The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of 6,000 GE Monogram 36-inch and 48-inch professional gas ovens. The built in ranges have a design flaw that can cause an electrical arc between the wiring and the gas supply tubes posing a fire hazard. The company has received about six reports of [...]
General Motors Co. is recalling about 425,000 full-size passenger and cargo vans because of reports that the seat belt buckles will not latch or unlatch. The recall affects the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana from the 2003-2006 model years. GM, the world’s Number One automaker, discovered the problem through an analysis of warranty [...]
A federal Multi-District Litigation proceeding has been established in the San Francisco, California area that will control the vast multitude of Bextra and Celebrex cases filed in this country. This Multi-District Litigation (“MDL”) will act as a “litigation sponge” that will govern all federal filings in the Bextra/Celebrex litigation. Moreover, a majority of the state [...]
For years, Merck & Co. had a good scientific reputation. But, all of that has changed and unfortunately not for the better. Before the giant drug company was taken over by the marketing group that put the Merck doctors and scientists on the shelf, it had a very good record. Up to [...]
The national average for seat belt use is at a high of 71% and that’s very good news. The increased use of the safety restraints come after a $3.7 million campaign called “Click It or Ticket.” This program used paid advertising from public and private funds that warned communities that law enforcement would be out [...]
