by Anthony Braaten | Oct 27, 2020 | TALCUM POWDER INJURY
Consumer health care giant Johnson & Johnson announced earlier this month that it would pay $100 million to settle 1,000 lawsuits among nearly 20,000 from women who claim the company’s iconic baby powder was tainted with asbestos and other impurities and caused...
by Anthony Braaten | Oct 23, 2020 | PRODUCT LIABILITY
Mattel Inc. and its subsidiary Fisher-Price were hit with two wrongful death lawsuits by two sets of parents who claim the company’s Rock ‘N Play Sleeper was defective and caused the deaths of their babies, according to Law360. In April 2019, the Consumer Product...
by Anthony Braaten | Oct 22, 2020 | PRODUCT LIABILITY
A Connecticut school district is telling students to power off their school-provided tablets after the lithium-ion battery in one student’s device overheated and burned through the student’s backpack. In a Thursday, Oct. 15 letter to parents, Bristol Public Schools...
by Anthony Braaten | Oct 20, 2020 | PRODUCT LIABILITY
Beasley Allen and several other law firms are representing a class of plaintiffs who allege the ZF TRW airbag and seat belt control units in more than 15 million U.S. vehicles are prone to fail in a crash, leaving motorists unprotected. According to the sprawling...
by Anthony Braaten | Oct 16, 2020 | PRODUCT LIABILITY
The generic drug industry is urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “revisit and potentially reassess” its safety limits for common nitrosamines in pharmaceutical drugs and is proposing the agency instead adopt a “balanced risk-based approach” to evaluating...
