A federal court in Washington state dismissed a 2013 Ford Escape owner’s consumer protection suit relating to the spontaneous shattering of her vehicle’s panoramic glass sunroof. The failure rate of the sunroofs is .5 % and the consequences of such a failure are not so severe as to qualify as a material defect.
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Only the victims of defective breast implants made by French manufacturer PIP who had their surgeries in France are eligible for compensation, an adviser to the EU’s highest court said Thursday.
Read moreA widower sued Sunbeam Products dba Jarden Consumer Solutions in federal court, claiming its defective “heated throw,” or electric blanket, started a fire that killed his wife.
Read moreProduct liability claims against the Japan-based manufacturer of an allegedly defective colonoscope may continue, a federal court in Georgia ruled. The plaintiff claims the colonoscope permits infectious materials to be transferred from one patient to another and caused him to contract HIV, which he then passed to his wife.
Read moreA federal judge denied Monsanto and BASF Corp.’s motion for summary judgment in a product liability suit accusing it of creating an “ecological disaster” by releasing a dicamba-tolerant seed with no corresponding dicamba herbicide.
Read moreOne hundred thirty-five men sued Combe Inc. in federal court, claiming its Just For Men hair dye caused permanent depigmentation and scarring on their scalps.
Read moreA woman sued Nutribullet in federal court, claiming its defectively designed blenders explode and injure people — the 51st such lawsuit this year, according to the Courthouse News database.
Read moreVaping product manufacturers nationwide are bracing for an onslaught of product liability lawsuits arising from an outbreak of vaporizer-linked respiratory illnesses, as mystery lingers over what’s causing the illnesses, now blamed for more than 30 deaths.
Read moreA federal judge refused New Jersey-based Silbo Industries’ request to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction a product liability case that claims its subsea piping elbows leaked offshore Louisiana, resulting in “millions of dollars of damage.”
Read moreA federal judge dismissed product liability claims against Mentor Worldwide and Nusil, from women who say their defective breast implants leaked, giving them a panoply of illnesses.
Read moreA federal class action claims Toro International knows its defective TimeCutter driving lawnmowers pose a fire hazard but failed to warn consumers, including the named plaintiff, whose house burned down.
Read moreA shot from a Remington rifle killed a boy and landed his older brother in prison. Arguing Remington concealed a trigger defect, their father asked a Fifth Circuit panel Wednesday to reinstate wrongful death claims against the gun maker.
Read moreA federal class action claims Glock handguns are “unreasonably dangerous” because a feed ramp is too long, causing a “blow out.”
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