Defective Products

On Oct. 23, Iowa-based grocery chain Hy-Vee warned consumers that onions sold at its stores between Aug. 13 and Sept. 1 are part of a multistate salmonella outbreak that has sickened over 160 people. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease...

One difficult part of personal injury law is winning compensation from dangerous prescription drug lawsuits. Typically, these lawsuits fall under product liability laws. These cases are challenging due to the sheer amount of resources that pharmaceutical companies...

If you have bought into the pressure cooking craze in recent years, you may have been excited to pressure cook foods. Unfortunately, many people who use these pressure cookers experience injuries from their use. This guide will provide some information to individuals...

From defibrillators to hip replacement implants, advanced medical devices save and improve hundreds of thousands of lives a year. Unfortunately, devices meant to up your quality of life sometimes do the opposite. An injury from advanced medical devices can cause...

Medical device cases can end up causing world-wide legal trouble for companies. That’s what’s been happening with surgical meshes for hernia cases. Hundreds of thousands of victims had these meshes implanted to solve a variety of problems like prolapse and...

Almost all accidents are caused due to driver failure, but there are still many which are caused by mechanical defects in the car. The at-fault driver may have done everything they could to avoid the accident, but the car wouldn’t let them. This raises an important...

Medical mesh implants can be used to treat a few conditions, both in men and in women. One type of mesh is used to treat hernias, with surgeons relying on mesh to help keep hernias from recurring and to help reduce surgery time. Over 90% of groin hernias utilize...

Millions of products are available for sale on store shelves. Most of these products are safe, thanks to strong consumer protection laws. However, product testing cannot catch every flawed product. This means that the public is always at a small risk of injury from...

The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for testing the safety of drugs and medical devices before they become available. However, early testing doesn’t always catch problems, which can have disastrous medical consequences on the public. When these are found,...