It would be hard to miss the multiple news releases and stories that General Motors has some big problems with its 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalt and its 2007 Pontiac G5. General Motors is recalling these vehicles because a heavy key chain or rough roads can jar the key, turn off the…
Fox Factory, located in Watsonville, Calif., has recalled Evolution 2013 mountain bike suspension forks. Built for the model year 2013, the recalled suspension forks are for the series 32 and 34, with a 120 mm to 160 mm. The suspension forks’ damper cylinder/pistons can separate and cause the front wheel…
Liam O’Neill bought a 2000 GMC Jimmy SUV. On July 3, 2001, his wife, Mary, was driving home in the SUV when the vehicle suddenly stopped. She was in the eastbound lane of a 2-lane street. Mary attempted to restart the SUV several times but it would not start. She…
Federal District Court Judge Hon. David R. Herndon of the Southern District of Illinois has ordered that Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (BIPI) pay $1 million in sanctions for discovery abuses in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) involving the oral anticoagulant Predaxa. This same U.S. Federal District Court, also in the Southern District…
DePuy Orthopaedics is the subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The company has agreed to pay $2.475 billion to settle what amounts to thousands of claims related to patient injuries suffered as a result of defective ASR hip implant parts. The settlement was approved by U.S. District Judge David A. Katz of…
Scott Weigle and John Moore, two mechanics, were working on a trailer from a semi-truck. Weigle and Moore had considerable experience as mechanics working at a trucking repair company. On July 31, 2009, Weigle and Moore were about to do a job to rebuild the braking system on a semi-truck trailer. …
Jack Taylor was a motocross enthusiast from the downstate Illinois town of Lewistown. Taylor replaced a tire for his motocross bike on July 9, 2009 with a new one he purchased from a store in Peoria, Ill. On July 11, 2009, Taylor went to the Sunset Ridge MX MotoCross Course in…
Mario Olguin, 51, bought a used set of mismatched tires, including a 13-year-old Michelin tire from A-Car Wrecking Salvage Lot. Olguin took the tires to Twin’s Tires and Wheels, where the tires were installed on his vehicle. Eleven days later and while Olguin was a passenger in the vehicle, a tread on…
According to a recent Chicago U.S. District Court decision, a Maine aircraft repair company cannot be brought into a court in Illinois. The decision was based on an argument that because the company’s website can be accessed in Illinois, jurisdiction would lie in U.S. District Court. In the written opinion issued…
A confidential settlement agreement was reached just two weeks before the start of a bellwether case in a coordinated litigation in California regarding hip implants. The terms of the settlement agreement were not revealed. The trial had been scheduled to begin in the middle of October 2013. The next bellwether trial…