Category: Products Liability
Patients who suffered injuries due to defective Exactech knee, ankle, and hip replacement parts may be eligible to file a lawsuit and join newly formed multidistrict litigation (MDL) case against the manufacturer. Since mid-2021, Exactech has recalled thousands of joint replacement inserts that have the potential to degrade early. Patients
Children are precious cargo, and parents want to do everything they can to keep them safe on the roadway. Unfortunately, motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for children. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 608 children aged 12 and under died in car crashes
Airbags are a critical modern auto safety feature that are designed to protect motorists and their passengers from the force of a collision. Having working airbags significantly improves your chances of survival if you are involved in a serious crash. Unfortunately, airbags don’t always work as they’re supposed to. If
As a parent of a young child, your number one priority is ensuring that your baby is healthy, happy, and safe. You do everything you can to protect your child, and you would hope that companies that make products for children would do the same. When buying a crib, you
The True Tale: Joe worked for a local hospital. As a union member, he was a man of all trades ready to do whatever small jobs he was called to do. In reality, he was an in-house handyman, good with a screwdriver, pliers, and wrench. You get the idea! One
The True Tale: Americans buy products by the millions. All are intended for safe and effective use. But are they? Most are, but what about those that bring harm right to the consumer’s front door? Example; A motorized lawnmower that jams up and ultimately slices a hand due to a cheap
Forbes reported on August 30, 2019, that multiple members of the United States Congress had sent letters to the technology giant Amazon after a Wall Street Journal investigation found that Amazon’s inability or unwillingness to police third-party sellers had led to 4,152 products being sold on Amazon despite being deceptively
A February 2019 jury decision to award a plaintiff 3 million dollars in damages due to defective design of a Cook IVC filter was based on the concept of proximate cause. Proximate cause is a legal standard to establish fault that does not require establishing that the event was the
Roundup weed killer has been on the market since 1976, and hundreds of thousands of Americans have used the product in the intervening years. Marketed heavily on television through the 80s and 90s, consumers were assured it was a safe method of dealing with pesky plants on their properties. Roundup
The race to create a better knee replacement is always ongoing. Whenever a large medical market exists, manufacturers always want a bigger and bigger piece of the pie, and the best way to do that is to develop a better product. The bad way is to market an inferior product