Defective Products

New information has shed more light on General Motors Company's defective ignition switches that have caused at least twelve deaths (some reports say as many as nineteen deaths) and what could be hundreds of injuries. In a recent uncovering, it...

Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated has decided to recall nearly 175,000 defective products due to a malfunction in the toy doll that can cause it to overheat and burn children.The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission released a statement on Tuesday that the...

On Tuesday morning, General Motors doubled the amount of faulty ignition switch recalls that have potentially been the cause of several fatal automobile accidents. There are now as many as 1.6 million cars affected.Two weeks ago, General Motors put out...

The predicted success of current multi-party lawsuits against Stryker Corporation, the manufacturer of the hip replacement devices Rejuvenate and ABG II, is good news to many people who will be looking to file individual suits in the near future.This news...

Recent reports show that the da Vinci Surgical System has been cited in a growing number of claims against the machine's manufacturer, Intuitive Surgical. Used throughout the world in millions of surgeries since it was introduced to the market in...

Health officials from the federal government have reported that defective surgical devices manufactured by Medtronic are causing severe problems in patients who are implanted with the devices. The problems can be so detrimental that patients with the implantations are at...

Recent claims against Stryker Orthopaedics, for its ShapeMatch Cutting Guide, suggest that the medical manufacturing subsidiary may be guilty of negligence and providing the public with a defective surgical device. The ShapeMatch Cutting Guide was recalled in April of 2013...

Pharmaceutical companies used to settle dangerous drug claims against their illegal marketing and advertising practices by paying a fraction of their profits and releasing the news on a Friday or Saturday evening when hardly anyone noticed. Today, since almost all...

In mid-October, it was reported that Boston Scientific has agreed to pay the federal government in excess of $30 million in an attempt to resolve accusations that the medical manufacturing conglomerate sold defective surgical devices. The defective products were implanted...

A home explosion happened just hours from Pennsylvania in Danville, Virginia on Tuesday evening and whether or not it was caused by a defective insecticide is still yet to be determined. As the tri-state region has already been affected by...

Many probably remember the "McDonald's coffee spill" that literally shocked the world twenty years ago. Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants became one of the most talked about defective product cases in history. And Mrs. Liebeck became the brunt of jokes on...

It has recently been reported that a majority of breast milk that is sold online from women who produce an excess of what some call "liquid gold," contains various forms of potentially dangerous bacteria. After questioning the safety of such a...