Blog: Product Liability
- When a Defective Product Injures a Person, It is Essential to Hire an Attorney Immediately so the Product is Not Altered
Oct 30, 2024
When a person is injured due to a defective or malfunctioning product, it is imperative to get an attorney involved as soon as possible. Whether it is a vehicle, medical device, or anything in between and beyond, a product put into the stream of commerce for consumers to use should be one that is safe for its intended use. When the product turns out not to be safe and injures the user or someone else, whoever...Read More - Crashworthiness: Assessing When Catastrophic Injuries from Vehicle Accidents are Caused by Failures in Design
Sep 18, 2024
{Preface: Coben has a long history of winning crashworthiness cases against vehicle manufacturers. In 2024, he and Anapol Weiss shareholder Kila Baldwin won a $20.7 million verdict against Honda Motor Company for a faulty motorcycle gas cap design.} Cars, pick-up trucks, SUVs, vans, motorcycles and over-the-road trucks must all be built to be crashworthy. That means that they must be designed to minimize the risk of serious and catastrophic injury in crashes. The scope of this...Read More - Holding the Retailer Accountable: Wal-Mart and the Harmony Youth Booster
Jul 1, 2024
Consumer products are manufactured by offshore companies more than ever before. In the wake of this, we now must hook the retailers where these products are sold with liability for selling a defective product. This is especially true in the child safety world. In 2008, a Canadian company by the name of Harmony Juvenile Products created a car seat called the Harmony Youth Booster. This car seat was horribly defective as the design allows the...Read More - Lawsuits Against Foreign Manufacturers: Difficulties Obtaining Jurisdiction
Apr 5, 2024
Published: The Legal Intelligencer Every day, consumers, workers, and sports enthusiasts use products made in other countries and then imported to the United States. Imports of consumer goods to the United States reached an all-time high in 2022. Americans’ reliance on and use of products designed, manufactured, and then imported to the U.S. from overseas creates significant legal issues when a consumer is injured, maimed, or killed using one of these products. One very profound legal...Read More - CDC and FDA Issues New Warnings and Additional Recall Notices: Drug-resistant bacteria connected to eye drops leads to 3 deaths, 8 reported cases of vision loss, and 4 reports of surgical removal of eyeballs
Mar 14, 2023
After the recall of EzriCare & Delsma Pharma: Artificial Tears Lubricant Eye Drops in February 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now issued voluntary recall of two more eye drops. Apotex and Pharmedica, the drugs’ companies, said they recalled their products, Apotex: Brimonidine Tartrate Ophthalmic Solution, 0.15%, and Purely Soothing: 15% MSM Drops, respectively, due to sterility concerns. Bacterial contamination in eye drops can cause serious infections, vision loss, and sometimes even death...Read More - 2023 Fabuloso Multi-Purpose Cleaners Recall & Class Action Lawsuit
Feb 17, 2023
Colgate-Palmolive has recently announced a recall of its popular Fabuloso Multi-Purpose Cleaners due to concerns that the products may expose consumers to harmful bacteria. This Feb. 8, 2023 recall was in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Consumers who have purchased these products are recommended to stop using them immediately. Why were the Fabuloso products recalled? The recall was initiated due to concerns about potentially harmful Pseudomononas species bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas fluorescens,...Read More - Autonomous Vehicles—Collision Avoidance Technology
Aug 4, 2021
Making It Easier and Safer: How Should The Civil Justice System Respond? In 1968, Herbie was the star of a movie called The Love Bug. Herbie was a fictionalized version of what the auto industry and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration now call “autonomous” or “driverless vehicles.” Over the years, movie goers and TV audiences have laughed, cheered and marveled at similar cars in the Batman series, I Robot, the Minority Report and the Knight Rider...Read More - Corporations Are Subject to Product Liability Suit in States Where They Market Their Products
Aug 4, 2021
Holding Multi-National and Interstate Corporations Subject To Suit In The States Where They Market Their Products Is Appropriate. When the defendant’s product—designed and sold outside the Commonwealth—is used in the forum state while in a defective condition (that existed when it was first released into the stream of commerce) and the injury occurs in the forum, the tort has “arisen out of or relates to” the defendant’s activities, and jurisdiction lies in the Commonwealth. The location...Read More - Pennsylvania Products Liability Law and The Consumer Expectation Test of Defect
Aug 4, 2021
Protecting Consumers From Defective Products Every day, millions of Pennsylvanians purchase or use products designed, manufactured and distributed by companies yearning for a profit and distributing their goods across this country. Whether the product is as simple as a ladder or a helmet, or as complex as a motor vehicle filled with electronic gadgetry, we all depend upon these consumer goods to meet our expectations, providing the benefit for which they are marketed. And, when a...Read More - 7 Most Common Defenses to Product Liability Claims
May 3, 2021
Defenses to product liability claims are employed by companies to avoid paying out damages in the event of a personal injury lawsuit. The act of filing a claim for product liability can seem daunting. After suffering an injury through no fault of their own, many victims are then faced with the stress of rapidly accumulating medical bills, painful recovery, and the prospect of taking on a larger legal team backed by deep corporate pockets. With...Read More