You May Be Able to Pursue a Hair Relaxer Cancer Lawsuit
If you frequently use hair straightener products, you may worry about what’s in them. You may have been wondering, Can you get cancer from hair straighteners? Your concerns may be well founded. There may be a danger of developing uterine cancer from use of hair relaxers. While the survival rate for this form of cancer is fairly high, it can be fatal. Treatment can al...
Hearing loss is the leading cause of disability among veterans. This condition makes life very difficult for sufferers, leading to impaired work capacity, an inability to sleep and a persistent, sometimes debilitating condition known as tinnitus.
Sadly, many servicemembers are suffering from hearing loss because they trusted a device provided to them during their time serving our country. Between 2003 and 2015, 3M Compa...
Americans expect that government agencies such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) protect us from dangerous and defective products, but that doesn’t always happen. Unfortunately, there is a law that protects manufacturers of dangerous products and increases the chances of injury or even death for those who use them.
Section 6(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Act can protect manufacturers at the expense ...
When surgically implanted medical devices work well, they help make people’s lives better; but these devices can do serious damage when something goes wrong. Medical devices such as pacemakers, hip and knee replacements, breast implants, heart stents, transvaginal mesh, drug pumps, and metal rods that stabilize spines and broken bones can cause injuries and even death during an implant procedure, or problems may not aris...
Why is it still on the market? Consumer Reports asked this very important question when reporting the findings of its investigation of dozens of infant deaths related to Fisher-Price’s Rock ‘n Play sleeper.
On April 5, after Consumer Reports asked for comment about their then-ongoing investigation, the federal government and Fisher-Price issued only a warning about the sleep device, which was both designed and ma...