Category: Products Liability

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), corded window coverings are one of the top five hidden dangers in the home. Tragically, nearly half of the incidents that involve children and corded window coverings result in fatalities. Even though corded window covers such as blinds, drapes, and shades create significant entrapment and strangulation hazards[…]

Recently, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) approved a new federal mandatory safety standard for clothing storage units to limit injuries and deaths associated with tip-overs. Children face the highest risks for sustaining this type of injury, which often involves clothing storage units like dressers, chests, bureaus, armoires, wardrobes, chests of drawers and door chests. Every year, children[…]

Back in 1989, it was the Texas legislature that made it legal for a single corporation to divide into two or more entities in a move many call the “Texas two-step” today. And the Texas two-step is exactly what Johnson & Johnson, a company worth nearly half a trillion dollars, did last year. It declared[…]

Last September, a mother and her two sons died from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning inside their home after their portable generator’s shut-off switch seemingly failed to activate. The generator was on the family’s porch instead of being a minimum of 20 feet away from the home, but the unit was also equipped with a supposedly[…]

News recently broke that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has approved a new federal safety standard to prevent children and teens from sustaining potentially life-threatening injuries from accidentally ingesting high-powered magnets. The Commission’s new mandatory standard requires loose or separable magnets in certain products to be either too large to swallow, or weak enough[…]