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Off-label Marketing Fueling Increase in Opioids Addiction
The story of opioid over-prescription, addiction and overdose crisis in the United States today started at least a century ago. The roots of the crisis extend to a German university laboratory, where scientists in 1916 looked to replace Bayer AG’s popular mass-produced painkiller – heroin. It was there that oxycodone was born. Purdue Pharma LP’s…
Read MoreAn Update on the Takata Airbag Recall
The Takata Corp. exploding airbag saga just continues to expand like, well, an airbag. Now, it turns out Honda Motor Co., the company’s major customer (and part-owner), knew enough about the defect in the airbag inflators to request a design change in 2009, according to a Reuters exclusive report published March 24. The Takata airbags…
Read MoreNew UL 325 Standards Aim to Make Security Gate Systems Safer
A key national safety engineering advocacy group has announced updated design standards to decrease dangers of automatic gates to apartment complexes, upscale communities, subdivisions and business lots. They couldn’t come at a better time. Security gates are ubiquitous as living behind walls becomes ever more popular. Underwriters Laboratories, which tests, audits and verifies commercial, industrial…
Read MoreHitachi Nail Gun Recall
A recall of Hitachi pneumatic nail guns might not have gone far enough. In March 2010, Hitachi Koki Co. Ltd. announced it was recalling 50,000 defective nail guns in the United States and 15,000 more in Canada. The design flaw caused nails to shoot sideways at near-bullet speeds. At the time there were 37 reported…
Read MoreAuto Safety Advocates Ask For Reinvestigation Into Jeep Recalls
Safety advocates are demanding federal regulators reopen an investigation into the rear-mounted fuel tanks on the Jeep Cherokee, Grand Cherokee and Liberty. The Center for Auto Safety said in a Feb. 19 letter to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that Jeeps remain the “most lethal” passenger vehicles, despite Fiat Chrysler’s offer to buy…
Read MoreExpanded Chrysler Recall Brings More Questions About Design Safety
Fiat Chrysler’s expanded recall last week of 856,000 SUVs and cars after learning there might be a systemic gearshift defect underscores a decades-old issue of dangerous manufacturing and design defects at that company and other U.S. automakers. The newest recall is for 2012-2014 Dodge Chargers and Chrysler 300s. In August, Fiat Chrysler recalled 408,000 Jeep…
Read MoreSteve Lowry Discusses the Crackdown on Illegal Runners
Savannah Morning News Read the article. Harris Lowry Manton LLPHarris Lowry Manton LLP is a dedicated full-service trial law firm. Our Georgia personal injury lawyers fight for the injured throughout every step of the legal process. We explain how litigation works from the moment you come into one of our offices in Atlanta or Savannah…
Read MoreUpdates Underway for Safety Regulations in the Trucking Industry
When a tractor-trailer or other large truck is involved in a collision, the risk of serious injuries increases dramatically given the sheer weight and size of these giants of the roadway. Although the trucking industry is regulated by the federal government in the United States, far too many carriers knowingly violate safety regulations if those…
Read MoreUnderstanding Theories of Liability in Defective Product Claims
Despite a considerable amount of government oversight, and a myriad of state and federal laws aimed at preventing harmful products from making it onto the marketplace, defective products do sometimes make it into the hands of consumers. When a defective product causes injury, the victim may be entitled to compensation. Contact Harris Lowry Manton LLP,…
Read MoreUPDATE: 8 Fatalities From Exploding Takata Airbags
Honda Motor Corporation has reported another death due to a Takata Corporation airbag inflator. A crash last September in Los Angeles brought the total deaths attributed to Takata airbags in Honda cars to eight—seven of which were in the United States. This crash was unique as it involved a rental car. The driver did not…
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