The Recall Lawyers

Nature Relief is voluntarily recalling Nature Relief Instant Wart and Mole Remover. The recall is effective immediately and Nature Relief is recommending that consumers discontinue use immediately and dispose of the product inside a plastic bag.

The active ingredient in the product, calcium oxide, can cause severe burns on the skin.
These burns can be serious enough to required medical attention, especially when used on more delicate parts of the skin such as around the face, eyes, and genitalia.

The FDA also advises that moles should be removed by licensed medical professionals so a determination can be made if the moles are cancerous.

Although Nature Relief is doing the right thing by recalling the product, they could still be liable for injuries that occurred if the use of calcium oxide in a product designed to be used on the skin is determined to be a defect in the product.

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Toyota is recalling more than 82,000 of its popular hybrid automobiles due to concerns about the mechanism that switches power between the electric motor and batteries and the gasoline engine. This further increases the total number of recalled Toyotas to more than 2 million since 2010.

Hundreds of Toyota injury cases have been consolidated into one Court, the Central District of California, which recently set the first test trial over "sudden acceleration" for February 2013. While that seems like a long time away, as normal litigation can take years, the Court and parties are pursuing an aggressive discovery and trial schedule on an extremely complex piece of litigation spanning multiple countries and plaintiffs in almost every state in the U.S.

According to a report from USA Today, the potentially faulty Toyota hybrid components are at risk of overheating. Affected models include the 2006 and 2007 versions of the Highlander Hybrid and the Lexus RX 400h.

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Boston Scientific Corporation has extended a previous recall of coronary image catheters. iCross and Atlantis SR Pro2 devices are included in the latest recall. The Atlantis SR Pro2 was named as a replacement for iCross catheters pulled from shelves earlier in the year.

The reason for the recall is that the tip can detach during procedures, which can cause tissue or blood vessel injury and require additional surgery. The recall has been categorized as a Class 1 recall. Class 1 is the most serious type of recall and involves situations in which there is a reasonable probability that use of these products will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.

These sorts of medical product recalls often happen without any sort of widespread public knowledge. Many people don't know exactly what products have been used during procedures or implanted into their body. This happens a lot with hip implants like DePuy. Only certain types of DePuy (and Zimmer) hips have been recalled, but many other makes and models may cause problems on an individual basis. If you or a loved one is having any sort of problem with a medical device or after a procedure, the first call should be to your doctor or the surgeon who implanted the device.

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The United States Supreme Court has refused to disturb the $58 million jury award against the makers of Prempro. Pfizer literally took this one all the way to the Supreme Court --and lost! This is the right result. It is time for Pfizer to begin compensating women for causing their breast cancer. It is simply unconscionable to allow a manufacturer like Pfizer place a product on the market that is known to cause life-threatening cancers. However, sometimes the power of the almighty dollar clouds a company's judgment.

The DePuy ASR hip implant system, which was recalled last August, has been getting more coverage for the misery and pain felt by people who had the metal-on-metal hip implants.

A recent news article published by The Sacramento Bee details how Michael Stieler of California faced revision surgery after his DePuy metal-on-metal hip implant became so painful that he could no longer walk or even turn over in bed. Blood tests also showed elevated levels of cobalt and chromium in Stieler's body. These elevated levels of metal can lead to a dangerous condition called metallosis, in which particles of cobalt and chromium shed into the patient's bloodstream, eventually causing soft tissue and bone damage in the hip area.

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