The federal government has a system that is supposed to ensure that prescription drugs do not hit the market until they are proven safe and effective. While regulators like the Food and Drug Administration have no doubt saved countless American lives, the system is...
Product Liability
Kentucky to seek out defective guardrails
Kentucky’s top transportation officials say that they plan to manually identify the defective ET-Plus guardrails used in their highway systems, WDRB reported November 6. Kentucky Department of Transportation Secretary Mike Hancock stated that an inventory of the...
Defective airbags prompt massive recall by Honda, Mazda & Nissan
Three major Japanese car manufacturers–Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Mazda Motor Corp., and Nissan Motor Corp.–have issued a recall to millions of their vehicles around the world due to concerns that the airbags are defective and prone to explosions, the Associated Press...
Compensation for victims of GM ignition switch defects will not be capped
Kenneth Feinberg, compensation expert for General Motors (GM), stated that the company will not provide a limit as to what each victim can receive in terms of monetary settlement. Overall, Feinberg said at a press conference in Washington D.C. that the settlement...
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphones no longer allowed on American flights
Passengers and flight crew members will not be allowed to bring their Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on airline flights within, from, or to the United States under an emergency order announced on Friday, October 14. The Department of Transportation made the order...
Electronic cigarettes leading cause of burn cases in a Seattle hospital
A new study conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine showed that 15 of the burn cases at the University of Washington Medicine Regional Burn Center in Seattle occurred as a result of electronic cigarettes or vaporizers. These alternatives to cigarettes use a...