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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 18, 2025
NY Can't Escape Rail Cos. Challenge To 'Waste By Rail' Law
Railway and recycling industry groups can proceed with their challenge to a New York law that requires coverings be placed over solid waste when transported by rail within the state, a federal judge has said, as they have plausibly claimed that the state law is preempted by federal law.
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March 18, 2025
BetterHelp Demands Insurer Assist In $7.8M FTC Payment
Online counseling company BetterHelp told a California federal court that its insurer must cover a $7.8 million Federal Trade Commission payment and must defend it in underlying litigation brought by consumers who claim the company violated laws via its collection, use and disclosure of private health information.
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March 18, 2025
Kaiser Insurer Says Ch. 11 Plan Doesn't Protect Against Fraud
Truck Insurance Exchanged told a panel of Fourth Circuit judges Tuesday that the confirmed Chapter 11 plan of Kaiser Gypsum Co. should be overturned as a bad faith filing because it doesn't impose simple measures to prevent asbestos injury claim fraud.
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March 18, 2025
Savannah Wants 3M PFAS Pollution Suit Back In State Court
Savannah's lawsuit against 3M Inc. and others over the "forever chemical" contamination of its drinking water should remain in Georgia state court, the city argued in an emergency bid, saying the company wants to push the municipality into a "judicial purgatory."
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March 17, 2025
Poppi Buyers Ink $8.9M Deal Over 'Gut Healthy' Soda Claims
A group of Poppi-brand soda consumers asked a California federal judge Friday to greenlight an $8.9 million proposed settlement that would resolve consolidated false advertising claims alleging the beverage company misleadingly touted its products as "prebiotics for a healthy gut."

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
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- 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