According to the Vancouver Sun, a Burnaby man recently filed a lawsuit in the British Columbia Supreme Court seeking to hold liable the manufacturer and seller of an e-cigarette he says exploded in his mouth. E-cigarettes contain small lithium-ion batteries that can be dangerous in…
After experiencing problems with the Fiat Chrysler nine-speed ZF 9HP automatic transmission, lead plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit, claiming that the defects were hazardous to drivers and passengers in that they caused delayed acceleration and sudden loss of power. Fiat-Chrysler recently agre
A Utah man recently filed a new Bard hernia mesh lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. It joins the other federally-filed lawsuits centralized there in August 2018. The plaintiff claims that after he was implanted with the Ventralex mesh,…
Lithium-ion batteries, such as those that power laptops, tablets, cell phones and e-cigarettes, can short-circuit sometimes, leading to smoking, burning, fires, and even explosions. Because of the risk, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) prohibits all spare (uninstalled) lithium-metal and lit
According to a letter from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently sent to Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing, Toyota is recalling about 90,000 vehicles because of an airbag problem. In the event of a crash, the airbags may not deploy as expected, increasing…
When the Pennsylvania grand jury released their report on the widespread sexual abuse in six of the state’s Catholic dioceses, one of the things they mentioned was that most of the cases were too old to be prosecuted. In Pennsylvania, the statute of limitations allows…
In June 2017, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated all federally-filed Ethicon Physiomesh lawsuits into one court in the Northern District of Georgia. Today, there are over 1,500 cases pending in that litigation, with each plaintiff raising similar allegations that the Ph
According to a recently settled whistleblower lawsuit, 3M Company and its predecessor Aearo Technologies, Inc. —which supplied the U.S. military with Combat Arms Earplugs version 2 (CAEv2) between 2003 and 2015—made false statements about the effectiveness of those earplugs, unnecessarily putting mi
Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc., a U.S.-based company that manufactures and markets bicycles and bicycle components, recently announced a recall of several of its bikes because of a crash and injury hazard. All affected models have the Future Shock sprung bars and stems, and have a…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) recently cited New Jersey employer Mister Cookie Face LLC for safety violations after an employee suffered an amputated fingertip while trying to fix a jammed machine. The company faces a potential fine of $103,476. Company Failed to Lockout…
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently announced the recall of about 32,300 Skip Hop Tuo convertible high chairs because of injury hazards. They have instructed consumers to stop using the chairs immediately and to contact Skip Hub for a full refund or e–gift…
A new George Mason University study reveals that the number of e-cigarette explosion and burn injuries have been underestimated. The report was published in the journal Tobacco Control, and stated that between 2015 and 2017, there were an estimated 2,035 emergency department visits caused by…
