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Archive for the ‘Product Liability’ Category
June 19th, 2013
Since January of 2013 we have written two posts about automobile recalls: one, “Toyota Settles Class Action Lawsuit for More Than $1 Billion,” detailed the company’s recall of up to 3.2 million vehicles and its subsequent settlement of a class action lawsuit with customers whose cars and trucks were affected; the other, “Subaru Recalls Ten Thousand…
May 29th, 2013
On April 24, 2013, Subaru of America, a subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., announced a recall of all 2014 model year Subaru Forester automobiles (those built between January and March 2013). This came on the heels of a discovery in Vancouver, Washington in which nearly two dozen Foresters were found to have floor mats…
May 15th, 2013
As we get closer and closer to summer weather, parents and their children will flock to amusement parks, carnivals and boardwalks to eagerly ride the rides. While we sometimes hear anecdotally of amusement park accidents, they seem very rare. A new study published in this month’s Clinical Pediatrics, however, suggests that thousands of youngsters are…
April 3rd, 2013
Of the three branches of government, the judicial branch receives by far the least attention. With the exception of high-profile cases like the Affordable Care Act and Proposition 8 (dealing with same-sex marriage in California), the judiciary lacks the glamor of the presidency and the news coverage of congress (whose members are staples on television…
January 9th, 2013
This past December, automotive giant Toyota Motor Corporation settled a class action lawsuit filed in 2010 after a recall of many of its vehicles. The settlement totals over $1 billion, and comes in the wake of complaints that the accelerator pedals on some Toyota models became stuck in an open position while driving. Many of…
December 20th, 2012
Earlier this month, the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) released its annual report of the top “Judicial Hellholes” in the country, those areas in which “frivolous lawsuits” apparently run rampant. According to the media watchdog group Media Matters for America, these are jurisdictions which “corporate defendants feel are not favorable to their interests.” These jurisdictions…
November 7th, 2012
On October 4, The New York Times published an article in which the author, Clifford Krauss, discusses the closing of a gas can factory operated by Blitz USA, formerly the largest manufacturer of its kind in the United States. Blitz sold 14 million units a year for a decade, but in recent years those at…
September 19th, 2012
The Bumbo® Baby Seat, essentially a large piece of molded green foam, has been the subject of two recalls in the last five years. In 2007, 1 million units were recalled in the United States. Now, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), 4 million seats are being called back to the manufacturer…
August 29th, 2012
Last month in Philadelphia, thousands of retired professional football players filed a personal injury class action lawsuit against their shared former employer, the National Football League (NFL). Also named as a defendant in the lawsuit is famous helmet manufacturer Riddell Sports, Inc. The heart of the suit is the rash of brain injuries that have…
July 11th, 2012
As of April of 2012, courts in Union County, New Jersey had 863 civil cases in backlog, that is, 863 cases that could not be heard because there are no judges to preside. This is the largest backlog in this county’s history and will now result in a historic event: a suspended judicial season in…
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