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| 10 Baby Deaths Possibly Tied To Teething Products, FDA Says |  | The FDA late Tuesday warned of reports of 10 deaths associated with homeopathic teething products for babies, although the products' exact relationship to those infant deaths has yet to be determined. The agency said that it had begun investigating the teething gels and tablets â?? which are labeled to prevent teething pain â?? in September, after receiving a report that a child had a seizure after being administered a homeopathic teething product.
Emily Field, Law360.com 10/13/2016    | | Read Article: Law360.com |
| Toyota Recalls 340K Vehicles Due To Faulty Parking Brakes | | Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling approximately 340,000 Prius hybrid sedans worldwide over faulty parking brakes that may allow the vehicle to roll away even when the brake is activated, the automaker announced Wednesday. According to Toyota, the recall, which incorporates model year 2016 and 2017 Prius vehicles, stems from parking brake cables that may unexpectedly stop working while the parking brake is activated.
Matthew Guarnaccia, Law360.com 10/13/2016 | | Read Article: Law360.com |
| Man Died of Mold Infection from Hospital, Says Family | | A wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed by the family of a Pennsylvania man who died after allegedly being exposed to mold at UPMC Montefiore while undergoing a kidney transplant. The 56-year-old man died in July after he contracted an infection caused by mucormycosis mold. The lawsuit filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court this week alleges that the plaintiffs' family member died as a result of "professional negligence" by hospital staff. The complaint seeks damages for "earning capacity, medical expenses, and the physical and mental pain, suffering, inconvenience, embarrassment and loss of the pleasures of life."
Andrew Goldstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/13/2016 | | Read Article: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| $10M Award to Family of Man Who Died on Interstate 16 | | About $10 million has been awarded to the family of a man who died in a car crash on Interstate 16 in Georgia. A Twiggs County jury recently awarded $9.7 million to the man's family, who alleged that the poorly maintained highway road caused the man's death. The lawsuit alleged that the Georgia Department of Transportation "did not properly maintain the roadway and neglected to place any signs of warning of the nature of the roadway ahead" about water accumulating.
Stanley Dunlap, The Telegraph 10/12/2016 | | Read Article: The Telegraph |
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