2,674 results found

A recently leaked and apparently genuine Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Budget "Passback" memorandum—the OMB's official feedback mechanism for budget submissions from federal agencies...

Every commercial airline flight carries scores of lithium-ion powered batteries in phones, tablets, computers, activity trackers, cameras, headphones and other devices.

For all expecting and new parents, you probably have learned how quickly buying your child’s products adds up!

As alleged in a recent complaint filed by the FTC and the State of Minnesota, the marketers behind a purported money-making promotion ...

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act ("CPSIA"), enacted in 2008, represented a major overhaul of federal consumer product regulation in the United States and is mostly known for its targeting of so-called "children’s products.

On February 12, 2026, a bipartisan group of legislators in Maryland proposed the Maryland Artificial Intelligence Toy Safety Act.

A woman was fatally injured in 2010 when, while walking down the street, she was struck by the nozzle of a hose that had come loose from a passing fire truck.

In Rafferty v. Merck & Co., 2016 Mass. Super. LEXIS 48 (Mass. Super. Ct. May 23, 2016), plaintiff sued his prescribing physician and a pharmaceutical manufacturer for injuries...

The latest salvo in the legislative food fight over genetically engineered (GE) ingredients came from the Senate...

A couple of weeks ago we compared New Jersey litigation with New Jersey food and decided we liked the food better.

On June 4, 2021, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a putative state law consumer class action claiming that chicken products marketed by Trade Joe's

In our June 2011 Newsletter, we discussed the status of important pending legislation in Pennsylvania (the Fair Share Act) designed to eradicate the common law doctrine of joint and several liability.

Massachusetts state and federal courts issued a number of interesting product liability decisions in 2014. The Product Liability and Toxic Tort Litigation Group at Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP recently reviewed these cases. Highlighted below are some of the key cases and issues decided in the past year.

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...

Earlier this year, we began a series of blog entries to update our readers on legislative efforts on Capitol Hill that affect stakeholders within the product safety arena.

On November 26, 2012, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania handed down a decision in Reott v. Asia Trend, Inc., et al., Nos 27-30 WAP 2011, slip op. (Pa. Nov. 26, 2012), that changes the way defendants in product liability actions must plead and prove an affirmative defense of highly reckless conduct as the sole or superseding cause of plaintiff's injury.

In American Honda Motor Co., Inc., v. Martinez, et. al., the Superior Court of Pennsylvania upheld the jury's verdict and award of more than $55 million to Plaintiff Carlos Martinez, ...

Here's the next edition of our monthly bite-sized digest, Productwise 3-2-1 where each month, we'll be bringing to the top of your inbox (and your agenda)...