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Latest News in Product Liability
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June 17, 2026
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.
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June 17, 2026
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.
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June 17, 2026
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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June 17, 2026
A grassroots environmental group asked a North Carolina federal court to prohibit a county from polluting local waters with forever chemicals, contending that the county knows that thousands of residents are imperiling their health by drinking PFAS-laden water but has refused to do anything about it.
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June 17, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge Wednesday tossed a proposed class action that accused drugmaker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals of falsely representing that its statin cholesterol drugs were safe and effective despite a recall over its manufacturing practices, saying plaintiff consumers' lack of actual economic or physical injury meant they couldn't sue.
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