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Dyson Recalls Bladeless Portable Heaters Due to Fire Risk

Doug / 04-11-2014 / Consumer Safety

April 1, 2014, Dyson issued a recall of its Bladeless Portable Electric Heaters. The heaters were found to in some cases develop an electrical short and overheat, increasing the risk of a fire hazard. The recall is expected to affect about 338,000 units of the heaters sold in the U.S. and about 43,000 units of […]

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Spider Issues Force Mazda Recall

Doug / 04-10-2014 / Auto Accidents

In 2011, Mazda recalled 52,000 6 sedans of 2009-2010 vintage due to Yellow Sac Spiders having gotten into the fuel tank and weaved webs in the fuel tank vent lines, which caused the tanks to crack and leak. Yet again Mazda is faced with the same issue forcing it to recall certain model year 2010-2012 […]

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Chrysler Announces the Recall of Two of its SUVS

Doug / 04-07-2014 / Auto Accidents

Recently, General Motors has made numerous headlines regarding the recall of the ignition switch in several of its vehicles.  But General Motors is not the only American car manufacturer recalling defects in its automobiles.  Chrysler announced the recall of all 2011-2014 Dodge Durangos and Jeep Grand Cherokees after concerns arose regarding brake failures. According to […]

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Wal-Mart Recalls Electronic Baby Doll

Doug / 04-02-2014 / Consumer Safety

With less than a month until Easter stores have placed on their shelves the seasonal holiday toys, decorations and treats. However if you have purchased a My Sweet Baby electronic baby doll to be placed in someone’s Easter basket this year, you are urged to bring it back in for a refund. The My Sweet […]

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Nissan Launches Recall On Select 2013-2014 Models

Doug / 03-31-2014 / Consumer Safety

As of March 27, 2014 Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling select model year 2013-2014 Altima, LEAF, Pathfinder, and Sentra in addition to the 2013 NV200, Infiniti JX35, 2014 Infiniti Q50 and QX60. The selected models have been recalled after discovery of a defect in the electrical system. The occupant classification system (OCS) software […]

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Bunk Bed Recall

Doug / 03-27-2014 / Consumer Safety

On March 20th, Bedz King operating out of Arlington, Texas, recalled approximately 2,900 bunk beds with side ladders. The bunk beds have been recalled due to a discovered entrapment risk posed by the beds having a protruding corner post, which exceeds the industry standard of 5mm. The recalled bunk beds were sold in twin over […]

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GM Recalls 1.8 Million Vehicles

Doug / 03-21-2014 / Auto Accidents

General Motors has issued three new recalls, in addition to its previous recall of 1.6 million small vehicles due to defective ignition switches. The three latest recalls involve: Approximately 303,000 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana from the model years 2009-2014 in order to correct the material on the instrument panel to conform with federal standards […]

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System Sensor Recalls Reflective Beam Smoke Detectors

Doug / 02-25-2014 / Consumer Safety

On January 28, 2014, System Sensor recalled about 160 reflected beam smoke detectors with the model number BEAM1224S and dates code 2111 through 3053. The detectors are ivory or black in color and the model number can e found on the printed label on the detector’s back cover and on the packaging. The recall was […]

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Attention Florida Winn Dixie Shoppers

Doug / 02-19-2014 / Consumer Safety

As of January 12, 2014, Winn Dixie announced an immediate recall of 30 oz. canisters of the store’s Instant Chocolate Drink Mix, with the expiration date JUL 14 15B. The product was pulled fro the shelves of Winn Dixie locations throughout Florida due to a potential incorrect formula mixture, which could result in an undeclared […]

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Ford Recalls Steering Components on 2011-2012 Explorers

Doug / 02-17-2014 / Auto Accidents

Ford Motor Company has launched a recall of steering gears installed on model year 2011-2012 Explorers, which were service parts in September 2013 and January 2014. The gears that were installed may lock, preventing the driver from properly steering the vehicle. The defective steering components cause an increased chance of crash. “It is important to […]

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Britax Stroller Recall

Doug / 02-14-2014 / Consumer Safety

On January 30th, Britax recalled three models of its strollers. Consumers are cautioned and encouraged to discontinue use of B-Agile, B-Agile Double and BOB Motion strollers, to avoid injuries. The recall effects approximately 216,000 strollers in the United States and 8,800 in Canada. The recall was sparked by discovery of the folding mechanism posing a […]

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Gree Recalls GE Brand Dehumidifiers

Doug / 02-11-2014 / Consumer Safety

Gree, a Chinese manufacturer, previously recalled 2.2 million dehumidifiers under 12 other brand names in September of 2013, but now is recalling 350,000 in the United States and Canada under the brand GE. The recall is due to discovery of the dehumidifiers overheating, smoking and catching fire posing a risk to consumers. The recall involves […]

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Roadtrek Motorhomes Reports Potential Breaks in Their Brake Lines

Doug / 02-06-2014 / Auto Accidents

Roadtrek Motorhomes Inc. (Roadtrek) has recalled certain model year 2013-2014 RSCM Motorhomes manufactured between February 2013 and December 2013 on Mercedes Sprinter van chassis. The manufacturer has acknowledged that during installation of the coolant lines, the front right brake line may have been unseated from the holder, which would allow the line to make contact […]

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Parents Beware: American Eagle Has Issued A Recalled On Toddler Clothing

Doug / 01-31-2014 / Consumer Safety

American Eagle Outfitters Inc. has issued a recall of approximately 1,200 toddler girl’s pants and shorts due to a choking hazard due to a metal clasp on the pants.  There is a metal clasp at the waistband and should it detach from the garment it could pose a choking risk to toddlers. The recall involves […]

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New Car Owners Beware!

Doug / 01-27-2014 / Auto Accidents

American Honda Motor Company (Honda) will be launching a recall of its 2014 Acura RLX vehicles that were manufactured between August of 2012 and November of 2013. The reason for the recall is suspension failure. The company has become aware that during transportation to dealerships the bolts attached to the rear lower control arms to […]

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Seventh Recall By Ford on 2013 Ford Escape!

Doug / 01-24-2014 / Auto Accidents

The Ford Escape is one of Ford’s most popular selling vehicles, but appears to be one of its most troubled as of late 2013.  The company has recalled the 2013 Ford Escape due to problem that have cause a reported 13 engine fires. Ford officials have released a statement that a “misinstalled fuel line could […]

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Is Your Child’s Safety Seat Really Safe?

Doug / 01-23-2014 / Auto Accidents

Combi USA, Inc. (Combi) has acknowledged a defect affecting potentially 33,139 units of child restraints it manufactured between January 2007 and December of 2012.  The defect affects model 8220 (Coccoro) and model 8836 (Zeus 360). The child restraints are anticipated to be recalled due to the harness webbing failing to meet minimum breaking strength requirements, […]

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Why A Friendly Card Game May No Longer Be As Safe As You Think

Doug / 01-22-2014 / Dangerous

Wal-Mart has recalled as of January 2, 2014, about 73,400 units of a five piece set card table and chairs. The set has been recalled de to a fall risk posed by the chairs unexpectedly collapsing while in use as well as finger injuries, including amputation. The recall involves the Mainstays card table sets with […]

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Buyers Beware: Trying to Keep Warm May be More Dangerous Than You Imagined

Doug / 12-17-2013 / Consumer Safety

Mirage Fashions recalled Yoki Girls Faux Leather Jackets with drawstrings on December 16th, 2013 due to hazards posed by the coats. The coats have been recalled because of the danger to children they pose due to the presence of a drawstring in the neck portion of the coat that could foreseeably lead to strangulation or […]

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Playgrounds and Recess: A Thing of the Past?

Doug / 12-13-2013 / Consumer Safety

American schools are following a trend of removing playgrounds and some all together are eliminating recess. Many adults can think back on fond memories of touch football, tag, and even just swinging on a swing with friends at school when they were younger.  Unfortunately it appears that for children now a day, they will not […]

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Metal-on-Metal hip Replacement Recalled

Doug / 11-01-2013 / Defective products

In August 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, recalled its ASR hip system. The recall came into effect because of unpublished data from a joint registry in the UK showing the replacement hip’s low rate of success. The intended lifespan of the hip was 15 years, but DePuy’s ASR XL device was […]

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The Pill of the Poisoned Apple

Doug / 10-29-2013 / Consumer Safety

It seems that as long as children have gone from door to door dressed in costume and asking for candy there has been some rumor of poisoned or tampered candies coming home.  Each of us can certainly remember sitting on the living room floor while Mom and Dad went through our evening’s take looking for […]

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Remington Faces Class-Action Litigation for Faulty Trigger

Doug / 10-22-2013 / Consumer Safety

The firearm industry faces surmounting pressure on a daily basis for creating weapons capable of death, mostly in the form of gun control. However, this time firearm leader, Remington Arms Co. is facing litigation over alleged faulty defects in its Model 700 bolt-action rifle. Three separate class-action lawsuits have been filed in Montana, Missouri, and […]

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Toyota recalls: nearly 700,000 Sienna minivans

Doug / 10-11-2013 / Auto Accidents

Toyota has recalled Sienna minivans made in 2004, 2005, and 2007 through 2009 model years.  The Toyota Sienna is the second-best-selling minivan in the United States market. A defect has been discovered inside the shift lever allowing a mechanism to break resulting in the vans shifting out of park without change in pressure to the […]

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Electronic Cigarette Use Expanding While Devices Explode

Doug / 10-01-2013 / Consumer Safety

More and more we’re seeing people smoking electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) in their daily life.  While we’re of the opinion that quitting smoking altogether is still the safest option, we can understand why those trying to quit are moving to these, supposedly, safer options first. But are these electronic devices really all that safe?  Take away […]

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Florida Widow Gets Verdict Against Tobacco Companies

Doug / 09-23-2013 / Dangerous

The Palm Beach Post ran an article announcing that a 75-year-old Boca Raton widow won $3.8 million on Friday after a jury found two tobacco companies responsible for her husband’s death. Kathleen Gafney Hanners filed suit on her husband, Frank Gafney’s behalf after he died in 1995 at the age of 59 from lung cancer. […]

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Attention Gun Owners

Doug / 09-12-2013 / Consumer Safety

A faulty fire control system has been discovered in both the 700 and 710 model rifles produced by the Remington Rifle Company, Inc.  The Company has pinpointed the affected rifles as those manufactured between July and October of 2002. The flawed systems cause the weapon to fire without the trigger being pulled. In fact all […]

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Takata’s Mistake has Blowup

Doug / 09-11-2013 / Car Accident

Airbag Deployment by adam*bNews reports have listed BMW as having joined Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Mazda in recalling millions of vehicles due to the discovery of dangerously defective airbags. The airbags in vehicles produced by the manufacturers have been discovered to experience presser problems during release, ultimately resulting in the airbag exploding. The airbags were […]

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Balancing your Bicycle May Have Gotten More Difficult

Doug / 09-06-2013 / Dangerous

The trend among those in the cyclist community has been to find ways to make bikes lighter and faster. This has lead to an increasing move towards cyclists adopting carbon fiber bikes that have taken the industry by storm. However the race to find the desired weight and speed may have thrown cyclists off balance […]

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The Dangers of Generic Drugs: If Injured will you Received Justice?

Doug / 09-06-2013 / Consumer Safety

A series of cases have been heard by the U.S. Supreme Court that required them to deal with the question of when state tort law liability for those injured by prescription drugs is preempted by federal law. The issue centers around one main detail in each case, whether the drug taken was the brand name […]

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Nationwide Recall of Daptomycin

Doug / 09-03-2013 / Consumer Safety

There has been a recent voluntary nationwide recall of four lots of the intravenous antibiotic drug daptomycin (CUBICIN), due to contamination. Four lots of the drug were found to have glass particles within the vials, the FDA and the drug’s manufacturer said. The affected lots, which were shipped by Cubist Pharmaceuticals, according to a statement […]

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Propane Tank Explosion In Kissimmee

Doug / 08-27-2013 / Consumer Safety

Early this morning, around 6:30 A.M., a 70-year-old man in Kissimmee was rushed to the hospital with 1st degree burns when a propane tank in his home exploded in his garage. The Osceola County man was cooking in his kitchen, when a propane tank exploded knocking out a wall. The man’s wife was also in […]

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Is Your Baby Safe at Bathtime?

Doug / 06-19-2013 / Consumer Safety

Parents be warned, there have been a large number of baby bath seat recalls recently.  In fact there were three just yesterday. The Consumer Products Safety Commission (CSPC) has issued these recalls because the bath seats do not meet federal safety standards.  Specifically these three bath seats show a stability issue and have a propensity […]

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A Case for Filling Out Appliance Registration Forms

Doug / 06-11-2013 / Consumer Safety

We’re the first to admit that filling out the registration cards that come with new appliances is a bit of a pain.  Not only do you have to put all your personal information down expecting only junk mail and marketing material to fill up both your mailbox and, likely, your email’s inbox, there’s the hassle […]

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Has Your Child’s New Bike Been Properly Assembled

Doug / 06-06-2013 / Consumer Safety

Whether you purchased it at one of the big box stores, or went to the local bike shop, getting a new bike is a huge part of childhood.  Learning to ride for the first time, and finally being able to take off the training wheels are memories that bring a smile regardless of age. As […]

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Chrysler Rebuffs US Government and Refuses to Recall Jeeps

Doug / 06-05-2013 / Auto Accidents

It is a rare thing for a manufacturer to tell the US government “No” on a recall request.  It is an even rarer thing when that manufacturer works in the automobile industry.  But that is exactly what Chrysler is doing in regards to their Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Liberty lines. According to the National […]

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Congress Considers Holding Foreign Manufacturers Responsible for Injuries

Doug / 05-14-2013 / Dangerous

It is difficult enough to sustain an injury caused by a defective product.  When that product is manufactured outside of the United States it gets worse. Subjecting manufacturers outside the United States to the authority of our courts in has proven to be a daunting and burdensome task. Our legislature understands that something needs to […]

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How Product Recalls Work

Doug / 04-25-2013 / Consumer Safety

Yesterday we spoke about how Product Liability Litigation works, and how it can protect all consumers, not just our clients.  In that message, we mentioned that product recalls created from this litigation are one of the ways all consumers are protected by product liability litigation.  But how do product recalls themselves work? There are many […]

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Was GSK Settlement Just ‘Slap on the Wrist’?

Doug / 07-20-2012 / Consumer Safety

On Monday, we began to discuss the record settlement British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay at the beginning of the month for illegally marketing and failing to report accurate safety information about defective drugs. However, as author Charles Seife noted in a July 9, 2012, article for the online magazine Slate, “When you sell some […]

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GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $3 Billion in Record Settlement

Doug / 07-16-2012 / Consumer Safety

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on July 2, 2012, that British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will pay $3 billion in fines in the largest settlement involving a pharmaceutical company. GSK will plead guilty to marketing drugs for unapproved uses and failing to report drug safety information to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). […]

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Happy Ending to Frightful School Bus Ride

Doug / 04-06-2012 / Auto Accidents

In this video, a young man’s actions help avert what certainly could have easily been a tragic accident. The students aboard the school bus in the video are helpless after driver suffered a seizure while behind the wheel, and the video shows just how violent the road was before the 17-year-old brought the bus to […]

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The Seat Belt Issues with the School Buses Go Round and Round

Doug / 04-02-2012 / Auto Accidents

The video above is WISH-TV coverage of a school bus accident in Indiana on March 12, 2012, one of three separate school bus accidents on the same day. The trio of crashes led to discussion in various outlets about the issue of installing seat belts on school buses, a move that some feel is long […]

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Overview of Defective Drug Laws

Doug / 02-24-2012 / Consumer Safety

Pharmaceutical companies have a responsibility to the public to ensure that their medications are safe for the public. They must warn people of all known associated risks and side effects. This applies to both prescription medications and over-the-counter medications. Drugs do get manufactured with defects, and it is more common than anyone would like to […]

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Parkinson’s Medications Comes with Some Serious Side Effects

Doug / 02-20-2012 / Consumer Safety

Ropinirole, also known as Requip, is a prescription medication used by physicians to treat Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome. This popular medication helps many to deal with Parkinson’s, but it does not come without side effects. The listed side effects are constipation, dizziness, sweating, lightheadedness, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and weakness. The Federal […]

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US Pharmaceutical Error Statistics

Doug / 02-13-2012 / Consumer Safety

When you have your prescription filled, you assume the pharmacist is exercising caution and filling your script correctly. Most people don’t even think about whether the script is correct. But what happens when a pharmacy error injures, or even kills you or a loved one? It may occur more often than you would like to […]

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Do I Have a Case Against Walt Disney World?

Doug / 01-25-2012 / Consumer Safety

Q: My 15-month-old daughter and husband became violently ill after sharing a children’s meal at a restaurant on Walt Disney World’s property in Orlando. My daughter was hospitalized for nausea, vomiting and dehydration. The doctor suspected food poisoning. It took my daughter a month to fully purge her infant system of the toxins and to […]

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Tort Reform and Medical Malpractice in Florida

Doug / 01-20-2012 / Consumer Safety

According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report issued on January 6, over 80% of errors committed by physicians in hospitals go unreported and undocumented. This should shock and alarm health administrators, legislators and the public in general. There is no excuse for not reporting these errors, no matter how trivial they […]

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Florida Man Dies From Airline Food Poisoning

Doug / 12-14-2011 / Consumer Safety

The family of a Florida man who died from food poisoning from a meal he consumed on a flight has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against American Airlines, according to ABC News. Othon Cortes, 73, died after eating a chicken meal on a flight that was contaminated. His widow and daughter filed the suit. American […]

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