Product Liability

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

  • June 18, 2026

    Meta's Newspaper Analogy Doesn't Sway Instagram Judge

    Meta faced some pushback Thursday from a Massachusetts state judge for comparing Instagram's design to a newspaper publisher's decisions about what to put on the front page, as the company pushed to end the state's lawsuit over alleged harm to youth from social media use.

  • June 18, 2026

    Mother Defends Punitive Claims In Boeing Door Plug Blowout Suit

    A woman and her son suing The Boeing Co. over a door plug blowout on a 737 Max jet flight out of Oregon are urging a Washington federal court to deny Boeing's bid to throw out their punitive damages claims, saying the question is a fact intensive one unsuitable for dismissal.

  • June 17, 2026

    GM, Drivers Spar Over Trimmed Transmission Defect Class

    General Motors LLC has asked a Michigan federal judge to shut down a lawsuit alleging it sold vehicles with defective eight-speed automatic transmissions that caused "hard shifts" or made vehicles shake or shudder on the road, while the plaintiffs moved to certify four state-based classes of drivers.

  • June 17, 2026

    Medline, AdaptHealth Sued Over Deadly Hospital Bed Fire

    Medline Industries and AdaptHealth have been sued by the estate and daughter of a Connecticut woman who allegedly died after suffering burns over 47% of her body when an electric-powered hospital-style bed caught fire in a Newtown home.

  • June 17, 2026

    J&J Can't Get New Trial In $65.5M Minn. Talc Cancer Case

    A Minnesota state judge on Wednesday denied Johnson & Johnson's bid for a new trial in a case that resulted in a $65.5 million verdict in favor of a 37-year-old wife and mother who claimed that the company's talc baby powder caused her cancer, rejecting arguments about her husband's infidelity.

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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

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