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Court: Florida – 17th Judicial Circuit Court - Plaintiff, Denise J. Guth Cook alleged asbestos exposure from consumer talc products and automobile parts. She specifically alleged bystander and household exposure from...more
Can AI or Chat GBT write poetry, perhaps by accident. But an insurance underwriter came up with the phrase: “Taking the suddenness out of accident.” Now that’s poetry. The poet was describing the “occurrence” definition in an...more
Foley Hoag LLP publishes this quarterly Update primarily concerning developments in product liability and related law from federal and state courts applicable to Massachusetts, but also featuring selected developments for New...more
Massachusetts courts issued several important product liability decisions in late 2023 and 2024. Nutter’s Product Liability practice group reviewed these cases and report on their significant holdings as follows ...more
In this asbestos action, plaintiff Michele Salvemini alleges exposure to asbestos while working as a marine engineer and shipyard mechanical worker on various merchant and U.S. Navy ships from 1974 to 2007. During this...more
Doe A.F. v. Lyft, Inc., No. 23-3990-KSM, 2024 WL 4479912 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 10, 2024) - The plaintiff alleged that a Lyft driver sexually assaulted her during a rideshare purchased on Lyft’s app....more
Working with an expert to support a product defect theory of liability is hard enough as it is. However, when the standard for strict liability is considered, properly supporting such a theory is even harder...more
A Prescription for Liability: Michigan Repeals Flagship Drug Immunity Law - Michigan’s recent repeal of immunity provisions under its Product Liability Act has potentially significant implications for pharmaceutical...more
The Phantom-Case Menace: Managing the Use of AI in Court Filings - Last summer, we noted caution regarding two parallel ways generative AI tools are impacting courtroom practice: (1) lawyers using generative AI and...more
In a past blog post, we predicted that data is arguably the products liability issue of the future. And we also explored some ways in which data can be used as a sword and a shield in products liability cases....more
Data is arguably the products liability issue of the future. Dealing with data is often already a critical part of products liability lawsuits, but with the rise of artificial intelligence and automation, product...more
Is there a defense where a plaintiff misused a product? Yes. Under Arkansas law, a defendant may assert that the plaintiff misused the product as part of its affirmative defense of comparative fault. AMI 1014. When invoking...more
On June 29, 2022, in N.J. Mfrs. Ins. Grp. a/s/o Angela Sigismondi v. Amazon.com, Inc., 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115826 (Sigismondi), the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey held that Amazon.com, Inc....more