Defective & Dangerous Products

• Theme Park Injuries Where the Ride Worked As Intended

  Ed Normand | March 12, 2009 1:02 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Lately we have been seeing inquiries from folks injured on theme park rides where the ride was operating as intended. Case in point, a visitor from the United Kingdom who sustained injuries...

• Peanut Butter Salmonella Outbreak Discovered in Kellogg Crackers

  Sandy Grinnell | January 20, 2009 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The salmonella contamination that was reported last week by the FDA has now been found in a package of Kellogg's brand Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter. Peanut paste and...

• Nebraska Beef Recalls Ground Beef for E. Coli - Again

  Sandy Grinnell | August 11, 2008 3:18 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  More than a million pounds of fresh ground beef has been recalled by an Omaha meat processing plant after 31 people were reported to have tested positive for E. Coli. Last month Nebraska Beef...

• Mandatory Taser Training for Cops Passes Florida House Committee

  Joe Saunders | March 18, 2006 11:26 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Florida police officers would be required to take four hours of training before using the Taser stun gun under HB 303 which was unanimously approved by the Florida House Criminal Justice Appropriations Committee. Presently, no training is required. The training requirement bill surfaced after many people have been seriously injured or killed after being hit by the Taser. Republican Dick...

• Fort Pierce Man Dies After Being Tasered in Emergency Room

  Joe Saunders | February 26, 2006 12:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A 48 year old Ft. Pierce man died after being tasered by police in a hospital ER. Samuel Hair, who used a pacemaker, was shocked with a Taser on Tuesday night after he became unruly in the emergency room at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute. He stopped moving after being hit twice with the weapon, which the manufacturer advertises as a nonlethal law enforcement tool. Jim...

• Medical Device Product Immunity Gets Another Look

  Ed Normand | August 23, 2009 12:20 PM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court in Riegel v. Medtronic ruled that a manufacturer could not be held liable if its medical device was defective, even when the device is recalled, as long as the device...

• Strict Liability or Negligence?

  Ed Normand | April 10, 2009 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  According to the Associated Press, a business that stores molasses-based cattle feed is being sued by neighbors for allowing 10,000 gallons of the substance to leak from a tank at...

• Whole Peanut Recall Adds More Items to FDA Recall List

  Sandy Grinnell | February 03, 2009 4:07 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The FDA has reported that the salmonella outbreak previously thought to involve only bulk peanut butter and peanut paste from a plant in Georgia has now been expanded to include whole peanuts. Most...

• More Peanut Butter Product Recalls Due to Salmonella

  Sandy Grinnell | January 21, 2009 2:14 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The contamination of peanut butter products by Peanut Corporation of America has spread to more and more products each day. Here is a list of the FDA recalls received just today: Premier Nutrition...

• Most Pools Against Federal Regulation

  Diego Madrigal | January 21, 2009 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A report says that most of the public pools in the United States, do not meet the standard of the new federal regulation regarding drains. About 240,000 of the 300,000 pools and hot tubs found in...