Product Liability

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ignored a congressional recommendation to pull General Motors cars with a potentially deadly defect from the road. NHTSA officials say that removing the cars from the road is unnecessary because the automaker has told drivers to only operate their vehicles with their key removed from their key rings.

An urgent product recall has been issued for PT/INR test strips manufactured by Alere. The company says that it has voluntarily issued a recall of its INRatio®2 PT/INR Professional Test Strips (PN 99008G2). Forbes reports that some patients who have therapeutic or near-therapeutic international normalized ratio (INR) readings have reported experiencing significantly INR readings when

General Motors recently lost its fourth executive amid investigations into a botched recall of nearly 2.6 million vehicles. The automaker recently announced that it was losing Jim Federico, its senior engineer in charge of global vehicle integration. One GM spokesman told reporters that Federico’s departure was voluntary and unrelated to the recent scandal surrounding the

Rolling General Motors recalls have grabbed headlines for the past few months, but despite widespread attention on GM product defects, many recalled cars will not be repaired. CNNMoney reports that about a third of recalled cars are never brought to dealers. Some consumers minimize the risks associated with a car defect, others can’t give up

General Motors Company filed in U.S. Bankruptcy court on Monday evening seeking for protection against legal claims involving actions prior its 2009 bankruptcy. GM is seeking protection from a wave of lawsuits surrounding ignition switch problems in vehicles that it sold but failed to recall. At least 13 deaths have been linked to the defective

Ignition switch problems with General Motors vehicles have resulted in a flurry of litigation, federal investigations, and even a Saturday Night Live skit. The person taking most of the heat for GM’s recall of 2.6 million cars is CEO Mary Barra. She was grilled before a congressional committee that demanded to know why the company

General Motors recently expanded its recall ahead of testimony that its CEO Mary Barra will give to congress today. GM announced that it will recall an additional 1.3 million cars for potential power steering problems. This recall follows a 2.6 million recall from earlier this year for vehicles that may have defective ignition switches.

  A Petaluma-based slaughterhouse has issued a massive recall of 8.7 million pounds of meat processed in 2013. The Press Democrat reports that Rancho Feeding Corp. expanded a recall announced last month after an investigation revealed that it proceeded “diseased and unsound animals” without proper inspections.