Product Liability Blog

MILWAUKEE (July 30, 2019) – Health officials say eight Wisconsin teens were hospitalized with serious lung damage and suspect the injuries were caused by vaping. All eight patients, who live in Milwaukee, Waukesha and Winnebago counties, tested negative for infectious diseases and reported vaping in the weeks and months prior…

About 4.7 million Rock ’n Play Sleepers have been recalled by Fisher-Price after a Consumer Reports investigation warned that at least 32 infants had died in the sleepers over the past 10 years. The company issued the recall on April 12, saying that babies who were placed unrestrained in the…

CHICAGO (March 26, 2019) – During flight simulations recreating problems encountered by the Lion Air plane that crashed in Indonesia last fall, pilots discovered they had less than 40 seconds to override an automated system on Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft. The pilots tested the software, known as MCAS, by putting themselves in…

CHICAGO (March 19, 2019) – About three dozen lawsuits have been filed following the fatal crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 in Indonesia that killed 189 people last year. Now that a second Boeing aircraft has crashed in Ethiopia, plaintiffs lawyers are looking into whether there could be a…

HARTFORD, Conn. (March 15, 2019) –  The Connecticut Supreme Court has reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting against Remington Arms, the manufacturer of the rifle used in the shooting. An eventual ruling against Remington could establish legal precedent, opening…

CHICAGO (March 11, 2019) – Hundreds of veterans are filing lawsuits against a government contractor that manufactured and sold defective combat earplugs to the military. 3M’s trademarked, dual-ended Combat Arms earplugs were touted as a mechanism to block out damaging combat sounds such as explosions and gunfire while allowing soldiers…

WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (October 30, 2018) – Attorney General Lisa Madigan and DuPage County state’s attorney Robert Berlin filed a bipartisan lawsuit Tuesday saying the cancer-causing gas released by Sterigenics in Willowbrook is so dangerous that the company is violating state laws put in place to protect residents from harmful pollution. In…

CHICAGO (May 12, 2017)- A recent report claims a number of parked, turned-off BMW cars have suddenly, and inexplicably burst into flames. Dozens of incidents have been reported across the country in which the luxury cars caught fire, despite the fact the affected owners had parked and turned off their…

Blood clot filters are supposed to help save lives. They are commonly used on patients who are unable to tolerate blood-thinning medications. However, NBC News recently conducted an investigation into one U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved device: The Recovery blood clot filter by C.R. Bard, Inc. The news organization…

The Stryker Citation is a hip replacement component tipped with titanium. Used along with the Accolade and Meridian, the Citation constitutes parts of a hip implant. Approximately 20,000 people are using Stryker hip replacements in the United States alone. But the implants have been coming under fire for the same…