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Product Liability Lawsuits and Protecting Infants and
Young Children (Defective Cribs, Car Seats, Toys, and
Baby Food Law Suits)
Defective
cribs, baby seats, toys, and baby food can cause devastating
life long injuries or death to infants and young children.
It is important to check the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission to make
sure that the toys, car seats, food, and cribs that you are
buying are safe and have no known safety defects.
If you have
lost a child or your child has
been seriously injured by a defective product, feel free to
submit an
inquiry or
send an e-mail to Texas
Defective Children's Product lawyer Jason Coomer.
He may be able to help you recover your damages.
Product Liability Claims (Defective Cribs,
Playpens, and Bassinets )
Recent lawsuits have been filed against
manufacturers of defective cribs, bassinets and playpens
that create hazards for infants and young children.
Some of these products have dangerous defects that can cause
infants to become trapped and suffer strangulation.
There have been recalls of cribs and
bassinets involving manufacturers that produce different
types of problematic hardware used on cribs sold from 1995
through 2005. The hardware includes safety pegs for one type
of cribs and spring pegs for another. Either can
create a hazard if not properly installed. The drop side of
the cribs can fall and disengage, creating a gap that can
entrap and suffocate infants.
It is
important to check the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission to make
sure that the toys, car seats, food, and cribs that you are
buying are safe and have no known safety defects.
Product Liability Claims (Lead-Tainted Toys and
Children's Products )
Lead-tainted toys and children's products can also create
hazards for small children. As such, there have been
several recalls of toys and children's products that contain
lead-levels in excess of allowable amounts. Some of these
lead-tainted items range from toys to products children put
directly in their mouths, such as baby pacifiers.
Other potential dangerous toys and
recalls are listed on the Consumer Product Safety
Commission's website. A recent recall includes toys
which contain magnets in small flexible parts of the
animals, vehicles and building sets that can detach. Magnets
found by young children can be swallowed or aspirated. If
more than one magnet is swallowed, the magnets can attract
each other and cause intestinal perforations or blockages,
which can be fatal.
It is important to check the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission to make
sure that the toys, car seats, food, and cribs that you are
buying are safe and have no known safety defects.
Product Liability Claims (Defective Food Products )
Imports from China have been in the news
as food products including human and pet food have been
tainted with dangerous chemicals. As imports have
become more common safety regulations of foreign product
have become an increasing concern especially with food
products and toys for infants and young children.
In a recent scandal, milk products from
China were shown to be dangerously defective as studies
revealed that babies fed formula made from powder tainted
with a toxic chemical called melamine had developed kidney
stones. At least four babies have died and at least 53,000
other children have fallen ill, according to reports from
official news agencies. The government concluded that
melamine was being added illegally to watered-down milk to
raise its apparent protein count. In response to these
dangerous products, there were product recalls and export
bans around the world.
Since this discovery, a wide range of
food products from China have been discovered to contain
melamine, including those made with milk products, like
yogurt and cookies, prompting countries around the world to
recall Chinese-made food products.
More recently, tainted eggs have been
found, raising the possibility that chicken feed was being
doctored. In Hong Kong, government officials on Wednesday
reported finding another batch of eggs imported from
mainland China that had high levels of melamine. The
announcement came days after two other tainted batches were
reported.
It is important to check the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission to make
sure that the toys, car seats, food, and cribs that you are
buying are safe and have no known safety defects.
Product Liability Claims (Dangerous Drug Claims)
Dangerous
and defective drug claims have become more common as the
pharmaceutical industry has become more powerful. With
large drug companies investing hundreds of millions of
dollars in developing new drugs, the businesses and people
whose careers are built on the success of these drugs
sometimes choose to ignore or hide research that shows
certain drugs are dangerous. At other times
overzealous marketing teams get control of a drug and in an
attempt to expand revenues and maximize profits extend the
uses of a drug beyond what is safe.
For more
information on defective medication claims, go to the
following information pages on defective drug lawsuits claims
including
SSRI drugs, Vioxx,
Avandia,
OxyContin,
Antidepressants, and
Ketek.
Product Liability Lawyer (Defective Product Lawyers)
Austin product liability lawyer, Jason S. Coomer, helps
individuals and businesses that have been injured or damaged
from defective products. He commonly works with other
Texas product liability lawyers and other product liability
lawyers through the United States.
If you have a question about a product liability claim need and
need a Texas product liability lawyer,
contact Austin Texas product liability lawyer Jason Coomer.
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