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Burger King’s Impossible Whopper has been the talk of the country as it has been at the vanguard of the plant-based revolution. The restaurant chain has credited the Impossible Whopper with increasing its sales overall and bringing customers into the store who ordinarily would not have visited a fast food restaurant.  Now, Burger King is facing a lawsuit over the

Product liability law in the United States is being upended as the traditional model of retail sales shifts in favor of a model in which companies like Amazon act as a market for sales of third party products. In these cases, Amazon claims that it is doing nothing other than simply offering a forum for these other vendors to connect

Earlier this year, Fisher Price’s inclined sleeper was recalled from the market in the wake of reports of numerous deaths resulting from the use of the defective product. The Rock n Play was recalled in June. At the time of its recall, it was blamed for over 30 deaths. Subsequently, several other brands were recalled as well. Now, the Consumer

The outbreak of vaping related illness has reached the entire country with cases reported in all states. Over 1,600 people have suffered lung injuries from this illness. There have been 34 fatalities reported from this mystery illness. The CDC is beginning to make progress in figuring out the cause of this severe lung ailment. In the meantime, the manufacturers of

The CBD industry is relatively new and many of the health effects of CBD products are yet unknown. The companies that sell these products face a coming wave of lawsuits from people who have purchased CBD products. Some of these lawsuits have alleged mislabeling the amount of active ingredients in the CDB, and others have filed lawsuits against CBD makers

Frozen raspberries and berry mixes that were sold at discount grocer Aldi and Raley’s Family of Fine Stores have been recalled. Government testing has shown that these berries were possibly contaminated with the hepatitis A virus. Customers who have purchased these berries should not eat them under any circumstances. Instead, they should either throw the berries out or return them

Parents are always concerned about the food that their toddlers are fed and the effect that it has on their bodies. Many parents try to ensure that they are not consuming any substances that cause them short or long-term damage. One of the main concerns is that baby food can have a negative effect on the baby’s brain development. If

When renovating their kitchens, many people like the look and feel of stone for their kitchen countertops. However, when made out of pure stone, kitchen countertops can get expensive, placing this beyond the budget of many. In order to save money and still get the countertops that they want, customers order artificial stone counters. While artificial stone sounds like a

Recently, the tide has begun to turn against e-cigarettes. Not only have users suffered severe injuries from the vape pens exploding, but now there are reports of severe illness and even deaths that have possibly resulted from vaping. By mid-August, the CDC had nearly 100 reports of severe lung illnesses that have been alleged to have resulted from e-cigarettes. This

Stories have begun to emerge about mystery lung illnesses that have affected teenage vapers. There have now been a series of deaths reported as well as hundreds of illnesses. Some of the individual stories have begun to make their way into the media as more attention has been focused on the issue of vaping. The public is now beginning to

Although some e-cigarette manufacturers have voluntarily offered to stop selling flavored nicotine, teenage vaping remains a major problem in this country. Self-enforced measures taken by these sellers have not been enough to stem the epidemic that is jeopardizing the health of teenagers. At the same time, regulatory efforts to arrest the tide of rising e-cigarette usage among teens have been

Keeping pesticides out of our food supply is an ongoing battle.  The recent Roundup lawsuits have caused a sharp decline in the share price of Monsanto’s parent company, Bayer. The prospect of tens of billions of dollars of potential liability looms large in investors’ consciousness as the corporation has not fared well in several lawsuits arising from the use of

Numerous pesticides have received close scrutiny recently for the dangers that they cause to humans. For example, the pesticide Roundup has been the subject of numerous lawsuits due to the possible link between the product and lymphoma. Lorsban, which is also known as Chlorpyrifos, has been linked with brain damage in children and other harmful effects for users of all

E-cigarette manufacturer Juul is under regulatory and legal scrutiny for a number of different reasons. Juul, who is the market leader is facing fire over both the safety of its products and the marketing methods that it uses to sell them. One of the particular areas where Juul has received scrutiny is over its apparent effort to sell e-cigarettes to

Mark spoke with the American Daily Podcast on Vaccine Safety recently. Transcription Below Today we hear from a pharmaceutical and medical device lawyer who is working to make vaccines safer. He explains some critical problems with the vaccine court and how his current lawsuit against Merck could have a big impact. Today’s Guest: Mark Sadaka is the founder of Sadaka

Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer has been in the news a fair amount recently. Juries have awarded plaintiffs staggering verdicts as compensation for contracting terminal cancer after use of Roundup. Recently, a California jury awarded $2 billion to a couple who both developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a result of their use of this product. This was just the latest in a

For many years, the Fisher Price Rock ‘n Play Sleeper was considered to be the “must have” product among parents with infants. Intended to help babies who otherwise have trouble sleeping, Fisher Price sold nearly five million of these devices. However, there have been numerous reports of deaths that have been linked with the Rock ‘n Play Sleeper. As a

The legal implications of climate change are still in their infancy. Although there have been several previous attempts to hold the fossil fuel industry legally responsible for the impacts of climate change, none have yet been successful. It has yet to be established whether climate change is legally actionable. If it is actionable, it is still to be determined who

U.S. citizens would like to think that products released on the market for the general public would function as indicated by the manufacturers. Not only do all individuals assume that governmental protections are in place, but many corporations and organizations actually rely on this assumption when designing facilities. Schools are clearly part of this group of entities relying on proper