According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), most deaths in large truck accidents are passenger vehicle occupants. In 2014, a total of 3,660 people died in large truck crashes—68 percent of these were occupants of other vehicles, and 15 percent were pedestrians, bicyclists,…
Automakers are having a hard time keeping up with air bag recall replacements. Millions of vehicles have been recalled to replace potentially defective Takata air bag inflators that may explode upon deployment, causing serious and sometimes life-threatening injuries. But Takata has been unable to keep…
Though inferior vena cava (IVC) filters were designed to capture and dissipate blood clots before they can reach the lungs or the heart, they have been linked with a number of complications over the past few years. They look like little spiders, and their “legs”…
In March 2015, a woman filed an Olympus duodenoscope lawsuit in King County Superior Court, in Seattle, Washington, on behalf of her husband who suffered a life-threatening bacterial infection after going through a procedure in which doctors used the medical device. A few months later,…
On November 25, 2015, Judith A. Enck, Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sent a letter to Mayor Borge of Hoosick Falls, New York, reiterating that PFOA water contamination had been discovered in the village of Hoosick Falls. She recommended that bottled water…
On April 5, 2016, the people of Petersburgh, New York, had a town meeting to discuss the water contamination crisis in their community. It started in nearby Hoosick Falls, when samples collected from the public water supply in June 2015, were found to contain more…
On March 17, 2016, a Louisiana man filed an Invokana lawsuit against manufacturers Janssen Pharmaceuticals, parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. He seeks in excess of $75,000 in damages. The case is proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the…
