Product Liability Articles

The stockings were stuffed by the fire with care – or were they? An increasing number of warnings are surfacing from federal customs officials about dangerous products that are making their way under the tree and into holiday gift boxes for children. Many of these action figures, princess costume kits and other toys may include…

Items that are designed to keep you safe should do just that – protect you from injury or further harm. But when the very item meant to protect does harm, the manufacturer can be held accountable. When dangerous products are discovered, alerting the public to the dangers is only the right thing to do. Houston…

Once upon a time, when a company was rolling out a new product, it would pay people to test the product and report any bugs or problems they experienced while using the product. Sometimes the payment was in the form of money, but most of the time, the payment was being able to keep the…

We go through our everyday lives trusting that the things we depend upon will work properly. Sometimes, though, things do not work as they should and an accident or event occurs. Most of the time defective products are just a minor inconvenience that can be overcome relatively simply, but other times the failure can lead…

Did you know that only about 10 percent of recalled products are actually returned or repaired? This means that 90 percent of products with known defects remain in people’s homes. And many of these defective products can result in serious injury or even death. Time Magazine recently put out a list of the 10 most…

Chrysler has found themselves a party to a wrongful death lawsuit filed in federal district court in Houston. According to the papers filed with the court, the design flaws in a 2003 model of a Chrysler Town & Country minivan are what contributed to the deaths of a Houston couple and left two of their…

Ask almost any parent and chances are they will share their tales of struggling to get the car seat properly installed in the back seat of the car. It comes as no surprise, then, that a recent study found exactly how difficult it is to install child safety seats. The study, jointly conducted by the…

It may seem rather remarkable, given the attention paid to safety by automobile manufacturers, but defective products still manage to find their way onto the market and into the hands of buyers. In the 1970s Ford’s Pinto had gas tanks that exploded upon impact. More recently, Audi and Toyota have had problems with unintended acceleration….