Summer Infant Baby Bather Recall Lawsuit

Summer Infant Baby Bather Recall Lawsuit

Summer Infant Baby Bather Recall Lawsuit

Summer Infant has recalled 2 million baby bathers sold under its two brands in the United States following consumer complaints of seat collapse, leading to fall injuries and skull fractures to infants. On August 20, 2012, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned about fall hazard and reported injuries associated with these Chinese-made bath seats and asked the manufacturer to consider market withdrawal of these products. The recalled products include two of Summer Infant bather brands, Mother's Touch and Deluxe Baby Bathers, which were sold between September 2004 and November 2011.

Why Summer Infant Baby Bather Recall

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, faulty design of Mother's Touch and Deluxe baby bathers is the main reason for the accidental fall, causing injury to the child seated on it. These baby bathing seats, about 13.4 inches in length and 12.4 inches in width, are available with blue or pink plastic bases. The bathers have also a sling seat, a white wire frame, and five rivets holding adjustable side hinges. The folding wire frames in Mother's Touch and Deluxe brand baby bathing seats fold suddenly or detach from the side hing when lifted or carried, posing a fall hazard to the infants.

Manufacturer Summer Infants has received at least seven complaints of infant fall, resulting in five injuries. Four babies aged between two weeks and two months suffered skull fractures while the fifth one had head injuries, leading to emergency medical care.

The recall information on manufacturer’s website says this is a “corrective action program” and “voluntary recall to repair with free locking strap and instructions.”

Other Summer Infant Recalls

In February 2011, Summer Infant recalled 1.7 million baby video monitors following complaints of strangulation hazard caused by these products, which were manufactured in China and were being sold in the United States since 2003. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission admitted of receiving at least seven reports of deaths of babies and toddlers caused by monitors. Probes into incidents revealed that children died after being strangled by monitor cords placed closed to them. In one case, a toddler found with cord of the monitor rolled around his neck.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission also issued recall of 58,000 Summer Infant monitors sold under another brand, Slim and Secure, for possible burn injuries. The rechargeable batteries in these monitors could overheat and burst putting parents, children, and property at the risk of burn hazards.

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Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Recall

Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Recall

Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Recall Modular Hip Replacement Implant Lawsuit

A personal injury lawsuit filed in the Bergen County superior court in the first week of August has sought compensation from Stryker Orthopedics alleging that its defective Rejuvenate hip-replacement parts have caused serious health problems. The plaintiff, a 66-year-old woman from Florida, underwent right hip replacement in October 2011. Within months, she felt acute pain and her blood samples were found to contain high metal level though the Stryker Rejuvenate modular hip implant was intact. In June 2012, she had a revision surgery to get rid of abnormal tissue growth close to her hip. The plaintiff had to undergo more surgeries after experiencing a number of complications, including fractures, associated with the metal modular hip implant.

On July 4, 2012, Stryker Orthopedics issued a nationwide recall of its Rejuvenate Modular metal hip implant stems along with another of its brand, ABG II neck stems. The orthopedic implant manufacturer cited the risk of “potential fretting and/or corrosion at or about the modular-neck junction, which may result in adverse local tissue reactions manifesting with pain and/or swelling” as the reason for its market recall.

Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Implant Hip Replacement System

Stryker leads the global market for hip implant components with a variety of femoral, acetabular, and restoration equipment used in artificial hip implants. Stryker Rejuvenate modular hip implant has three important parts, a titanium neck, a chromium-cobalt stem, and a ball made of non-metallic materials. Patients implanted with these metal hip components have been diagnosed with a sharp rise in chromium and cobalt levels in their blood. According to post-marketing data, as many as 60 complaints were filed with the FDA against complications caused by Stryker Rejuvenate modular hip implant components between January and July 2012.

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Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Attorney

Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

Five more men have joined 22 others in filing sexual abuse claims against the Irish Christian Brothers at a Chicago bankruptcy court. The plaintiffs have alleged abuse by the members of the Catholic order during their student years at Chicago-based Brother Rice and Leo high schools and St. Laurence High School in Burbank. The Catholic order has filed for bankruptcy protection and Wednesday was the deadline for filing of claims by sexual abuse victims.

The claims filed by five men last week alleged molestation by Brother Edward Courtney, who worked as a teacher at Chicago area schools of the Irish Christian Brothers during the 1960s and 1970s. Courtney along with Brother D.P. Ryan and Brother Robert Brouillette has been named in a number of sexual abuse lawsuits filed in Washington, New York, and other states. The Catholic order reportedly transferred Courtney from one school to other following molestation allegations before he joined its schools in Washington.

In April 2011, the Irish Christian Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after more than a dozen sexual abuse lawsuits claiming molestation by its priests were filed in the United States. Attorneys view the bankruptcy plea as an attempt to protect the church assets and prevent escalation in sex abuse lawsuit. All members of three school alumni associations were informed of the Wednesday deadline to file their sex abuse claims.

Irish Christian Brothers Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

The officials of the Christian Bothers have been named in a number of sexual abuse lawsuits filed in Ireland, Canada, Australia, and the United States since the early 1990s. According to a report of the Irish Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse allegations published in 2009, “allegations of child abuse, and particularly child sexual abuse, were a recurring and persistent problem for the Congregation.” The investigation found that physical beating and emotional torture were commonly used in schools and orphanages run by the order, and the climate of fear created by such action of the officials deterred many victims of abuse to report their abusers. According to the report, seniors did not take any step to dismiss the abusers, but transferred them from school to school, allowing them to continue their misdeeds.

In January 2009, the Congregation of Christian Brothers paid $7 million to 13 former students of Kent-based Briscoe Memorial School to settle sexual abuse lawsuits filed by them. The men alleged physical and sexual abuse over decades during the 1960s and 1970s, when they were part of the boarding schools run by the Catholic order. In November 2010, the order settled sexual abuse lawsuits filed by another group of 11 men for $4.45 million. The plaintiffs accused officials of the Christian Brothers of molesting them while they were students at the school in 1950s. The Seattle Archdiocese, owner of the schools, also paid $2.7 million as compensation. Another molestation victim from 1940s batch at the school settled for $315,000 in 2007. In 2006, the order settled three lawsuits alleging sexual abuse at Briscoe.

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Health Care Lawsuit The Obamacare Lawsuits Explained

Health Care Lawsuit The Obamacare Lawsuits Explained

Court Rejects Obamacare Lawsuit Challenging Contraceptive Coverage Provision

On July 17, 2012, a Nebraska federal court dismissed a lawsuit filed by seven states challenging contraception coverage requirements in the federal health care law. Judge Warren Urbom of Lincoln tossed out the federal lawsuit on the ground that the plaintiffs did not have the standing to file a lawsuit seeking to block the part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The Republican-dominated administrations in seven states, Nebraska, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas, along with co-plaintiffs, a nun, a missionary, and three Nebraska-based church-affiliated institutions, the Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America, Pius X High School, and Catholic Social Services had challenged the contraception rule on the ground that it was against their religious liberties.

The act, popularly known as Obamacare, is a brainchild of President Barack Obama and seeks to extend affordable health care benefits to all U.S. citizens. The President signed the bill into law on March 23, 2012, following a series of considerations by the Congress for over a year. The United States Supreme Court upheld the health care overhaul law on June 28, 2012.

The Health and Human Services mandate under the Affordability Care Act makes contraception coverage a part of all health care plans, including those for employees working in institutions affiliated to religious bodies. The Catholic Church that runs hospitals, schools, and outreach programs strongly opposes the use of birth control measures. These religious bodies argued before the court that the challenged part of the act was a violation of their rights to reject contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs for women.

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