14 Dec, 2009
Today, major automakers expressed support for banning drivers from text messaging and using hand-held mobile phones while driving.
The Alliance of Auto Manufacturers, a trade association of 11 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW Group, Chrysler and Ford Motor Company, said in a statement that writing or reading text messages affects a driver’s ability to […]
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14 Dec, 2009
New York Product Liability Attorneys Issue Urgent News Flash - Little Tikes responds to Government recall of 1.6 million toys nationwide.
New York, NY (NewYorkInjuryNews.com) – U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled 1.6 million Little Tikes Company toys from the consumer market, announced CNNMoney.
An eleven-month old baby was hospitalized for one of the plastic nails […]
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18 Nov, 2009
Toy and child product safety of course remains an important topic as we head into the holiday season, though the gift-giving season focuses more attention on serious issues that so many of us are contending with year-round.
Blow is a link to an informative report regarding corporations’ failures to act on information about product defects. The report […]
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5 Nov, 2009
Federal safety regulators have harshly admonished Toyota Motor Corp. for issuing “inaccurate and misleading” statements about Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota had asserted that no defect exists in the 3.8 million vehicles subject to a recall.
Contrary to Toyota’s corporate line in order to promote sales, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that the recalled Toyota […]
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4 Sep, 2009
The AP (9/3, Paulson) reported, “A workers compensation insurer may have paid bonuses to employees for denying claims, a lawmaker said Thursday, citing documents provided by the company. State Sen. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, said that documents indicate Pinnacol Assurance paid bonuses to claims adjusters and doctors based on performance standards that included net income targets.” […]
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3 Sep, 2009
Today the Denver Post reports that Shareholder Carrie Frank was elected as the Vice President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. Carrie serves this organization to improve the legal profession and to enhance the practice of personal injury, defective products, and wrongful death law. We are very proud of Carrie! http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_13242112
Carrie was instrumental in organizing […]
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1 Sep, 2009
The Los Angeles Times (9/1, Hennigan) reports, “Toyota spent years concealing evidence from victims of hundreds of rollover accidents that resulted in death and injury, a former top lawyer for the automaker says.” Dimitrios P. Biller of Pacific Palisades, “a former managing counsel for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc., said in the suit that the […]
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28 Aug, 2009
Colorado Wrongful Death Law
Laws permitting wrongful death claims were enacted in the 19th century to permit recovery of damages for death caused by the wrongful act of another. These laws, otherwise known as statutes, were created by legislatures rather than through the common law which is case law developed through the court system.
Because the Colorado […]
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6 Jul, 2009
http://cbs4denver.com/local/cambodia.opposition.leader.2.1074149.html
Read about Beth Klein’s efforts to create freedom for women in Cambodia who have been sold into slavery.
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26 May, 2009
Klein | Frank, P.C. is accepting deceptive warranty cases against CARHILL ENTERPRISES, INC. aka CONSUMER PROTECTION SERVICES of St. Louis.
Klein | Frank, P.C. is accepting cases against this defendant who sold extended automobile warranties that are not worth the paper they is printed on. These “extended warranties” may promise to reimburse you the full price you paid for it, […]
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