Product Liability Articles

The Center for Auto Safety filed a petition with the federal government to have the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigate potential non-collision fires in 2.2 million Hyundai and Kia vehicles. Kia is an affiliate of Hyundai and together they are the world’s 5th largest automobile-manufacturer. The following vehicles have either experienced non-collision fires…

Honda is adding 1.4 million cars, SUVs, and trucks to its list of vehicles that should have their Takata airbags replaced. Included in the airbag recall list are vehicles branded as Acura, Honda’s luxury brand, according to the automaker. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Takata recall covers airbag inflators from…

Dockless electric scooters have now made their way to Texas. They can be unlocked with a smartphone for about a dollar, cost 15 cents a minute to rent, and reach 15 miles per hour. The typical rental agreement includes a liability waiver and head protection is rarely included with the rental. As these devices have…

A Dallas, Texas jury awarded more than $240 million to a family that brought a lawsuit against Toyota for injuries sustained by two children in a rear end car accident. The lawsuit alleged that the front driver seats in the family’s 2002 Lexus ES 300 were “unreasonably dangerous and defectively designed.” Lawyers for the family…

On April 29, 2018, Russell Lane Mattison Jr. tried a liquid nitrogen-infused cereal called Dragon Breath at a kiosk inside a mall. After several bites, he experienced sudden and intense pain and his mouth filled with blood. Over the next several weeks, Mr. Mattison had difficulty eating and drinking due to sores on the inside…

Zofran (ondansetron) is an antinausea drug originally developed to help cancer patients with the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The drug works by preventing a certain type of nerve receptor from sending signals that the brain interprets as nausea. As doctors started noticing how effective it was, they began to prescribe…

On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to consumers not to use Dr. King’s homeopathic and other drug products. This comes after King Bio Inc., the Asheville, North Carolina company that makes Dr. King’s, expanded a voluntary recall to include all aqueous, or water-based drug products marketed for human or animal consumption….

Dwayne Johnson, 46, sued Monsanto at the Superior Court of California, alleging that the popular weed killer Roundup gave him terminal cancer. Johnson applied Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer 20 to 30 times per year while working as a groundskeeper for a school district near San Francisco. He testified at trial that while using the product…