Category: Products Liability

Following up on our blog post about Takata airbags from Nov. 22, 2014 ("Airbags allegedly causing consumer death instead of saving lives"), another claim is making its way through our civil court system. The emotional trauma of losing a child in a preventable accident is devastat...

When the medical conditions of Texas residents require the use of medical devices, they will naturally expect it to be efficient and relieve the conditions for which it was applied. Unfortunately, a defective product can cause life-altering injuries with loads of financial and em...

Advertising is a powerful tool to get a new product on the market, and consumers are often tempted by the various tactics used by the marketing departments of manufacturers. A class action lawsuit was recently filed against EOS -- a lip balm manufacturer -- alleging the lip balm ...

When new products for which safety regulations have not been developed yet are introduced to the market, consumers may unknowingly be exposed to dangers that can cause potentially serious personal injuries. Usually, after a recall and some product liability lawsuits, design and m...

Product liability lawsuits have long been associated with causes of action against product manufacturers for items that are defectively designed or manufactured. This is understandable, for who would be in a better position to be aware of such defects and their foreseeable conseq...

It isn't unusual for auto manufacturers to be sued for faulty parts that are dangerous to passengers and others on the road. But Volkswagen has acknowledged that it equipped millions of diesel vehicles with faulty emissions sensors, potentially creating a health risk to anyone br...

When it comes to how courts in Texas attribute fault based on negligence, the law refers to the allegorical "reasonable person" as the standard of whether the defendant can be held liable for your injury. Even though the reasonable person is an artificial construct and not an act...

Not even Kurt Vonnegut or Harlan Ellison imagined this: heart attack by hacking.  Seriously. A new word has entered the language of medicine: medjacking. Here's a scenario: the President of the United States has a pacemaker. Not-so-friendly hackers, probably paid millions by...

Government agencies in Texas and at the federal level regulate and monitor the safety of drug products. When safety considerations become serious enough such products can be subject to voluntary or mandatory recalls, and in the latter case the Food and Drug Administration can ord...

You may be dating yourself if you remember the Ford Pinto. It was an economy car produced in the early 1970s that turned out to have a serious defect: when involved in a collision in which it was struck from behind, problems with its fuel system design meant that gas tank tended ...