Category: Product Liability

Toyota said on Friday that it would begin negotiations to settle hundreds of pending federal and state lawsuits over the sudden acceleration of its vehicles.

The decision comes two months after a Toyota Camry’s electronic throttle system was found to be defective by an Oklahoma jury. In that case, the jury found that Toyota had...

A small army of 50 federal railroad investigators will spend the next two months conducting a head-to-toe safety review on the Metro-North Railroad in the wake of the line’s devastating Dec. 1 derailment, officials announced today.

Starting Monday, the Federal Railroad Administration will launch “Operation Deep Dive,” it’s first ever intensive passenger railroad safety review...

Chrysler is recalling 5,663 cars with all-wheel drive (or 4x4), an 8-speed transmission and a V-6 engine. Affected models are the Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger and Ram 1500 pickup.

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This is your heart on an energy drink, and it’s contracting significantly faster than it was before you opened that can full of liquid stimulant.

So says a team of cardiac radiologists who wanted to figure out why energy drinks like Red Bull, Monster, 5-Hour Energy and Rockstar are sending tens of thousands of...

System enables new uses, but critics say this flexibility comes with risks.

The Mayo Clinic's Dr. Richard Marsh helps control brain seizures in epileptic patients with a fiber-optic laser first introduced to treat prostate tumors.

At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Ganesh Raveendran has figured out how to treat young stroke victims with...

Patients injured by a flawed hip implant sold by Johnson & Johnson have directed their anger at myriad places over the years. The regulatory system that allowed the product’s sale. The company that repeatedly denied problems with the device. Even the doctors who implanted the hips.

Now, some patients have found a new target...

Federal health officials say that defects in some Medtronic devices used in heart procedures are severe enough that they could cause serious injury or death.

The warning covers about 15,000 recalled guidewires, which are inserted through an artery and used to guide other devices into place, such as stents to hold open blocked...

Johnson & Johnson has tentatively agreed to a settlement that could reach up to $4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits filed by patients injured by a flawed all-metal replacement hip, said two lawyers briefed on the plan.

The tentative plan, which must win court approval, represents one of the largest payouts for product liability...

We all like to think that the car we drive around is safe and reliable. But unfortunately, we sometimes end up with a vehicle that has a malfunctioning part.

In 2012, manufacturers filed more than 650 safety recalls, affecting more than 17.8 million vehicles, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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On a day when consumers in Washington State were voting on whether to require food companies to label products containing genetically engineered ingredients, Cargill announced that it would begin labeling packages of ground beef containing what is colloquially known as pink slime.

Pink slime, or what the beef industry prefers to call “finely textured beef,”...