Galveston product defect attorney reminds you that almost 1 million car seats, booster seats, stroller seats and convertible seats from Dorel Juvenile Products remain subject to recall. We wrote about the Dorel child safety seat recall in February and in August, but we find that some people haven’t yet heard about this important news that affects their children’s safety.

The NHTSA announced the Dorel Safety 1st Alpha Omega recall in February out of concern for the dangers presented by the products’ loose harnesses. And the IIHS has just announced results of a study on children’s booster seats that confirms these fears.

The IIHS study found that almost half of all booster seats did not connect properly with vehicle seat belts to provide adequate child protection. In the defective booster seats, the seat belt will not position properly over the child. This can lead to severe impact injuries against parts of the car and to severe lacerations from the seat belt in the event of a wreck.

The IIHS study named the Dorel Safety 1st Alpha Omega Elite as one of the 6 most dangerous booster seats of the 83 it studied. The February Dorel child safety seat recall also named the Dorel Safety 1st Alpha Omega. (Find a full list of the recalled Dorel child safety seatshere.) The Dorel child safety seats subject to the recall were manufactured between May 1, 2008 and April 30, 2009.

Dorel said that it had received 143 complaints about the loose harnesses at the time of the February recall, but that it had no knowledge of real world crash injuries or fatalities from the product. Dorel also stated that it didn’t believe that there was a safety defect in their products, but that the products simply “exhibited performance issues.”

Galveston product defect attorney asks: could the performance issues possibly result because the products are DEFECTIVE? It seems to us, experienced Galveston product defect attorneys who have presented these cases many times in court, that the usual causes of product “performance issues” are product defects….

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