Defective & Dangerous Products - Last 90 Days

• YouTube Sensation "How To Wake Up A Kid" Shows Seat Belt Dangers

  Brett Emison | May 15, 2012 7:11 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  One of the newest YouTube sensations is a young 3-year-old boy who apparently likes to wake up to music by Nirvana. As of posting, the video had more than 1 million hits. ...

• DePuy HIp Recall: 'Smoking Gun' Email Shows Company Knew About Artificial Hip Problems

  Brett Emison | February 23, 2012 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  A recently uncovered email circulated within Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics medical device unit sheds new light on what DePuy executives knew and when they knew it. In August...

• Anderson Cooper / CNN: Confidential Toyota Document Acknwledged Sudden Acceleration

  Brett Emison | March 02, 2012 10:12 AM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN aired a story last night discussing a 2006 Toyota internal confidential document that acknowledging electronic-caused sudden unintended acceleration that described an...

• Rental Car Roulette: Will Car Rental Companies Stop Renting Recalled Vehicles?

  Brett Emison | February 21, 2012 9:18 AM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Under current law, rental car companies like Hertz, Enterprise, Avis, Budget, etc. can rent you a vehicle that has been recalled for a safety defect... and you might never even know it. A NHTSA...

• Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan Attacked For Not Being Partisan Enough

  Brett Emison | April 17, 2012 11:15 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Carrie Severino at the National Review Online is at it again (coded nofollow). Her newest piece again contradicts itself in complaining that the Missouri non-partisan court plan doesn't work...

• Enterprise Rent-a-Car Changes Stance on Government Oversight of Recalled Vehicles

  Brett Emison | April 05, 2012 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  This is a follow-up to my February 21, 2012 blog post titled “Rental Car Roulette: Will Car Rental Companies Stop Renting Recalled Vehicles?”. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch...

• Enterprise Holding Up Rental Car Safety Bill

  Brett Emison | May 07, 2012 12:55 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Rental car giant, Enterprise, says, we'll pick you up, but if Enterprise gets its way, it might pick you up in a vehicle recalled because of safety defects. Under current law, rental...

• New Recall Fines Will Make Drivers Safer

  Brett Emison | April 12, 2012 11:17 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  New recall fines included in the transportation bill passed in the Senate (but awaiting approval in the House of Representatives) will make our highways safer. The bill permits the National...

• GM Posts All-Time Record Profit - But What About Injured Victims?

  Brett Emison | February 16, 2012 11:44 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Two years after exiting from bankruptcy, General Motors posted its largest ever annual profit. For 2011, all Big 3 US automakers posted profits. GM earned net profits of $7.6 billion for...

• NHTSA Proposes Mandatory Brake Override Technology

  Brett Emison | April 23, 2012 3:12 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has recently proposed a new requirement for brake override switches to be installed in all cars and light trucks that utilize an...