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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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March 20, 2026
Social Media Jury Signals Potential Trouble For Meta, Google
After six full days deliberating in a California bellwether trial over allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC harm children's mental health through their social media platforms, the jury submitted a question to the judge potentially indicating it may be leaning in favor of finding one or both defendants liable.
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March 20, 2026
EPA's Ethylene Oxide Plan May Hinder Other Air Toxics Regs
A new proposal from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken emission standards for a medical sterilizer could have broader implications for the agency's power to tighten air pollution limits when new science becomes available.
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March 20, 2026
Eli Lilly Beats 9th Circ. Appeal Over Brain Bleed After Cialis
A Ninth Circuit panel Friday upheld Eli Lilly and Co.'s win over a Washington man who claimed the company's erectile dysfunction drug Cialis caused bleeding in his brain, ruling David Dearinger failed to establish that doctors would have acted differently had they been warned of the medication's risks.
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March 20, 2026
Post Beats Omission Claims In Rachael Ray Pet Food Suit
A California federal judge trimmed claims from a proposed class action alleging Post touts its Rachael Ray Nutrish pet foods contain "no artificial preservatives" while omitting that they contain citric acid, after the plaintiff acknowledged he isn't saying Post failed to disclose material facts but rather, made affirmative misrepresentations.
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March 20, 2026
NC High Court Says Repose Is 'Immunity,' Substantial Right
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday allowed an airplane parts maker to appeal an order denying its motion for summary judgment in a suit over a 2015 plane crash, overturning precedent to find that the statute of repose under the General Aviation Revitalization Act is a type of immunity and therefore a "substantial right" impacted by the denial.
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