Products Liability

New Orleans readers may be familiar with some highly publicized cases about drugs causing birth defects or equipment failure leading to personal injury claims. Product liability cases generally have a plaintiff who presents with a list of injuries that can only be...

The night the lights went out on the Mercedes-Benz Superdome will go down in history as the night the Super Bowl went dark. For 34 minutes, one of the most watched sporting events in the nation was held hostage by a darkened field. Players on both sides tried to stay...

Hurricane Katrina forever changed the landscape of Louisiana. The loss of life and property was irreplaceable. Some citizens began the process of rebuilding their lives by constructing new homes, only to run into new road blocks.For some residents, the defective...

When people are sick, doctors prescribe medications to help them feel better. These people trust that the medication will be of the highest quality. What happens when the medication that is flawed and leads to additional injuries or new illnesses? Is having a...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled 84,000 step stools due to their tendency to break and potentially injure those who use them. The company that manufactures the product, Tricam Industries, is cooperating with the government to rectify the...

When there is a defective product in the house, the whole house and everybody in it is at risk. Louisiana residents may not be aware that manufacturers are under a duty to produce safe products. If their products are unsafe, injured consumers may have the ability to...

New Orleans readers may remember the product recall issued by Johnson & Johnson two years ago for their all-metal artificial hips, often cited as one of the most expensive medical apparatus failures on record.The follow-up prosthetic device they created, a...

New Orleans, Louisiana, women may be aware that there are more than 1,000 product liability lawsuits pending against the branch of Johnson & Johnson that produces vaginal mesh implants. This week, a representative of the company announced that the company asked...

Residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, may notice they are throwing away more items in their house because the product is either defective or malfunctioning. Experts working at Consumer Reports confirm this trend, claiming an increase in product recalls in recent years...

Surgeons in Louisiana may be keeping their eyes on a product liability lawsuit filed against a company that manufactures a surgical robot used to perform surgeries such as hysterectomies. The case is a novel one because it recognizes that the doctor operating the...