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U.S. PIRG Education Fund plays with hundreds of toys every year just so you don't have to! The group has issued its annual Trouble in Toyland report and found way too many unsafe toys on the shelves.Some of the problems founds include:--Toys with high levels of toxic...
Consumers are at risk because most defective tires are not getting pulled off the road. That's because the tire recall system is "completely broken", according to federal investigators.The National Traffic Safety Board issued a report this week that says only 1 in 5...
The latest in the Volkswagen recall of 500,000 diesel vehicles is that the Department of Justice is reportedly looking into bringing criminal charges. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are both reporting that. Besides any future criminal penalties, Volkswagen...
Lawyers hired to process the claims of those hurt or killed by General Motor's faulty ignition switches have finished their work. Ninety per-cent of all the claims were rejected.According to today's Chicago Tribune, the fund set up by GM ultimately approved 399 of...
Plenty of parents use the same spoon they use for the breakfast cereal to give their children a dose of medicine. A teaspoon is a teaspoon, right? Not according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.Today, in a policy statement published in the journal Pediatrics,...
General Motors' compensation fund has tied at least 51 deaths and 8 catastrophic injuries to the ignition-switch defect found in its cars. That number is expected to rise as the compensation fund reviews the final batch of claims related to the defective ignition...
There was an interesting article, "Weak Oversight, Deadly Cars", by Clarence Ditlow and Ralph Nader, in the New York Times recently. In summary, they criticize NHTSA (the federal government's auto safety arm) and conclude, "Only a complete overhaul of the agency's...
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