More than 70 people have joined together to sue ConAgra Foods for personal injury. ConAgra is the packaged food company that produces some of the jars of Peter Pan Peanut Butter and Great Value Peanut Butter. Other individual lawsuits are also pending. ConAgra has agreed to a recall of the…
Howard County Police Chief William J. McMahon wants the County Council to repeal a law banning the use of stun guns because he wants to equip several of his officers with Tasers. The handheld stun gun incapacitates a person for five seconds by shooting probes into that person’s skin. Several…
In one of the many thousands of products liability Vioxx-related lawsuits that have been brought against Merck and Co., a Texas judge upheld a ruling that held the pharmaceutical company responsible for the death of Leonel Garza. Garza died in 2001 from a heart attack believed to have been caused…
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says that defective products cause more than 29.5 million injuries and close to 22,000 deaths in the US each year. Some reasons for why a manufactured product might be defective: – design defects – defective manufacturing – inadequate testing – marketing misrepresentation – includes…