Defective & Dangerous Products

• "Big Dig" Negligence Ends In Death

  M. Brandon Smith | August 31, 2006 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  Del Valle, husband of the now deceased Milena Del Valle, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston Tuesday after his wife suffered fatal injuries in a "Big Dig" accident. Mr. Valle was driving his wife to Logan airport when all of a sudden the multi-ton ceiling panel of a construction project fell on their vehicle killing his wife. The suit alleges negligence on the part...

• ReNu With Moisture Loc Recall Helps With Epidemic

  M. Brandon Smith | August 26, 2006 12:38 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  The Centers for Disease control recently suggested the global recall by Bausch and Lomb in May of 2006 concerning its defective contact lens solution ReNu with MoistureLoc may have prevented a much larger out break in relation the eye fungal infection fusarium keratitis.According to CNN.com"We feel pretty confident that the outbreak is over," said CDC researcher Benjamin Park, who has studied...

• Federal Judge Chastises Tobacco Industry

  M. Brandon Smith | August 22, 2006 8:17 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  Washington D.C. Federal Judge Gladys Kessler recently expressed her unfavorable opinions on the tobacco industry as a whole last week in her 1, 742 opinion which specifically included nine cigarette manufactures and two trade groups. The ruling showed the tobacco industry conspired to conceal the truth about smoking and the adverse health risks associated with it for the past 50 years. This...

• Are All Other Contact Lens Solutions Safe Other Than ReNu?

  M. Brandon Smith | August 17, 2006 12:31 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  Until recently, most, including the Food and Drug Administration, have not really discussed any safety concerns associated with any contact lens solutions aside from the recently recalled ReNu with MoistureLoc, manufactured by Bausch & Lomb, which has been linked to serious eye infections that can ultimately lead to blindness. That however may be about to change.Accodring to The Wall Street...

• Big Tobacco Wins This Battle But Will They Win The War?

  M. Brandon Smith | August 13, 2006 8:36 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  The Florida Supreme Court recently over turned a $145 billion verdict rendered against big tobacco in a class action suit. The court in its 79 page decision held that the case should not have been certified as a class action suit on behalf of hundreds of thousands sick Florida smokers. The ruling however does not mark the end for all those sick plaintiffs seeking redress. Quite to the contrary,...

• High Recall Rate For Automated Defibrillators

  M. Brandon Smith | August 11, 2006 12:48 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  According to a recent article by the Journal of the American Medical Association, many patients utilizing automated external defibrillators are largely unaware of the high recall rates associated with these products. An automated external defibrillator, or AED as it is commonly referred to, works by giving the heart a controlled electric shock, forcing all the heart muscles to contract at once,...

• FDA Rejects New Drug Sparlon After Link To SJS

  M. Brandon Smith | August 10, 2006 4:59 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  The Food and Drug Administration recently rejected approval of Cephalon Inc.'s newest drug Sparlon, an attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder drug, after it was found to trigger Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), a serve allergic reaction that often times is fatal. The debilitating drug induced reaction kills thousands of consumers each year and was determined to be too great a risk for the...

• Shopping Carts And Lawsuits-A Way To Force Change

  M. Brandon Smith | August 09, 2006 8:20 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  In a recent study conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, more federal regulation is need in the area of shopping carts based on the inadequacy of their current design. Although most of the injuries occur when children in the carts are not strapped in, others do still have accidents due to the top heavy nature of the carts design and manufacture. A recent lawsuit was filed California...

• Asbestos Liability And Duites Extended To Cover Third Parties

  M. Brandon Smith | August 08, 2006 11:49 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  The New Jersey Supreme Court recently extended the duty landowners owe to workers for the foreseeable risk of asbestos exposure to their spouses based on the foreseeable risk of exposure from asbestos dust carried home on contaminated work clothing. This ruling, in direct contradiction with ruling in other states such as New York and Georgia is believed to the first of its kind anywhere in the...

• Lawn Mowers More Dangerous Than Thought

  M. Brandon Smith | August 08, 2006 10:52 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  In a recent study, lawn mowers were found to injure more than 9,000 children and teenagers a year in the United States alone. The study further shows the current standards for lawn mowers are inadequate and suggests that most of these injuries could be prevented by employing a few simple guidelines changes.According to Cbsnews.com:In the study, published in Pediatrics, researchers David Vollman,...