Defective & Dangerous Products

• Tobacco Cravings For Justice And Compensation

  Bob Carroll | November 15, 2006 6:52 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  It appears many Floridians will fail to seek compensation for smoking-related diseases and conditions despite the creation of an individual legal right by the Florida Supreme Court. I can make this statement because the statute of limitations for smokers (and the relatives of deceased smokers) is approaching and many significantly injured or deceased smoker claims will likely not seek a timely...

• Tobacco Lawsuits Increasing In Florida Courts

  Bob Carroll | July 31, 2006 5:57 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Today's St. Petersburg Times reports: There's a nasty war out there. One poised to escalate once again. It is the conflict with the tobacco industry. It's a battle fought in the courts nationwide and, as we will see more and more, in developing countries desperate to curtail tobacco addiction among their own people.In what the media at first called a big victory for the tobacco industry, the...

• ReNu Contact Lens Solution & Serious Eye Infections

  Bob Carroll | April 28, 2006 8:14 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  My fellow InjuryBoard Blogger, Joe Saunders, and I are mentioned in the same news article in today's St. Pete Times detailing the widening concerns about serious eye problems associated with the use of ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution. Our prior blog postings on this tragic situation were among the earliest in the country. Eye fungus sparking lawsuits Sixty of the 186 cases of a rare...

• Are Breast Implants Harming Breast Cancer Patients?

  Bob Carroll | February 12, 2006 6:25 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Breast implants are back in the news again. This time breast cancer patients are not getting the attention from the FDA they deserve.Report Discusses Role Of FDA In Determining Safety Of Reconstructive Breast Implants"Decisions in the Dark: The FDA, Breast Cancer Survivors and Silicone Implants," National Research Center for Women and Families: The report looks at the lack of short- and...

• Tissue Transplants May Be From Dubious Sources

  Bob Carroll | January 31, 2006 6:29 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  We lawyers are familiar with defective products that can cause injury or death. We would tend to think of a manufactured product, such as, an automobile or a chain saw. But, there may be some really spooky defective products that are of concern in the medical field. It is not an artificial hip. In fact, there is nothing artificial about these products at all. Read parts of the story...

• Intravenous Catheter Valve Found To Be Source Of Hospital Infections

  Bob Carroll | January 21, 2006 6:17 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Put this down as one step forward and two steps back. A defective medical device, intended to improve patient safety, has turned out to be the source of serious hospital infections. Rigorous attention to patient safety and monitoring for unexpected spikes in bloodstream infection rates at The Johns Hopkins Hospital led a team of Hopkins specialists to uncover an unintended, surprising safety...

• Ford Tries To Speak Swedish And English Simultaneously

  Bob Carroll | January 16, 2006 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Ford both owns and disowns Volvo. Depending on what suits its purposes Ford Motor Company embraces the safety record of Volvo in marketing but fights to keep it out of product liability trials. A USA Today article tells the tale of the bilingual company:Ford Motor is trying to more closely align itself in advertising with Volvo, which it acquired in 1999. But in product-liability trials, Ford...

• Deputy Claims Taser Training Ends His Career

  Bob Carroll | December 26, 2005 7:54 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  There must be a better training protocol then to have a deputy sheriff take a jolt from a Taser that ends his career. On the other hand, there must be a better way to disable a subject than to expose him to the same risk. Unfortunately, Deputry Sam Powers was unable to convice a jury that Taser International should be liable for his disability. From Court TV we get more of the details.After...

• Clothes Dryer Explodes - Severe Burns Result

  Bob Carroll | December 20, 2005 4:14 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Moving a clothes dryer slightly should not cause an explosion. It is simply outrageous that a woman has been severely burned in a gas explosion and fire when she turned her dryer on. Over years of use and maintenance every clothes dryer is going to be moved slightly on many occasions. Proper design or installation of the dryer would have prevented this horrible injury. Corrugated stainless...

• Plastic Whistles Are Choking Hazard

  Bob Carroll | December 19, 2005 6:10 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Your pizza may have come with something more dangerous than pepperoni. CEC Entertainment, franchisor of the Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant chain, is recalling 144,000 plastic whistles. The recall was prompted by an investigation by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission after reports of children starting to choke on the whistle's internal pieces. The made-in-China toy whistles were...