RC2 Corp., of Oak Brook, Illinois, has recalled about 100,000 First Years Newborn-to-Toddler Reclining Feeding Seats. The restraining straps can pull out of the waist strap slots, posing a fall hazard to young children. RC2 has received 38 reports of straps pulling out or nearly pulling out of waist strap slots. There have been [...]
If done correctly, and not to achieve a desired result, frontal crash tests in laboratories are strong predictors relating to the safety of passenger cars on the road. But, the tests fail to accurately project driver fatality risks for trucks, according to a recent Virginia Commonwealth University study. The study examined the frontal crash test [...]
The annual Stella Awards list, a list of the years seven “most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.,” is nothing more than a fraud on the public. The so-called awards deal primarily with fiction, and many of the lawsuits listed never happened. The examples of what they describe as frivolous lawsuits are at [...]
