Are hoverboards a threat to consumer safety?
One popular gift item this holiday season was hoverboards. As with any other consumer product, these motorized scooters may subject the manufacturers and retailers to product liability lawsuits. It has been reported that hoverboards are spontaneously combusting, and riders have taken spills that have resulted in injuries....
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Category: Products Liability
Promotional Glass Purchased At McDonald’s at the Center of a Personal Injury Suit
Can a Business Be Held Responsible for Its Promotional Items?
Whether a business sells a product or gives it away, if the product is defective and causes an injury and damages, there may be viable legal claims that could be filed by the accident victim. One such case involves McDonalds and a New Jersey glass...
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Nagel Rice Investigating Claims Against Lumber Liquidators
Nagel Rice is investigating claims against sellers of Lumber Liquidators laminate flooring.
A recent segment aired by “60 Minutes” reported on Chinese-made laminate flooring sold by Lumber Liquidators that was allegedly mislabeled and contained high levels a formaldehyde that violate California safety standards. If you are a consumer, contractor or installer and...
Testosterone Lawsuits Intensifying
Can you file a lawsuit if you suffered from cardiovascular side effects as a result of testosterone replacement therapy?
Over the last couple of years, testosterone replacement therapy has become popular among men hoping to feel younger. Drugs like Androgel and Axiron, produced by major pharmaceutical companies, claim to allow users to...
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15 New Suits Over Tainted Steroids Target New Jersey Clinic
Litigation filed in a New Jersey Federal District Court has opened a new chapter in multi-district litigation involving the New England Compounding Center (NECC).
In 2012, NECC was found to have produced contaminated medications that led to a nationwide meningitis outbreak, killing 64 people. The company was shuttered by the FDA and...
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Verdict in Vaginal Mesh Case Upheld
In recent years, there have been thousands of lawsuits filed claiming injuries from the use of vaginal mesh in medical procedures. This dangerous product has caused complications for many of its users. One such case was brought in 2008 against the manufacturers of Gynecare mesh, namely Johnson & Johnson and...
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High Court Urged To Nix $9.2M Attorneys’ Fee In VW Settlement
A class member in a consolidated suit against Volkswagen of America Inc. over leaky sunroofs told the U.S. Supreme Court that the Third Circuit and a magistrate judge shouldn't have approved a $9.2 million attorneys' fee award. The objector is now arguing that the Supreme Court has never addressed whether federal law...
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Nagel Rice Settles Kardashians Diet Product Litigation
October 2013 - Bruce Nagel of Nagel Rice in Roseland, recently told Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge, Andrew Peck, that a settlement in the California case against the Kardashians had been approved on Aug. 5 and the New York case should stay pending the final order from California. Nagel told Judge Peck...
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Contaminated drugs may result in serious injury or death
When people get sick or feel ill, occasionally prescription drugs are necessary to combat the illness. Patients and doctors expect medication to have undergone rigorous regulatory oversight to ensure that they are safe for human ingestion and to have been manufactured in sanitary conditions. However, last year, this trust was shattered when a
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Successful motions to bar defenses of employee’s negligence and employer’s negligence in substantial product liability litigation
December 9, 2011 - Partner Barry Packin was successful in barring the defenses of employee's negligence and employer's negligence in major product liability litigation in Federal Court in Trenton. The plaintiff sustained significant and disfiguring lacerations of his face and neck when an industrial, hand-held, gasoline powered saw he was using at work at...
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