Ferraro Law Firm Files PFAS Contamination Lawsuit for Martha’s Vineyard Airport
Holding Companies Accountable for Toxic AFFF Exposure At The Ferraro Law Firm, our nationally-recognized attorneys have helped to secure millions of …
3M Lawsuits Transferred to a Florida Federal Court
An Act of Willful Negligence Between 2003 and 2015, Aearo Technologies, Inc. and 3M, an American multinational corporation, supplied the United States military with 22 million defective earplugs. As a result, over 2.6 million veterans have suffered partial or total hearing loss, tinnitus, loss of balance, and other ear and hearing-related disabilities. According to a […]
$417 Million Issued in Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson
Earlier this week, on August 21, 2017, a Los Angeles jury awarded plaintiff Eva Echeverria $417 million in a verdict against Johnson & Johnson, finding the company responsible for failing to warn the 63-year-old woman about the risks of using its talcum products. Echeverria was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007. While a surgeon was […]
Talcum Powder Lawsuits: Another Victory Against Johnson & Johnson
In a ruling Thursday, a Missouri jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay over $110 million in a lawsuit against a Virginia woman, according to Reuters. The 62-year-old claims she developed ovarian cancer in 2012, after 40 years of using Johnson & Johnson’s talc-containing hygiene products. She is now undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian and liver […]
Product Defect Must Exist at Time of Sale – Birch v. Polaris
Generally, for a manufacturer to be liable for product liability, the product must have been defective at the time of the first sale. If the defect resulted from a modification that occurred after the original sale of the product, the manufacturer will generally not be held liable. The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently […]
South Carolina Court Finds Employees Were Users under Product Liability Statute
Many states have codified at least part of the state law regarding product liability, often based on a version of the Restatement of Torts. These statutes set forth who may recover and who is liable for a defective product. The South Carolina statute is based on the Second Restatement and provides for liability for injuries […]
IVC Blood Clot Filter Safety Doubted After Deaths, Injuries
A product intended to prevent blood clots for those at high risk may in fact be extremely dangerous, and questions are being raised about manufacturers’ knowledge of those risks. We’re talking about IVC filters – short for inferior vena cava blood clot filters. A recent report by NBC News has shed light on problems with the devices, […]
Crash, Injury Risk Prompt Bicycle Recalls
Florida is the leading state for bicycle injuries and fatalities. Most of those incidents can be attributed to collisions with motor vehicles. But in some cases, injured cyclists should not overlook the possibility that defective design or manufacturing of the bicycle itself may be partially or solely to blame. Recently, the Consumer Product Safety Commission […]
Failure to Report Defective Lawnmowers Results in $1.6 Million Civil Penalty
Many homeowners have either gas- or electric-powered lawn mowers. They are relatively easy to use, and often adolescents and even children are tasked with the chore of mowing. But these are powerful machines, and they have the potential to cause serious and potentially fatal injuries. To put it into perspective, the blades on a mower […]
Reckis v. Johnson & Johnson – Child Cold Medicine Company Pays $63M
Most parents think nothing of giving their child a dose of Tylenol or Motrin for a fever. Plaintiffs in Reckis v. Johnson & Johnson didn’t either, although the child’s father was careful to say he’d read the warning on the back of the bottle. Nothing on that label indicated that his child might run the risk of […]
