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...
by Anthony Braaten | Sep 24, 2020 | PRODUCT LIABILITY
PHILADELPHIA— United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Thomas J. Whalen, D.O., 65, of Berwyn, PA, has agreed to pay the United States $1,257,499.00 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that he submitted or caused the submission of false...
by Anthony Braaten | Sep 18, 2020 | PRODUCT LIABILITY
Health Canada announced it was aware that the probable human carcinogen NDMA (N-nitrosodimethylamine) has been detected at unsafe levels in some Zantac (ranitidine) products, and the agency is closely assessing the issue with other drug regulators internationally,...
by Anthony Braaten | Sep 2, 2020 | PRODUCT LIABILITY
A Virginia woman got the attention of General Motors and federal regulators after she turned to her local news station to describe how her 2019 Chevy Bolt spontaneously combusted when it was parked and turned off. Hajime Rojas of Fairfax told Washington...
