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Segway Recalls Scooters for Injury Risk

Segway Inc. is recalling all 23,500 of the self-balancing scooters it has shipped to date because of a software glitch that can make its wheels unexpectedly reverse direction, causing riders to fall off.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, with whom Segway is cooperating on the voluntary recall announced Thursday, said consumers should stop using the vehicles immediately.

Segway has received six reports of problems with the Personal Transporter, resulting in head and wrist injuries. The vehicles were previously known as the Human Transporter.

Price Chopper Voluntarily Recalls Water

September 5, 2006 (9wsyr.com)

There has been a voluntary recall of Price Chopper Desert Spring Water. The water comes in one gallon and two and 1/2 gallon jugs. The dates on the jugs fall between March 4, 2008 and June 27, 2008. Although testing shows bromate levels in the water are not dangerous, another set of bottled water from the same company, Mayer Brothers, was found to have been. The choice was made by the store and the FDA as a safety precaution.

Children's Motrin is Focus of Product Liability Lawsuit Filed by 7-Year-Old Girl against Johnson & Johnson Claiming an Allergic Reaction to the Drug Caused Her Blindness

December 28, 2004 (findarticles.com)

LOS ANGELES -- Suit Alleges That Drug Maker's Failure to Warn the Public About the Possible Risk of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Makes Children's Motrin Unsafe and Dangerous to Sell to Consumers Sabrina Brierton Johnson, age 7, filed suit today against Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) in Los Angeles Superior Court/Compton Division claiming that an allergic reaction to taking Children's Motrin (Stevens-Johnson Syndrome) caused her to become blind and photosensitive. Her complaint for damages alleges strict product liability, negligence, breach of express and implied warranties, and deceit by concealment. McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals (a division of McNeil-PPC, Inc.); McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK); SAV-ON Drug Stores, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Albertsons, Inc. (NYSE:ABS)); Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE:CAH); and Ralphs Grocery Company (a wholly owned subsidiary of The Kroger Company (NYSE:KR)) are also named as defendants. Sabrina's parents, Kenneth and Joan Brierton Johnson, are acting as her guardian ad litem. She is represented by Browne Greene and Geoffrey S. Wells with the Santa Monica, CA law firm of Greene, Broillet, Panish & Wheeler, LLP. Sabrina Brierton Johnson vs. Johnson & Johnson, et. al., Case Number TC018540.

Miss Johnson alleges that Johnson & Johnson and the other Defendants' failure to warn the public or educate the medical community about the possible risk of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TENS) or any other serious skin reactions associated with using Children's Motrin makes it an unsafe product and dangerous to sell to consumers. Since the late 1980s, the Plaintiff contends that the Defendants knew about the connection between Children's Motrin and these severe, potentially fatal reactions. Miss Johnson also alleges that the Defendants knew from their own clinical trials of Children's Motrin that it caused cases of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome/TENS and that Defendants had warned about Stevens-Johnson Syndrome/TENS in their drug package insert for the prescription form of the drug before Children's Motrin began being distributed and sold over-the-counter (OTC) to the public.

Dangerous Herbal Products

May, 2004 (Findarticles.com)

The current issue of Consumer Reports will stand your hair on end, especially if you are taking herbs to improve your health and/or to avoid the side effects that usually go with drugs. The FDA classifies these products as dietary supplements, a designation that amounts to a free pass for the manufacturers. Unlike drugs, there is no required testing for proof of safety or effectiveness.
Supplements can be purchased over the counter and over the Internet. The lack of government regulation allows them to be regarded as "innocent 'til proven guilty." Even when the FDA has clear proof of danger, as it did with the herbal weight-loss aid, ephedra, it can take years to get the product banned. Furthermore, manufacturers are allowed to market their products as "natural," which to most consumers implies harmless.

Alcohol liability means little to besotted NFL

January 23, 2005 (www.suntimes.com)

According to a company called Jury Verdict Research, the jury award is the largest alcohol liability award in some 25 years. But if you think that will make the NFL reconsider its emphasis on alcohol, think again. The league makes way too much money off its relationship with beer companies.

Gun Shy: Cities turn from regulation to litigation in their campaign against guns - product liability suits in Chicago and New Orleans

December 1998 (findarticles.com)

Mr. Lott, the John M. Olin Law and Economics fellow at the University of Chicago School of Law, is the author of More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws (University of Chicago Press).

THE state attorneys general and trial lawyers behind the recently finalized $206 billion tobacco settlement have opened up a Pandora's box of legal tricks. The agreement wasn't even completed when mayors started using similar legal maneuvers against gun makers and retailers. Only 16 per cent of Americans favor banning handguns, and only 5 per cent favor banning rifles. Yet, if the mayors have their way, the opinions of the vast majority will not matter. In the lawsuits now threatened against gun makers, the litigants are using the courts to make an end run around the legislative process to enact a de facto ban on guns. Their goal is not to win these weak cases in court, but simply to bankrupt legitimate companies through a coordinated effort to simultaneously bring dozens of lawsuits and to impose massive legal costs.

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