Product Liability

Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Lithonia Lighting Recalls 1.7 million Emergency Lights Due to Fire Hazard   Sunbeam Recalls 151,600 Holmes Ceramic Heaters Due to Fire Hazard   Hamilton Beach Recalls 3,…

Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Gree Reannounces Dehumidifier Recall Due to Serious Fire and Burn Hazards; More Fires and Property Damage Reported. 2.5 million units recalled. Office Depot Recalls 1,400,…

Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: IKEA Reannounces and Expands Recall of Children’s Wall-Mounted Lamps Due to Strangulation Hazard to 3.5 million DGL Group Recalls 99,000 Vibe USB Mobile Power Bars Due to…

A lawsuit has been filed in Philadelphia on behalf of a woman who was killed in a gas explosion that destroyed or damaged 55 condominium units Ewing Township, N.J. Named as defendants were Public Electric Service & Gas Co. and contractor Henkels & McCoy, Inc. The suit was filed on behalf of…

 In further news on the massive transvaginal mesh litigation … Lee Balefsky is now a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee involved in all cases nationwide. Balefsky, head of Kline & Specter’s Mass Tort Department, was also named as liasion counsel in the Philadelphia Mass Tort Pelvic…

Tom Kline has been named co-liaison counsel by the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia for the coordinated litigation involving the drug Risperdal. The anti-psychotic pharmaceutical has been linked to abnormal breast growth in males, including children, adolescents and adults, a condition called…

Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following: • Hitachi Koki grass trimmers, fire and burn hazard (127,400 units) • Air compressors by MAT Industries, shock hazard (107,000)  • Twin-Star Duraflame electric space heaters, fire…

Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following: IKEA recalled SMILA-Series children’s wall-mounted lamps due to strangulation hazard; one child death reported ( 23 million units ) Angelcare recalled Repair Movement and Sound Baby…

American Honda recently issued a recall of 21,000 of its 2012 and 2013 Honda FourTrax TRX500 Foreman ATV’s. The all-terrain vehicles have steering shafts that can potentially break and cause riders to lose control. The ATV’s were manufactured in the United States and sold at Honda ATV dealerships…

LaRose Industries recently recalled 102,000 of its Cra-Z-Art Snoopy Sno-Cone machines. So far there have been 64 incident reports filed for the defective Sno-Cone machines that pose a risk of mouth and teeth injury due to brass rivets that can fall out of the machines ice-shaving cylinder. The Sno-…