Recently, a St. Louis jury awarded a girl’s family $15 million after it claimed that she suffered from birth defects because her mother was prescribed the anti-seizure drug Depakote during her pregnancy.
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Do Ford Vehicles Have Steering Problems?
Sadly, another week has gone by and there is another major recall involving a vehicle manufacturer and a defective auto part. According to the Detroit Free Press, Ford has announced that it has recalled more than 423,000 vehicles over potential power steering defects. The news outlet reported that the recall covers 2011-2013 Ford Taurus and...
Read MoreTakata Airbag Recall Hits Record Numbers
Updating a series of blog posts that we have been writing for the past year, last week, it was announced that the recall in North America involving defective Takata airbags now involves more than 34 million vehicles.
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Has There Been a Mucinex Recall?
In Wednesday’s blog, we reported about a massive bicycle recall involve Trek models. It should be noted that defective product claims pertain to many goods including motor vehicles, machines, tools, building materials, household appliances, personal care products, toys and medications. We bring this up because recently we were alarmed to read that Reckitt Benckiser Group...
Read MoreHas Takeda Settled Actos-Bladder Cancer Litigation?
According to Bloomberg, Takeda Pharmaceuticals is offering to pay more than $2.2 billion to settle injury claims relating to the diabetes drug Actos. If courts and plaintiff attorneys accept the settlement, it would be one of the largest in U.S. history involving pharmaceutical drugs or medical devices. The settlement would attempt to end more than...
Read MoreIs My Graco Car Seat Safe?
Graco Children’s Products has agreed to pay $10 million to settle claims that it failed to appropriately recall about four million child car seats with defective buckles. According to the New York Times, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that Graco would pay a $3 million fine and spend $7 million developing safety programs...
Read MoreIs a Superbug Spreading Because of Defective Scopes?
Scarily, a new superbug may be spreading in America because of contaminated endoscopes or duodenoscopes. The devices may be flawed due to the way they were designed, making them hard to clean. Recently, the Associated Press reported that officials at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center at UCLA said that 180 patients might have been exposed...
Read MoreFDA Warning: Dietary Supplement May Contain Prozac
If you take dietary supplements, you may want to make sure that the product you are ingesting is safe. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advised against using a popular supplement after an examination of a shipment of the product was found to contain Prozac. http://youtu.be/77BCDbBGA2U According to BuzzFeed, the FDA announced last week that...
Read MoreHave GM Ignition Switch Death Claims Increased?
In an update to a previous blog we brought you, General Motors has announced that it has received an additional 33 claims for compensation over the last month regarding its ignition switch recall. The additional claims bring the total number of cases to 4,345. Of these, GM has received 479 claims for death, 292 for...
Read MoreHas GM Announced Another Vehicle Recall?
If you have been following our blog over the last couple of months, you may be aware that several manufacturers have recalled millions of vehicles over airbag defects, including General Motors.
Sadly, the company has...