Tag Archives: Product Liability
More Takata Airbag Recalls
Takata, the Japanese airbag manufacturer, is recalling the airbags in 34 million vehicles in the United States. Some Takata airbags can explode violently, propelling metallic shards and fragments directly at drivers and passengers. In 2014, for example, Orlando-area police launched a homicide investigation when paramedics found a woman deceased in her 2001 Honda Accord… Read More »
Prescription Drugs, Injuries, And Fatalities
It’s an epidemic now in the U.S. It’s the rising number of fatalities from the use of legally-prescribed opioids, pharmaceutical drugs that function like morphine. In 2010, more than four times as many opioid-related fatalities were reported as in the year 2000. In fact, since the year 2000, over 100,000 people in the U.S…. Read More »
Automobile Recalls In 2014
As a young woman named Hien Tran drove home in Orlando last September, the airbag in her 2001 Honda Accord exploded and sent shrapnel flying into the vehicle. When Orlando paramedics found Ms. Tran, at first they thought someone had slashed her throat. A week after the young woman’s death, a letter arrived from… Read More »
Is Your Automobile Being Recalled?
After paramedics near Orlando found 51-year-old Hien Tran dying in her 2001 Honda Accord in September, police launched a murder investigation. Initially it looked like an assailant had slashed Ms. Tran’s throat. But only several days later, a notice from Honda showed up in Ms. Tran’s mail. It was a recall notification about the… Read More »
