Toyota settled injury claim over sudden acceleration long before latest settlement
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Months before Toyota Motor Corp.’s $1.1 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit, the Japanese automaker settled a long and hard fought battle in Kent County Circuit Court over claims that their cars were prone to sudden acceleration. In the summer of 2011, Toyota Motor Corp settled two injury cases brought […]
Hospira Recall – potential for serious injury
December 14, 2012 – Lake Forest, Ill – Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), issued this press release today to further inform the general public about a previously communicated voluntary user-level recall of three lots of Carboplatin Injection due to visible particulates identified during a retain sample inspection. Findings have identified the particles as Carboplatin crystals. Hospira […]
BMW Recalling 30,000 X5 Sport Utilities
BMW is recalling almost 30,000 of its diesel-powered 2009-12 X5 sport utilities because the power-assist for the steering may fail, according to a report from the automaker posted on the Web site of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. BMW says it is possible that a bolt could loosen “due to a number of unfavorable […]
Doctor in Pharmacy Killer case charged in overdose deaths
Stan Li, who prescribed more than 2,500 pain pills to Medford pharmacy killer David Laffer, is being arraigned Thursday morning in Manhattan on manslaughter charges in connection with two overdose deaths, one involving a Long Island man, according to New York City’s Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor. Li already faced charges of reckless endangerment and […]
generic Lipitor (atorvastatin) recalled after glass discovered…
Ranbaxy Laboratories (generic drug maker) will stop manufacturing its version of Pfizer Inc’s cholesterol fighter, Lipitor, while it gets to the bottom of the cause of a recent recall. Earlier this month, after the company discovered contamination with tiny glass particles, Ranbaxy recalled certain lots of the widely used cholesterol lowering medicine known generically as […]
