer's constitutional right to trial by jury. These contracts...