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This monthly newsletter examines critical developments in product liability and mass torts, analyzing how bankruptcy proceedings affect liability claims, jurisdictional challenges in California courts...

Judge Mary McLaughlin of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania tossed a class action lawsuit last week after finding that the named plaintiffs lacked standing in In re McNeil Consumer Healthcare Litigation.

On February 15, 2012, the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas issued General Court Regulation No. 2012-01, significantly altering the protocol governing mass tort cases.

What a company knew and when is a critical question in any lawsuit involving recalled products.

Many states, finding that the purpose of the strict liability doctrine is to protect otherwise defenseless victims from defective products, hold that principles of comparative negligence do not apply to strict liability actions.

The Cartiva synthetic cartilage implant litigation is progressing through the courts, with the next hearing scheduled for December 2026. Patients experiencing pain or complications should understand their legal rights and the critical deadlines that may affect their ability to file a claim, even if they haven't yet undergone revision surgery.

Consider a hypothetical person named Jane, who bought a chair twenty years ago. The chair was designed to help relieve back pain, but it actually made it worse.

In our August 1, 2016 newsletter, we reported on "Talc and The Possible Link to Cancer," which profiled two recent multi-million dollar verdicts against Johnson & Johnson...

In Victaulic Co. v. American Home Assurance Co., 20 Cal.App.5th 948 (February 26, 2018), the First District Court of Appeal reversed a judgment for bad faith entered in favor of the Victaulic Company...

Commission will gather public comment on connected products

A recent federal court decision properly scrutinized, and then dismissed, a products liability claim against social media platforms, ruling that the plaintiffs did not clearly identify the product or design defect in question and that the defendants' content moderation processes are not subject to products liability laws.

Businesses across the globe are struggling to keep up with the pace of technology and the laws governing that technology.

A district judge in the Northern District of Oklahoma precluded certain testimony from plaintiffs' expert witnesses because plaintiffs failed to timely disclose the opinions they sought to introduce at trial...

The introduction of autonomous vehicles will likely transform the landscape for litigation stemming from automobile accidents. Most commentators have assumed that liability will shift almost entirely

The Court has expanded the assumption of the risk doctrine by ruling that where a plaintiff has assumed a risk, the defendant is relieved of any of its obligations to the plaintiff, and recovery cannot be had on a theory of negligent supervision.

During the last several days, we have seen the principle of federal preemption featured in not only the drone/UAS World, but in the more traditional world of aviation as well.

At the end of December, Dimmeys, a large Australian discount department store, was fined approximately $3 million dollars by an Australian court for violating Australia’s federal product safety laws for the fifth time.

Two weeks ago, this space discussed the CA Prop 65 reform proposed by Governor Brown and its remote chances of success.