Defective & Dangerous Products

• Playskool Recalls Tool Bench Toys After Multiple Deaths

  Robert Wolf | September 22, 2006 8:51 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Toymaker Playskool and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall Friday of about 255,000 of its "Team Talkin' Tool Bench" toys following the deaths of two young children.Playskool, a unit of Hasbro Inc., said it received reports that a 19-month-old boy from Martinsburg, W.Va., and a 2-year-old boy from League City, Texas, suffocated when oversized, plastic toy nails sold with...

• Federal Experts Confirm Infections Caused by Bausch & Lomb's ReNu with MoistureLoc

  Robert Wolf | August 25, 2006 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Thousands of consumers who have suffered at the hands of Bausch & Lomb's ReNu with MoistureLoc have finally received some of the answers they have been looking for. Federal disease control experts and leading eye doctors have formally concluded that ReNu With MoistureLoc from Bausch & Lomb was the only contact lens solution contributing to an outbreak of potentially blinding fungal eye...

• Fast Food Health Concerns

  RLF Staff | June 15, 2006 9:58 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  What do we not know about the fast food that we eat? When we run to places and grab a quick order to go, are we ruining our health?A recent lawsuit was filed against KFC in an attempt to stop them from cooking with partially hydrogenated oil which is high in fact and switch to other types of cooking oils. While KFC does provide figures to the inquiring consumer in stores or online, the...

• Failure to Prevent Potential Contamination by Bausch & Lomb Draws Sharp Criticism From The FDA

  Robert Wolf | May 18, 2006 9:54 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Bausch & Lomb failed to notify United States regulators within 30 days about 35 serious bacterial infections reported in Singapore in users of its ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution, the Food and Drug Administration said in a report released on Tuesday. The finding was among 20 observations of potential violations the F.D.A. listed after inspecting Bausch & Lomb plants in Greenville,...

• Faulty Air Masks Could Be Responsible for Deaths of West Virginia Miners

  Robert Wolf | May 03, 2006 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  There is new and understandable outrage from the families of the twelve deceased mine workers who perished in Sago Mine in West Virginia last year. In the final Sago Mine disaster that left these 12 men dead, at least four of the air masks meant to protect the miners from dangerous smoke and fumes did not work, the sole survivor wrote in a letter to victims' families this week."The first thing...

• FDA Formally Endorses Market Withdrawal of Bausch & Lomb ReNu MoistureLoc

  Robert Wolf | April 24, 2006 9:40 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a formal press release on April 14 indicating that this agency is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Bausch & Lomb to investigate the source of Fusarium keratitis eye infections. The FDA stated that it "supports Bausch & Lomb's decision to voluntarily withdraw ReNu MoistureLoc® contact lens solution from...

• The Puck Stops Here - Hockey Goalie Seriously Injured by Allegedly Defective Mask

  Robert Wolf | April 19, 2006 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  With a serious eye injury he said could have been avoided, an Irving, Texas man is suing the makers of the goalie mask he was wearing when a hockey puck broke through the mask and struck his face.Michael Eeds, was playing goalie in an August 2004 ice hockey game when the puck broke through the mask. The impact popped the lens of Eeds' right eye out of its membrane. He's now on his 18th contact...

• Medical Patches + Heat = Potentially Dangerous Combination

  Robert Wolf | March 09, 2006 1:17 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Some medical experts now believe that medicated patches, used by over 12 million people for a range of ailments, can become unsafe when heated by exercise, soaking in a hot tub, or even a high fever. In November, the FDA issued a warning about birth-control patches after studies showed that women using them had 60 percent more estrogen in their blood than those on the pill, giving them a higher...

• Did Medtronic knowingly sell faulty defibrillators?

  Robert Wolf | February 27, 2006 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Medtronic Inc. continued selling flawed cardiac defibrillators for two years after learning that some of them may suddenly quit working, according to documents filed in a California lawsuit. "Medtronic has been taking products they know are not quite right and putting them into people rather than take the loss,'' said Hunter Shkolnik, a New York lawyer, who said in a Feb. 13 interview that he...

• Jury Recommends $553 Million Award in Contamination Suit

  Clint Gilbert | February 15, 2006 9:03 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A federal jury in Denver has recommended an award of $553.9 to several thousand land owners whose property was contaminated by Dow Chemical Company and Rockwell International Corp. The area in dispute in the lawsuit, filed in 1990, surrounds the former Rocky Flats nulear waeapons facility near Denver, Colorado. Some 13,000 land owners are represented in the class suit.The Rocky Flats facility...