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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

  • October 26, 2026

    Meta Docs Reveal Plan To Discredit Teen-Harm Critic Haidt

    Meta internally set a goal to "get the academic community to disavow" and "turn against" professor Jonathan Haidt, who has linked social media use to mental health decline, as it in-house rebuffed internal efforts to study social media's impact on teen health, according to recently unredacted documents filed publicly Friday.

  • October 26, 2026

    Pomerantz Attys Accused Of Overbilling For Hawaii Utility Suit

    A California federal judge approved a $47.7 million settlement between Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and its investors, but reduced the attorney fees by nearly $5 million, saying the investors' counsel had "wildly overinflated" their hours billed on the case.

  • October 26, 2026

    Justices Won't Nix Stay In La. Coastal Damages Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Louisiana's emergency request to erase a Fifth Circuit stay that prevented one of its parishes from litigating coastal damage claims against an oil and gas company in state court.

  • October 26, 2026

    Feds Say 75% Of Camp Lejeune Claims Lack Support

    The federal government on Friday asked the North Carolina federal court overseeing the litigation over toxic water on the Camp Lejeune military base to require claimants to submit backup for their claims, saying more than three-quarters have failed to submit sufficient documentation for their claims in the past four years.

  • October 26, 2026

    GM Knew Of Brake Defect Before Sales, Drivers Say

    Drivers alleging General Motors failed to warn them that the brakes in their cars could suddenly fail told a Michigan federal judge Monday the automaker can't dodge their proposed class action by artificially splitting the complaint's individual allegations. 

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Product Liability

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

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  • 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.
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