What is the worst kind of defective product? A good candidate is a baby-killer. And that is what the Infanto Baby Slings “SlingRider” and “Wendy Bellissimo” (sold by several large retailiers such as Target, Babies R Us and Burlington Coat) turned out to be. Today the federal agency responsible for…
Cover-ups. Personal injury lawyers here in Syracuse, Central New York, and everywhere, love them. We play them for all they are worth. Think about those big tobacco lawsuits. Would those smokers have rung the bell with those big pain and suffering verdicts without evidence that the tobacco industry had covered…
Surprise, surprise. Toyota is getting sued. Just this past Monday, a grieving Texas widower filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Toyota, claiming that a defective accelerator pedal in a 2009 Corolla caused his wife’s death. There have been about 10 lawsuits filed in the U.S. and Canada so far for…
Child safety is a major personal concern of mine. I have five children; three grown, and two not quite. As such, I know first-hand the worries of a parent about dangerous or defective toys. Although toys are not always safe in the U.S., I believe we have the safest toys…
This holiday season, hundreds of central New Yorkers will unknowingly purchase dangerous defective toys in malls and stores in Syracuse, Rochester, Auburn, Geneva, Waterloo and other upstate cities. Dangerous Toys Lead to Injury, Death and, eventually, to defective product Lawsuits. According to the most recent U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission…
In a New York product liability case, the jury recently awarded $8.75 Million to a pedestrian whose leg was crushed, and later amputated, when he was hit by a 1987 Volvo 740 wagon. The car did not have a “clutch starter safety switch”, which requires the clutch to be pressed…
On Tuesday, November 24, I took my two children (Sebastian, 12 and Nico, 10) to get their H1NI flu vaccination at the Bristol Field House at Hobart William Smith College in Geneva, Ontario County, New York, where we live. Although I firmly believe this was the right decision, I can…