Ad Law Tool Kit Show – Episode 1 – Product Safety and Recalls
Foreign device manufacturers should anticipate greater chance of FDA inspection under new FDA leadership
In Palmer v. Teva Canada Limited, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the lower court’s decision to deny certification of a proposed product liability class action seeking damages for the alleged increased risk of being...more
Robins Kaplan Secures Historic $12.2 Million Settlement in a Section 1983 Jail Deliberate Indifference Case - Scott County Jail officials failed to report detained man’s injuries and allowed video evidence to be deleted. ...more
Leibig v. MTD Products, Inc., Civ. No. 22-4427, 2023 WL 3689983 (E.D. Pa. May 25, 2023) - The plaintiff, a Pennsylvania citizen, brought suit in Philadelphia County, claiming injuries suffered from a defective snow thrower...more
In very simple terms, product liability holds a person or company legally and financially liable for harm that is caused when their product is defective. In the U.S. in 2020, nearly 11 million people were treated in hospital...more
Pressure Cooker Explosions Prompt Ongoing Recalls and Lawsuits - A popular kitchen appliance could be an accident waiting to happen. Electric pressure cookers allow busy people to quickly cook meals using a combination of...more
In a mass tort product liability, class action and consumer fraud consolidated litigation involving Allergan's Biocell textured breast implants and tissue expanders, Allergan moved to dismiss plaintiffs' complaints on...more
One month into the declaration of a national emergency, the flood of coronavirus-related consumer class action litigation can be grouped into several distinct categories. Consumer class action suits to date have primarily...more
This is the million (sometimes multimillion) dollar question. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, consequential damages are “losses that do not flow directly and immediately from an injurious act but that result indirectly...more