Posts tagged Defective Products

• Asbestos Verdict in California

  Michael Phelan | March 13, 2008 5:17 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A San Francisco jury Monday returned a $20 million verdict in favor of an asbestos victim. The jury determined that the sole remaining defendant at trial, Georgia Pacific Corp., was responsible for 30% of the verdict. The plaintiff was a former film actress and singer who toured the world seven times entertaining our troops as a USO singer. The plaintiff and her husband started a part-time...

• Heparin Linked to More Deaths

  Michael Phelan | March 02, 2008 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Food and Drug Administration reported last week that the number of deaths associated with heparin, a brand of blood thinner, has risen. The brand of heparin associated with the problems is made by Baxter International. Baxter produces most of the heparin used in the United States. Heparin is made from pig intestines, which, of course, could be supplied by U.S. farmers. Baxter buys its...

• $30 Million Asbestos Verdict

  Michael Phelan | March 02, 2008 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Mesothelioma is an aggressive lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. A New Jersey jury recently returned a $30 million verdict in favor of a 50 year old advertising executive who died from mesothelioma. The decedant's exposure to asbestos was when he worked summer jobs at GM warehouses handling asbestos-containing automotive parts. The decedant's father also worked full-time at the...

• Your Stryker Hip Implant Could be Defective

  Michael Phelan | January 17, 2008 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  According to an FDA Warning issued on November 28, 2007 and released to the public on January 15, 2008, some models of Stryker hip implants may be defective. The FDA has received numerous complaints concerning Stryker hip implants from patients experiencing fractures, pain, wear particles, fragments, and broached bones resulting in bone fractures. Many of these problems required revision...

• Contaminated Heparin Syringes Recalled

  Michael Phelan | December 27, 2007 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Manufacturers of sterile medical products are supposed to follow strict sterility standards. Unfortunately, there has been a growing number of reports and recalls of contaminated medical products caused by poor quality controls by manufacturers of products required to be sterile. The latest recall involves heparin IV flush syringes found to be contaminated with Serratia marcescens, a...

• Toy Fingerprint Kit Contains Deadly Asbestos Powder

  Michael Phelan | December 21, 2007 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  No sane parent should buy a toy made in China. As if the lead paint crisis was not bad enough, a children's toy modeled after the popular television series CSI tested positive for tremolite, a deadly asbestos powder. Shockingly, the toy is a "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Fingerprint Examination Kit" and the fingerprint powder contains asbestos. The directions instruct the kids to blow on...

• R.I. Supreme Court Upholds Lead Hazard Mitigation Act

  Michael Phelan | December 12, 2007 1:32 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  On Tuesday, Rhode Island's Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of The Lead Hazard Mitigation Act (LHMA) which went into effect in 2005. The purpose of the LHMA is to reduce the hazards of deteriorating lead based paint to humans. Lead is a neurotoxin which can cause severe brain damage. Toddlers are particularly susceptible because they tend to put everything in their mouths and...

• Dennis Quaid and Wife Sue Drug Maker

  Michael Phelan | December 04, 2007 5:04 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In a lawsuit filed today, actor Dennis Quaid and his wife sued Baxter Healthcare Corp., the maker of the blood thinner, heparin. The Quaid's newborn twins and a third patient at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center were mistakenly given doses of heparin that were 1,000 times stronger than the intended dose. The product liability lawsuit, filed in Chicago, alleges the heparin was unreasonably dangerous...

• Crib Recall Post Sparks Defective Trailer Comment From Concerned Citizen

  Staff Writer | September 23, 2007 12:27 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Fellow InjuryBoard Blogger, Milwaukee accident attorney David Lowe, recently posted a notification that 1 million Simplicity baby cribs were recalled. A reader here in Virginia found David's post and contacted us regarding his concern about another dangerous product - unsafe trailers on Virginia highways. We are publishing his letter at his request:Dear concerned:With regards to the baby crib...

• All I Want For Christmas Is a Toy That Won't Cause Brain Damage

  Michael Phelan | September 11, 2007 4:46 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Mattel has now announced its third recall in six weeks because certain toys were found to contain dangerously high levels of toxic lead paint. As with all of the 16 recalls of various toys this year, the products were made in China. Why? Because the cost of lead paint is up to 30% cheaper than non-toxic, lead-free paint. A sales manager at a Chinese toy company recently told a NY Times...