Apr 5, 2013 | Products Liability, Recalls
Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia are recalling almost 1.9 million vehicles to fix problems with air bags and brake light switches. The switch recall covers almost 1.7 million vehicles — most of the automakers’ lineups from the 2007 through 2011 model years. In...
Mar 27, 2013 | Products Liability, Recalls
Recall Summary Name of product: PT Domusindo Perdana drop-side cribsHazard: The cribs’ drop sides can malfunction, detach or otherwise fail, causing part of the drop side to fall out of position, creating a space into which an infant or toddler can roll and...
Mar 27, 2013 | Environmental Protection Agency, Products Liability, Recalls
The night before he died, Wyatt Whitebread couldn’t stand the thought of going back to the grain bins on the edge of Mount Carroll, Ill. The mischievous and popular 14-year-old had been excited about his first real job, he told Lisa Jones, the mother of some of...
Mar 25, 2013 | Products Liability, Recalls
NEWARK, N.J., March 21 (UPI) — An Essex County, N.J., jury has ordered Nissan to pay $4.2 million to a man who was injured after a tire fell off a pickup truck and hit the roof of his car. Larry Clanton, 52, was driving a Nissan Altima in July 2006 when the...
Feb 12, 2013 | Hip Implant Failures, Recalls
Maker Aware of 40% Failure in Hip Implant By BARRY MEIER An internal analysis conducted by Johnson & Johnson in 2011 not long after it recalled a troubled hip implant estimated that the all-metal device would fail within five years in nearly 40 percent of patients...
