The family of Marianne Murphy has filed a Massachusetts auto products liability lawsuit against Toyota seeking damages for her wrongful death. The 47-year-old Medford woman died last October when her 2010 Toyota Camry accelerated out of control, causing her husband, Gerald Murphy, to crash the vehicle into an Interstate 93…
The US Department of Transportation says that consumers have filed complaints linking 34 car accident deaths to the acceleration defect that has prompted the automaker to recall millions of motor vehicles. While previous to Toyota’s decision to stop selling eight of its autos because of the sticking gas pedal defect…
Toyota Motor Corp is recalling 2.3 million vehicles over a gas pedal defect that can cause mechanism problems involving the accelerator pedal. This is the automaker’s second massive recall related to a gas pedal defect. Toyota recalled about 4.26 million autos beginning last November after four family members died because…
Plymouth resident John Norrie is suing Hewlett-Packard Co. for Massachusetts products liability. Norrie’s house burned down in November 2006 when his HP Pavilion Notebook computer overheated and caught fire. Norrie was asleep at the time, but he managed to escape. He says that he sustained serious injuries. According to Norrie’s…
Along with the Window Covering Safety Council, Consumer Product Safety Commission is announcing another major recall-one of its largest ever-of 50 million roll-up blinds and Roman shades because they pose a possible strangulation hazard. Roman shades have been the reported cause of 16 near strangulations and 5 fatalities in just…
When shopping for kids’ toys this year, here is a list of products that World Against Toys Causing Harm, a Boston-based consumer watchdog group, is placing on its list of “most dangerous toys” because of the injury risks that WATCH says the items pose: • Spy Gear Viper Blaster: May…
Just when you thought ghosts and goblins were your worst worries on Halloween, now there is news that there may be other dangers lurking in the shadows on an evening that should be best known for candy, trick or treating, and costumes. The Food and Drug Administration is warning parents…
Following allegations made by a former lawyer for Toyota that it hid key records from past rollover accident plaintiffs suing for personal injury and wrongful death, the world’s auto manufacturer could find that it will be forced to defend itself against auto products liability lawsuits that the company had already…
In Boston, the lives of two window washers were left hanging 37 floors above a street in the Financial District when the scaffold they were standing on collapsed. Julio Ortiz and Kyle Redmond banged on the windows of the skyscraper they were working on, calling for help. Firefighters broke the…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reporting a 16% drop in the number of Massachusetts traffic deaths between 2007 and 2008. 363 people died in traffic accidents throughout the state last year. 434 people died in 2007. Worcester County and Middlesex County tied for first place as the counties…