Worldwide: Product Liability & Safety

In Zamani v. SharkNinja, Inc., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 128075, the District Court concluded that a plaintiff's Chapter 93A "omission" claim was not well-pleaded enough to survive...

State governments, public school districts, and individuals are suing social media companies, such as TikTok and Snapchat, alleging that defects in their algorithms and platform features...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has been in the media this month following the reinstatement of the three democratic CPSC commissioners (i.e., Mary Boyle, Richard Trumka Jr., and Alexander Hoehn-Saric) by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

Product liability laws generally only apply to products. The recent explosion in AI technology has forced courts to grapple with a new and fascinating question...

President Trump's fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget request for the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) states that the President's budget proposes to eliminate funding for CSB...

On May 15, 2025, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) announced a "record-breaking week" of enforcement actions against "foreign violators."

A cert petition filed earlier in March in the long-running In re Fosamax (Alendronate Sodium) Products Liability Litigation gives the Supreme Court a chance to clarify...

The recent decision by Maine's highest court is part of a trend of state courts dismissing public nuisance claims against opioid makers and sellers.

A recent federal court decision properly scrutinized, and then dismissed, a products liability claim against social media platforms, ruling that the plaintiffs did not clearly identify the product or design defect in question and that the defendants' content moderation processes are not subject to products liability laws.