Defective Products

Can you imagine taking all safety precautions while you’re driving and finding out that you were most in danger by parking your vehicle? What if your car was in danger of still moving, even when you have put it in park? Millions of Ford owners are living it. For the past several years, Ford has…

Daimler Trucks North America can join the list of automobile manufacturing companies that had to issue recalls this year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the manufacturing company recalled its 2022 Freightliner Cascadias after five models caught on fire. The fires were caused by a misdirected exhaust pipe defect. The exhaust pipe…

Since the beginning of the summer, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has had to recall several medical devices that can cause serious injury or death for the general public. One of the most recent devices to be recalled was the HeartWare HVAD System distributed by the company Medtronic. This recall comes as no surprise,…

Many of us who shop at Amazon are familiar with its benefits, such as One- or Two-Day Shipping and access to millions of products online. Some of us, unfortunately, are also familiar with the risk you take when ordering a product from Amazon, as what you see in the picture is not always necessarily what…

Amazon’s private label line, AmazonBasics, was launched in 2009. AmazonBasics offers budget-friendly products, including appliances, electronics, and furniture. There are more than 5,000 different products with the AmazonBasics name attached to them. Despite reports of multiple AmazonBasics products exploding, catching firing, or melting, the company has yet to remove all of them from the market.…

In Merle Travis’ lament “16 Tons,” an unnamed coal miner asks St. Peter to spare him another day, because he “owes his soul to the company store.” Company stores may have faded away, but that hasn’t stopped mega-businesses and corporations from finding creative ways to keep their employees and customers beholden to them. And no…

When a product is recalled, it is because the product is defective or harmful to people in some way. It may not function the way that it was intended to, which can put the lives of many people in jeopardy. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission takes on the responsibility of announcing recalls to…