Defect

• Product defects and recalls

• Birth defects

• Defective products

• 16 CFR 1115.4 - Defect.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 16: Commercial Practices

• Denial of Motor Vehicle Defect Petition

This notice sets forth the reasons for the denial of a petition Defect Petition (DP) 10-004 submitted by Ms. Lalitha Seetharaman (petitioner) with the assistance of Emerick Bohmer to NHTSA by a letter received on November 5, 2010, under 49 CFR part 552. The petitioners request an investigation of brake failure in model year 2005 Honda Accord Hybrid vehicles.

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 76481, December 07, 2011
• Notices
• Transportation Department

• Analyzing Coverage for Construction-Defect Claims

Anyone involved with the building trades knows how defective-construction claims have proliferated in recent years. Associated case law has prompted significant changes to the commercial general liability (CGL) policy, and agents with clients in the building trades often struggle to understand their impact. This article discusses revisions to the CGL form related to defective-construction claims, clarifies a few key concepts and suggests ways agents can help cover contractors' exposures. According to the insuring agreement of today's CGL, four things are needed to activate coverage: 1. an occurrence resulting in, 2. bodily injury or property damage which must take place, 3. during the policy period, and 4. within the coverage territory. Continuous or repeated exposure is often integral ...

• American Agent & Broker
• Vol. 76 Nbr. 7, July 2004

• Denial of Motor Vehicle Defect Petition, DP10-002

This notice describes the reasons for denying a petition (DP10-002) submitted to NHTSA under 49 U.S.C. Subtitle B, Chapter V, Part 552, Subpart A, requesting that the agency conduct ``an investigation of defective products manufactured by Dayton Wheel Concepts, Inc. (`Dayton Wheel' and American Wire Wheel, LLC (`American Wheel').'' The petition listed the allegedly defective products and the alleged defect (which varied by allegedly defective product).

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 73771, November 29, 2011
• Notices
• Transportation Department

• Lawsuit: Effexor Caused Fatal Birth Defect

In what is believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind, an Ohio woman is claiming that her ingestion of the popular anti-depressant Effexor during pregnancy caused a fatal birth defect in her daughter. This ... drug was approved by the FDA in 1993, but the parties involved neglected to disclose the birth defect risks to physicians treating women of child-bearing age," said Philadelphia lawyer Thomas Anapol in a press release.

• Lawyers USA
• February 24, 2012

• 49 CFR 573.6 - Defect and noncompliance information report.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 49: Transportation

• 21 CFR 1003.11 - Determination by Secretary that product fails to comply or has a defect.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 21: Food and Drugs

• Defying the Odds Julie Stucki has a Heart Defect and Was Supposed to Be Dead Before Her First Birthday

Julie Stucki of Evansville spent the first 28 years of her life wondering why. Why God gave her a heart defect? Why she had to endure four open-heart surgeries before age 30? The doctors told her parents, Bud and Becky Heil, their daughter wouldn't survive her first surgery at 8 months old. She did.

• Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
• January 09, 2012

• 21 CFR 1003.10 - Discovery of defect or failure of compliance by manufacturer; notice requirements.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 21: Food and Drugs

• 10 CFR 21.21 - Notification of failure to comply or existence of a defect and its evaluation.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 10: Energy