Fire Alarms that Fail During Fires Recalled by Sure Signal Products
Sure Signal Products issued a recall of around 375,000 heat-activated fire alarms last Thursday, October 29th. Apparently, these marvels of modern engineering have an issue with a fuse that prevents them from going off during a fire, making these items the most fire-alarm looking decorations around. Who Makes this Product? The product is manufactured by...
Another Honda Airbag Recall?
Last Thursday, October 29, Honda announced another airbag recall related to malfunctioning Takata airbags that can potentially rupture and shoot metal fragments into a driver. The recall affects 515 2016 Honda CR-V's. While absolutely tiny compared to the massive recall of over 19 million vehicles earlier in the year, it appears that the problem is...
Auvi-Q Injectors Recalled Due To Dosage Issues
On Friday, October 30th, a voluntary recall was issued for all Auvi-Q epinephrine injectors on the market, due to issues with improper dosage. In some cases the injectors failed to deliver any epinephrine at all. These devices are used by people suffering acute allergic reactions, or anaphylaxis. In an emergency, the devices may fail to...
The Bizarre Death of Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, Cryotherapy, and The Law
News broke this morning that a worker at a Nevada spa, Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, was killed in an accident involving a cryotherapy* tank. According to reports, Ms. Ake-Salvacion decided to take a dip in the cryotherapy tank after work, unsupervised, and an accident occurred. Her body was discovered frozen solid the next day. Other reports, citing...
Can the Producers of “Legal Highs” be Sued Successfully?
The manufacturers of a class of custom-made drugs known as "legal highs" have seemingly found a way to sell incredibly dangerous products, deny the product's known usage, and then hide behind their disclaimer to avoid any legal accountability. We've got a problem with that. And, as we'll discuss, we think there may be a way...
18-Wheeler Rollover Accidents Shouldn’t Be Fatal
There's a huge problem that has claimed the lives of truck drivers for years, yet most people are completely unaware of it: minor rollover incidents that crush truckers to death. At certain high speeds a rollover accident is simply unsurvivable, and I'm not suggesting that manufacturers build indestructible cars that can survive any impact at...
18-Wheelers Have Unprotected Fuel Tanks and That’s a Problem
Each year, somewhere between several dozen and one hundred truck drivers burn to death. These incidents get reported, the news basically implies that the truck drivers killed themselves, and no one seems to care beyond that. Then it happens again, and again, and again. But let's get one thing perfectly clear: The majority of these...
Client Stories: Products Liability in a Boating Accident
Not all accidents are like the ones you see on the news. As a matter of fact, it's often the case that an accident will seem to have been caused by one thing, and turn out to have been caused by something completely different. This is one of those cases. A few years ago, we...
