Articles Posted in Dangerous Products

As a a trial attorney based in Atlanta, some of the more interesting cases on which I have worked have involved defectively designed or manufactured vehicles. This week the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration launched an investigation of the safety of gas tanks on three million Jeep Cherokees. The investigation covers Grand Cherokees in model…

Accutane is a drug originally developed for cancer treatment but that has been widely used for treatment of acne. Unfortunately, there have been widespread reports of terrible side effects, including bowel diseases including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. It was taken off the market last year.  As an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, handling civil liability…

An Atlanta area woman was just sitting at a traffic light on Good Friday in her Honda Civic when the air bag deployed spontaneously and a shard of metal from it sliced her carotid artery. Fortunately, she survived. Honda issued a recall last February on some models of its car because of a defect with…

This week a carpet mill worker at the Beaulieu plant in Murray County, Georgia, was injured falling into a tufting machine. He was airlifted to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga. Workers compensation provides the exclusive remedy of an injured worker against the employer in work accidents. However, sometimes an injured worker can recover additional compensation for…

Sunday afternoon on I-20 near Six Flags Over Georgia, two people were killed when tire failure led to a rollover of a Ford Explorer. I learned of it not as an Atlanta personal injury, wrongful death an products liability attorney, but because my mom was stuck in the traffic on her way to accompany wife…

My personal injury litigation law practice in Atlanta has included a number of serious defective product cases. Among them have been tire defect cases. Last week, a Texas jury returned a verdict of nearly $12 million against a tire maker after determining that a defective tire caused a wreck that killed six people and left…

Events of the past week lead me to think it may be time for a basic overhaul of the FDA process for approval of drugs and medical devices and a uniform national system for pharmaceutical and medical device liability.  Recently we have seen an unsuccessful proposal to give civil immunity in Georgia for manufacturers of…

Yesterday, in the case of Wyeth v. Levine, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a claim of failure to warn of hazards related to a drug were not precluded by FDA approval of the drug warnings.  Though my practice in Atlanta deals mostly with truck accident cases in Georgia, I spent a few…

Sometimes quality control and financial stability go hand in hand. This week I saw two announcements from Cooper Tire. First, they recalled Cooper CS4 Touring (VR tires) size 215/55 R17 produced between September 7 and October 11, 2008.  This is part of a long history.  According to the NHTSA recall campaign these tires may have…

The Georgia Fair Business Practices Act was enacted in the 1970’s. In the early nineties I sifted through the original legislative committee files at the archives in researching legislative intent. It is clear that this Georgia law encompasses personal injury and wrongful death claims based upon unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce, and…