Driving a recreational off-road vehicle carries enough external risks without worrying about the car itself harming you. Yet if you drive a 2021 Polaris RZR Pro XP or RZR Pro XP4, that may be exactly what happened. Polaris issued a product recall for the vehicles on...
Amazon will pay customers up to $1,000 for product injuries
A growing number of Tennessee residents have come to rely on online shopping websites when they want to find new products or old favorites quickly and easily. The low prices and ease of delivery associated with e-commerce giants like Amazon have reshaped the retail...
Is Amazon facing a game-changing products liability lawsuit?
Amazon provides one of the largest and most popular online retail platforms on the internet. The company presents an opportunity for third-party sellers to deliver products to Tennessee residents who place orders. Unfortunately, some products come with harmful...
When defective drugs are recalled
Every day, there seems to be another recall. While it is a small matter to throw away a head of lettuce, it is far more serious when the defective product is one of the medications you take. What should Tennessee residents do when it happens to them? Talk to your...
Did you use a defective product?
Anyone in Tennessee can injure themselves with virtually any product. If the individual misused the product or ignored the warnings on the package, they probably won't be able to file a lawsuit. However, you might have a viable lawsuit if a defective product caused...
Members of Congress question Amazon over product safety
People in Tennessee are buying even more of their products on Amazon than ever before. The massive online shopping site provides a dizzying array of goods of almost all types to buyers in the U.S. and around the world. While Amazon serves as a general marketplace for...
Are E-Commerce Platforms Liable in Defective Products Cases?
Legal rulings can send ripple effects through the corporate world. Someone injured in a product liability incident in Tennessee can look towards a recent appellate court ruling when filing a lawsuit. E-commerce platforms may now share liability when facilitating the...
A nationwide recall of life-saving diabetes drug Metformin
When thousands of diabetic Americans and their loved ones turned on the news last week, it was to startling news: companies, under the advice of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), issued a recall for a critical drug for many type 2 diabetics. Metformin works in...
The FDA’s reporting process may be the first alert of a problem
Not every company catches a defective product before it ends up in the hands of consumers. It does not matter whether it is a pharmaceutical, cosmetic, medical device or some other company. The Food and Drug Administration has purview over a variety of industries and...
Can families count on product recalls to keep them safe?
It often seems Americans hear about every product recall under the Sun, from automobile airbags to chicken nuggets. But the federal government issues well over 4,000 every year, averaging roughly one recall every two hours. Almost nobody hears about most of them. So...
