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The regulator faulted the automaker for not recalling cars with defective rearview cameras quickly enough and for providing incomplete and inaccurate information. Ford Motor will pay a fine of up [...]

Verkada, a manufacturer and retailer of security cameras, has settled FTC accusations of lax security measures. The company sells its products to businesses, including schools and medical facilities. It markets [...]

This month, the government is asking for a pair of 10-year prison sentences for two Gree USA Inc. executives convicted of failing to report defective humidifiers. This comes after the [...]

Byline: Julian Mark Hyundai and Kia have agreed to pay up to about $200 million combined to settle a class-action lawsuit over a manufacturing defect that made it so easy [...]

Byline: Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, USA TODAY NETWORK Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley has said repeatedly his team is working to build loyalty, treat customers like family [...]

In December 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan dismissed a putative class action against FCA US LLC on prudential mootness grounds because FCA announced a [...]

In Brown v. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC and Providence Health System - Oregon, 323 Or. App. 214 (Ct. App. Or. 2022), the Oregon Court of Appeals recently found that a hospital could [...]

Copyright: Radio Personality's Right-of-Publicity Claims Preempted by Copyright Act, Second Circuit Holds In Melendez v. Sirius XM Radio, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently addressed the [...]

History has shown that recalls for product defects are often followed by a proposed class action lawsuit. While many products cases in that context have been certified, we have now [...]

Often property owners with defective buildings do not become aware of the defects until well after the work is complete, meaning that limitation issues and the question of when the [...]

ELECTRIC VEHICLES LG to Pay General MotorsFor Recalled Bolt Batteries LG Electronics will pay General Motors $1.9 billion to cover almost the entire cost of a recall of fire-prone batteries [...]

Byline: Jay Greene SEATTLE - Amazon will pay customers up to $1,000 for defective products sold on its marketplace by third-party merchants that cause property damage or personal injury, after [...]

In August 2018, Robert Franklin bought an iPhone 6 from his local Walmart Supercenter in Sulphur Springs, Texas. A year later, according to Franklin, his phone blew up-but not in [...]

The authors consider the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia's certified interlocutory appeal on the question of the appropriate method for calculating damages offsets for False Claims Act [...]

In a recent matter (Honda Cars India Limited vs Sudesh Berry) before the Supreme Court of India, the apex court overturned a decision of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission ('NCDRC') [...]

A federal court in Georgia recently denied a motion to dismiss filed by an auto manufacturer seeking to avoid a putative class action lawsuit filed by an owner who claimed [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit published two opinions last month in companion class actions alleging defects with off-road vehicles. With its decisions, the court held [...]

Byline: Tricia L. Nadolny, USA TODAY Ikea is facing a potential class action lawsuit that alleges the company knowingly sold unsafe dressers that could crush small children and then issued [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - Hundreds of pages of court documents were unsealed last week in a class action lawsuit against 3M regarding allegedly faulty earplugs it sold [...]

Is the presence of a product recall sufficient to support a class action proceeding? Two recent appellate decisions involving automotive recalls illustrate that recalls cannot be blindly relied on as [...]

Last week, in In re Davol, Inc./C.R. Bard, Inc., Polypropylene Hernia Mesh Products Liability Litigation, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio held that an expert may [...]

In Carter v. Ford Motor Company of Canada1 (Carter), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck portions of a lawyer's affidavit that summarized and attached as exhibits various unverified online [...]

Pure economic loss is a crucial yet poorly understood concept in tort law that often arises in construction law. In basic terms, pure economic loss is loss of a financial [...]

The recent decision in Surespan Structures Ltd. v Lloyds Underwriters1 showcases the critical importance of careful draftsmanship of policy wording, particularly in situations where the policy provides unusual or novel [...]

In a product liability case where a manufacturer is defending a claim that a product it designed was defective and the cause of a plaintiff's injury, the manufacturer may attempt [...]

On May 17, 2021, the Alberta Court of Appeal released its decision in Spring v Goodyear Canada Inc., 2021 ABCA 182. This case is the latest Alberta consideration of the [...]

On February 2, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court's denial of class certification for failure to prove an administratively feasible method to identify absent class members. The Eleventh [...]

Foley Hoag LLP publishes this quarterly Update primarily concerning developments in product liability and related law from federal and state courts applicable to Massachusetts, but also featuring selected developments for [...]

It is starting to feel like spring. For those with a poetic or philosophical bent, spring may bring thoughts of renewal and the cyclical rhythms of the planet, among other [...]

Today's case, Knudsen v. Ethicon, Inc., 2021 WL 390825 (M.D. Fla. 2021), involves product-liability claims against a surgical-mesh manufacturer. In a short decision, the court dismissed manufacturing-defect and implied-warranty claims [...]

Britton v. Ford Motor Company of Canada, 2021 ABQB 17 demonstrates that substantially similar class actions in different Canadian jurisdictions can pose headaches for defendants because Canada lacks a national [...]

On February 16, 2021, the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department, unanimously affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action against a Canadian cannabis producer [...]

Albert Einstein supposedly said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He may not have, but the point is well taken. We often [...]

Sometimes it can be easy to believe that a random thought can conjure a real-life response. Such as when you imagine yourself taking a vacation to someplace warm and tropical [...]

Talking about being 'at home' has a new meaning this year and no doubt we all would really enjoy some changed scenery about now. This blogger used the Thanksgiving holiday [...]

The Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Admiralty Judge in 'The CMA CGM LIBRA' in that a defective Passage Plan can render a vessel unseaworthy notwithstanding that the [...]

Byline: Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY Less than two weeks after Fisher-Price recalled its popular Rock 'n Play sleepers, two class-action lawsuits have been filed against Fisher-Price and its parent company [...]

Did you ever read something and think - I couldn't have said it better myself. Sometimes we read opinions that give us just that feeling. A decision that ticks all [...]

Today's guest post is by Reed Smith's Jenn Eppensteiner. In it she discusses a recurring theme on the Blog - claimed product 'defects' arising from nothing more than the failure [...]

A consumer from Pennsylvania purchased a dog leash on Amazon, that when put to use, broke, recoiled back and hit the consumer's face and eyeglasses, turning her permanently blind in [...]