United States: Product Liability & Safety

On February 23, 2026, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly released a report entitled Consumer Product Safety Commission: Opportunities to Strengthen Oversight of Toxic Substances in Children's Products.

On March 4, 2026, Judge Chad F. Kenney of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed with prejudice a putative class action asserting claims against a global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and certain of its executives under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

On February 12, 2026, a bipartisan group of legislators in Maryland proposed the Maryland Artificial Intelligence Toy Safety Act.

Tuesday, February 24 was the second day of the ICPHSO Annual Meeting and Training Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Fully autonomous vehicles (i.e., those that can operate on public roads without a human driver, SAE level 4), now mostly in the form of ride-hailing services, are becoming ubiquitous in urban areas across the nation...

Day three of the ICPHSO Annual Meeting & Training Symposium in Orlando, Florida brought another packed slate of sessions, and the Crowell team was present throughout to capture the day's key insights and conversations.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a draft guidance reminding the cosmetics industry that the agency can access a variety of business records during an inspection of a product's responsible person and manufacturing/processing facility.

In 2025, the JPML continued to grant a majority of the MDL petitions that it considered, including petitions involving product liability claims.

Beware meat and egg product makers! On March 20, 2026, a new product labeling law will go into effect in Ohio. The bill, known as HB 10, targets products labeled as "meat" and "egg" items, but are, in reality...