Since at least Black Friday and during the past holidays, hoverboards were the go-to gift. Thousands of these motorized self-balancing scooters were sold. However, they’ve proved to be a serious and very dangerous safety hazard, catching on fire while charging, exploding, and, consequently, causing fires in people’s homes. Additionally, the…
Last week, Fiat Chrysler announced a voluntary recall of approximately 1.4 million vehicles in response to an incident earlier in the week in which hackers demonstrated that they could take control of one of the company’s cars using the Internet. Affected vehicles include several popular models made by Fiat Chrysler’s…
“Check your airbags”, was the message given by Mark Rosekind, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at a news conference last Tuesday. According to Rosekind, Florida drivers are particularly at risk from the defective Takata air bags, since around three-quarters of ruptured air bags the agency has…
After months of pressure from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), yesterday, Takata Corporation, a Japanese company and one of the world’s largest suppliers of airbags admitted that their airbags are defective and has agreed to double the number of vehicles recalled in the United States to approximately $34…
One Monday morning in early February, Janet Yarbrough-Moody, a North Miami Beach resident and therapist stopped with her boyfriend, Gene at the Burger King located on West Dixie Highway in North Miami. She order an ice-cream cone and he order a vanilla ice cream sundae with chocolate syrup. Little did…
A new class action lawsuit against the Japanese airbag manufacturer, Takata, addresses the ever expanding numbers of cars affected by faulty airbags. The airbags have been known to violently inflate, explode before expanding enough to stop major damage, and even send dangerous metal shrapnel into the drivers and passengers of…
A resident of Oregon, Betty Schwartz, has filed a major personal injury and products liability case against the manufacturer of a metal-on-metal hip joint replacement, claiming multiple sources of damages. The lawsuit alleges that the manufacturer of her hip joint, Biomet, ignored the evidence of the damages caused by their…
Early this month, automotive giant GM failed in their attempt to keep a Georgia court from reopening a products liability case due to their massive recall started last year. In 2010, young Brooke Melton was killed when her vehicle hydroplaned, and many of the safety features of the GM vehicle…
A woman in Pennsylvania is seeking large compensatory damages for deep lacerations and lost time after she cut her hands on a shattered bowl in a Target store. The woman is seeking damages from both Target and the bowl’s manufacturer, claiming that both companies were negligent in allowing a defective…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a final rule on Monday that requires all new cars and many light trucks to come equipped with rearview technology. The rule is an effort to minimize the number of deaths and serious injuries that occur as a result backup accidents. According to…