The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Quality Bicycle Products of Bloomington, MN have issued a product recall of a carrier rack because of a falling hazard. According to CPSC, the rack’s mounting bracket can crack or break causing it to fall onto the bicycle’s front wheel, which poses a falling hazard to the… Read More>>
Product Recall News: HP Li-Ion Notebook Batteries Cause Burns
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of 162,000 Li-Ion battery packs that were sold with HP and Compaq notebooks. Back in May of 2010 there was an HP battery recall affecting 54,000 battery packs, and the May before, a recall of 70,000. According to this latest product recall notice, HP has… Read More>>
Defective Product Recall: Maclaren Strollers
About one million Maclaren strollers were recalled by Maclaren USA and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for injury hazards in November 2009. On May 12. 2011, the CPSC reissued a recall notice for certain Maclaren strollers, saying there have been 37 reported injuries since the defective product was originally recalled. The defective product… Read More>>
Supreme Court Protects Vaccine Makers From Product Liability Law
In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court recently ruled that the companies that make vaccines are protected from product liability law. A couple had sought monetary damages after their daughter, Hannah Bruesewitz, fell ill after some normal childhood vaccinations. The Bruesewitz family said that after the third injection, the cognitive development of their daughter slowed… Read More>>
