Posts tagged Defective Products

• Construction Worker Injured by Nail Gun Awarded $3.4 Million

  Jenny Albano | December 11, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A construction worker who was severely injured when a nail from a nail gun became embedded in his head was awarded $3.4 million from a Hartford, Connecticut jury. Jerry Crutchfield, 51, of Hartford had sued toolmaker Stanley Works and Home Depot, which sold the nail gun, claiming they were partly liable for the injuries he sustained Feb. 3, 2003. The jury stated that Crutchfield was 55% liable...

• Shiloh Farms Recalls Shiloh Farms Organic Unhulled Sesame Seeds

  Jenny Albano | January 29, 2008 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Shiloh Farms, in conjunction with the FDA, is recalling Shiloh Farms Organic Unhulled Sesame Seeds, 12-oz., because it may be contaminated with Salmonella.Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea...

• Product Recall of Evenflo Embrace Infant Car Seat

  James Sabatini | May 14, 2007 10:28 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in cooperation with Evenflo Company Inc, announced a recall Friday of the Evenflo Embraceâ„¢ Infant Car Seat/Carriers. The recall affects about 450,000 infant car seats.The manufacturer of the defective car seats is Evenflo Company Inc., of Vandalia, Ohio. The defective car seat has...

• Toyota's Recall of Defective Trucks and SUVs

  James Sabatini | January 23, 2007 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it was recalling 533,000 Tundra pickup trucks and Sequoia sport utility vehicles because of potential steering problems. Toyota said the recall involved 2004-2006 Tundra trucks and 2004-2007 Sequoia full-size SUVs. The automaker has received reports of 11 accidents and six injuries connected to the recall, said Toyota spokesman Bill Kwong. The automaker said...

• Fisher-Price Recalls Defective Toys - Chinese Lead Paint

  James Sabatini | August 01, 2007 8:10 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys -- including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters -- because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead. The worldwide recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has...

• Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch, Ohio's Caps On Pain and Suffering

  James Sabatini | May 21, 2007 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A woman who says she suffered life-threatening blood clots from a birth control medication wants the Ohio Supreme Court to declare the state's cap on pain-and-suffering awards unconstitutional.The court on Tuesday planned to hear arguments in the lawsuit filed by Melisa Arbino of Cincinnati over the Ortho Evra Birth Control PatchThe challenge to a 2005 law limiting pain-and-suffering awards is...

• Contaminated Peanut Butter(2)

  James Sabatini | March 01, 2007 11:20 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  U.S. health officials on Thursday confirmed finding salmonella in samples taken from the Georgia processing plant linked to contaminated Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, inspections of ConAgra's plant in Sylvester uncovered the same strain of salmonella found in jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter responsible for 370 cases...

• Contaminated Peanut Butter

  James Sabatini | February 26, 2007 2:42 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The ConAgra Foods plant in Sylvester, Georgia, was inspected by company and government scientists. They were trying to find the cause of the salmonella contamination that led to a peanut butter recall. The Peter Pan brand and some of Walmart's Great Value brand were linked to a nationwide outbreak of salmonella cases, and those brands of peanut butter was recalled. The plant in Sylvester,...

• Chinese Car Crumples In Russian Test

  James Sabatini | August 08, 2007 8:38 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Add another Chinse product to the ever growing list of defective and unsafe products being made in China. A Russian car magazine recently sponsored a crash test of a Chinese made vehicle - Chery Amulet. The car folded like an accordian in the test calling into serious question the basic safety of the car. Click here for car crash video.For more information on this subject matter, please refer...

• Mattel Identifies Chinese Co. That Made Lead Tainted Toys

  James Sabatini | August 07, 2007 10:50 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Mattel Inc. on Tuesday identified the Chinese vendor that made nearly 1 million Fisher-Price toys that were recalled last week because they may contain lead. Mattel said Lee Der Industrial Company Ltd., located in Guang Dong province, made the 967,000 toys sold under the Fisher-Price brand in the United States between May and August.For more information on this subject, please refer to our...