Posts tagged Defective Products

• Escalator Injures Children In Orange County Mall

  IB Contributor | February 25, 2007 12:19 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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 Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Feds Try To Clear Confusion About Child Car Seats

  IB Contributor | February 10, 2007 2:54 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is asking manufacturers, retailers and consumer groups to make child safety seats easier to install.Nicole Nason who heads the NHTSA said Thursday that improving the use and safety is child car seats and the special anchors used to attach them to the vehicles is a combined effort - especially in light of new evidence which shows parents...

• A Million Easy-Bake Ovens Recalled

  IB Contributor | February 09, 2007 2:23 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Hasbro Inc. has recalled nearly a million Easy-Bake Ovens sold since last May. Children were get their hands or fingers caught in the oven's opening, which poses an entrapment or burn hazard, according to an article on the Consumer Product Safety Commission's Web site. Checking the article out if you have questions or concerns. At least 29 reports of children getting their fingers or hands...

• Maytag Recalls Millions Of Diswashers

  IB Contributor | February 05, 2007 7:57 PM | 2 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Was the recall voluntary? Maytag officials last week recalled 2.3 million of its dishwashers after they found out that the faulty appliances caused 135 fires and four injuries, according to an MSNBC news report.The announcement generated so many calls to the company that it could not handle the volume, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.The news report said...

• Grill Maker Fails To Report Product Defect

  IB Contributor | January 22, 2007 9:50 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  $300,000 Civil Penalty Paid. Nexgrill Industries Inc., based in the City of Industry, has agreed to pay a $300,000 civil penalty to settle allegations that the company failed to report a hazard with its gas grills, according to a Consumer Product Safety Commission report last week. CPSC alleged that the firm failed to report a defect with Nexgrill Gas Grill Model 720-0025 in a timely manner,...

• Consumer Reports Retracts Infant Car Seat Study

  IB Contributor | January 19, 2007 12:18 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Consumer Reports magazine is now saying that the study it released earlier this month stating that most infant car seats failed when tested in high-speed vehicle crashes, is actually flawed.The magazine posted the retraction on its Web site, www.consumerreports.com, after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials pointed out that the side-impact tests were actually conducted...

• Cell Phone Fire Leaves Man in Critical Condition

  IB Contributor | January 18, 2007 12:17 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Are you carrying a bomb around with you?On Saturday night, Luis Picaso, a 59-year-old man from Vallejo, Calif. Was in critical condition at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento after a cell phone caught fire in his pants, according to a report in consumeraffairs.com.The phone ignited Picaso's clothes as he was sleeping in a hotel room and he reportedly suffered burns on 50 percent of his body....

• Child Car Seats Fail Safety Testing

  IB Contributor | January 06, 2007 6:56 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Check How Your Child's Seat PerformedCar seats are safe little cocoons for your little ones where they will be snug and safe as you cruise down freeways and city streets - right?WRONG, say the experts at Consumer Reports magazine, who tested 12 infant seats, including many of the most popular and fast-selling name brands. They found the car seats we count on to protect our babies "failed...

• Propane Heaters - The Silent Killers

  IB Contributor | January 04, 2007 7:51 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Wrongful Death Lawsuits Filed - Recall DemandedJarden Corp's Coleman Co. unit, that manufactures outdoor recreation equipment, has been named in two lawsuits, which claim that the company's propane heaters were responsible for five deaths in Washington state, according to a Bloomberg News report. Victims' families say in the lawsuits that two people died while using the heater in a camper and...