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Can Airbags Cause Injuries in a Car Accident?

Airbags are meant to protect us in a car crash, and they often prevent serious injury, but they can also harm automobile occupants. Front airbags were required in cars beginning in 1998. Side airbags are not required by law, but are usually included as standard equipment in new vehicles. Side-impact airbags inflate more quickly be[...]

Date: April 4, 2023 / Defective Products

How To Prove a Defective Product Caused Your Accident

Get Help if You Have Been Harmed by a Defect Manufacturers are required to ensure that their products are safe when used correctly or to warn consumers if the product has some risk involved. This does not always happen, and the results can be serious injuries and death for those who use defective products. If you or a loved one[...]

Date: July 12, 2022 / Defective Products
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Lawsuit Against Conagra on Behalf of Cooking Spray Explosion Victim

Conagra Cooking Spray Explosion Lawsuit The Team at Terry Bryant Law Files a Lawsuit Against Conagra Foods the accident and injury law office of Terry Bryant filed suit today on behalf of Reveriano Duran, against CONAGRA FOODS, INC., and CONAGRA BRANDS, INC., makers of SYSCO Imperial All-Purpose Cooking Spray. The lawsuit alleg[...]

Date: May 7, 2019 / Defective Products
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Texas Man Dies from Vape Pen Explosion

E-cigarettes still operate in an unusual space in the U.S. Many of the devices and liquids consumers use aren’t tightly regulated. Though there have been steps in the right direction over the last couple of years, these devices still pose a threat when something goes wrong, which is exactly what happened earlier this year in Fo[...]

Date: April 12, 2019 / Defective Products / Wrongful Death
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The Takata Air Bag Story Just Won’t End

The New Year was barely upon us before the number of recalled Takata air bags and their faulty inflators got noticeably larger. During the first two weeks of 2019, Ford recalled around 782,000 vehicles in the U.S. (950,000 worldwide) while Fiat-Chrysler recalled over 1.4 million Takata air bags in the U.S., along with an undisclo[...]

Date: March 18, 2019 / Accident Attorney / Defective Products / Vehicle Wrecks
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Veterans Suffer Hearing Loss from Defective 3M Earplugs

PLEASE NOTE: TERRY BRYANT IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING NEW 3M COMBAT EARPLUG CASES. For more than a decade, the 3M Company manufactured earplugs - the Combat Arms Ear Plugs - that were sold to the U.S. military. Now, the company faces several lawsuits over the defectiveness of this product and the resulting hearing loss suffered b[...]

Date: February 12, 2019 / Defective Products
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A $289 Million Verdict Shakes up Monsanto—Signals Good News for Roundup Victims

As consumers, we expect the everyday products we buy off store shelves to be safe. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Thousands of people who bought the popular weed-killer Roundup believe that the product gave them cancer. And on August 10, a jury agreed with the first of the cancer victims to have their day in court. [...]

Date: September 11, 2018 / Defective Products / Product Liability / Verdicts & Settlements
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Bayer Stops Sales of Essure – but the Legal Fight Continues

PLEASE NOTE: TERRY BRYANT IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING NEW ESSURE CASES. Since the early 2000’s, hundreds of thousands of women have turned to a tiny, coiled device as a supposedly safe and effective method of birth control. As many as 750,000 women have chosen the Essure implant for sterilization, largely because they were told [...]

Date: August 2, 2018 / Defective Products / Personal Injury / Product Liability
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Vape Pen Explosion Causes First E-Cig-Related Death in U.S.

Florida authorities are still investigating the death of a man whose body was found at his home on May 5, after a vape pen apparently exploded in his face. The exact cause of death remains undetermined. The victim, 35-year-old Tallmadge D’Elia, suffered multiple injuries to his face, officials said. Firefighters were summoned [...]

Date: July 10, 2018 / Burn Injuries / Defective Products / Personal Injury / Product Liability
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The Terrifying Story of the Exploding Washing Machine

Samsung Exploding Washing Machine A New Jersey federal judge ruled on May 21 that an oral settlement agreement reached in June 2017 in two class action lawsuits over allegedly defective Samsung washers should be enforced. This may finally bring to an end several years of conflict between consumers and Samsung over its “explodi[...]

Date: June 19, 2018 / Defective Products / Personal Injury / Product Liability