The total number of lives claimed in a fire sparked by an explosive hoverboard in central Pennsylvania has now climbed to three, including two sisters, ages 3 and 10, and a fire department officer who crashed while responding to the scene of the fire. These are believed to be the first hoverboard-related deaths.
Even before the deadly fire on March 10, hoverboards proved to be a major threat to consumers. Half a million ...
As auto accident attorneys, we know that cars can kill. Recently a young, up-and-coming celebrity recently died alone at his Los Angeles home. Upon hearing those basic details, many people just assumed that it was yet another tale of Hollywood excess gone horribly wrong. However, what actually happened to “Star Trek” actor Anton Yelchin last month could have happened to anyone that drives a vehicle equipped with an eight-s...
Once, asbestos was a substance commonly encountered in a wide range of occupations. It was used to insulate pipes and boilers; as fireproofing; in ship construction, cement making, automotive brake manufacture, and others. This changed in the 1970s, when exposure to asbestos fibers was found to cause mesothelioma (a form of lung cancer) and other lung-related diseases. Although asbestos is banned from use in new products, ...
With the early February 2014 General Motors recall of 778,000 vehicles in the United States and Canada, a number of painful questions have been raised in terms of safety and preventive actions the carmaker could have taken. The 2005 Chevy Cobalt and its faulty ignition switch substandard performance has left many people wondering how this problem could have gone unchecked for so long.
With a product defect like this, on...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, acetaminophen overdose sends approximately 80,000 people to the emergency room and causes the death of 500 more every year. Most of these hospitalizations and deaths are a result of liver damage sustained when too much acetaminophen is ingested, an issue that has resulted in a number of pharmaceutical injury claims in the past several years.
If you or a loved o...