Posts tagged Defective Products

• ConAgra Expands Peanut Butter Recall

  David Lowe | March 02, 2007 4:56 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The recall of salmonella contaminated peanut butter has been expanded to products manufactured since December 2005. Also, ConAgra has disclosed that it sent bulk peanut butter to another plant where it was mixed into other products.The FDA has issued the following notice warning about contaminated peanut butter ingredients in the following products:Consumers who have any of the products listed...

• Jury Finds U-Haul Tow Dolly Defective and Unreasonably Dangerous

  David Lowe | February 27, 2007 6:51 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A federal court jury in Louisville, Kentucky awarded $10.4 million to a 25 year old Florida woman and her family for injuries sustained when their SUV pulling a U-Haul International, Inc. tow dolly jackknifed and overturned, rendering the woman paraplegic.The Burke family was moving from Indianapolis to Florida to start a new life and was driving though Kentucky pulling a 1999 Ford Contour on a...

• Defective Seatbelt Leads to Wrongful Death Verdict

  David Lowe | February 24, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A Texas jury has awarded $24 million to the family of an 18 year old woman who died in a roll-over accident after being ejected from the vehicle, allegedly due to a defective seatbelt.The manufacturer of the seatbelt, Honeywell International, Inc., plans to appeal the verdict. Honeywell contends that the woman was not wearing her seatbelt at the time of the accident, but the family argued that...

• Peanut Butter Salmonella Outbreak Hits Wisconsin

  David Lowe | February 21, 2007 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Peanut butter contaminated with Salmonella has sickened at least six Wisconsin consumers according to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. The six reported cases took place between September 5, 2006 and January 28, 2007, and sickened consumers in several Wisconsin counties, including Dane, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Outagamie, Washington and Winnebago. ConAgra Food's peanut butter...

• Manufacturer of OxyContin Settles Lawsuits

  David Lowe | January 29, 2007 10:34 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Pharmaceutical manufacturer Purdue Pharma has announced that it has settled over 1,000 OxyContin cases related to its controversial painkiller OxyContin.The suits claimed damages from OxyContin addiction or overdose. While claiming that it had resolved nearly every case in its favor, Purdue spokesman Timothy Bannon explained Purdue's decision to settle over 90 percent of all pending cases in 10...

• Table Collapse Kills Young Girl

  David Lowe | January 04, 2007 11:47 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that an 8 year old girl was killed and her 11 year old cousin injured when a large table collapsed or overturned at a Beloit laundromat. The death was caused by crushing injuries to the head when the table fell. The facts of the tragedy remain unclear, although local police are calling it a tragic accident rather than a crime. The authorities will...

• Zyprexa Side-Effects Suspected In Man's Death

  David Lowe | January 04, 2007 6:53 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Today's New York Times presents a portrait of a man whose family believes died from side effects of Zyprexa. The man had been on the anti-psychotic drug manufactured by Eli Lilly, also known as olanzipine, for over five years to treat his bipolar disorder and control hallucinations. While the drug had stabilized his moods, his weight ballooned and he developed serious heart disease and died. ...

• Texas Jury Awards Punitive Damages in Remicade Verdict

  David Lowe | December 18, 2006 6:50 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Blogger Beth Janicek of San Antonio Personal Injury Blog reports that a Texas jury has rendered a verdict against against drug manufacturer Centocor, Inc. for failing to warn doctors and consumers about the side effects of the drug Remicade. The jury awarded nearly $20 million to a woman who alleged that she developed lupus from using Remicade. Believed to be the first Remicade verdict, the...

• Propane Explosion In Factory Kills 3 Workers, Injures Many Others

  David Lowe | December 06, 2006 4:27 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  An apparent propane gas explosion at a Milwaukee factory has claimed the lives of at least three workers and injured at least 37 others. Rescue workers are sifting through the remnants of the building in which the explosion occurred, part of the Falk Corporation manufacturing headquarters in the Menominee Valley adjacent to downtown Milwaukee. According to a report on the Milwaukee Journal...

• Pregnant Woman Warned Against Use Of Paxil

  David Lowe | November 30, 2006 10:09 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Pregnant woman are being urged to avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil because of the risk of birth defects. A committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has issued the warning based on two separate studies showing that children born to women taking Paxil during their first trimester have experienced nearly twice the incidence of heart defects.In December 2005, the...