InjuryBoard Hartford Archives

• Boy Drowns at City of Hartford's Pool

  James Sabatini | June 29, 2006 7:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  A boy drowned in a City of Hartford's public pool located in Pope Park. It appears that the boy was not discovered for some time. The Hartford police are presently investigating the incident. Accoring to the Hartford Courant:The city hires a security company to watch the pool at night. Caraballo said he did not know why the security company, which on Sunday started work for the 2006 summer...

• Seat Warmer Fires Prompts Jeep Recall

  James Sabatini | June 14, 2006 6:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  DaimlerChrysler is recalling more than 110,000 Jeep Grand Cherokees because their front seat warmers can overheat and catch fire. The company has received 32 complaints involving seat warmers including 15 injury complaints involving leg burns. Six injured people have sued DaimlerChrysler who have suffered serious burns from the seat warmers. The recall invovles 2003 to 2004 model years. Read...

• Study Cites Increased Death Risk From Asthma Drugs

  James Sabatini | June 12, 2006 5:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Accoring to a new analysis of 19 studies, popular asthma medicines such as Advair and Serevent pose a substantially increased risk of hospitalization and death to users compared with placebos. This new analysis raises the possibility that the drug should be taken off the market if it continues to be so widely used.The Washington Post quoted the lead author of the new analysis, Shelley Salpeter...

• Full-Body Safety Harness Recalled for Fall Hazard

  James Sabatini | June 08, 2006 4:30 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced today a voluntary recall of Safety Harnesses Sold with Hunting Tree Stands. The harnesses are prone to fail during use resulting in consumers falling from tree stands and suffering serious injuries or deaths. For more detailed information on the safety harness recall, click here

• Ortho-McNeil's Birth Control Patch Is Lethal

  James Sabatini | June 05, 2006 3:54 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Documents have surfaced showing that Ortho-McNeil, the manufacturer of the Ortho Evra birth-control patch and subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, refused in 2003 to fund a study comparing the Ortho patch to the company's Ortho-Cyclen pill because there was too high of chance that the study may not produce a positive result for the patch. In November of 2005, the FDA warned that women using the...