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House Fires: Don’t Let Smoke Cloud Who’s Liable

House fires are the most common structure fires in the U.S. In fact, 92 percent of civilian deaths in structure fires happen in homes. The main house fire starters: cooking equipment and smoking materials. Most house fire deaths, however, are due to smoking materials.* But causation is not as clear as the numbers seem to…

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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…

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An 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…

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New 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…

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Hitachi 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…

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Auto 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…

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Expanded 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…

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Steve 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…

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Infographic: What Does it Take to Win in Court?

    At Harris Lowry Manton, we are widely recognized for our ability to try and win complex cases before juries with great success and have won multiple multi-million dollar awards for our various clients. Our total in verdicts and settlements is more than $750 million. Want to know how we do it? We know…

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