The Element of a Defective Product Case There's a common misperception that because a product is on the shelves, adequate safety testing has been done to ensure that it doesn't pose an unreasonable risk of injury to consumers. For a variety of … [Read more...]
The Different Types of Product Liability Claims in New Jersey
Your Rights When Injured by a Dangerous or Defective Product When you purchase an item off the shelf or online, you expect that the designers, manufacturers and distributors of the product have considered all the potential dangers that the product … [Read more...]
General Electric to Recall Thousands of Infant Warmers
FDA Announces Action after More than 300 Complaints The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has disclosed that multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) must immediately recall around 25,000 units of its Panda i-Res and Giraffe Infant … [Read more...]
The New Jersey Product Liability Act
Protecting Your Rights When You've Been Injured by a Defective Product As we discussed in an earlier blog, there are three different types of product liability claims in New Jersey: lawsuits based on defective design, on defective manufacturing and … [Read more...]
Your Rights When You’ve Been Hurt by a Dangerous or Defective Product
The Different Product Liability Claims There's a common misperception that all products that make it to the market have been sufficiently tested to determine whether they pose a risk of injury to consumers. That's not necessarily true. In the rush … [Read more...]
The Different Types of Product Liability Claims
When you purchase a product online or in a bricks and mortar store, you expect that the manufacturer or marketer of the product has properly tested it to ensure that it doesn't pose an unreasonable risk of injury to the public. Unfortunately, that's … [Read more...]
Construction Site Product Liability Claims
Residential and commercial construction sites are among the most dangerous places in the country to work. One of the common causes of these types of injuries is a dangerous or defective product, what the law refers to as "product liability." Under … [Read more...]
Two People Die in New Jersey House Fire
State Officials Suspend Pharmacist for Incident Involving Bogus Cialis A woman and her five-year-old granddaughter were killed in a house fire in Little Ferry earlier this month. Authorities say the fire consumed most of a three-story home on … [Read more...]
E-Cigarettes Pose Significant Danger to Small Children
As sales of electronic cigarettes have skyrocketed---analysts project that by 2017, vaping and e-cigarettes will be a $10 billion industry—so have the number of injuries reported by users. Most of the concerns thus far have been tied to defective … [Read more...]
Knee Implant Recalls
What You Need to Know In March, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a recall notice governing the Persona Trabecular Metal Tibial Plate, manufactured by Zimmer Biomet, a small company in Indiana. The recall is the fourth one issued … [Read more...]
