The family of a Houston woman whose car smashed into a cement wall, killing her on impact, filed what is likely the third acceleration-related wrongful death lawsuit against Toyota in the nation. Trina Harris, a 34-year-old mother of two, died on impact when her 2009 Toyota Corolla slammed into an…
In response to a nationwide recall of approximately 5.3 million Toyota vehicles for defective accelerator pedals, plaintiff’s attorneys have filed three lawsuits in New Orleans asking Toyota to return profits it made from the sale of the vehicles. The lawsuits state that the accelerator mechanism of the vehicles can become…
– Toyota Motor Corp is facing a growing number lawsuits from consumers who complain their vehicles suddenly accelerate or may do so, and want the world’s largest automaker to pay for it. Last week, Toyota stopped selling eight models in the United States and Canada, including its popular Camry and…
Pfizer Inc. persuaded a Pennsylvania state court judge to slash by 93 percent a $75 million punitive-damages award to a woman who blamed the company’s menopause drugs for her breast cancer. Judge Ackerman in Philadelphia reduced the award to Connie Barton to $5.6 million after finding it was excessive. Jurors…
The 911 call came at 6:35 p.m. on Aug. 28 from a car that was speeding out of control on Highway 125 near San Diego. The caller, a male voice, was panic-stricken: “We’re in a Lexus … we’re going north on 125 and our accelerator is stuck … we’re in…
The family of Kristen Spears alleges an overdose of the drug manufactured by Irvine-based Allergan Inc. killed her at age 7. Spears started getting Botox injections at the age of 6 — not to smooth furrows in her brow, but to calm spasms in her legs. The girl was born…
Donna Delgado just wasn’t healing properly after dental surgery. There was too much bleeding, too much pain. Her head hurt. She was dizzy. She had nosebleeds and sinus infections. Lodged in Delgado’s right maxillary sinus, the drill bit burr made the 35-year-old woman miserable for nearly a year as she…
A Multnomah County jury ordered a medical-device company to pay $4.75 million to a Portland, Oregon, man and his wife in a product-liability lawsuit that may have national implications, according to a report in The Oregonian. The jury found I-Flow Corp. liable for destroying the cartilage in Matthew Beale’s right…
European and American drug regulators had two starkly different reactions this week to data on an obesity drug. The raw data from the study indicated that people with certain health problems who took the prescription diet drug Meridia had more heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular problems than people getting…
A Rhode Island meat company recalled 1.24 million pounds of pepper-coated salami, after officials conducting a months-long, multistate investigation of a salmonella outbreak compared shopping receipts of those who got sick. The recall by Daniele International Inc. comes amid an outbreak that’s sickened 184 people in 38 states since July.…