San Jose Personal Injury Law Blog
Don’t Burn Down Your Home
Keep your holidays happy by knowing that you can and will be injured without being careful. Does that sound like a damper? Far better to think about it now than to suffer serious injuries, be scarred from burns and burned out of your apartment or home as a result of...
Mr. Trump’s Tweet: Tampering with A Witness? Or Libel?
Nobody liked Mr. Trump’s tweeting at the onset of Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony, including many Republicans. But was it witness tampering? I have abbreviated and condensed the federal witness tampering statute, 18 United States Code 1512, for easy reading. Whoever...
ALOCANE Burn Pads Dangerous and Defective Packaging
ALOCANE Emergency Burn Pads are being recalled due to a failure to meet child resistant closure requirements. This puts children at risk of poisoning if they are able to get ahold of these burn pads. The pads contain lidocaine, which can poison a child if it is...
Liquid Nicotine: Deadly for Children and Pets
Liquid nicotine has become a popular consumer product for people who use e-cigarettes and vaping devices. Small amounts of liquid nicotine can be extremely hazardous to children and pets. Swallowing liquid nicotine or coming into contact with it through the skin can...
Bed Bath & Beyond Sold Defect Coffee Mugs
Coffee Mugs made by Lifetime Brands Fitz and Floyd Nevaeh White Can Mugs and sold by Bed Bath & Beyond cause a serious risk of both lacerations and scalding burns. These products are defectively designed and manufactured, causing them to break when filled with hot...
Defective Lawn Mowing Heads by STIHL
STIHL PolyCut mowing heads exploded on trimmers, brush cutters and certain models of clearing saws. The bolts connecting the plastic blades and holding the mowing head together loosen and the mowing head disintegrates causing serious personal injuries to users and...
150 Needless Child Deaths: Drowning at Home
Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death for children ages one to four. There is no excuse for this. Prosecutors should be filing manslaughter charges against any adult, including parents, since taking no action continues these unwarranted deaths. The USA...
How Do I Get the Money I Deserve in my Personal Injury Case?
Most people who cause car accidents have minimal insurance policies and when there is minimal insurance there commonly are minimal assets to pay your losses. Most injured people do not carry substantial under-insured or uninsured motorist coverage [known as UM...
Purdue’s Bankruptcy and the Opioid Epidemic
Purdue Pharmaceuticals has filed for bankruptcy, days after reaching tentative settlement agreements in lawsuits for its role in creating the nation’s current opioid epidemic. In an attempt to satisfy the claims of thousands of lawsuits, Purdue plans to create a...
John Deere Gators Have Defective Throttles
Certain John Deere Gators have defective throttles that will jam open, causing a runaway that cannot be stopped. Because of a very serious risk of personal injuries and deaths, John Deere XUV835 Gator utility vehicles are being recalled. Nearly 20,000 Gator vehicles...