February 5, 2017 Philadelphia Product Liability Lawyers: The Danger of IKEA Furniture Tip-Overs Just last year, IKEA recalled nearly 30 million of its dressers and chests because of the serious risk of injury and death they posed to children and adults. This recall came about as a result of multiple injuries and sadly, seven deaths of kids who lost their lives because of the dressers overturned on them. … Read More »
February 4, 2017 Philadelphia Car Accident Lawyers: Winter Car Accidents As winter temperatures drop, car accidents caused by snow and ice rise. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, over 6,000 people are fatally injured and 445,000 suffer personal injuries in weather related car accidents each year in the United States. Snow, ice, freezing rain, high winds, and low visibility all contribute … Read More »
February 3, 2017 PetSmart Pays $4.25 Million for Failure to Report Unsafe Product PetSmart has been held accountable for its misrepresentation of, and failure to report, two brands of fish bowls that not only posed a serious risk of injury to consumers, but caused multiple injuries as well. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released its statement, alleging that PetSmart intentionally misrepresented how many fish bowls … Read More »
February 3, 2017 Philadelphia Personal Injury Lawyers Discuss the Long-Term Effects of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Neonatal abstinence syndrome, known as NAS, is the result of a baby being exposed to drugs while carried in the womb. NAS causes drug withdrawal in babies immediately after they are born. Opioid drugs, such as morphine, oxycodone, heroin, hydrocodone and codeine can cause NAS, as well as certain antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Sometimes, a pregnant … Read More »
February 2, 2017 Philadelphia Personal Injury Lawyers Discuss Increased Risk for Children Born Shortly After Bariatric Surgery A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that children who are born two years or less after their mother’s had bariatric surgery are at an increased risk for perinatal complications. In this case, perinatal complications refer to health complications that present either in the weeks precipitating or immediately following … Read More »
February 1, 2017 Philadelphia Product Liability Lawyers Discuss Inadequate Machine Guarding Leading Cause of Workplace Amputations While OSHA participated in Arkansas’s Second Annual Amputation Prevention Stand Down training seminar, training alone is not the most effective method for preventing work-related accidents. Educating workers on equipment that is potentially unsafe is important; however, the most effective method to eliminate machine hazards is for equipment designers and manufacturers to provide the proper engineering … Read More »
January 31, 2017 When Surgeons Operate on the Wrong Site When a person goes into the hospital for a surgical procedure, the last question to cross their mind may be: “what happens if the doctor does the wrong surgery?” But, as it turns out, sometimes doctors perform the wrong procedure altogether, and at other times they may do a surgery on the wrong site of … Read More »
January 30, 2017 Pennsylvania Granted Extension on REAL ID Pennsylvania was granted an extension on the implementation of the REAL ID law. This law requires residents to have new, acceptable forms of identification to enter various federal facilities. If the REAL ID law had gone forward without an extension, by just next year no Pennsylvania driver’s licenses would have been viable forms of identification … Read More »
January 29, 2017 Philadelphia Product Liability Lawyers Discucss a Product Recall on Toshiba Batteries The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released a statement recently recalling all battery packs in Toshiba laptops that were sold between June 2011 and January 2016. The recall includes multiple Toshiba PC models and upwards of 180,000 computers sold in the United States as well as Canada. The cause for the recall is … Read More »
