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Product Liability Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on product liability law. Coverage includes tort-related lawsuits and class actions, multidistrict litigation, product recalls, and product safety enforcement, as well as related policy developments.
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Latest News in Product Liability
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November 13, 2025
J&J Bellwether Trial Over Talc Cancer Risks Kicks Off In LA
An attorney for one of two women who claim Johnson & Johnson's talcum products caused their ovarian cancer told a Los Angeles jury Thursday during opening statements in a bellwether trial that decades-old internal documents prove J&J knew its talc products contained toxic levels of asbestos but hid that information.
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November 13, 2025
Cancer Patient Was Severely Addicted, Tobacco Jury Told
The youngest daughter of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer testified Thursday at trial against Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds that her mother went to emotional and behavioral extremes to get her "fix."
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November 13, 2025
2nd Circ. Upholds NY's Ban On Selling Diet Pills To Minors
The Second Circuit on Thursday rejected a trade group's bid to block a New York law that bars companies from selling weight loss and muscle-building supplements to minors, finding the group likely won't win its First Amendment challenges and retailers' "speculative predictions" of lost sales aren't enough to show irreparable harm.
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November 13, 2025
Fla. Hospitals Didn't Prove Opioid Conspiracy, Jurors Told
Walgreens told a state court jury on Thursday that Florida hospitals haven't proven that the company conspired with Walmart, CVS and pharmaceutical manufacturers to illegally dispense opioids through their pharmacies, arguing that the corporations shouldn't be liable for $1.5 billion in damages for contributing to an epidemic of opioid-addicted patients.
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November 13, 2025
Hemp Policy At Crossroads After Government Reopening Bill
Hemp industry advocates are pledging to use the one-year gap between enactment and implementation of the government funding agreement, which effectively recriminalized most hemp-derived THC products, to craft new regulatory legislation that stops short of a full ban.
Areas of Coverage
- LITIGATION
- Lawsuits over potentially unsafe, hazardous, or defective products, including drugs and medical devices, food and beverage products, dietary supplements, and other consumer goods
- Product-related class actions and multidistrict litigation
- Liability suits over drugs and medical devices, including off-label marketing, false advertising, and failure-to-warn claims
- Tobacco-related litigation
- Auto defect suits
- Toxic torts, including asbestos-related litigation
- Personal injury and wrongful death suits involving major organizations and events
- Alien Tort Statute cases
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- State product safety regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act
- CFederal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- CProduct safety and consumer protection controls
- ENFORCEMENT
- Product recalls
- Food and drug safety actions
- Vehicle safety actions
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of product liability practices
Readership
- Mass tort and product liability lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys at consumer goods companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals