Category: Products Liability

For decades consumer advocates have sounded the alarms regarding flammable Halloween costumes, yet the risk to children remains much the same as it was twenty or thirty years ago. Many children’s costumes are still fashioned from cheap flammable materials, including plastics that can melt to the child’s skin if ignited.

Last year IKEA made national headlines when the furniture retailer recalled 29 million of their dressers after the deaths of a number of children who had the defective product fall on top of them. The Swedish manufacturer has now agreed to a $50 million settlement for three families who lost

Defective products can cause accidents, injuries and potentially serious illnesses. Product recalls by the company or manufacturer, along with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, are designed to inform the public of hazardous products and provide information on how to return or exchange them and obtain a refund. It is important

As if Samsung wasn’t having a bad enough year, the company is cooperating with the Consumer Product Safety Commission on a voluntary recall in the U.S. of 34 models of their top-loading washing machines, an estimated 2.8 million in total. The recall comes less than a month after the South

Less than a month after Samsung issued a recall of the highly anticipated Galaxy Note 7 phone, the South Korean company has announced that it will no longer manufacture or sell the problematic model. Despite the recall, reports of replacement phones overheating and exploding continued, forcing Samsung to completely take

Samsung Galaxy users were excited about the release of the Galaxy Note 7 in August. New features included an updated camera, a water resistant case and a state of the art screen display. All of those impressive aspects of the phone are not making headlines anymore, as the company has

We have been conditioned to believe that washing our hands with antibacterial soap will not only get them cleaner, but will be more effective in stopping the spread of germs. In 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told soap manufacturers to prove that this was the case, and that

It is a product recall 27 years in the making. In 1989, a toddler was killed by a piece of falling furniture purchased at IKEA. From 2002 to 2016, five more children under the age of three lost their lives in the same way. Now, finally, the Swedish furniture manufacturer

It took 27 deaths before CR Bard began to recall its G2 blood filters. It took 27 deaths before CR Bard even bothered to stop selling the product. Now NBC News wants to know why. NBC News identifies a number of potential reasons, including: Failure to identify common causes in

When designing a child bicycle trailer, it stands to reason that the bare minimum safety standard should be to ensure the wheels, safety belt, and tow bar are safe. Without these three elements, there is nothing else that can be done to make the trailer safe to use. Despite this,