https://www.law360.com/productliability?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Product Liability Copyright 2025 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 23:26:59 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333429?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333429 The Federal Trade Commission and Nevada on Thursday filed suit in federal court against an investment training company they alleged scammed more than $1.2 billion out of consumers, mostly young adults, by selling trading courses taught by "bogus" instructors and encouraging consumers to participate in a multi-level marketing scheme. Thu, 01 May 2025 20:53:08 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332723?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332723 Drivers who claimed Audi of America LLC and Volkswagen Group of America Inc. sold them electric vehicles with defective batteries that could short circuit and catch fire while driving have never actually suffered this alleged issue, the automakers said in their bid seeking to dismiss the proposed class action. Thu, 01 May 2025 20:10:26 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332952?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332952 A Georgia jury heard in closing arguments on Thursday that C.R. Bard's medical sterilization plant wantonly polluted the air with ethylene oxide and caused a man's cancer, while the company said the man's exposure was nowhere near danger levels. Thu, 01 May 2025 19:43:26 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333310?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333310 The Eleventh Circuit held Thursday that a couple's lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over injuries allegedly caused by a pelvic mesh device made by the company's med-tech unit was filed too late despite evidence that the woman's doctors had expressed uncertainty for years about whether the mesh was causing her pain. Thu, 01 May 2025 19:25:35 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332580?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332580 Publix Super Markets Inc. can't slip opioid-related claims from nine municipalities in which the supermarket chain alleges it has no pharmacies, an Ohio federal judge overseeing sprawling national opioid litigation ruled. Thu, 01 May 2025 18:28:58 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333164?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333164 A 16-year-old girl who alleges she was groomed by a child predator on Roblox and Discord has hit the companies with a product liability suit in Texas, writing that their sites make kids "easy prey for pedophiles." Thu, 01 May 2025 17:53:32 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333097?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333097 The American Chemistry Council can move forward with its challenge to a since-withdrawn subpoena from the California attorney general tied to a plastics pollution probe, a D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday. Thu, 01 May 2025 17:50:08 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333074?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333074 A Johnson & Johnson talc unit has asked a New Jersey federal court to reinstate its libel suit over a scientific article linking talcum powder to mesothelioma, arguing that newly discovered evidence shows statements in the article are false. Thu, 01 May 2025 17:36:45 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332770?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332770 Consumers have sued electric bike and scooter maker Huffy Corp., claiming they overpaid for Tonka dump trucks for children to ride in that could cause burns or fires due to defective parts that allow the vehicle to overheat. Thu, 01 May 2025 17:05:49 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333008?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2333008 Conagra Brands Inc. tries to profit off health-conscious consumers who prefer natural products by falsely labeling its Orville Redenbacher brand of "Naturals" popcorn as containing only real ingredients, despite containing a synthetic preservative, according to a proposed class action filed Thursday in New York federal court.  Thu, 01 May 2025 16:26:00 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2331854?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2331854 A Texas bankruptcy court recently rejected Johnson & Johnson's third attempt to use Chapter 11 to resolve liabilities from allegations of injuries from using talcum powder, suggesting that the U.S. Supreme Court's limitations on nondebtor releases, from 2024's Purdue Pharma ruling, may prove difficult to evade, say attorneys at Cadwalader. Thu, 01 May 2025 15:39:26 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332878?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332878 Greenberg Traurig LLP announced Wednesday that it has added a member of Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP's management committee and another partner from that firm to its litigation practice in San Diego. Thu, 01 May 2025 14:23:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332980?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332980 The federal government sued to block two states' climate change Superfund laws and stop two other states from launching threatened lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, saying the states' actions jeopardize national energy security. Thu, 01 May 2025 10:21:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2305667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2305667 Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:57:06 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332572?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332572 A Maryland federal judge has certified 10 classes of customers who bought a knockoff version of a proprietary probiotic formula developed by a professor to treat gastrointestinal ailments, saying in an order unsealed Wednesday the customers all suffered the same alleged injury from buying a product that wasn't the one they expected.  Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:40:29 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2331910?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2331910 A Washington federal judge has ordered a Colorado-based poultry processor to reimburse a grocery distributor's $3 million settlement with an ex-Trader Joe's vendor that sued over a bony batch of meat, adding to more than $13.5 million the chicken producer owes following a December trial.   Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:09:26 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332063?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332063 The Third Circuit wondered Wednesday why a jury couldn't be allowed to examine the same type of gun, or at least a replica of one, that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer claims spontaneously fired into his leg at a design defect trial that he wants revived. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:32:20 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332450?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332450 A consumer is asking a New York federal judge to dismiss his proposed class action accusing Onnit Labs Inc. of falsely advertising its "Alpha Brain" cognitive supplement, which were previously promoted by podcaster Joe Rogan, as clinically proven to boost memory. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:39:13 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2331748?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2331748 A North Carolina chapter of the NAACP wants to intervene in public water suppliers' forever chemical pollution lawsuit against Chemours and a Corteva subsidiary, saying the information the companies want to conceal should remain available. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:31:28 +0000 https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332435?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/productliability/articles/2332435 A New Jersey federal judge tossed two claims, but allowed contested expert testimony, in a hunter's negligence and liability lawsuit that alleges he was injured when his Ravin Crossbow "exploded" and knocked him out of a tree stand.