/productliability?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Product Liability Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:18:51 +0000 /productliability/articles/2372459?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2372459 The Ninth Circuit on Friday partially revived a lawsuit brought by 13-year-old boys who had been sex trafficked alleging X Corp. refused to remove pornographic videos of them, saying Section 230 shields the social media platform from claims it knowingly benefited from sex trafficking, but not from negligence and defective-reporting design claims. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:13:41 +0000 /productliability/articles/2372297?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2372297 Three injured survivors of a deadly fire at a Fall River, Massachusetts, assisted-living facility last month have sued the owner and a fire alarm company, alleging that the owner ignored multiple safety issues and let the place become "a death trap." Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:23:39 +0000 /productliability/articles/2372225?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2372225 Four Alaska Airlines flight attendants aboard the 737 Max 9 jet that experienced a midair door plug blowout have sued jet-maker Boeing in Washington state court alleging the harrowing January 2024 incident left them with physical and mental injuries, including severe emotional distress. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /productliability/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:51:42 +0000 /productliability/articles/2370076?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2370076 A recent wave of litigation against social media platforms, chatbot developers and ride-hailing companies has some courts straying from the traditional view of software as a service to redefining software as a product, with significant implications for strict liability exposure, say attorneys at Reed Smith. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:22:29 +0000 /productliability/articles/2372278?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2372278 Pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx has moved to disqualify Motley Rice LLC from representing the state of Utah in an opioid crisis lawsuit, claiming the firm clearly violated ethical rules by investigating OptumRx on behalf of government entities, then suing OptumRx in a private capacity. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:52:38 +0000 /productliability/articles/2372366?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2372366 A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was accidentally shot in the leg does not need expert testimony to make his case that a defective gun design was the cause of his injury, since a layperson could draw their own conclusions once they understood the underlying mechanisms, a Third Circuit panel said Friday. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:33:33 +0000 /productliability/articles/2371390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2371390 The North Carolina General Assembly has pushed through another round of hurricane relief aid to help the western swath of the state while lawmakers remain in talks to repeal a long-standing healthcare law that critics say hampers competition. Here are five North Carolina bills from the year's first half that saw the governor's stamp of approval or remain up for debate. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:32:46 +0000 /productliability/articles/2372318?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2372318 The Fourth Circuit Friday found Georgia-Pacific asbestos unit Bestwall can stay in Chapter 11, saying a debtor's financial status has no bearing on whether a bankruptcy court has jurisdiction over its case. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:18:54 +0000 /productliability/articles/2372376?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2372376 A Miami jury in a highly publicized trial over Tesla's autopilot on Friday found the product to be defective and awarded $329 million in damages to the loved ones of a woman killed in a 2019 Florida Keys crash. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:15:10 +0000 /productliability/articles/2372052?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2372052 The Ninth Circuit won't hold an en banc rehearing on an appeal from Hyundai Motors America Inc. and Kia America Inc. seeking to dismiss negligence claims by cities in three of seven states in multidistrict litigation over their alleged failure to install anti-theft technology in millions of vehicles. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:47:14 +0000 /productliability/articles/2371112?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2371112 CSX Transportation Inc. has agreed to settle its multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a North Carolina sand and gravel mine over a 2018 derailment during Hurricane Florence that destroyed its locomotives, ending the litigation just one week before trial was set to begin. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:38:16 +0000 /productliability/articles/2371350?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2371350 A D.C. hemp retailer whose shop was raided and padlocked by city law enforcement is seeking to overturn a local statute that it says conflates illicit marijuana with hemp made legal under the 2018 Farm Bill, saying in its federal complaint that the district has violated the dormant commerce clause. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:44:38 +0000 /productliability/articles/2371454?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2371454 The plaintiffs in a suit seeking to hold Tesla accountable for a fatal crash in the Florida Keys asked jurors Thursday to award $345 million in damages for putting out an allegedly defective autopilot product into the market. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:41:50 +0000 /productliability/articles/2371920?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2371920 Air traffic controllers often juggled both helicopter and fixed-wing plane traffic at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, trusted pilots to use their own judgment to visually maintain safe distances from other planes in certain situations and adopted a "just make it work" approach, according to details from the National Transportation Safety Board. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:21:35 +0000 /productliability/articles/2372010?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2372010 Segway Inc. was hit with a proposed class action in Washington federal court on Thursday by a consumer who claims the company sold more than 200,000 electric scooters with a dangerous defect that puts riders at risk of falling and failed to adequately address the issue during a recall. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:43:59 +0000 /productliability/articles/2371704?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2371704 Biotechnology company Scynexis Inc. has won dismissal, for now, of a proposed investor class action alleging that it triggered a 34% share decline by knowingly misleading investors about manufacturing compliance issues that led to a drug recall, with the court finding the allegations the company should have known and disclosed issues only show "fraud by hindsight." Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:07:52 +0000 /productliability/articles/2371929?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2371929 A California federal judge largely denied a woman's bid for an early judgment on Amazon.com Servies LLC's defenses and some claims in her suit alleging she was blinded in one eye by a "sparkly bling" steering wheel accessory when her airbag deployed in a collision. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:47:15 +0000 /productliability/articles/2362476?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2362476 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's extension for manufacturers and importers of 16 chemical substances to report unpublished health and safety studies under the Toxic Substances Control Act could lead to state regulators stepping into the breach, while creating compliance risks and uncertainty for companies, say attorneys at Holland & Knight. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:35:53 +0000 /productliability/articles/2371235?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /productliability/articles/2371235 A third party's ability to bypass redactions and view protected documents was due to a software issue, a Connecticut civil litigator has told a federal judge, urging the court not to authorize sanctions for what he said was a "good faith" effort at redacting filings amid his dueling lawsuits with gunmaker Sig Sauer.