Recent Posts in Defective Product Category
Posted on May 12, 2011 By Las Vegas Personal Injury Attorney
A 28-year-old Iraq War veteran was horribly injured last November when his car veered off the side of the road and crashed into a fence, resulting in an auto accident that nearly took the man's life. ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2011 By Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyer
A 70-year-old man was airlifted from I-15 this week following an accident that resulted in serious bodily injury. The man was driving his truck when it apparently veered off the road and flipped over ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Las Vegas Personal Injury Attorney
A 28-year-old woman from Utah was killed over the weekend in a rollover crash early Sunday morning on I-15 just north of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The woman, identified as Viridiana Sofia Larson, ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2011 By Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyer
In 2011 alone, more than 330 cases of energy drink overdose have been reported. Energy drinks have become a ubiquitous among teenagers and college age students' beverage choices. Young children and ...
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Posted on Feb 11, 2011 By Las Vegas Personal Injury Attorney
Summer Infant is recalling 1.7 million baby monitors after they have received reports of two infants dying after accidentally becoming strangled by the cord to the monitor. Another child was almost ...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2011 By Las Vegas Personal Injury Attorney
Family Dollar Stores have issued a recall of a popular child's toy, the "Authentic Heroes Target Practice Tank Play Set." The toy, which comes with a controller and four toy missiles, has a defect ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2011 By Las Vegas Personal Injury
Only a year ago, more than 2.5 million strollers from two different companies were recalled after almost 20 children lost their fingertips when they got caught in a hinge. Now, another stroller ...
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Posted on Jan 12, 2011 By Las Vegas Personal Injury Lawyer
Johnson & Johnson, the makers of Motrin, are being sued by the state of Oregon for conducting a "phantom recall" of defective bottles of Children's Motrin. Generally when a company discovers that ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2011 By Las Vegas Personal Injury Attorney
An elderly man is hospitalized and his wife is dead after a carbon monoxide (CO) leak in their home. The couple was found by their son, who broke into their home after they didn't answer the door. If ...
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Posted on Dec 24, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches have been blamed for a recent salmonella outbreak. The alfalfa sprouts on the "Little Bear" sandwiches were contaminated with salmonella, which has caused people to ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Toyota, one of the largest automakers in the world, is being fined $32.4 million after it failed to recall two types of defective vehicles in a timely manner. The first, the cars which had poorly ...
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Posted on Dec 17, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
General Motors is the latest automaker to announce that they are recalling some of their vehicles due to product defects which cause them to be unsafe to drive. Overall, almost 1.2 million vehicles ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Drop-side cribs have been popular since the 1940s when they first allowed parents to easily remove their child from the crib without having to lift the baby over the side. In the past ten years, ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Johnson & Johnson, the company that owns and manufactures Rolaids, has expanded its recall of the antacid medicine to include all package sizes and flavors. While many recent recalls have been due ...
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Posted on Nov 17, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
The Texas-based food company "New Braunfels Smokehouse" is recalling more than 2,600 pounds of pre-cooked, ready-to-eat turkey breast products because of a possible Listeria monocytogenes ...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Halloween is a fun holiday for kids and families, as well as individuals of all ages. Children who go trick or treating door to door, however, may face unintended dangers if they are given candy that ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Toyota, the world's largest auto maker, has issued another recall of its vehicles. The cars affected are the 2005-2006 Avalon, the 2004-2006 Highlander and Lexus RX330, and the 2006 Lexus GS300, ...
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Posted on Oct 20, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Graco, a company that makes baby products, has announced a recall of around 2 million baby strollers. The strollers were sold between 2000 and 2007 and there have been 4 reported deaths caused by ...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Public Citizen, a public watch group, has released a strong criticism of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s handling of the weight loss drug "Meridia." Meridia, which is made be the Big Pharma ...
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Posted on Sep 29, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Yesterday morning, Betsey Rhodes Elementary School was placed on lockdown and residents of nearby homes were evacuated because a construction project accidentally broke a natural gas pipeline nearby. ...
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Posted on Sep 24, 2010 By De Castroverde Law Group
Abbot Laboratories, which makes the most popular form of baby formula, has been inundated with phone calls after recalling millions of cans of powdered baby formula. A manufacturing plant of the ...
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