Buying toys and gifts for loved ones this season? Here are some tips to keep in mind, especially if shopping for young children. Many popular toys come with severe injury risks, specifically the risk of eye injuries. Injuries involving toys are far too common to ignore. The Consumer Product Safety…
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FDA’s Poor Oversight of Disposable Wipes Makers Poses Safety Risk to Consumers
The Food and Drug Administration has failed in its responsibility to maintain oversight over companies that manufacture disposable wipes.As a result, sanitation and hygiene standards at these facilities have dropped, and the result has been several fatalities and infections across the country caused by contaminated wipes.An investigation by the Milwaukee-Wisconsin…
Company Recalls Dining Tables Due to Personal Injury Risks
A California-based company and the Consumer Product Safety Commission are announcing a recall of dining tables, because of the risk that the tables could collapse, injuring consumers. As any personal injury attorney who has handled a collapsing table or chair case can attest, the injuries from this type of incident…
CPSC Product Safety Database Hit with First Lawsuit – Effort to limit likelihood of Product Liability Claims
This was something that Atlanta personal injury lawyers had been expecting.Ever since the Consumer Product Safety Commission database that allows consumers to upload complaints about products went online, the attorneys at our law firm have been expecting manufacturers to challenge the manner in which the database allows consumers to publicly…
Airline Passengers at Risk for Food Poisoning
Airline Passengers at Higher Risk of Food Poisoning All those jokes about bad airline food don’t seem so funny when you read a new report by USA Today. According to the report, Food and Drug Administration inspections have found poor sanitary conditions at some of the biggest airline catering companies…
Consumer Product Safety Database Available Next Year
New CPSC Database Will Let Consumers Know of Product Injuries Before a Recall The Consumer Product Safety Commission is investing more than $20 million in establishing a searchable database that will make information about product injuries available to consumers before any recall is announced. It’s a development that was long…
Baby Slings Pose Suffocation Risk
Baby slings, those soft and snuggly baby carriers that are all the rage, have now come under the microscope at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The agency is expected to make an announcement later this week, warning about the special risks of suffocation to babies, especially newborns, who are placed…
Food Poisoning Costs US Economy $157 Billion Per Year
For years, conservative estimates of losses from food borne illnesses in the US have placed the figure as low as $6.9 billion, and as high as $35 billion every year. As a new report into food safety in the country shows, those figures are barely the tip of the iceberg.…
Trial Lawyers Keep Consumers Safe
The Wall Street Journal has published an opinion piece by a trial lawyer making the case for product liability trial attorneys who help keep manufacturers of defective products on their toes. In the wake of the Toyota scandal, this much is clear. American consumers can expect little protection from agencies…
How to Shop for Safe Toys During the Holidays
Georgia Product Liability Lawyers Show You How to Shop for Safe Toys The year’s biggest shopping season has begun, and millions of parents will be making the all-important decision – what to give the special little someone in your life. While choices are endless, there is always the question of…