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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of Product: Circo 17” Children’s Travel Cases Units: Read More

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that it has reached a settlement with E&B Giftware LLC (E&B), of Yonkers, N.Y., resolving CPSC staff allegations that E&B failed to report a defect with its fitness balls. In settling this matter, E&B has agreed to pay a civil penalty in the amount of $550,000. Read More

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. (Build-A-Bear), of St. Louis, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $600,000. The penalty settlement agreement has been provisionally accepted by the Commission. The settlement resolves CPSC staff allegations that Build-A-Bear failed to immediately report a defect involving its toy bear Read More

In an interesting read by Mark Friedman in Arkansas Business, Arkansas Mutual Insurance Company of Little Rock announced it was cutting medical liability insurance premiums by 12.5%. According to Arkansas Mutual CEO Corey Little, the premium savings are attributable to the fact that Arkansas Mutual has been “very selective” in which doctors it chooses to Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accused a California marketing company of misleading customers in its promotion of Lap-Band weight loss surgery. The agency said the company, 1-800-GET-THIN, grossly underplays the serious risks of the procedure to its patients. Agency officials said they began investigating the company after receiving complaints about the ads from Read More

Supreme Court Ruling a Win for Arkansans By Michael W. Boyd 12/19/2011 Arkansas farm families are hailing a recent ruling by our state Supreme Court as a big win against one of the most egregious acts of negligence to hit the state’s agriculture industry in recent memory. But the implications go much further than this Read More

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of Product: TXT golf cars, Cushman shuttle vehicles Read More

A 2002 review of academic studies by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that when patients were autopsied, major errors related to the principle diagnosis or underlying cause of death were found in one of four cases. In one of 10 cases, the error appeared severe enough to have led to the Read More

Ford Motor Co. has issued a recall of 129,000 vehicles after it was discovered the wheels can unexpectedly fall off. The recall covers 2010 and 2011 Ford Fusions and Mercury Milans. The company said the “wheel studs may fracture,” which can lead to the wheels falling off while the car is in motion. https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/09/us-ford-recall-idUSTRE7B81KE20111209

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel has determined that the labeling on widely-used birth control pills is inadequate and should be updated “to emphasize recent data suggesting a higher risk of blood clots with the drugs than older contraceptive pills.” Although there is conflicting data on the actual negative side-effects of the drugs, experts Read More