Defective Products | September 14, 2021 On April 17th the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued an urgent warning about the dangers of the Peloton Tread+ treadmill after a small child was pulled under the rear of the product and killed. At the time of the warning, the agency…
Defective Products | March 29, 2017 Do you remember the insistent messages sent out by Microsoft in 2015, urging consumers to download the Windows 10 operating system on all their Windows devices? If so, you aren’t alone. However, a group of Illinois residents says that the messages were more than…
Defective Products | February 17, 2017 Is your baby’s food safe to eat? Or could a defective seal quietly be causing it to spoil or let in bacteria that could harm your child? A former compliance officer who worked at the Mead Johnson Nutrition Company, the United States firm that…
Defective Products | January 5, 2017 Conventional legal wisdom used to pretty much say that if you were injured by a defective product that came from a Chinese manufacturer, you were going to have an uphill battle winning a lawsuit and actually collecting the judgment on your claim. Even though…
Defective Products | December 30, 2016 Are more defective products likely to find their way into consumer hands over the next few years? Quite possibly, if the incoming presidential administration cuts the power of the Consumer Product Safety Commission to levy serious fines against businesses that fail to immediately report…
Defective Products | December 9, 2016 What’s the difference between a truly defective product and one that just isn’t as good as the manufacturer claims? It depends largely on how concrete the claims were that the manufacturer made when he or she sold you the product. Companies often slightly exaggerate…
Defective Products | October 18, 2016 In October 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety communication regarding a heater-cooler device originally manufactured by Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH. The Stӧckert 3T Heater-Cooler System has been linked to an increased risk of infection with the Mycobacterium chimaera. These infections,…
Defective Products | September 13, 2016 As American consumers, we typically trust in the designers and manufacturers of the products we purchase. Most of the time, this trust is well-founded. However, sometimes our trust and even our well-being are jeopardized by the use of products that have been found to…
Defective Products | August 17, 2016 The Consumer Product Safety Commission keeps a running list of recent product recalls so that consumers have one place to easily find the information they need. A quick scan of this list shows that a new product makes the list every few days; there…
Defective Products | June 28, 2016 A lot of homeowners think that breakers and fuse boxes are a constant annoyance. Whenever a circuit gets overloaded, it trips the breaker or blows a fuse. This cuts off power to the circuit, and everything shuts down. This can be frustrating. For example,…