Category: Product Liability

Vehicles Affected: Approximately 2,310 model-year 2014 versions of the Nissan Pathfinder crossover; only vehicles with almond-colored interiors built between July 25 and Sept. 5, 2013, are affected.

The Problem: An improperly manufactured seam on the instrument panel could cause the front passenger airbag to deploy incorrectly, increasing the risk of injury.

The Fix: Dealers will inspect and...

Toyota agreed on Friday to a settlement with the families of two women in a fatal crash the morning after an Oklahoma jury became the first to find the company responsible for the unintended acceleration of a car.

The verdict came after Toyota had won its first three trials over the acceleration issue. Legal analysts...

Terry, a construction worker from Bedford-Stuyvesant who left behind a 13-year-old son, was a healthy, active nonsmoker — and an avid Red Bull drinker, his grandmother Patricia Terry said.

“He drank that stuff all the time. He said it perked him up,” she recalled.

On the evening of Nov. 8, 2011, Terry was playing hoops in...

Liggett Group says it struck a $110 million deal with thousands of Florida smokers, announcing the first major out-of-court settlement of tobacco litigation stemming from a historic state court ruling.

The company, whose brands include Liggett Select and Pyramid, says it’s settled claims with more than 4,900 of the roughly 5,300 individual plaintiffs seeking compensation for cancers...

Boston Salads and Provisions Company, Inc., of Boston, MA, is recalling approximately 222,959 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken salad products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Thursday evening.

The products were produced between Aug. 23, 2013, and Oct. 14, 2013, and shipped to...

Federal investigators found shoddy manufacturing on the Southwest 737 whose ceiling peeled away in flight in 2011, but not widespread problems among the popular aircraft.

Southwest Flight 812 decompressed April 1, 2011, while heading from Phoenix to Sacramento. The plane landed in Yuma, Ariz., after a strip of fuselage skin 5 feet long and 8...

BMW will recall about 76,000 vehicles from the 2012-14 model years that are equipped with turbocharged 2-liter 4-cylinder engines because of a loss of power brake assist, the automaker has informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

BMW says the oil supply for the vacuum pump that operates the brake booster used for power assist...

C.R. Bard Inc. agreed to settle a woman’s claims that one of its vaginal-mesh implants caused internal problems before a trial set for this month in New Jersey, two people familiar with the accord said.

Bard officials agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to resolve Melanie Virgil’s claims that Bard’s Avaulta Plus insert caused urinary...

Toyota is recalling about 780,000 vehicles for a second time after its first effort to prevent a handling problem did not work, according to a report posted Sunday on the Web site of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The recall covers about 18,000 2010 Lexus HS 250h autos, a hybrid model, with the rest...

Chobani, the biggest Greek yogurt maker in the U.S., has recalled some yogurt cups that contained mold after an unspecified number of people reported feeling ill, the company said Thursday.

According to the company, a small batch of yogurt from an Idaho facility -- less than 5% of its production -- was found to contain...