Product Liability

For years, the makers of e-cigarettes and vaping devices have been touting their products as the safer alternative to smoking nicotine cigarettes. Now, reports and studies are beginning to show these newer devices can also cause death and serious injuries. The manufacturers and distributors of e-cigs and vaping devices may be subject to product liability…

Almost every portable electronic device in use today has a lithium-ion battery. As device manufacturers race to build more products, they may use less reliable batteries, or take short-cuts when it comes to building or installing them. A fire or explosion resulting from a malfunctioning lithium battery has the potential to cause catastrophic results for…

The title wave of litigation focused against opioid manufacturers over their alleged culpability in feeding the national epidemic in recent decades has entered the courtroom once again. Now the target is Johnson & Johnson, as Attorney General Mike Hunt takes aim at the mammoth manufacturer. Johnson & Johnson is staring down the allegations from the…

A jury in California has ordered Monsanto, creator of Roundup weed killer, to pay $2.055 billion to Alva and Alberta Pilliod. The Pilliods claimed that Monsanto failed to warn them (and all other Roundup users) of the risks associated with repeated exposure to glyphosate. As a result of that repeated exposure, the Pilliods claimed, both…