Law Offices of Michael Pines, APC:
Personal Injury Attorneys & Car Accident Lawyers
Serving San Diego, California Since 1992

In recent San Diego car accident news an off-duty California highway patrol officer and his family died in a car accident when the accelerator on the Lexus they were in reportedly got stuck.  After further investigation, the cause of the car crash was caused when the accelerator was trapped by a floormat.

Our car accident lawyers know that nothing is made perfectly.  Car accidents are caused by design defects every year, many of which could have been prevented if only car manufacturers had thoroughly tested their products for safety.  Unfortunately this particular design defect in the cars’ floormats led to the untimely wrongful deaths of four family members.
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Sherwin Williams Inc., an American based paint manufacturer, has been found liable for the personal injuries of  a Mississippi boy who ate lead-contaminated paint chips.

Trellvion Gaines ingested lead-contaminated paint chips while staying at his grandmother’s house, a residence she has lived at since the 1970’s.  Read the full article →

The Nestle plant at the center of a federal probe into an E. coli outbreak involving a cookie dough products liability refused to give inspectors access to pest-control records, environmental-testing programs and other information.

Our San Diego firm’s personal injury attorneys believe that if a loved one or you suffer a personal injury due to a products liability such as cookie dough, the maker of that product should be held accountable for any pain and suffering you endure.  We confront cases frequently when companies fail to manufacture products that are safe to use by consumers. Read the full article →

Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough has been recalled and federal health officials are warning consumers to throw out packages they have purchased because of risks of an E. coli infection.

Our firm’s San Diego personal injury attorneys, we believe that if a loved one or you suffer a personal injury due to a products liability such as bacteria infected cookie dough, you should stop using it immediately. We confront cases frequently when companies fail to manufacture products that are safe to use by consumers. Read the full article →

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is discussing whether patients on cancer drug Rituxan should use it for a shorter period or take breaks, after reports linked the drug to dozens of cases of a rare and usually fatal brain injury.

The drug Rituxan is used to treat lymphoma, a cancer of immune-system cells.  It costs thousands of dollars per treatment and had U.S. sales of $2.6 billion in 2008, with more than a million people using it, and may not know the potential products liability hazards linked with it. Read the full article →

Products liability has been known to cause many personal injuries such as emotional trauma, pain and suffering, and in some cases, wrongful death.

That is why Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, the first woman appointed to the Northern District of California bench, is set to rule on an off-label drug prosecution which would put the former CEO of a pharmaceutical company on trial for products liability and pharmaceutical liability. Read the full article →

Oil refiners say new legislation which aims to decrease carbon dioxide emissions will raise prices for consumers, force some refineries to close and increase foreign imports from countries that don’t have to abide by similar rules.  Higher oil prices could lead to more car accidents as the quality of oil drops due to the price heightening and refineries closing. Read the full article →

The design defect of a rotor caused a medical helicopter crash that caused the wrongful death of a member of the flight crew.  The family of Sandra Pearson has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the woman’s two children claiming that her untimely and wrongful death was due to products liability. Read the full article →

Medtronic Inc., the world’s largest medical technology company, has lost yearly profits as a result of defective products which caused personal injury and even wrongful deaths that were recalled. Read the full article →

Lawsuits have been filed by dozens of women against the company who manufactures ObTape, claiming that the defective product has a synthetic mesh-like material designed to prevent incontinence but also causes severe personal injuries.

Many of the woman in the personal injury case claim that the ObTape helped to stop their urinary leaks, but caused other personal injuries, including tearing of the vaginal wall and the development of a bloody, painful discharge. Read the full article →

Baxter International Incorporated, who sells a type of heparin blood thinner in premixed bags, is under investigation for pharmaceutical liability that led to two wrongful deaths and personal injury to a third person. Read the full article →

In May, 2009, the Maryland Court of Appeals issued a that will attempt to make it harder for plaintiffs/victims who file personal injury lawsuits – specifically in vaccine-related cases – to submit expert testimony. Read the full article →

An announcement was made on May 6, 2009, by the New Jersey Attorney General that a settlement has reached with a medical device maker accused of not disclosing the financial conflicts of interest among doctors researching a product that is used to help treat spinal cord injuries.

Our firm’s San Diego personal injury attorneys believe that when the manufacture of a medical device hides its business practices with doctors there can be potential for their devices to have unknown design defects.  These potentially defective products can result in injuries, which can be permanent in some cases, or even fatal mistakes. Read the full article →

Avastin, a Genetech manufactured pharmaceutical, failed to show a significant effect on preventing the recurrence of colon cancer and may be subject to a products liability claim.

Our personal injury attorneys in San Diego help injured persons and cases of product liability, so we are familiar with instances such as this one.  Drug makers should release all information—including hazardous side effects and potential product liability—to injured persons before they begin medical treatment with a certain pharmaceutical. Read the full article →

Healthtex has recalled forty-thousand Zoo Pacifiers that failed to meet federal safety standards and are subject to a products liability. Read the full article →

Toys “R” Us Incorporated—the big toy retailer—stopped ordering drop-side cribs after concerns regarding product liability and the overall safety of the product.

Our firm’s personal injury attorney in San Diego believe that this is a smart move on the part of the retailer, because defective products can lead to products liability and cause personal injury to consumers.  This is especially dangerous when young children are put at risk for personal injury. Read the full article →

In the fall of 2008, Toyota opened its newest North American assembly plant, designed to bring to life the company’s very latest ideas and innovations for building a car efficiently, but since the economic recession hit, studies show Toyota’s latest standards are fairly low and the company may start manufacturing automobiles with defective products that cause more car accidents. Read the full article →

According to a study in the American Journal of Physiology, Cyclohexanone, a chemical that can leach from many plastic medical devices impairs the heart function and nervous system in lab rats, potentially causing personal injury and medical malpractice in human subjects. Read the full article →

Walls and ceilings are built with drywall, which is made from paper, sulfate and a type of plaster.  Drywall serves as one of the most important parts of a building’s construction.

Recently, complaints from homeowners whose homes were made with a particular drywall manufactured in China has caused a government investigation and products liability lawsuit.  Read the full article →

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a meeting on April 22, 2009 to determine whether the organization’s device center was illegally approving defective products that could cause harm to people in auto accidents.

Medical device makers have already been asked by the FDA to justify the safety in some of their products currently on the market, including external heart defibrillators, dialysis catheters, hip joints, spinal screws, heart pumps and equipment that assists with injured persons with breast cancer and orthopedic knees. Read the full article →