The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that in 2009, 83% of recalls were from foreign manufactures. Despite this fact foreign manufacturers are able to skirt the law and export billions of dollars of products to the U.S. without facing the same legal accountability for product defects that U.S. manufacturers face, even when their products injure [...]
In the wake of Toyota’s sudden acceleration scandal, automobile safety is once again a hot-button issue. After internal documents showed Toyota knew about potential defects, hid them from regulators, and even bragged about saving money from limiting its recalls. Toyota received the largest fine ever levied against an auto manufacturer. After 50 deaths and 8.5 million [...]
Authorities still don’t know if it’s fuel or oil that is leaking from the Deepwater Horizon rig that sank Thursday, but what they know is that there is a 1-by-5 mile slick of crude oil mix on the surface of the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico. BP Vice President David Rainey said “it certainly [...]
New AAJ report shows how new design defect litigation has led to safer vehicles. As the fallout from Toyota’s sudden acceleration fiasco continues, a new report released by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) illustrates how similar vehicle design defects, when brought to the light of the civil justice system, have spurred innovations in auto safety. [...]
Health care reform should improve safety, not restrict rights of patients The American Association for Justice is reminding lawmakers to remember the 98,000 patients killed each year by preventable medical errors and how restricting their legal rights will not fix the broken health care system. AAJ President Anthony Tarricone stated “If Health Care Reform makes [...]