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Coverage of class actions and MDL, often targeting the design, manufacturing and marketing of defective products.
By AMANDA BRONSTAD | July 20, 2017
The settlement over Ashley Madison's data breach presents a unique conundrum: How do you find class members who don't exactly want to be found?
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By Diane W. Whitney | July 20, 2017
If a manufacturer of a product knows that the product will, or could, cause harm to people with a genetic sensitivity to it, must it issue a warning? That question opens up a whole panoply of concerns.
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By therecorder | The Recorder | July 19, 2017
C.A. 4th; D068533 The Fourth Appellate District reversed a judgment and remanded. The court held that a forklift manufacturer failed to show that the…
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By Andrew Denney | July 19, 2017
The latest bellwether trial in the General Motors ignition switch litigation has gone in the automaker's favor, after a verdict was handed up in a Manhattan federal courtroom.
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By Max Mitchell | July 19, 2017
The high-profile litigation in Missouri over talcum powder might be beginning to cool down, thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, but a talc-related litigation in Pennsylvania is beginning to heat up, and may set a pattern for a growing area for tort claims.
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By Jennifer Shukla and John Cerreta, Day Pitney | July 19, 2017
The Bifolck and Izzarelli opinions explain that, in virtually all design defect cases, Connecticut courts must apply the risk-utility test, previously known as the modified consumer expectations test, to determine whether a product is unreasonably dangerous.
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By Andrew Denney | July 18, 2017
A state judge in Manhattan denied a motion on Tuesday by attorneys from the asbestos defense bar to block implementation of a new case management order for the New York City Asbestos Litigation docket set to take effect on Thursday.
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By Max Mitchell | July 18, 2017
Pharmaceutical companies facing more than 100 lawsuits in federal court over improperly labeled birth control pills want the plaintiffs to provide pre-discovery information linking their claimed injuries to the defendants' products.
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By Amanda Bronstad | July 18, 2017
A newly available transcript from St. Louis Civil Court shows just how quickly the U.S. Supreme Court's game-changing decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California transformed a Missouri case over the alleged link between talcum powder and cancer.
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By Tom McParland | July 17, 2017
Monsanto Co. is seeking a pause in Delaware litigation involving its Roundup brand herbicides, saying that a California judge should decide whether the company's quick removal of personal injury suits from state to federal court circumvented a statute that protects plaintiffs' choice of forum.
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