Defective & Dangerous Products

• Tire failure deaths promt lawsuit against tire maker

  IB Contributor | March 23, 2007 7:41 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Relatives of five people killed in a car wreck in Ontario last week have filed a lawsuit blaming a defective tire for the crash, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reported today.The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, seeks unspecified damages from North Carolina-based Continental Tire North America and alleges wrongful death, breach of warranty and negligence. The crash occurred March...

• School cafeterias lack safety inspections

  IB Contributor | March 19, 2007 10:03 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Millions of children eat in school cafeterias that don't get the twice-yearly health inspections required by Congress to help prevent food poisoning, according to an Associated Press investigation. The complete report is posted on MSNBC's Web site.The article states that schools are supposed to get two visits from health inspectors every year. But one in 10 schools did not get inspected at all...

• Plane crash victims sue aircraft manufacturer

  IB Contributor | March 16, 2007 6:27 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Defective parts blamed for crashes. Families of several victims killed in two separate plane crashes in Indonesia are suing the aircraft manufacturers for manufacturing defective parts, which they say resulted in the crashes, according to a news report Thursday in The Australian.According to an Indonesian attorney quoted in the article, a lawsuit naming Boeing Corporation and United Technologies...

• Ryobi Recalls Router Throat Plates

  Christina Cole | March 08, 2007 1:59 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  100,000 Ryobi Router Table throat plates are being recalled.The throat plate can come loose during use and be ejected from the table top, posing a safety hazard and laceration risk.So far, the company has received three reports of the plates becoming loose during use. Two of the three consumers were hit in the nose by the throat plates and had minor bruising and cuts.The product recall includes...

• Fisher-Price Pays $1 million Penalty.

  IB Contributor | March 05, 2007 12:37 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  They failed to disclose a defective product.Toy maker Fisher-Price has been fined close to $1 million for failing to report a product defect, a serious choking hazard with its Little People Animal Sounds Farm, a popular children's toy, according to a report posted on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Web site.New York-based Fisher-Price has agreed to pay $975,000 in penalties because...

• More Tainted Meat Recalled

  IB Contributor | March 02, 2007 9:12 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Kraft Foods expands cooked chicken recall.Federal agriculture officials on Wednesday said that Kraft Foods contractor, Carolina Culinary Foods, has expanded its recall of cooked Oscar Meyer/Louis Rich chicken breast cutlets and strips because of ongoing concerns that some packages may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the bacterium that causes listeriosis.A Reuters report said about...

• Rats Run Wild At NY Taco Bell / Pizza Hut

  IB Contributor | February 27, 2007 12:29 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  As seen on TV.The national hysteria over unsanitary conditions in our country's restaurants and markets continued this week when television stations captured footage of shrieking onlookers as they saw numerous rats scurrying around a closed Taco Bell/Pizza Hut restaurant in Greenwich Village Friday morning.The restaurant, near New York University has been cited as recently as two months ago for...

• Peanut Butter Jars Test Positive For Salmonella

  IB Contributor | February 26, 2007 12:06 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  How did the Salmonella get in the jar?One week after ConAgra Foods Inc. pulled its Peter Pan brand of peanut butter off the shelves following a salmonella outbreak, the Center for Disease Control has confirmed the presence of the dangerous bacteria in the jars.Opened jars from people who were sickened after eating the peanut butter tested positive for the salmonella, according to an Associated...

• Escalator Injures Children In Orange County Mall

  IB Contributor | February 25, 2007 12:19 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Mall manager admits to "substandard escalators".At least four people were injured or trapped over the last three years and as recently as two weeks ago at the Kaleidoscope Courtyards mall in Mission Viejo, according to an article in The Orange County Register Saturday.Early last year, state inspectors shut down six out of 12 escalators at the outdoor mall for not having valid permits because of...

• $13.5 Million Settlement in Army Helicopter Crash

  IB Contributor | February 23, 2007 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Boeing and other settle soldiers defective product claims. A federal judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday approved a $13.5 million settlement of a lawsuit filed against the Boeing Co. and three other companies by two soldiers who were hurt in a 2003 Army helicopter crash in Iraq, according to an Associated Press news report.The product liability lawsuit claimed that a gear box on an AH-64 Apache...