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Unexpected Acceleration by Defective Toyotas Causing Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths

Toyota’s marketing mantra claims: “Buy a Toyota and you’ll get much more than just a car. You’ll receive superior quality and the backing of a highly ethical corporation that’s totally dedicated to your safety, fuel economy, and overall happiness.” (more…)

Posted on: February 2, 2010 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Product Liability / Defective Products No Comments

Old Tires with Good Tread: Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths

When Andy Moore left for a vacation in the family van, his father thought that he was sending his son off in a safe vehicle. The tires on the van had only 31,000 miles on them, and the tread looked good. They had passed inspection in Pennsylvania, but they were actually old tires and much more dangerous than they appeared. As Andy and a friend were driving in Canada, the tread on one of the tires separated, causing the van to go out of control and killing Andy and his friend. (more…)

Posted on: October 19, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Product Liability / Defective Products One Comment

Airbag Failures: Preventable Personal Injuries

Airbags are valuable safety devices that can prevent serious personal injuries and wrongful deaths when they work properly. Airbags have been mandatory in cars since 1989, and now some airplane manufacturers are installing them to provide an extra layer of protection for pilots and passengers. (more…)

Posted on: October 11, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Product Liability / Defective Products No Comments

Congress Must Take Action: Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths from Defective Medical Devices

Young Avery Degroh was the victim of a defective medical device, and because of bad laws, Medtronic, the maker of the device, faces no legal responsibility for selling a medical device that caused a severe personal injury to a child. (more…)

Posted on: September 25, 2009 Posted in: Product Liability / Defective Products No Comments

Junk Science Hides Personal Injuries and Deaths Caused by Prescription Drugs

Junk Science is a description of flawed scientific research or the selective use of data from studies. Businesses, organizations, and individuals can use junk science to further their own political or financial fortunes. For pharmaceutical companies, junk science is now an integral part of their massive marketing campaigns. (more…)

Posted on: August 13, 2009 Posted in: Product Liability / Defective Products, Unsafe Drugs No Comments

Personal Injury Update: Child Brain Tumors and Cell Phones

Researchers have documented a strong link between cell phone use and brain tumors.

Malignant brain tumors now kill more children than any other kind of cancer. That’s not the result that the cell phone industry was expecting when it began to fund studies on the safety of its products back in 1993. (more…)

Posted on: August 5, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Product Liability / Defective Products No Comments

Medical Devices that Cause Personal Injuries

“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man.”

That was the opening narration for the 1970’s TV show “The Six Million Dollar Man”. The story line was that science could replace an injured astronaut’s damaged body parts with nuclear-powered limbs and an eye that could see for miles. Equipped with the powers that his new parts provided, Steve Austin became a secret agent who could run faster and see farther than any other man. (more…)

Posted on: August 2, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Product Liability / Defective Products 3 Comments

Denture Cream Personal Injuries Cause by Zinc

Many denture creams, including Fixodent and Poligrip, contain large amounts of zinc, which deplete the body’s copper levels and lead to serious neurological problems, namely multiple sclerosis.

A small amount of zinc is necessary for a balanced diet, but being exposed to more than 10 times the recommended amount of zinc, as Fixodent and Poligrip users have been, results in zinc poisoning. Zinc poisoning can be deadly if not caught and treated quickly. (more…)

Posted on: July 29, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Product Liability / Defective Products No Comments

FDA Food Safety Failures Cause Personal Injuries and Deaths

The FDA earns thoroughly deserved criticism for allowing pharmaceutical companies to sell dangerous and deadly drugs that cause injuries and deaths, but the F in FDA is Food, and a major part of the FDA’s job description is to assure Americans that our food supply is safe. However, as recent incidents of food poisoning show, the FDA does a fatally poor job of protecting Americans from foodborne illnesses, personal injuries and deaths.

The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) found that contaminated food products are so common that Americans suffer 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5000 deaths every year. (more…)

Posted on: July 12, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Product Liability / Defective Products No Comments

ADHD Drug Danger: Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths

Matthew Hohmann died for the crime of being an energetic teenager. Matthew was a gymnast and a great 14-year old kid who had never done anything wrong or had any health problems. Then, because his young mind sometimes wandered, he received the diagnosis of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

With his ADHD diagnosis came the death sentence of a prescription for Adderall XR, a drug that Canadian regulators pulled off the market in 2005 after linking it to 20 deaths and 12 strokes. Six months later, however, Canadian officials allowed Adderall back on the market, and Canadians still face the same threat from this drug as Americans do. (more…)

Posted on: June 26, 2009 Posted in: Product Liability / Defective Products, Unsafe Drugs No Comments

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